Archive entries are in reverse chronological order.
SUMMER 2008
Week of
August 11, 2008
Fall
2008 Initial Reading Assignment. Reading assignments for the first week of
the Fall semester are available on the Fall 2008 Term Information page -- click
here, or go to the main Student
Portal page and click on the Fall '08 link under "Academic term information."
Print copies are available on the table outside the third floor cafeteria.
Not
all professors submit initial assignments, so do not be concerned if there is
no listing for one or more of your Fall courses. The list of initial assignments
may be updated periodically if we receive additional assignments.
If you
have not yet returned to school, you may ask the bookstore to hold your Fall course
materials for you until you arrive, or for an extra fee you may request that the
books be mailed to you. If you would like to take advantage of either of these
options, call the bookstore at 312/906-5605. In addition, you may order your course
books over the Internet by clicking on the Bookstore link on the Student
Portal page.
Fall 2008 Course Information Updates. This document
will be posted later this week.
Revised Fall 2008 Class Schedule (with
Classroom Assignments). This document will be posted later this week.
Bookstore
Hours. The Bookstore's hours for the Fall semester are available on the Fall
2008 Term Information page.
Note about Barnes & Noble:
There have been recent news reports about an indictment of certain individuals
charged with indentity theft in connection with a scheme to hack into the computer
systems of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Please note that this does not
involve Barnes & Noble College Booksellers (the company that operates the
Chicago-Kent Bookstore), which is a separate company from Barnes & Noble,
Inc.
Spring 2008 CALI Award Winners. The CALI Excellence for the
Future Award, sponsored by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction,
is given to the student or students who receive the highest grade in each section
of each course. The CALI award winners for Spring 2008 courses are available by
clicking
here. If a section or a course is not listed, that means the professor elected
not to give a CALI award, or we have not yet heard from the professor. Congratulations
to all of you who received an award - you should be proud of your achievement.
London
Law Consortium: Brochures Available. Chicago-Kent offers a semester of legal
study in London each Spring semester as part of a consortium with six other schools.
If you are interested in the London Law Consortium for the Spring 2009 semester,
please pick up a copy of the program brochure from Denise Lang outside my office
(Suite 320C). Spaces in the program will be allocated on a first-come, first-served
basis. We must submit to the program administrators completed applications from
all of our participating students no later than September 12, 2008. If you wish
to discuss the program in more detail, contact Professor David Rudstein (drudstei@kentlaw.edu;
312/906-5354).
Joke of the Week. "The more fonts in a document,
the less content it has." (Guy Kawasaki)
Poem of the Week.
This week's poem is "Spring
and Fall," by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Weeks
of July 28 and August 4, 2008
UPDATE
8/4/08
Initial Reading Assignments for Fall 2008 Now Available
Click
here
Spring 2008 CALI Award Winners. The CALI Excellence
for the Future Award, sponsored by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction,
is given to the student or students who receive the highest grade in each section
of each course. The CALI award winners for Spring 2008 courses are available by
clicking
here. If a section or a course is not listed, that means the professor elected
not to give a CALI award, or we have not yet heard from the professor. Congratulations
to all of you who received an award - you should be proud of your achievement.
London
Law Consortium: Brochures Available. Chicago-Kent offers a semester of legal
study in London each Spring semester as part of a consortium with six other schools.
If you are interested in the London Law Consortium for the Spring 2009 semester,
please pick up a copy of the program brochure from Denise Lang outside my office
(Suite 320C). Spaces in the program will be allocated on a first-come, first-served
basis. We must submit to the program administrators completed applications from
all of our participating students no later than September 12, 2008. If you wish
to discuss the program in more detail, contact Professor David Rudstein (drudstei@kentlaw.edu;
312/906-5354).
Notice to Graduating Seniors. If you are graduating
this semester, please read the information below about your Kent email and network
accounts, and your locker. If you have any questions, please let me know. Note:
If you are not graduating this semester, you will keep your e-mail account and
locker until you graduate.
•Email and Network Accounts. Email
and network accounts will be terminated on Monday, August 4 (the first
Monday after the summer bar exam). As a Chicago-Kent graduate, the Office of Alumni
Relations is pleased to offer you the option of setting up an alumni.kentlaw.edu
email address through our email forwarding service. This service is available
through the Chicago-Kent Alumni Online Community and allows you to choose a username@alumni.kentlaw.edu
address that will be forwarded to your specified personal email account (e.g.
gmail, yahoo, or work e-mail, etc). This system allows you to use a simple e-mail
address to give to family and friends, and your username can be your current username@kentlaw.edu
or you can create a new one. You'll never have to notify everyone in your address
book of a new or discontinued e-mail address because you can simply update your
personal e-mail address by logging into the Online Community, and emails will
subsequently be forwarded to your email address.
In order to access email
forwarding, all you have to do is sign up for the Chicago-Kent
Alumni Online Community. Accounts for May 2008 graduates will be available
in mid-July. Click
here to sign up now! For questions or concerns, please contact the Office
of Alumni Relations at alums@kentlaw.edu or 312.906.5240.
•Clearing
Out Lockers. Please clear your lockers out no later than Friday, August
1. Anything left in lockers after that date will be removed. If you are unable
to clear your locker out by that date, please contact me to make arrangements
for your locker contents to be set aside for you.
Joke of the Week.
"The more fonts in a document, the less content it has." (Guy Kawasaki)
Poem of the Week. This week's poem is "Spring
and Fall," by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Weeks
of July 14 and July 21, 2008
Summer
2008 Exams.
Exam Schedule. The final exams for the Summer term are
listed in the Schedule of Classes available
here. You should have received an email with your exam room assignments; if
you did not, please contact me.
Notice about SofTest: Students taking
exams on laptop must download and install the SofTest exam-taking program. You
should have received an email from the Computer Center about when and how to do
this; if you did not, the information can be found in the Computer Center's section
of the Record.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center:
The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use
in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please contact me if you
opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected problems that
cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops also may be
used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before
or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly
configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited
supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes
during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users.
However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing
a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the
same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in
a separate room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
London Law Consortium:
Brochures Available. Chicago-Kent offers a semester of legal study in London
each Spring semester as part of a consortium with six other schools. If you are
interested in the London Law Consortium for the Spring 2009 semester, please pick
up a copy of the program brochure from Denise Lang outside my office (Suite 320C).
Spaces in the program will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. We
must submit to the program administrators completed applications from all of our
participating students no later than September 12, 2008. If you wish to discuss
the program in more detail, contact Professor David Rudstein (drudstei@kentlaw.edu;
312/906-5354).
Notice to Graduating Seniors. If you are graduating
this semester, please read the information below about your Kent email and network
accounts, and your locker. If you have any questions, please let me know. Note:
If you are not graduating this semester, you will keep your e-mail account and
locker until you graduate.
•Email and Network Accounts. Email
and network accounts will be terminated on Monday, August 4 (the first
Monday after the summer bar exam). As a Chicago-Kent graduate, the Office of Alumni
Relations is pleased to offer you the option of setting up an alumni.kentlaw.edu
email address through our email forwarding service. This service is available
through the Chicago-Kent Alumni Online Community and allows you to choose a username@alumni.kentlaw.edu
address that will be forwarded to your specified personal email account (e.g.
gmail, yahoo, or work e-mail, etc). This system allows you to use a simple e-mail
address to give to family and friends, and your username can be your current username@kentlaw.edu
or you can create a new one. You'll never have to notify everyone in your address
book of a new or discontinued e-mail address because you can simply update your
personal e-mail address by logging into the Online Community, and emails will
subsequently be forwarded to your email address.
In order to access email
forwarding, all you have to do is sign up for the Chicago-Kent
Alumni Online Community. Accounts for May 2008 graduates will be available
in mid-July. Click
here to sign up now! For questions or concerns, please contact the Office
of Alumni Relations at alums@kentlaw.edu or 312.906.5240.
•Clearing
Out Lockers. Please clear your lockers out no later than Friday, August
1. Anything left in lockers after that date will be removed. If you are unable
to clear your locker out by that date, please contact me to make arrangements
for your locker contents to be set aside for you.
Joke of the Week.
"A day without sunshine is like ... night." (Steve Martin)
Poem
of the Week. This week's poem is "Parenthood,"
by John Chipman Farrar.
Weeks
of June 30 and July 7, 2008
Summer
2008 Exams.
•Exam Schedule. The final exams for the Summer term are
listed in the Schedule of Classes available
here. You will be notified of the classroom assignments for your exams prior
to the start of exam period.
•Exam Reschedule Requests. The Student
Handbook requires that you take your final exams at the times scheduled unless
you have an exam conflict (as defined below), or you have a "serious illness
or other extraordinary or compelling reason" beyond your control. If you
have an exam conflict or believe you have other reasons justifying the rescheduling
of an exam, please contact Jenna Moroney (jmoroney@kentlaw.edu) no later than
Monday, July 7. A student is deemed to have an "exam conflict"
if the student has two exams at the same time, or has two or more exams within
24 hours.
•Exams Method Registration. Students have three choices
for taking most exams: hand writing the exam, taking the exam on their own laptop
computer, or taking the exam on a lab computer. Some professors do not permit
one or more of these options (e.g., some require all students to hand write the
exam).
Assuming your professor has authorized you to take the exam on computer,
we will assume you are taking the exam on your own laptop. You need to register
your exam-taking method only if you wish to hand-write the exam, or take it on
a lab computer (subject to space availability). Please check with your professor
if you are uncertain whether computer use will be permitted for your exam.
If
you wish to register to take an exam by hand or on a lab computer, log into your
Webmail account, click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Exam
Method Registration form. The form will be available beginning Tuesday, July
1. The deadline for submitting an exam method request is Monday, July 7.
Notice
about SofTest: Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the
SofTest exam-taking program. You will receive information from the Computer Center
about when and how to do this. Even though you do not need to submit an Exam Method
Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to download and install
SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center:
The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use
in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please contact me if you
opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected problems that
cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops also may be
used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before
or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly
configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited
supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes
during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users.
However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing
a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the
same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in
a separate room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
Class Ranks for
Spring 2008. The class ranks as of the end of the Spring 2008 semester have
been posted and are available through Web for Students (go into your Webmail account,
click on Web for Students, then click on the "Spring 2008" link under
"Grades and Rank" on the left hand menu). For those of you who just
graduated, this information constitutes your final GPA and class rank.
New
Chicago-Kent Law Review Members. I'm happy to report that the students listed
below have been invited to join the Chicago-Kent Law Review based on their academic
performance:
| Amartya
Basu | Catherine J. Krenz | | Michael S. Borella | Chloe
A. Long | | Jessica L. Bourne | Nicholas R. Merker |
| Jocelyn D. Floyd | Jeff J. Mikrut | | Paul J. Forster | Scott
D. Salmon | | Douglas R. Garmager | Teresa L. Slattery |
| Michael T. Gustafson | Howard A. Smith | | Justin
D. Haselden | Vincent M. Smolczynski | | Victoria S. Hayes | Andrew
R. Stein | | Gregory W. Jones | Rue K. Toland | | Sean
Z. Kramer | Amy B. Unander | | Adam R. Kreis | Chunyan
Wang | Notice to Graduating Seniors. If you are graduating
this semester, please read the information below about your Kent email and network
accounts, and your locker. If you have any questions, please let me know. Note:
If you are not graduating this semester, you will keep your e-mail account and
locker until you graduate.
•Email and Network Accounts. Email
and network accounts will be terminated on Monday, August 4 (the first
Monday after the summer bar exam). As a Chicago-Kent graduate, the Office of Alumni
Relations is pleased to offer you the option of setting up an alumni.kentlaw.edu
email address through our email forwarding service. This service is available
through the Chicago-Kent Alumni Online Community and allows you to choose a username@alumni.kentlaw.edu
address that will be forwarded to your specified personal email account (e.g.
gmail, yahoo, or work e-mail, etc). This system allows you to use a simple e-mail
address to give to family and friends, and your username can be your current username@kentlaw.edu
or you can create a new one. You'll never have to notify everyone in your address
book of a new or discontinued e-mail address because you can simply update your
personal e-mail address by logging into the Online Community, and emails will
subsequently be forwarded to your email address.
In order to access email
forwarding, all you have to do is sign up for the Chicago-Kent
Alumni Online Community. Accounts for May 2008 graduates will be available
in mid-July. Click
here to sign up now! For questions or concerns, please contact the Office
of Alumni Relations at alums@kentlaw.edu or 312.906.5240.
•Clearing
Out Lockers. Please clear your lockers out no later than Friday, August
1. Anything left in lockers after that date will be removed. If you are unable
to clear your locker out by that date, please contact me to make arrangements
for your locker contents to be set aside for you.
Joke of the Week.
"A day without sunshine is like ... night." (Steve Martin)
Poem
of the Week. This week's poem is "Parenthood,"
by John Chipman Farrar.
Weeks
of June 16 and June 23, 2008
Notice
to Graduating Seniors. If you are graduating this semester, please read the
information below about your Kent email and network accounts, and your locker.
If you have any questions, please let me know. Note: If you are not graduating
this semester, you will keep your e-mail account and locker until you graduate.
•Email
and Network Accounts. Email and network accounts will be terminated on
Monday, August 4 (the first Monday after the summer bar exam). As a Chicago-Kent
graduate, the Office of Alumni Relations is pleased to offer you the option of
setting up an alumni.kentlaw.edu email address through our email forwarding service.
This service is available through the Chicago-Kent Alumni Online Community and
allows you to choose a username@alumni.kentlaw.edu address that will be forwarded
to your specified personal email account (e.g. gmail, yahoo, or work e-mail, etc).
This system allows you to use a simple e-mail address to give to family and friends,
and your username can be your current username@kentlaw.edu or you can create a
new one. You'll never have to notify everyone in your address book of a new or
discontinued e-mail address because you can simply update your personal e-mail
address by logging into the Online Community, and emails will subsequently be
forwarded to your email address.
In order to access email forwarding,
all you have to do is sign up for the Chicago-Kent
Alumni Online Community. Accounts for May 2008 graduates will be available
in mid-July. Click
here to sign up now! For questions or concerns, please contact the Office
of Alumni Relations at alums@kentlaw.edu or 312.906.5240.
•Clearing
Out Lockers. Please clear your lockers out no later than Friday, August
1. Anything left in lockers after that date will be removed. If you are unable
to clear your locker out by that date, please contact me to make arrangements
for your locker contents to be set aside for you.
Joke of the Week.
Question: What happened to the butcher who backed up into his meat grinder?
Answer: He got a little behind in his work.
Poem of the Week.
This week's poem is "Parenthood,"
by John Chipman Farrar.
Weeks
of June 2 and June 9, 2008
Notice to
Graduating Seniors. If you are graduating this semester, please read the information
below about your Kent email and network accounts, and your locker. If you have
any questions, please let me know. Note: If you are not graduating this semester,
you will keep your e-mail account and locker until you graduate.
•Email
and Network Accounts. Email and network accounts will be terminated on
Monday, August 4 (the first Monday after the summer bar exam). As a Chicago-Kent
graduate, the Office of Alumni Relations is pleased to offer you the option of
setting up an alumni.kentlaw.edu email address through our email forwarding service.
This service is available through the Chicago-Kent Alumni Online Community and
allows you to choose a username@alumni.kentlaw.edu address that will be forwarded
to your specified personal email account (e.g. gmail, yahoo, or work e-mail, etc).
This system allows you to use a simple e-mail address to give to family and friends,
and your username can be your current username@kentlaw.edu or you can create a
new one. You'll never have to notify everyone in your address book of a new or
discontinued e-mail address because you can simply update your personal e-mail
address by logging into the Online Community, and emails will subsequently be
forwarded to your email address.
In order to access email forwarding,
all you have to do is sign up for the Chicago-Kent
Alumni Online Community. Accounts for May 2008 graduates will be available
in mid-July. Click
here to sign up now! For questions or concerns, please contact the Office
of Alumni Relations at alums@kentlaw.edu or 312.906.5240.
•Clearing
Out Lockers. Please clear your lockers out no later than Friday, August
1. Anything left in lockers after that date will be removed. If you are unable
to clear your locker out by that date, please contact me to make arrangements
for your locker contents to be set aside for you.
Joke of the Week.
Question: What happened to the butcher who backed up into his meat grinder?
Answer: He got a little behind in his work.
Poem of the Week.
This week's poem is "Parenthood,"
by John Chipman Farrar.
Weeks
of May 19 and 26, 2008
Notice to Graduating
Seniors. If you are graduating this semester, please read the information
below about your Kent email and network accounts, and your locker. If you have
any questions, please let me know. Note: If you are not graduating this semester,
you will keep your e-mail account and locker until you graduate.
•Email
and Network Accounts. Email and network accounts will be terminated on
Monday, August 4 (the first Monday after the summer bar exam). As a Chicago-Kent
graduate, the Office of Alumni Relations is pleased to offer you the option of
setting up an alumni.kentlaw.edu email address through our email forwarding service.
This service is available through the Chicago-Kent Alumni Online Community and
allows you to choose a username@alumni.kentlaw.edu address that will be forwarded
to your specified personal email account (e.g. gmail, yahoo, or work e-mail, etc).
This system allows you to use a simple e-mail address to give to family and friends,
and your username can be your current username@kentlaw.edu or you can create a
new one. You'll never have to notify everyone in your address book of a new or
discontinued e-mail address because you can simply update your personal e-mail
address by logging into the Online Community, and emails will subsequently be
forwarded to your email address.
In order to access email forwarding,
all you have to do is sign up for the Chicago-Kent
Alumni Online Community. Accounts for May 2008 graduates will be available
in mid-July. Click
here to sign up now! For questions or concerns, please contact the Office
of Alumni Relations at alums@kentlaw.edu or 312.906.5240.
•Clearing
Out Lockers. Please clear your lockers out no later than Friday, August
1. Anything left in lockers after that date will be removed. If you are unable
to clear your locker out by that date, please contact me to make arrangeents for
your locker contents to be set aside for you.
Summer 2008 Term Information.
•Classroom
Assignments. The final Schedule of Classes for the Summer 2008 term, including
classroom assignments, is available on the Summer
2008 Term Information page (also available by going to the main Student
Portal page and clicking on the Summer '08 link).
•Initial Reading
Assignments. A list of initial reading assignments for Summer 2008 courses
is available on the Summer
2008 Term Information page (also available by going to the main Student
Portal page and clicking on the Summer '08 link). Please note: If a
course is not listed, that means we did not receive an initial assignment from
the professor.
Fall 2008 Initial Reading Assignments and Course Materials.
A list of initial reading assignments for Fall 2008 courses will be posted on
the main Student Portal
page (click on the Fall '08 link) no later than Monday, August 4.
You
may ask the bookstore to hold your Fall course materials for you when they arrive,
or for an extra fee you may request that the books be mailed to you over the summer.
If you would like to take advantage of either of these options, stop by the bookstore
before you leave, or call the bookstore at 312/906-5605. In addition, you may
order your course books over the Internet by clicking on the Bookstore link on
the Student Portal page.
Joke
of the Week. Why were the police called to the day care center? A three-year-old
was resisting a rest.
Poem of the Week. This week's poem is "An
Ode to Exams," by Angela Lucas.
SPRING
2008
Week of
May 12, 2008
Have a Nice Summer! Congratulations
on (almost) completing the school year. For those of you who will be back next
year, I hope you have a productive and restful summer. For those who are graduating
this semester, I look forward to seeing you at Commencement -- and I wish you
good luck on the bar and in starting your careers.
Spring 2008 Final
Exams.
•Exam Schedule. The final exam schedule for the
current semester is available
here. If you have not received your exam room assignments by email, you can
check them by logging into Webmail,
clicking on Web for Students, and then clicking on "Spring 2008" under
"Schedule" in the lefthand menu (then scroll down until you see your
exam schedule).
•Exam Emergencies. If an emergency occurs
that may prevent you from taking a final exam, you or someone on your behalf should
call me (312/906-5282) or Jenna Moroney (312/906-5005) as soon as possible. If
you cannot reach either of us, call the Registrar's office (312/906-5080). Do
not contact your professor about any problem connected with your exam, as this
may compromise your anonymity. Please read Section
VII of the Student Handbook, which contains the rules governing exams, exam
conflicts, make-up exams, missed exams, and related issues; and review Article
II of the Code of Conduct in the Student Handbook.
•Consulting
Laptops During Exams. Unless your professor specifically authorizes it,
you may not consult materials (notes, outlines, etc.) stored on your laptop computer
during an open book or limited open book exam; you are limited to consulting print
materials authorized by your professor. Please note: This is separate from the
issue of whether you may write your exam on your own laptop. The limitation described
above applies whether you are writing your exam by hand or on a lab or laptop
computer.
•Cell Phones During Exams. You are not permitted
to use a cell phone during any exam, including during any restroom breaks. If
you have a cell phone with you during an exam, it must be turned off and stored
out of sight.
•Access to Computer Labs During Exams. Because
we use the computer labs during many of the exam slots during exam period, access
for other purposes (e.g., printing out papers or exam outlines) is limited. Please
keep in mind that there is a printer in the 5th Floor Student Lounge that you
can use if the labs are all in use.
•Availability of Professors'
Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available for students
to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Services/students.htm
and clicking on the Exam Database link (under Resources). Exams dating from 1992
and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the
Library.
•Exams Method Registration. The period is
now closed for exam method registration.
Notice to Hand Writers:
Students who are hand writing an exam will usually be placed in the same room
used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers are not segregated in their own
room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe they may
be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
Notice About SofTest:
Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the SofTest exam-taking
program. The Computer Center has emailed information to all students about the
procedures for doing this. You may also find this information in the Computer
Center's section of the Record. Even though you do not need to submit
an Exam Method Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to
download and install SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the
Computer Center: The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers
reserved for use in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please
contact me if you opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected
problems that cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops
also may be used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately
before or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to
properly configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because
of limited supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general
loaning purposes during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop
or are Mac users. However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe
justify borrowing a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Graduating Seniors. If you are graduating this semester, please read the
information below about your Kent email and network accounts, and your locker.
If you have any questions, please let me know. Note: If you are not graduating
this semester, you will keep your e-mail account and locker until you graduate.
•Email
and Network Accounts. Email and network accounts will be terminated on
Monday, August 4 (the first Monday after the summer bar exam). Free email
services to all alumni will be available. More information about these services
will be emailed to you at a later date, and will be posted on the Computer Center's
Record page. (Note: The email address for complimentary alumni services
will not be the same as your current Kentlaw email address.)
•Clearing
Out Lockers. Please clear your lockers out no later than Friday, August
1. Anything left in lockers after that date will be removed. If you are unable
to clear your locker out by that date, please contact me to make arrangeents for
your locker contents to be set aside for you.
Summer 2008 Term Information.
•Classroom
Assignments. The final Schedule of Classes for the Summer 2008 term, including
classroom assignments, is available on the Summer
2008 Term Information page (also available by going to the main Student
Portal page and clicking on the Summer '08 link).
•Initial Reading
Assignments. A list of initial reading assignments for Summer 2008 courses
is available on the Summer
2008 Term Information page (also available by going to the main Student
Portal page and clicking on the Summer '08 link). Please note: If a
course is not listed, that means we did not receive an initial assignment from
the professor.
Fall 2008 Registration. The initial registration
period is now over. If you have not already done so, please log back into the
online
registration system to see what classes you were admitted into. You may make
adjustments to your schedule through the end of the second week of the Fall semester.
The Fall 2008 Registration Bulletin, which includes the final schedule of Fall
classes and course and exam grids, is available outside the third floor cafeteria.
Online versions of these documents, and of the preliminary Spring 2009 schedule,
are available through the main Student
Portal page.
Fall 2008 Initial Reading Assignments and Course Materials.
A list of initial reading assignments for Fall 2008 courses will be posted on
the main Student Portal
page (click on the Fall '08 link) no later than Monday, August 4.
You
may ask the bookstore to hold your Fall course materials for you when they arrive,
or for an extra fee you may request that the books be mailed to you over the summer.
If you would like to take advantage of either of these options, stop by the bookstore
before you leave, or call the bookstore at 312/906-5605. In addition, you may
order your course books over the Internet by clicking on the Bookstore link on
the Student Portal page.
Joke
of the Week. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
(Thanks to Alice Curry for this week's joke.)
Poem of the Week.
This week's poem is "An Ode
to Exams," by Angela Lucas.
Week
of May 5, 2008
Spring 2008 Final
Exams.
•Exam Schedule. The final exam schedule for the
current semester is available
here. If you have not received your exam room assignments by email, you can
check them by logging into Webmail,
clicking on Web for Students, and then clicking on "Spring 2008" under
"Schedule" in the lefthand menu (then scroll down until you see your
exam schedule).
•Exam Emergencies. If an emergency occurs
that may prevent you from taking a final exam, you or someone on your behalf should
call me (312/906-5282) or Jenna Moroney (312/906-5005) as soon as possible. If
you cannot reach either of us, call the Registrar's office (312/906-5080). Do
not contact your professor about any problem connected with your exam, as this
may compromise your anonymity. Please read Section
VII of the Student Handbook, which contains the rules governing exams, exam
conflicts, make-up exams, missed exams, and related issues; and review Article
II of the Code of Conduct in the Student Handbook.
•Consulting
Laptops During Exams. Unless your professor specifically authorizes it,
you may not consult materials (notes, outlines, etc.) stored on your laptop computer
during an open book or limited open book exam; you are limited to consulting print
materials authorized by your professor. Please note: This is separate from the
issue of whether you may write your exam on your own laptop. The limitation described
above applies whether you are writing your exam by hand or on a lab or laptop
computer.
•Cell Phones During Exams. You are not permitted
to use a cell phone during any exam, including during any restroom breaks. If
you have a cell phone with you during an exam, it must be turned off and stored
out of sight.
•Access to Computer Labs During Exams. Because
we use the computer labs during many of the exam slots during exam period, access
for other purposes (e.g., printing out papers or exam outlines) is limited. Please
keep in mind that there is a printer in the 5th Floor Student Lounge that you
can use if the labs are all in use.
•Availability of Professors'
Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available for students
to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Services/students.htm
and clicking on the Exam Database link (under Resources). Exams dating from 1992
and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the
Library.
•Exams Method Registration. The period is
now closed for exam method registration.
Notice to Hand Writers:
Students who are hand writing an exam will usually be placed in the same room
used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers are not segregated in their own
room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe they may
be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
Notice About SofTest:
Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the SofTest exam-taking
program. The Computer Center has emailed information to all students about the
procedures for doing this. You may also find this information in the Computer
Center's section of the Record. Even though you do not need to submit
an Exam Method Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to
download and install SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the
Computer Center: The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers
reserved for use in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please
contact me if you opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected
problems that cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops
also may be used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately
before or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to
properly configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because
of limited supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general
loaning purposes during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop
or are Mac users. However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe
justify borrowing a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Graduating Seniors. If you are graduating this semester, please read the
information below about your Kent email and network accounts, and your locker.
If you have any questions, please let me know. Note: If you are not graduating
this semester, you will keep your e-mail account and locker until you graduate.
•Email
and Network Accounts. Email and network accounts will be terminated on
Monday, August 4 (the first Monday after the summer bar exam). Free email
services to all alumni will be available. More information about these services
will be emailed to you at a later date, and will be posted on the Computer Center's
Record page. (Note: The email address for complimentary alumni services
will not be the same as your current Kentlaw email address.)
•Clearing
Out Lockers. Please clear your lockers out no later than Friday, August
1. Anything left in lockers after that date will be removed. If you are unable
to clear your locker out by that date, please contact me to make arrangeents for
your locker contents to be set aside for you.
Summer 2007 Term Information.
•Classroom
Assignments. The final Schedule of Classes for the Summer 2008 term, including
classroom assignments, will be posted shortly.
•Initial Reading Assignments.
A list of initial reading assignments for Summer 2008 courses will be available
no later than Monday, May 12. It will be linked to this page, and available
on the main Student Portal
page (click on the Summer '08 link). Please note: If a course is not
listed, that means we did not receive an initial assignment from the professor.
Fall
2008 Registration. The initial registration period is now over. If you have
not already done so, please log back into the online
registration system to see what classes you were admitted into. You may make
adjustments to your schedule through the end of the second week of the Fall semester.
The Fall 2007 Registration Bulletin, which includes the final schedule of Fall
classes and course and exam grids, is available outside the third floor cafeteria.
Online versions of these documents, and of the preliminary Spring 2009 schedule,
are available through the main Student
Portal page.
Fall 2008 Initial Reading Assignments and Course Materials.
A list of initial reading assignments for Fall 2008 courses will be posted on
the main Student Portal
page (click on the Fall '07 link) no later than Monday, August 4.
You
may ask the bookstore to hold your Fall course materials for you when they arrive,
or for an extra fee you may request that the books be mailed to you over the summer.
If you would like to take advantage of either of these options, stop by the bookstore
before you leave, or call the bookstore at 312/906-5605. In addition, you may
order your course books over the Internet by clicking on the Bookstore link on
the Student Portal page.
Joke
of the Week. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
(Thanks to Alice Curry for this week's joke.)
Poem of the Week.
This week's poem is "An Ode
to Exams," by Angela Lucas.
Week
of April 28, 2008
Academic Calendar
Reminder. Please note the following dates for the closing period of the semester:
Last
day of classes: Friday, May 2 (Monday classes meet; King Birthday make-up)
Read
Period: Saturday, May 3- Tuesday, May 6
Exam Period: Wednesday,
May 7- Friday, May 16
Fall 2008 Registration. The final Fall 2008
schedule, the Registration Bulletin, and the course and exam grids are available
by clicking here or
by going to the main Student
Portal page (click on the Fall '08 link). Print copies are available on the
table outside the third floor cafeteria. Registration will take place from Friday,
April 25 through Tuesday, April 29. You may register at any time during that
period.
Changes/corrections to the schedule:
*Entrepreneurial
Law Practicum: You must have completed 30 credit hours to take this practicum.
*Harassment
in Employment Law seminar and Privacy in Employment Law seminar: Employment
Relationships is recommended preparation for Privacy in Employment, but not for
Harassment in Employment Law.
*Investment Funds seminar: Business Organizations
is a prerequisite; Securities Regulation will be helpful but is not required.
*Rule
of Law in America seminar: Constitutional Law is a prerequisite.
After
the end of the registration period, the registration requests will be processed
according to each student’s registration priority. In other words, registration
will not be conducted on a first-come, first-served basis; as long as you register
during the designated period, you will have an equal chance of being admitted
to a class as other students within your registration priority group. To
learn what classes you have been admitted into, you must check the online registration
site on or after Thursday, May 1. Registering for a class during the initial
registration period is no guarantee that you will be admitted into the class –
you must check the web site on or after Thursday, May 1 to learn what classes
you have been admitted into.
Spring 2009 Preliminary Schedule.
To help with planning your Fall 2008 course schedule, the preliminary schedule
of classes for the Spring 2009 semester is available on the Fall 2008 Term page
-- click here, or go
to the main Student Portal
page (click on the Fall '08 link). Please note: This schedule is only
preliminary – there will be additions to the class list and other changes made
before the schedule is finalized. The final schedule will be issued during the
Fall 2008 semester, when registration for Spring 2009 classes will also take place.
If you have any questions or comments about the preliminary schedule, please feel
free to contact me by e-mail (SSOWLE), phone (6-5282), or by stopping by my office
(Rm. 320).
Intensive Trial Advocacy. Please note that registration
for both the August 2008 and the January 2009 sessions of Intensive Trial Advocacy
take place as part of Fall 2008 registration. See the listing for Intensive Trial
Advocacy in the Fall Schedule of Classes for details.
Spring 2008 Final
Exams.
•Exam Schedule. The final exam schedule for the
current semester is available
here. You will be notified of the classroom assignments for your exams prior
to the start of exam period.
•Exam Emergencies. If an emergency
occurs that may prevent you from taking a final exam, you or someone on your behalf
should call me (312/906-5282) or Jenna Moroney (312/906-5005) as soon as possible.
If you cannot reach either of us, call the Registrar's office (312/906-5080).
Do not contact your professor about any problem connected with your exam, as this
may compromise your anonymity. Please read Section
VII of the Student Handbook, which contains the rules governing exams, exam
conflicts, make-up exams, missed exams, and related issues; and review Article
II of the Code of Conduct in the Student Handbook.
•Consulting
Laptops During Exams. Unless your professor specifically authorizes it,
you may not consult materials (notes, outlines, etc.) stored on your laptop computer
during an open book or limited open book exam; you are limited to consulting print
materials authorized by your professor. Please note: This is separate from the
issue of whether you may write your exam on your own laptop. The limitation described
above applies whether you are writing your exam by hand or on a lab or laptop
computer.•Cell Phones During Exams. You are not permitted to
use a cell phone during any exam, including during any restroom breaks. If you
have a cell phone with you during an exam, it must be turned off and stored out
of sight. •Access to Computer Labs During Exams. Because we
use the computer labs during many of the exam slots during exam period, access
for other purposes (e.g., printing out papers or exam outlines) is limited. Please
keep in mind that there is a printer in the 5th Floor Student Lounge that you
can use if the labs are all in use.
•Availability of Professors'
Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available for students
to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Services/students.htm
and clicking on the Exam Database link (under Resources). Exams dating from 1992
and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the
Library.
•Exams Method Registration. The period is
now closed for exam method registration.
Notice About Exam Methods:
Assuming your professor has authorized you to take the exam on computer, our default
assumption is that you will take your exams on laptop. During the exam method
registration period, you were able to change this either to hand writing or lab
computer, if you wished. If you did nothing during the exam method registration
period, then you are registered to take the exam on your laptop computer (assuming
your professor authorized exams on computer).
Notice to Hand Writers:
Students who are hand writing an exam will usually be placed in the same room
used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers are not segregated in their own
room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe they may
be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
Notice About SofTest:
Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the SofTest exam-taking
program. The Computer Center has emailed information to all students about the
procedures for doing this. Even though you do not need to submit an Exam Method
Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to download and install
SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center:
The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use
in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please contact me if you
opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected problems that
cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops also may be
used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before
or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly
configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited
supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes
during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users.
However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing
a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the
same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in
a separate room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
Joke of the Week.
Don't sweat the petty things - and don't pet the sweaty things.
Poem
of the Week. This week's poem is "A
little Madness in the Spring," by Emily Dickinson.
Week
of April 21, 2008
Academic Calendar
Reminder. Please note the following dates for the closing period of the semester:
Last
day of classes: Friday, May 2 (Monday classes meet; King Birthday make-up)
Read
Period: Saturday, May 3- Tuesday, May 6
Exam Period: Wednesday,
May 7- Friday, May 16
Spring 2008 Final Exams.
•Exam
Schedule. The final exam schedule for the current semester is available
here. You will be notified of the classroom assignments for your exams prior
to the start of exam period.
•Exam Conflict/Reschedule Requests.
The period is now closed for requesting an exam reschedule due to an exam conflict
or other reason. We are now processing the requests. If you submitted a request,
we will notify you of our response as soon as possible.
•Exams
Method Registration. The period is now closed for exam method registration.
Notice
About Exam Methods: Assuming your professor has authorized you to take the
exam on computer, our default assumption is that you will take your exams on laptop.
During the exam method registration period, you were able to change this either
to hand writing or lab computer, if you wished. If you did nothing during the
exam method registration period, then you are registered to take the exam on your
laptop computer (assuming your professor authorized exams on computer).
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will usually be placed
in the same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers are not segregated
in their own room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
Notice About SofTest:
Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the SofTest exam-taking
program. The Computer Center has emailed information to all students about the
procedures for doing this. Even though you do not need to submit an Exam Method
Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to download and install
SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center:
The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use
in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please contact me if you
opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected problems that
cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops also may be
used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before
or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly
configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited
supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes
during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users.
However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing
a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the
same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in
a separate room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
•Availability
of Professors' Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available
for students to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Services/students.htm
and clicking on the Exam Database link (under Resources). Exams dating from 1992
and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the
Library.
Fall 2008 Registration. The preliminary schedule of classes
for the Fall 2008 semester is available outside the third floor cafeteria and
through the main Student
Portal page (click on the Fall '08 link). The final schedule and Registration
Bulletin will be issued no later than Wednesday, April 23. Registration will take
place from Friday, April 25 through Tuesday, April 29. You may register at any
time during that period.
After the end of the registration period, the
registration requests will be processed according to each student’s registration
priority. In other words, registration will not be conducted on a first-come,
first-served basis; as long as you register during the designated period, you
will have an equal chance of being admitted to a class as other students within
your registration priority group. To learn what classes you have been admitted
into, you must check the online registration site on or after Thursday, May 1.
Registering for a class during the initial registration period is no guarantee
that you will be admitted into the class – you must check the web site on or after
Thursday, May 1 to learn what classes you have been admitted into.
Intensive
Trial Advocacy. Please note that registration for both the August 2008 and
the January 2009 sessions of Intensive Trial Advocacy take place as part of Fall
2008 registration. See the listing for Intensive Trial Advocacy in the preliminary
Schedule of Classes for details.
Summer 2008 Registration. Initial
registration for Summer 2008 classes is now over. Fortunately, we were able to
accommodate all student registration requests -- we did not have to drop anyone
from any of the summer courses due to oversubscribed classes.
The registration
system has reopened. You may add an open class, or drop a class and receive a
tuition refund, through the end of the first week of the Summer term.
Due
to inadequate enrollment, we have canceled one summer class -- Water Law (485-081).
"Where
Do We Go From Here?" Programs: April 22 and 23. This program introduces
first-year students to the course requirements after the first year, the certificate
programs offered by Chicago-Kent, and clinical, externship, and other program
opportunities available to upper-level students. The program will be offered at
the following times:
Day Division: Tuesday, April 22, 1:00-1:50pm (Auditorium)
Evening
Division: Wednesday, April 23, 5:00-5:50pm (Rm. 210)
I.P. Information
and Course Selection Program: April 22. Are you planning on pursuing an IP
career? Somewhat mildly curious about what this “IP stuff” is all about? Wondering
if someone without a technical background can take IP classes or pursue an IP
career (the answer to both is “yes”)? If you answer "yes," or even “maybe,”
to any of these questions, then you should attend the IP class selection program
on Tuesday, April 22, 12:00 noon in Rm. 580.
At this session,
members of Chicago-Kent’s IP faculty will give a quick overview of potential careers
in IP and explain the differences amongst the various disciplines. They will then
go over the slate of IP classes to be offered in the 2008-09 school year and provide
suggestions and strategies as to which classes to take. So, please plan on attending!
Light refreshments will be served.
Trial Team Tryouts. Tryouts for
the 2008-2009 Trial Advocacy Team will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2008.
All interested students should meet in the Marovitz courtroom (first floor) at
6:00p.m. The only requirement is that you are a full-time Kent student. First-year
students may try out. This will be an open competition; we will pick 3-6 students
to participate. Both regional competitions will be held the second or third week
in February. The Regionals for the National Trial Competition will be held in
Chicago, and the Regionals for the ATLA Competition will be held in Chicago. The
winners of the Regionals will proceed to the Nationals in March of 2009.
We
have assembled three excellent coaching faculties. The National Trial competition
is the largest trial competition for law schools in the country. It begins with
more than 300 teams throughout the nation. Over the last 27 year Chicago Kent
has been one of the most successful programs in the country. Kent has been regional
champion 18 of the last 27 years. The national competition is sponsored by the
ABA, the American College of Trial Lawyers, and the Texas Young Lawyers Association.
The ATLA competition is the largest specialized bar association competition
in the country. It is also national in scope. Our goal as a faculty will be to
provide the students on both teams with the highest caliber of instruction possible.
If you are selected for a team, you will be asked to commit a substantial part
of your time to practice. Our purpose is to turn you into trial lawyers.
Additionally,
Chicago-Kent will be entering a team in the BLSA Thurgood Marshall Trial Competition.
This competition is also national in scope. We will be selecting four students
for the "Marshall" team at a future date; the details of where and when
are not yet finalized.
During the tryouts, you will be asked to present
up to 3 to5 minutes of an OPENING STATEMENT, CLOSING ARGUMENT and a DIRECT and
CROSS EXAMINATION. We will be using State v. Miller, case file 9.8 in the Mauet
& Wolfson, Materials in Trial Advocacy. The witnesses will be Shirley
Thompson and Michael Miller. Please prepare an opening statement and a closing
argument for one side, not both sides. When you come into the room you will be
asked which side you are doing the opening statement and closing argument for,
as well as being asked which witness you wish to direct and cross. (In other words,
you will be asked to do part of an opening statement, part of a closing argument,
part of one direct examination, and part of one cross examination.) We will announce
those who have been selected on the night of tryouts, so please be prepared to
wait until the decisions have been made by the coaching faculty as to all of the
positions. (This process usually takes the entire evening, so be prepared.) The
opening and closing arguments should be about 5 minutes each; the direct and cross
examinations should be about 3-5 minutes each.
Teaching Evaluations.
Teaching evaluations will be distributed in the coming weeks to elicit students'
opinions about the quality of teaching at the Law School. Instructors will review
the responses to improve the quality of their instruction and courses. The evaluations
are also considered as one important factor in tenure, promotion, and compensation
decisions for full-time faculty and are used as a factor in determining the effectiveness
of part-time instructors. Evaluations are anonymous and will not be available
to professors until grades are turned in.
Dean's Certificate for Illinois
Bar. We will mail a Dean's Certificate to the Illinois bar examiners for every
graduating student after final grades for the Spring semester are received and
processed, and we can confirm completion of all graduation requirements. We compile
the list of graduating students from the list of those who submitted Applications
for Graduation listing Spring 2008 as their final semester. Bar Exams in
Other Jurisdictions. If you plan to take a bar exam outside of Illinois, you
should provide the Registrar with appropriate forms for the Law School to complete
as soon as possible.
Week
of April 14, 2008
Spring
2008 Final Exams.
•Exam Schedule. The final exam schedule
for the current semester is available
here. You will be notified of the classroom assignments for your exams prior
to the start of exam period.
•Exam Conflict/Reschedule Requests.
The period is now closed for requesting an exam reschedule due to an exam conflict
or other reason. We are now processing the requests. If you submitted a request,
we will notify you of our response as soon as possible.
•Exams
Method Registration. The period is now closed for exam method registration.
Notice
About Exam Methods: Assuming your professor has authorized you to take the
exam on computer, our default assumption is that you will take your exams on laptop.
During the exam method registration period, you were able to change this either
to hand writing or lab computer, if you wished. If you did nothing during the
exam method registration period, then you are registered to take the exam on your
laptop computer (assuming your professor authorized exams on computer).
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will usually be placed
in the same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers are not segregated
in their own room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
Notice About SofTest:
Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the SofTest exam-taking
program. The Computer Center has emailed information to all students about the
procedures for doing this. Even though you do not need to submit an Exam Method
Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to download and install
SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center:
The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use
in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please contact me if you
opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected problems that
cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops also may be
used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before
or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly
configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited
supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes
during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users.
However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing
a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the
same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in
a separate room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
•Availability
of Professors' Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available
for students to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Services/students.htm
and clicking on the Exam Database link (under Resources). Exams dating from 1992
and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the
Library.
Summer 2008 Registration. Initial registration for Summer
2008 classes is now over. Fortunately, we were able to accommodate all student
registration requests -- we did not have to drop anyone from any of the summer
courses due to oversubscribed classes.
The registration system has reopened.
You may add an open class, or drop a class and receive a tuition refund, through
the end of the first week of the Summer term.
Due to inadequate enrollment,
we have canceled one summer class -- Water Law (485-081).
Fall 2008
Preliminary Schedule. The preliminary schedule of classes for the Fall 2008
semester will be distributed late in the week of April 14 outside the third floor
cafeteria; an online version will be available on the main Student
Portal page. The final schedule and Registration Bulletin will be issued the
following week.
"Where Do We Go From Here?" Programs: April
22 and 23. This program introduces first-year students to the course requirements
after the first year, the certificate programs offered by Chicago-Kent, and clinical,
externship, and other program opportunities available to upper-level students.
The program will be offered at the following times:
Day Division: Tuesday,
April 22, 1:00-1:50pm (Auditorium)
Evening Division: Wednesday, April 23, 5:00-5:50pm
(Rm. 210)
I.P. Information and Course Selection Program: April 22.
Are you planning on pursuing an IP career? Somewhat mildly curious about what
this “IP stuff” is all about? Wondering if someone without a technical background
can take IP classes or pursue an IP career (the answer to both is “yes”)? If you
answer "yes," or even “maybe,” to any of these questions, then you should
attend the IP class selection program on Tuesday, April 22, 12:00 noon in
Rm. 580.
At this session, members of Chicago-Kent’s IP faculty
will give a quick overview of potential careers in IP and explain the differences
amongst the various disciplines. They will then go over the slate of IP classes
to be offered in the 2008-09 school year and provide suggestions and strategies
as to which classes to take. So, please plan on attending! Light refreshments
will be served.
Trial Team Tryouts. Tryouts for the 2008-2009 Trial
Advocacy Team will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2008. All interested
students should meet in the Marovitz courtroom (first floor) at 6:00p.m. The only
requirement is that you are a full-time Kent student. First-year students may
try out. This will be an open competition; we will pick 3-6 students to participate.
Both regional competitions will be held the second or third week in February.
The Regionals for the National Trial Competition will be held in Chicago, and
the Regionals for the ATLA Competition will be held in Chicago. The winners of
the Regionals will proceed to the Nationals in March of 2009.
We have assembled
three excellent coaching faculties. The National Trial competition is the largest
trial competition for law schools in the country. It begins with more than 300
teams throughout the nation. Over the last 27 year Chicago Kent has been one of
the most successful programs in the country. Kent has been regional champion 18
of the last 27 years. The national competition is sponsored by the ABA, the American
College of Trial Lawyers, and the Texas Young Lawyers Association.
The
ATLA competition is the largest specialized bar association competition in the
country. It is also national in scope. Our goal as a faculty will be to provide
the students on both teams with the highest caliber of instruction possible. If
you are selected for a team, you will be asked to commit a substantial part of
your time to practice. Our purpose is to turn you into trial lawyers.
Additionally,
Chicago-Kent will be entering a team in the BLSA Thurgood Marshall Trial Competition.
This competition is also national in scope. We will be selecting four students
for the "Marshall" team at a future date; the details of where and when
are not yet finalized.
During the tryouts, you will be asked to present
up to 3 to5 minutes of an OPENING STATEMENT, CLOSING ARGUMENT and a DIRECT and
CROSS EXAMINATION. We will be using State v. Miller, case file 9.8 in the Mauet
& Wolfson, Materials in Trial Advocacy. The witnesses will be Shirley
Thompson and Michael Miller. Please prepare an opening statement and a closing
argument for one side, not both sides. When you come into the room you will be
asked which side you are doing the opening statement and closing argument for,
as well as being asked which witness you wish to direct and cross. (In other words,
you will be asked to do part of an opening statement, part of a closing argument,
part of one direct examination, and part of one cross examination.) We will announce
those who have been selected on the night of tryouts, so please be prepared to
wait until the decisions have been made by the coaching faculty as to all of the
positions. (This process usually takes the entire evening, so be prepared.) The
opening and closing arguments should be about 5 minutes each; the direct and cross
examinations should be about 3-5 minutes each.
Chicago-Kent Is Now LinkedIn!
We invite all students, faculty, alumni, and staff to join the official Chicago-Kent
group on the networking site, LinkedIn. If you have a LinkedIn account, please
click
here to request membership. Questions? Contact alums@kentlaw.edu.
Teaaching
Evaluations. Teaching evaluations will be distributed in the coming weeks
to elicit students' opinions about the quality of teaching at the Law School.
Instructors will review the responses to improve the quality of their instruction
and courses. The evaluations are also considered as one important factor in tenure,
promotion, and compensation decisions for full-time faculty and are used as a
factor in determining the effectiveness of part-time instructors. Evaluations
are anonymous and will not be available to professors until grades are turned
in.
Joke of the Week. "If life gives you lemons, make some
sort of fruity juice." (Conan O'Brien)
Week
of April 7, 2008
Summer 2008
Registration. Initial registration for Summer 2008 classes is now over. To
learn what classes you have been admitted into, you must check the Online
Registration site when it opens back up on Tuesday, April 8. You may
add an open class, or drop a class and receive a tuition refund, through the end
of the first week of the Summer term.
Spring 2008 Final Exams.
•Exam
Schedule. The final exam schedule for the current semester is available
here. You will be notified of the classroom assignments for your exams prior
to the start of exam period.
•Exam Conflict/Reschedule Requests:
April 2-April 11. The Student Handbook requires that you take your final
exams at the times scheduled unless you have an exam conflict (as defined below),
or you have a "serious illness or other extraordinary or compelling reason"
beyond your control. If you have an exam conflict or believe you have other reasons
justifying the rescheduling of an exam, please complete the Final Exam Reschedule
form. The form will be available beginning Wednesday, April 2. To complete the
form, log into your Webmail
account, click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Final Exam
Reschedule form. The deadline for submitting an exam reschedule request is Friday,
April 11, at 5:00 pm. If your request is approved, you will be notified later
this semester of the rescheduled date, time, and location of your exam.
Under
current policy, a student is deemed to have an "exam conflict" if the
student has two exams at the same time, or has two or more exams within 24 hours
(e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., or at 6:00 p.m. and 1:15 the following
afternoon). A conflict does not exist if two exams are scheduled exactly 24 hours
apart (e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. one morning and 8:30 a.m. the next morning).
•Exams
Method Registration: April 2 - April 11. Students have three choices for
taking most exams: hand writing the exam, taking the exam on their own laptop
computer, or taking the exam on a lab computer. Some professors do not permit
one or more of these options (e.g., some require all students to hand write the
exam).
Assuming your professor has authorized you to take the exam on computer,
we will assume you are taking the exam on your own laptop. You need to register
your exam-taking method only if you wish to hand-write the exam, or take
it on a lab computer (subject to space availability). Please check with your professor
if you are uncertain whether computer use will be permitted for your exam.
If
you wish to register to take an exam by hand or on a lab computer, log into your
Webmail account,
click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Exam Method Registration
form. The form will be available beginning Wednesday, April 2. The deadline for
submitting an exam method request is Friday, April 11, at 5:00 pm.
Notice
about SofTest: Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the
SofTest exam-taking program. You will receive information from the Computer Center
about when and how to do this. Even though you do not need to submit an Exam Method
Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to download and install
SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center:
The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use
in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please contact me if you
opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected problems that
cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops also may be
used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before
or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly
configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited
supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes
during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users.
However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing
a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the
same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in
a separate room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
•Availability
of Professors' Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available
for students to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Services/students.htm
and clicking on the Exam Database link (under Resources). Exams dating from 1992
and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the
Library.
Week
of March 31, 2008
Summer
2008 Registration: March 31-April 4. The Summer 2008 Registration Bulletin,
including the Schedule of Classes, is available outside the third floor cafeteria.
Online versions are also available on the Student
Portal page (click on the Summer '08 link near the top), or by clicking
here.
Registration for Summer classes will take place from Monday,
March 31 through Friday, April 4. You may register at any time during that
period. To register beginning on March 31, go to the Student
Portal page and click on the Online Registration link (under "Registration
& grades"). You can use any computer with Internet access, either inside
or outside the Law School.
After the end of the registration period, the
registration requests will be processed according to each student's registration
priority. In other words, registration will not be conducted on a first-come,
first-served basis; as long as you register during the designated period, you
will have an equal chance of being admitted to a class as other students within
your registration priority group. Evening Division students have priority
over Day Division students for Summer registration. Within divisions, registration
priority is based on anticipated graduation date, with the earliest graduation
date having the highest priority.
To learn what classes you have been admitted
into, you must check the Online Registration site on or after Tuesday, April
8. Registering for a class during the initial registration period is
no guarantee that you will be admitted to the class -- you must check the web
site on or after Tuesday, April 8 to learn what classes you have been admitted
to.
Change of Division Requests: March 26-April 4. Students
wishing to request a change of division for the Fall semester (e.g., from evening
division to full-time or part-time day division, or vice versa) should submit
a Change of Division request. The form will be available beginning Wednesday,
March 26. To complete the form, log into your Webmail
account, click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Change of
Division form. The deadline for submitting the form is Friday, April 4, at
5:00 pm. Changes are permitted on a space-available basis. If all students
can be accommodated, all will be permitted to change divisions; if all students
cannot be accommodated, a lottery drawing will be held to determine which students
will be permitted to change. We will notify you as soon as possible after April
4 whether your request is approved.
Spring 2008 Final Exams.
•Exam
Schedule. The final exam schedule for the current semester is available
here. You will be notified of the classroom assignments for your exams prior
to the start of exam period.
•Exam Conflict/Reschedule Requests:
April 2-April 11. The Student Handbook requires that you take your final
exams at the times scheduled unless you have an exam conflict (as defined below),
or you have a "serious illness or other extraordinary or compelling reason"
beyond your control. If you have an exam conflict or believe you have other reasons
justifying the rescheduling of an exam, please complete the Final Exam Reschedule
form. The form will be available beginning Wednesday, April 2. To complete the
form, log into your Webmail
account, click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Final Exam
Reschedule form. The deadline for submitting an exam reschedule request is Friday,
April 11, at 5:00 pm. If your request is approved, you will be notified later
this semester of the rescheduled date, time, and location of your exam.
Under
current policy, a student is deemed to have an "exam conflict" if the
student has two exams at the same time, or has two or more exams within 24 hours
(e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., or at 6:00 p.m. and 1:15 the following
afternoon). A conflict does not exist if two exams are scheduled exactly 24 hours
apart (e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. one morning and 8:30 a.m. the next morning).
•Exams
Method Registration: April 2 - April 11. Students have three choices for
taking most exams: hand writing the exam, taking the exam on their own laptop
computer, or taking the exam on a lab computer. Some professors do not permit
one or more of these options (e.g., some require all students to hand write the
exam).
Assuming your professor has authorized you to take the exam on computer,
we will assume you are taking the exam on your own laptop. You need to register
your exam-taking method only if you wish to hand-write the exam, or take
it on a lab computer (subject to space availability). Please check with your professor
if you are uncertain whether computer use will be permitted for your exam.
If
you wish to register to take an exam by hand or on a lab computer, log into your
Webmail account,
click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Exam Method Registration
form. The form will be available beginning Wednesday, April 2. The deadline for
submitting an exam method request is Friday, April 11, at 5:00 pm.
Notice
about SofTest: Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the
SofTest exam-taking program. You will receive information from the Computer Center
about when and how to do this. Even though you do not need to submit an Exam Method
Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to download and install
SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center:
The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use
in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please contact me if you
opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected problems that
cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops also may be
used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before
or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly
configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited
supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes
during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users.
However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing
a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the
same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in
a separate room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
•Availability
of Professors' Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available
for students to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Services/students.htm
and clicking on the Exam Database link (under Resources). Exams dating from 1992
and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the
Library.
Early Bird Bar Preparation Program for Kent Students. BAR/BRI
will present four free lectures to all third-year and fourth-year students. You
do not need to be signed up for the regular BAR/BRI program to attend these lectures,
and you do not need to RSVP if you plan to attend. These lectures are not meant
to replace a commercial bar course, but are meant as a way to jump start the bar
exam preparation process.
Saturday, March 29: Commercial Law (Commercial
Paper and Secured Transactions) (Prof. Jason Kilborn), 10:00am - 1:00pm, Rm. 590
(overflow room: 510).
Sunday, March 30: Introduction to the Illinois
Bar Exam and Torts (Prof. Richard Conviser), 1:00 - 3:00pm, Auditorium.
Saturday,
April 5: Evidence (focusing on Hearsay) (Prof. Bill Elward), 10:00am - 12:00
noon, Rm. 590 (overflow room: 510).
Saturday, April 5: Multistate
Practice Test (MPT) Workshop (Prof. Michael Spak), 1:00 - 3:30pm, Rm. 590 (overflow
room: 510).
Bar Exam Preparation Courses. For information on bar
exam preparation courses, click
here.
Joke of the Week. If someone tries to fail and succeeds,
which did he do?
Poem of the Week. This week's poem is "Forgotten
Planet," by Doug Dorph.
Week
of March 24, 2008
Law Week Activities.
The Student Bar Association has a great line-up of events for Law Week, starting
on Monday, March 24, with Dean Krent's annual State of the Law School Address
and culminating on Saturday, March 29, with the Barrister's Ball. Click
here for a list of all the events and more details (look under Upcoming Events
on the right side of the page).
Summer 2008 Class Schedule. The
Summer 2008 Registration Bulletin, including the Schedule of Classes, is available
outside the third floor cafeteria. Online versions are also available on the Student
Portal page (click on the Summer '08 link near the top), or by clicking
here.
Registration for Summer classes will take place from Monday,
March 31 through Friday, April 4. You may register at any time during that
period. To register beginning on March 31, go to the Student
Portal page and click on the Online Registration link (under "Registration
& grades"). You can use any computer with Internet access, either inside
or outside the Law School.
After the end of the registration period, the
registration requests will be processed according to each student's registration
priority. In other words, registration will not be conducted on a first-come,
first-served basis; as long as you register during the designated period, you
will have an equal chance of being admitted to a class as other students within
your registration priority group. Evening Division students have priority
over Day Division students for Summer registration. Within divisions, registration
priority is based on anticipated graduation date, with the earliest graduation
date having the highest priority.
To learn what classes you have been admitted
into, you must check the Online Registration site on or after Tuesday, April
8. Registering for a class during the initial registration period is
no guarantee that you will be admitted to the class -- you must check the web
site on or after Tuesday, April 8 to learn what classes you have been admitted
to.
Change of Division Requests: March 26-April 4. Students
wishing to request a change of division for the Fall semester (e.g., from evening
division to full-time or part-time day division, or vice versa) should submit
a Change of Division request. The form will be available beginning Wednesday,
March 26. To complete the form, log into your Webmail
account, click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Change of
Division form. The deadline for submitting the form is Friday, April 4, at
5:00 pm. Changes are permitted on a space-available basis. If all students
can be accommodated, all will be permitted to change divisions; if all students
cannot be accommodated, a lottery drawing will be held to determine which students
will be permitted to change. We will notify you as soon as possible after April
4 whether your request is approved.
Spring 2008 Final Exams.
•Exam
Schedule. The final exam schedule for the current semester is available
here. You will be notified of the classroom assignments for your exams prior
to the start of exam period.
•Exam Conflict/Reschedule Requests:
April 2-April 11. The Student Handbook requires that you take your final
exams at the times scheduled unless you have an exam conflict (as defined below),
or you have a "serious illness or other extraordinary or compelling reason"
beyond your control. If you have an exam conflict or believe you have other reasons
justifying the rescheduling of an exam, please complete the Final Exam Reschedule
form. The form will be available beginning Wednesday, April 2. To complete the
form, log into your Webmail
account, click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Final Exam
Reschedule form. The deadline for submitting an exam reschedule request is Friday,
April 11, at 5:00 pm. If your request is approved, you will be notified later
this semester of the rescheduled date, time, and location of your exam.
Under
current policy, a student is deemed to have an "exam conflict" if the
student has two exams at the same time, or has two or more exams within 24 hours
(e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., or at 6:00 p.m. and 1:15 the following
afternoon). A conflict does not exist if two exams are scheduled exactly 24 hours
apart (e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. one morning and 8:30 a.m. the next morning).
•Exams
Method Registration: April 2 - April 11. Students have three choices for
taking most exams: hand writing the exam, taking the exam on their own laptop
computer, or taking the exam on a lab computer. Some professors do not permit
one or more of these options (e.g., some require all students to hand write the
exam).
Assuming your professor has authorized you to take the exam on computer,
we will assume you are taking the exam on your own laptop. You need to register
your exam-taking method only if you wish to hand-write the exam, or take
it on a lab computer (subject to space availability). Please check with your professor
if you are uncertain whether computer use will be permitted for your exam.
If
you wish to register to take an exam by hand or on a lab computer, log into your
Webmail account,
click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Exam Method Registration
form. The form will be available beginning Wednesday, April 2. The deadline for
submitting an exam method request is Friday, April 11, at 5:00 pm.
Notice
about SofTest: Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the
SofTest exam-taking program. You will receive information from the Computer Center
about when and how to do this. Even though you do not need to submit an Exam Method
Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to download and install
SofTest.
Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center:
The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use
in emergency situations that arise during exam period. Please contact me if you
opt to take an exam on laptop, and your laptop suffers unexpected problems that
cannot be remedied before your exam. The Computer Center's laptops also may be
used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before
or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly
configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited
supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes
during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users.
However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing
a laptop for an exam, please contact me to discuss your situation.
Notice
to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the
same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in
a separate room. We will provide free ear plugs to any hand writers who believe
they may be distracted by the sound of the laptops.
•Availability
of Professors' Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available
for students to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Services/students.htm
and clicking on the Exam Database link (under Resources). Exams dating from 1992
and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the
Library.
Early Bird Bar Preparation Program for Kent Students. BAR/BRI
will present four free lectures to all third-year and fourth-year students. You
do not need to be signed up for the regular BAR/BRI program to attend these lectures,
and you do not need to RSVP if you plan to attend. These lectures are not meant
to replace a commercial bar course, but are meant as a way to jump start the bar
exam preparation process.
Saturday, March 29: Commercial Law (Commercial
Paper and Secured Transactions) (Prof. Jason Kilborn), 10:00am - 1:00pm, Rm. 590
(overflow room: 510).
Sunday, March 30: Introduction to the Illinois
Bar Exam and Torts (Prof. Richard Conviser), 1:00 - 3:00pm, Auditorium.
Saturday,
April 5: Evidence (focusing on Hearsay) (Prof. Bill Elward), 10:00am - 12:00
noon, Rm. 590 (overflow room: 510).
Saturday, April 5: Multistate
Practice Test (MPT) Workshop (Prof. Michael Spak), 1:00 - 3:30pm, Rm. 590 (overflow
room: 510).
Bar Exam Preparation Courses. For information on bar
exam preparation courses, click
here.
Joke of the Week. If someone tries to fail and succeeds,
which did he do?
Poem of the Week. This week's poem is "Forgotten
Planet," by Doug Dorph.
Week
of March 17, 2008
Academic Calendar
Reminder. Spring Break begins Saturday, March 15, at 12:00 noon. Classes resume
on Monday, March 24.
Week of
March 10, 2008
Academic Calendar Reminder. Spring
Break begins Saturday, March 15, at 12:00 noon. Classes resume on Monday, March
24.
Joke of the Week. Patient: Doctor, I sure hope I'm sick.
Doctor: Why in the world would you say that? Patient: Because I'd
hate to be well and feel like this!
Poem of the Week. This week's
poem is "Evidence,"
by Mary Jo Bang.
Week
of March 3, 2008
No
new headlines this week.
Week
of February 25, 2008
Certificate
Programs: Informational Reception. For students interested in one or more
of Chicago-Kent's certificate programs, there will be an informational session
on Monday, February 25, 4:30-5:45 pm, in the 10th Floor Event Room. Meet
faculty and students in the certificate programs, gather information, and have
a snack! We currently have certificate programs in the following areas: -Labor
& Employment Law -Intellectual Property Law -International & Comparative
Law -Environmental & Energy Law -Criminal Litigation -Litigation
& Alternative Dispute Resolution (LADR) -Public Interest Law Additional
Fall 2007 CALI Award Winners. Congratulations to the following student for
earning a CALI Award this past Fall. The complete list of CALI winners is available
by clicking
here. -Intensive Trial Advocacy (August 2007 session): Salvador Lopez -International
Intellectual Property (Prof. Harding): Simon Stolzenbach
Poem of the
Week. This week's poem is "To
Spareness," by Jane Hirshfield.
Week
of February 18, 2008
Fall
2007 CALI Award Winners. The CALI Excellence for the Future Award, sponsored
by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, is given to the student
or students who receive the highest grade in each section of each course. The
CALI award winners for Fall 2007 courses are available by clicking
here. If a section or a course is not listed, that means the professor elected
not to give a CALI award, or we have not yet heard from the professor. Congratulations
to all of you who received an award - you should be proud of your achievement.
Fall 2007 Class Ranks/GPA Cut-Offs. The GPA cut-offs as of the
end of the Fall 2007 semester are available by clicking
here.
Week
of February 11, 2008
Elective
Courses Subject to Mandatory Curve. A list of Spring 2008 elective courses
with at least 40 students enrolled, and thus subject to the mandatory curve for
elective courses, is available
here.
Poem of the Week.
This week's poem is "One
Art," by Elizabeth Bishop.
Week
of February 4, 2008
ASP
Small Group Sessions. ASP Small Group Sessions. Information
about the Academic Support Program, including membership criteria for ASP small
group sessions and the process for petitioning into the small groups, is available
by clicking here.
For more information about the Academic Support Program and study resources, please
visit the ASP web site.
U-Pass
Distribution. If you have not yet picked up your Spring U-Pass, you may do
so from the Registrar's office. For more information on the U-Pass program and
which students qualify for participation in the program, see the U-Pass
FAQ. If there is no U-Pass for you but you believe you qualify for one, please
contact Jenna Moroney (jmoroney@kentlaw.edu).
Poem of the Week. This week's poem is "Still
Life," by Tony Hoagland.
Week
of January 28, 2008
Adding
and Dropping Classes. You may add an open course without
special permission until the end of the first week of Spring classes; during the
second week, however, you may add an open course only with permission of the instructor.
You may not add a course after the second week of the semester. You may withdraw
from any course except a required course, a clinical course, Law Review, Moot
Court, or Intensive Trial Advocacy at any time prior to the date of the final
exam or final paper (see §3.10(c) of the Student Handbook). There is no tuition
penalty if you drop a course during the first two weeks of classes. You will not
receive a tuition refund, however, if you drop a course after the second week
of classes.
U-Pass Distribution. If you have not yet picked up your
Spring U-Pass, you may do so from the Registrar's office. For more information
on the U-Pass program and which students qualify for participation in the program,
see the U-Pass
FAQ. If there is no U-Pass for you but you believe you qualify for one, please
contact Jenna Moroney (jmoroney@kentlaw.edu). Legal Writing Ethics Guidelines.
This is a reminder that the Chicago-Kent Legal Writing Ethics Guidelines apply
to all Chicago-Kent students, including students enrolled in upper-level writing
courses (Legal Writing 3, Legal Writing 4, and all seminars). The Guidelines,
which address a variety of issues, including plagiarism, are available by clicking
here. If you have not reviewed the Guidelines recently, please do so. Notice
to Students in Substance Abuse Recovery (or who want to be). If you are in
recovery for a substance abuse problem, or if you are not in recovery but would
like help with a substance abuse problem, consider contacting the Lawyers Assistance
Program. This confidential program exists to help lawyers, judges, and law students
with alcohol abuse, drug dependency, or mental health problems. If you are already
in recovery, there is a weekly A.A. meeting at LAP's Chicago office, Tuesdays
from 12:15-1:15 pm, at 20 S. Clark Street, Suite 1820. If you would like to be
put in contact with other members of the Chicago-Kent community who are in recovery,
call Janet Voss, the director of LAP, at 312/726-6607. If you are not in recovery
but would like to find out more about what LAP can do for you, call or stop by
LAP's office, or go to their web site at http://www.illinoislap.org. Counseling
Services. IIT's Counseling Center provides counseling services at the Law
School two days a week, available by appointment only. To schedule an appointment,
call (312) 808-7132. There is no charge for these counseling services. Reminder
About IIT's Political Activity Policy. IIT’s General Counsel would like to
remind employees and students of the university’s obligation as a tax-exempt entity
to refrain from engaging in any partisan political activities. This policy applies
to all academic units within IIT, including the Law School. Violation of the prohibition
against such activity could jeopardize IIT’s tax-exempt status. While individuals
are free to express their opinions and to support political candidates on their
own, it must be clear that the individual is acting on his or her own behalf and
not on behalf of IIT. In no event may the name, symbols, or resources of the university
be used to participate or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of or
in opposition to a candidate for political office. Specific examples of impermissible
activities include the use of university letterhead, campus mail, or IIT e-mail
accounts to solicit support or contributions for a candidate; using university
funds to purchase tickets for a candidate's fund-raiser; and putting campaign
posters on university property. If you have any questions or concerns about this
policy, please contact Mary Anne Smith, Vice President and General Counsel of
IIT, at 312/567-3034.
Poem
of the Week. This week's poem is "To
Judgment: An Assay," by Jane Hirshfield.
Week
of January 21, 2008
Welcome
Back! Congratulations to all first-year students on completing your first
semester of law school, and to upper-level students for making it one semester
closer to graduation. I hope everyone had a restful holiday break. U-Pass
Distribution. Distribution of Spring 2008 U-Passes will take place as follows:
*Thursday, January 17, 2:00-3:30pm, Front Lobby *Friday, January 18, 12:00-1:30pm,
Front Lobby *Tuesday, January 22, 11:30-1:00pm and 3:00-4:30pm, Front Lobby
After
Tuesday, January 22, you may pick up your U-Pass from the Registrar's office.
For more information on the U-Pass program and which students qualify for participation
in the program, see the U-Pass
FAQ. You will not receive a U-Pass during the initial distribution
period if you registered for classes late or do not have a picture in our ID system.
In either of those cases, please contact Jenna Moroney (jmoroney@kentlaw.edu)
to explain your situation, and we will put you on our supplemental order list
after we confirm your status.
Spring 2008 Semester Information.
The Spring 2008 Term Information page has most of the information you will need
in advance of the start of the Spring semester - click
here, or go to the main Student
Portal page and click on the Spring '08 link under "Academic term information."
Print copies of many of the documents described below are available outside the
third floor cafeteria.
Initial Reading Assignments. Initial
reading assignments for the first week of the Spring semester are available on
the S pring 2008 Term
Information page. The list of assignments has been revised from its initial
version as follows: *New entries added 1/16/08: Civil Procedure (Prof.
Laser); Evidence (Prof. Bailey); Evidence (Prof. Kling); International Business
Transactions (Prof. Birdthistle); Introduction to Islamic Law (Prof. Shawamreh);
Resolving Environmental Liabilities in Bankruptcy (Prof. Prewitt); Securities
Regulation (Prof. Birdthistle).
*Revised entry 1/16/08: Work and
Family (Prof. Shapiro).
Not all professors submit initial assignments,
so do not be concerned if there is no listing for one or more of your Spring courses. Course
Information Updates. Course information updates for Spring classes are
available on the S pring
2008 Term Information page. Revised Spring Schedule (with Classroom
Assignments). A revised copy of the Spring 2008 Schedule of Classes, including
classroom assignments, is available on the Spring
2008 Term Information page. Classroom assignments are also posted in the front
lobby. Adding and Dropping Classes. You may add an open course
without special permission until the end of the first week of Spring classes;
during the second week, however, you may add an open course only with permission
of the instructor. You may not add a course after the second week of the semester.
You may withdraw from any course except a required course, a clinical course,
Law Review, Moot Court, or Intensive Trial Advocacy at any time prior to the date
of the final exam or final paper (see §3.10(c) of the Student Handbook). There
is no tuition penalty if you drop a course during the first two weeks of classes.
You will not receive a tuition refund, however, if you drop a course after the
second week of classes. Trial Advocacy Section Assignments.
If you are registered for Trial Advocacy 1 or Trial Advocacy 2 for the Spring
semester, a list of section assignments is available on the Spring
2008 Term Information page. Note: If your section meets at the Daley Center,
please be sure to bring your Kent ID card with you, as you will be required to
show it before being allowed to enter. Exam Schedule.
A copy of the Spring 2008 exam schedule is available on the Spring
2008 Term Information page. Please note that you are permitted to register
for courses with exams scheduled at the same time; one exam will be rescheduled
for you. The Student Handbook requires that you take your finals at the
times scheduled unless you have an exam conflict (as defined below), or you have
a "serious illness or other extraordinary or compelling reason" beyond
your control. A Final Exam Reschedule Form will be posted later this semester
through Web for Students. A student is deemed to have an "exam conflict"
if he or she has two exams at the same time, or has two or more exams within 24
hours (e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., or at 6:00 p.m. and 1:15 the following
afternoon). A conflict does not exist if two exams are scheduled exactly 24 hours
apart (e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. one morning and 8:30 a.m. the next morning). Bookstore
Hours. The bookstore's hours are available by clicking
here. 2007-2008 Academic Calendar. The academic calendar
for the Spring semester is available on the S pring
2008 Term Information page. Bar Registration for First-Year Students.
First-year students who plan to take the Illinois Bar Examination after graduation
should register with the Illinois bar examiners. The registration materials must
be submitted by March 1, 2008. The forms and instructions are available
on the bar examiners' web site: http://www.ibaby.org.
Although you are not required to register as a first-year student, the
advantage of doing so is that you will avoid paying additional fees of $350 or
more if you apply to take the bar at any point after March of their first year.
If you are uncertain whether you intend to practice in Illinois, you may want
to consider waiting to register and paying the late fee should you eventually
decide to take the Illinois bar exam. The application form is very comprehensive
and requires you to provide a significant amount of background information, some
of which may be difficult to remember or obtain. I suggest that, if you do plan
to register by the March deadline, you begin working on the materials sooner rather
than later. If you have any questions about the application materials, you may
call the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar at 217/522-5917. All
information you disclose on the bar registration application should be consistent
with answers to questions on your Application for Admission to the law school.
Please note, however, that the bar registration application asks for a considerable
amount of information that you were not asked to provide on our Application for
Admission. You only need to be concerned about the consistency of your answers
for questions asked on both forms. You can amend your Application for Admission,
if necessary, by addressing a letter to me setting forth the details of the omission
or misrepresentation and the reason for it. First-year students who think
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