REGISTRATION PRIORITY & DATES -- INSTRUCTIONS & POLICIES -- REGISTRATION ERRORS -- WAIT LIST -- NON-PIPERLINE REGISTRATION -- BAR COURSES -- LEGAL PERSPECTIVES -- SKILLS COURSES -- CLINIC REGISTRATION -- CONDENSED SCHEDULE COURSES -- COURSE LIMITATIONS -- EXAMS -- FINANCIAL AID & PAYMENT -- GRADES -- REFUNDS -- VA BENEFITS
ONLINE REGISTRATION
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, October 27th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L4 Weekday Students (weekday classes only)
L4 Weekend Students
Tuesday, October 28th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L3 Weekday Students (weekday classes only)
L3 Weekend Students
LLM Students
Wednesday, October 29th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L2 Weekday Students (weekday classes only)
Thursday, October 30th, starting at 9:00 p.m.
L2 Weekend Students
Friday, October 31st, starting at 9:00 p.m.
All other students and weekend classes for weekday students
Students enrolled in the DRI certificate program may receive registration priority in the core courses listed below.
• Arbitration
• Negotiation
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 by 5 p.m., October 15. Students with approved forms will be registered, space permitting, according to registration priority (class, program, time of submission) by the Office of the Registrar.
INSTRUCTIONS AND POLICIES
The following information will help you with the registration process. Please read it carefully.
Students must register via 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 web page (link path: Logins, Piperline, Login to secure area) or by clicking here.
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 screen: Logins, Piperline, Class Schedule, select term for School of Law courses). To view in a different format, select your preferred option from the drop down list in the upper left.
Check the course descriptions for each section in which you will seek to enroll and verify that you have met the prerequisites. Please contact the Office of the Registrar prior to registration if you are using course substitutions or transfer credits to meet prerequisites to ensure proper articulation.
PIPERLINE REGISTRATION
• Log in to Piperline.
• Enter your user ID.
• Enter your Piperline PIN. If you forgot your PIN, click on the Forgot PIN button. You will be prompted to answer your security question. If you have forgotten that as well, please send an email using your Hamline University-issued email account or call 651-523-2468 during our office hours to request your PIN to be reset.
• 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 process your registration.
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:
CLOSED - XXX WAITLISTED
Select NONE to drop the selection, or WAIT LIST to add your name to the wait list. You must click the Submit Registration button to save your wait list status.
OPEN - XXX WAITLISTED
You may not register for this section because a wait list has been started and all open seats are being reserved for students on the wait list. Select NONE to drop this selection, or WAIT LIST to add your name to the wait list. You must click the Submit Registration button to save your wait list status.
PREQ-PREREQUISITE MISSING
Select a different course—you do not have the prerequisite(s) for this section. If you believe you have met the prerequisite(s), or if you are using course substitutions or transfer credits to satisfy the prerequisite(s), but the system is not allowing you to register for the course, 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.
COLLEGE RESTRICTION
You are a weekday student trying to register for a weekend class before the section has opened to weekday students. Please check the registration priority dates.
TIME CONFLICT WITH XXXXX
There is a time conflict between two or more sections. You must choose one. You can’t enroll in 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 Nov. 3rd if you become eligible to enroll during the first round of wait list processing. Notices will be sent to Hamline University-issued email accounts only. See http://law.hamline.edu/registrar/wait_list.html for details and the complete wait list processing schedule (link path from the Office of the Registrar’s home page: Term Information, 2009 Spring, Wait List).
New this semester: Selected classes with high demand and low enrollment caps will have modified wait list processing. During the initial registration period, a wait list will be started for all Clinics and Practicums. After the first round of wait list processing, wait lists for those classes will be cleared. At that point, if a seat opens up, it will become immediately available on a first-come first-served basis. If you have an interest in these classes and do not obtain a seat in the initial registration period or first round of wait list processing, check frequently for open seats and register as soon as one becomes available.
REGISTRATION HELP
If you need assistance with the registration process, contact the Office of the Registrar Sunday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at 651-523-2468 or anytime by email at lawregistrar@hamline.edu.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION INSTITUTE CERTIFICATES
For information regarding the Dispute Resolution Institute certificates please see http://law.hamline.edu/adr/dispute-resolution-institute-hamline.html.
HEALTH LAW INSTITUTE CERTIFICATE
For information regarding the Health Law Institute certificate programs, please see http://law.hamline.edu/health/health_law_certificate.html.
JOINT DEGREE PROGRAM
For information regarding the MFA, MAM, MANM, MAPA, MBA, and MLIS dual degree programs, please see http://law.hamline.edu/dual-degrees/joint-degree-programs.html.
INDEPENDENT STUDY
An Independent Study Registration 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).
OVERLOAD/UNDERLOAD FORM
Approval from the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs is required to register for fewer than eight or more than sixteen credits in the spring semester. The Overload/Underload Status 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 the Dean.
EXTENDED PRACTICUM
If you are interested in an extended practicum, please see Professor Cathy Deal, Practicum Director, to discuss your proposed placement. You may pick up an Extended Practicum Registration form in the Office of the Registrar.
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 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.
LRW III REGISTRATION
2L weekend students not enrolled in LRW III in the fall will be pre-registered for LRW III in spring 2009.
BAR COURSES
Courses covering materials which help prepare students to take the Minnesota bar examination are usually offered twice each year. HUSL courses that teach subjects tested on the Minnesota bar exam are listed below.
• Civil Procedure I and II
• Commercial Law: Sales and Leases of Goods
• Constitutional Law I and II
• Contracts I and II
• Corporations
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure I
• Evidence
• Family Law
• Modern Real Estate Transactions
• Professional Responsibility
• Property
• Tax I: Taxation of Individuals
• Torts I and II
• Unincorporated Business Entities
• Wills and Trusts
LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
The following spring 2009 courses meet the Legal Perspectives graduation requirement:
- Consortium: Equal Justice
- Jurisprudence
- Selected Topic: Law and Human Genetics
- Selected Topic: Law and Humanities
- Selected Topic: The Inter-American Human Rights System: Procedure and Practice
- Seminar: Education Law
- Seminar: Ethics
- Seminar: Law and Bioethics
- Seminar: National Security Law
- Seminar: Persuasion
- Seminar: Second Amendment
- Seminar: Tax Policy
SKILLS COURSES
Each student must take at least two credits in Skills courses (applicable to students admitted in fall 2006 or later). The 2008-2009 courses that apply toward the skills requirement are as follows:
• Advanced Legal Research
• Advanced Litigation Practice
• Arbitration
• Clinics
• Collective Bargaining & Labor Arbitration
• Competitions
• Dispute Resolution Practices: ADR & Technology
• Extended Practicum
• Lawyering Skills
• Legal Advocacy
• Legal Drafting
• Litigation Practice
• Negotiation
• Oral Advocacy
• Patent Claims Drafting
• Practicums
• Selected Topic: Health Care Compliance Skills
• Selected Topic: Multistate Performance Test Preparation
• Trial Advocacy
• Other classes or ABA-approved international programs with skills components will qualify, if pre-approved by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
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 or Seminar: Ethics
• Must not have already completed a clinic (unless there is space after all those students who have not completed a clinic and wish to enroll have been placed)
CONDENSED SCHEDULE COURSES
The following spring courses have abbreviated schedules:
• Arts and Entertainment Law (2 credits) meets Monday – Thursday evenings, 5:00 – 8:40 p.m., Jan. 20 – 29
• Legal Drafting: Employment (1 credit) meets Sunday mornings, 9:15 – 11:15 a. m., Jan. 16 – Feb. 27
• Legal Drafting: Wills and Trusts Basics (1 credit) meets Monday mornings, 8:00 – 9:50 a.m., Jan. 20 – Mar. 9
• Legal Drafting: Wills and Trusts Advanced (1 credit) meets Monday mornings, 8:00 – 9:50 a.m., Mar. 16 – May 4. Legal Drafting: Wills and Trusts Basics is a prerequisite to taking this course.
• Selected Topic: MPT Test Preparation (1 credit) meets Saturday afternoons, 1:15 - 2:45 p.m., Jan. 16 – Feb. 28
COURSE LIMITATIONS
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 one Moot Court or other Competition team within the same academic year.
Law School Career Limitations
In the course of your legal education you may not take more than:
• One Independent Study
• One Practicum or Extended Practicum (a year-long prearranged Extended Practicum counts as one)
• Four credits in Legal Drafting credits
• Five credits in Competition courses
• 12 credits in "distance education" courses
• 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.
You may earn credit for more than one seminar, but students who have not yet taken a seminar have registration priority for seminars.
FINAL EXAMS
Final exams will be held from Sat., May 9 through Thu., May 21. The exam schedule will be posted on the Office of the Registrar website (link path from the Office of the Registrar’s main page: Term Information, Spring 2009, Exam Schedule).
Exams are graded anonymously. Each term students are assigned a 4-digit midterm exam number and a 5-digit final exam number to be used for all exams during that term. These numbers are available via Piperline (link path: log in to Piperline, Student Services, Registration, Student Detail Schedule). Exam Numbers are listed below Total Credit Hours at the top of the page.
FINANCIAL AID
In order to receive financial aid, students should complete their 2008-2009 FAFSA. This can be done online at www.FAFSA.ed.gov. For more information contact Student Administrative Services at 651.523.3000.
PAYMENT AGREEMENT
Details regarding tuition, fees, and payment plans can be found at www.hamline.edu/studentaccounts.
Payment may be made in person at the Cashier's Office in the Law/Grad Building, by mail, by phone, or on the web via Piperline.
GRADES
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 option in the course description.
TUITION REFUND
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.
VA BENEFITS
Students eligible for VA benefits should contact Assistant Registrar Colleen Clish at 651.523.2424 or email.
NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT
Hamline University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, ethnic background, national origin, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, disability, religion, age, or veteran status in its employment or educational opportunities.
Hamline University is registered as a private institution with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education pursuant to sections 136A.61 to 136A.71. Registration is not an endorsement of the institution. Credits earned at the institution may not transfer to all other institutions.