Registration Priority
Priority for registration is
determined by class and program. For HUSL JD students, class is determined by
the time elapsed since matriculation. Class for a first year student is L1, for
a second year L2, for a third year L3, and L4 for all others. A student’s class
is rolled to the next class after each academic year. Visiting away does not
toll rolling; a student’s leave of absence does. HUSL JD students are enrolled
in one of two programs: weekday or weekend. Class and program information is
available via Piperline (link path: Student Services, Student Records, View
Student Information). Priority for online registration will be as follows:
Monday, November 5th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L3 Weekday Students (weekday classes only), L3 Weekend Students & LLM Students
Tuesday, November 6th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L2 Weekday Students (weekday classes only)
Wednesday, November 7th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L2 Weekend Students
Thursday, November 8th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
All other students and weekend classes for weekday students
Monday, November 12th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
Students enrolled in the DRI certificate
program may receive registration priority in the core courses listed below.
- Arbitration*
-
Dispute
Resolution Practices
- Dispute
Resolution Practices: ADR and Technology
- Mediation*
-
Negotiation
- Theories
of Conflict*
Such
registration priority is not a guarantee of enrollment in any particular course,
nor does it afford priority for certificate electives or non-DRI courses. Forms
to request registration priority for DRI courses are available from the Office
of the Registrar. Forms must be submitted to the DRI office for approval
October 22-29. Students with approved forms will be registered, space
permitting, according to registration priority (class, program, time of
submission) by the Office of the Registrar.
*
Not offered in Spring 2008
Instructions and
Policies
First
year students are automatically registered for spring courses. All other students
must register via Piperline. In-person registration is available by appointment
only. Please contact the Office of the Registrar to set up an appointment. The
following information will help you with the registration process. Please read
it carefully.
Piperline
Piperline is a secure
system that requires user authentication. Know your user ID (which is your Hamline
ID number starting with a 9 or your social security number, either one works) and
PIN. Log in to Piperline before the registration period begins. Familiarize yourself
with the menus and navigation. Piperline has many features; don’t wait until
the first day of registration to acquaint yourself with it. You may log in to
Piperline from any hamline.edu page (link path: Logins,
Piperline, Login to secure area)
Holds
Check Piperline for
any holds, status, or condition that may prevent you from registering (link
path: Student Services, Registration, Check your Registration Status). A hold
can be removed only by the
department that set it. Please contact the department listed.
Plan Your Schedule
Piperline offers
several views allowing you to see course offering information in various formats.
You may view alphabetical lists, course description lists, lists by faculty and
a date/room/time grid by selecting the appropriate display options in the
Hamline Class Schedule screen (link path from any hamline.edu page: Logins,
Piperline, Class Schedule, select term for School of Law courses).
Check the course
descriptions for each section in which you will seek to enroll and verify that
you have met the prerequisites.
PIPERLINE REGISTRATION
- You may log in to Piperline from any hamline.edu page (link
path: Logins, Piperline, Login to secure area)
- Enter your user ID
- Enter your Piperline PIN. If you forgot your PIN, send an email
using your
- The Registration screen (link path: Student Services, Registration)
offers options to add/drop, look up section information, view your current
schedule and check your registration status. You should verify
and print your schedule before ending your registration session.
Successful Piperline Registration
Courses for which you are
successfully registered will have two identifiers in the registration grid:
·
Under
the Status header, Web Registered and the date of
registration will appear.
·
Under
the Action header, the notation None will appear, indicating no action
needs to be taken.
Always click the Submit Registration button to save your final schedule.
Errors
A stop symbol indicates that a registration error has
occurred. Refer to the text under the Status
header in the registration grid to determine the specific error. The Action pull down list allows you to
take corrective action to eliminate the error condition. Below are some errors
you may encounter and the actions required to resolve them:
|
Status Message |
Action |
|
Closed-XXX Wait listed |
Select None to drop the selection, or Wait List to add your name to the wait list. |
|
Open-XXX Wait listed |
You may not register for this
section because a wait list has been started and there are fewer open seats
than students on the wait list. Select None
to drop this selection, or Wait List
to add your name to the wait list. |
|
Preq & Test Score Error |
You do not have the prerequisite(s)
for this section. The system is not 100% accurate when checking for prerequisites
(particularly when checking for coursework in programs abroad or transfer
credits). If the system does not allow you to register for a section for
which you indeed have met the prerequisites, please contact the Office of the
Registrar. |
|
Duplicate CRN |
You have entered the same course
twice in the registration grid. Only one of the sections will be saved when
you exit. |
|
Maximum Hours Exceeded |
You have attempted to register
for more credits than you are allowed. Please see the Overload/Underload
section below for information regarding adjusting your credit limit. |
|
Time Conflict |
There is a time conflict between
two or more sections. You must choose one. You can’t register for both even
if you intend to drop one later. |
wait list
If a section is full, you may put yourself on the wait list
and register for something else. You may be on as many wait lists as you wish. However,
wait listing yourself for a section
does NOT mean that you are registered in that section. You will be notified via
email no later than November 14 if you become eligible to enroll from the first
round of wait list processing. Notices will be sent to Hamline
University-issued email accounts only. Please see the online 2008 Spring Wait List
Activation Period instructions for details and the complete wait list
processing schedule (link path from the Office of the Registrar’s home page: Term
Information, 2008 Spring, Wait List Instructions).
Registration Help
If you need assistance with the registration process, contact the Office of the Registrar Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 651-523-2468 or anytime by email at lawregistrar@hamline.edu.
NONPIPERLINE REGISTRATION
DISPUTE RESOLUTION INSTITUTE CERTIFICATE
For
information regarding the Dispute Resolution Institute Certificate please see
http://law.hamline.edu/adr/dispute-resolution-institute-hamline.html.
For
information regarding the MFA, MAM, MANM, MAPA, MAOL, and MLIS dual degree
programs, please see http://law.hamline.edu/dual-degrees/joint-degree-programs.html.
This form must be completed,
signed by a full-time faculty member and returned to the Office of the Registrar.
The form is available from the Office of the Registrar and online (link path
from the Office of the Registrar’s home page: Forms Menu, Independent Study
Registration).
Approval
from Associate Dean Carol Swanson is required to register for fewer than eight
or more than sixteen credits in spring semester. The Approval Request form is available from the Office
of the Registrar and online (link path from the Office of the Registrar’s main
page: Forms Menu, Overload/Underload Status Request). Once completed, the form
must be returned to the Office of the Registrar for submission to Dean Swanson.
Clinic registration
Each
clinical experience requires students to consider questions of professional ethics
as attorneys. Clinic experiences are three credits each. Clinics are offered fall
and spring every year unless otherwise noted on the course catalog or in
specific offerings.
To
be eligible to register for a clinic, students:
- Must be
in good standing
- Must be
eligible for Certification under MN Supreme Court Rule 2 for Student
Practice (see http://law.hamline.edu/registrar/certification-under-limited-practice.html)
- Must have
completed or be concurrently enrolled in Professional Responsibility
- Must not
have completed a clinic before (unless there is space after all those
students who have not completed a clinic before have been placed)
Academic Year Limitations
You may not, within the same academic year, receive credit
for participating in more than one of the following:
- Law Review
- Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy
- Journal of Law and Religion
You may not receive credit for more
than
In the course of your legal education you may not take
more than:
- One Independent Study
- One Practicum
- 5 credits of Moot Court or other Competition credits
- 23 credits derived from the following types of courses:
- Field Placement
- Moot Court or other Competition
- Law Review or Journal
- Independent Study
- Course Exchange or Dual Degree Course
- Course for credit that is substantially based upon time expended outside a regularly scheduled class time at the School of Law or another ABA accredited law school. This rule does not apply to seminars, clinics which require a substantial classroom component, foreign study programs approved by HUSL or another ABA accredited law school, and courses conducted by HUSL or another ABA accredited law school in accordance with ABA standards for distance education.
FIRST YEAR COURSE
REGISTRATION FOR UPPER LEVEL STUDENTS
Upper level students who need to
enroll in a first year course (including FEP students, transfer students, and
students who need to re-take a course) should email the Registrar (rkoch@hamline.edu)
with their first, second, and third schedule choices for the required class. Upper
level students will be placed on a first come, first served basis while
maintaining an even distribution of upper level students in the first year
courses.
FRONT-LOADED COURSES
The following one credit courses
have abbreviated schedules:
- Accounting for Lawyers meets Fridays, 6:00 –
8:40 p.m., January 18 – February 8
- Selected Topic: Multistate Performance Test
Preparation meets Saturdays, 1:15 – 2:45 p.m., January 19 – March 8
Both are graded Pass/No Pass.
Letter grades based on a 4.0
system (A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, F) are issued for all HUSL courses
except those indicating a Pass/No Pass grade in the course description.
LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
The following Spring 2008
course offerings meet the Legal Perspective graduation requirement:
- Comparative Law
- Consortium Class in Equal Justice
- International Human Rights Law
- Sexual Orientation Law
- Seminar: American Jury Trial
- Seminar: Complementary & Alternative Medicine in Health Law
- Seminar: Constitutional Law: Religion
- Seminar: Education Law
- Seminar: Int’l Dispute Settlement
- Seminar: National Security Law
- Seminar: Native American Law
- Selected Topic: War, Peace and the Constitution: Moral, Legal, and Ethical Issues
Each student must take at least two credits
in Skills courses (applicable to students admitted in Fall 2006 or later).
These include:
- Advanced Legal Research
- Advanced Litigation Practice
- Clinics
- Competitions
- Dispute Resolution Practices
- Lawyering Skills
- Legal Advocacy
- Legal Drafting
- Litigation Practice
- Mediation
- Practicums
- Trial Advocacy
- Other classes or ABA-approved international programs with
skills components will qualify, if pre-approved by the Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs.
TUITION REIMBURSEMENT
If a student officially withdraws from HUSL during
the spring semester, the amount of tuition owed is calculated from the date of
record of withdrawal or leave, not from the date
the student ceases to attend class. If the official withdrawal takes place
within the first 10 business days of class for students enrolled in the weekday
program or the first two weekends for students enrolled in the weekend program,
no tuition is owed. Subsequently, tuition owed will be calculated daily on an increasing
scale based on the percentage of the days in the term before the official withdrawal
date. The above process is also used to calculate the refund due to a student
who drops from full-time (12-16 credits) to part-time status (8-11 credits). Please
see the academic calendar for add/drop dates.
NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT