After the first year, all courses are elective, with the exceptions of 2L Lawyering, a seminar requirement, and a writing requirement, which may be taken in either the second or third year. Two courses, Legal Drafting and Domestic Relations/Domestic Violence Clinic, are limited to third year students. All other courses may be taken either in the second or third years.

The fact that almost all upper level courses can be taken in either of the last two years of law school has created several problems. It is difficult for second year students to know the sequence in which courses should be taken. Without planning for many students, the third year may be essentially duplicative of the second year, and consequently less stimulating or valuable.

One response to these problems could be to prescribe much or all of the second year curriculum and to leave only the third year as elective. The faculty believes, however, that because of the diversity in the background that students bring to law school and the differences in their objectives in law school and after graduation, it is preferable to provide students with the rationale for each of the second and third years and to give guidance on the selection of courses. The latter is emphasized by suggesting groupings of courses according to several major subject areas, the proper sequencing of courses in those groupings, and the major factors students should take into consideration in developing a second- and third-year curriculum for themselves.

Seminar & Writing Requirements:
Every student must successfully complete one seminar and one of the following options: (a) a casenote or comment for a law review or journal; (b) the writing requirements for the Anderson Moot Court Competition; (c) a Drafting course; (d) an Individual Research Project; or (e) a second seminar.
One area in which the faculty has imposed requirements for upper level students is in the area of writing skills. The writing program mandates that each student complete at least two writing experiences of designated types in the last two years of law school.

Second Year Curriculum
The principal purposes of the second year curriculum are to:

• expose students to a wide range of important legal subjects and problems not treated in the first year;
• develop further the students? competence to perform legal
• enhance the substantive and procedural knowledge, legal reasoning and persuasive argument methodology and skills obtained in the first year; and
• prepare students for real life and simulated performance of lawyering skills to which the students will be exposed in third year courses and in summer or part-time employment following the second year of law school.

Third Year Curriculum
The principal purposes of the third year curriculum are to provide:

• advanced level study of specific areas or problems of a particular field of substantive law;
• opportunities for supervised experience in the performance of lawyers' tasks, either in a course devoted to a particular skill or in the actual or simulated \ representation of a client;
• further development of the basic lawyers' skills learned in the first and second years; and
• opportunities for tutorial type programs with individual professors in areas of special interest to the student.

The major difference between the second and third year curriculum is that the former gives primarily (but not exclusively) breadth of coverage, while the third year is devoted primarily to in depth coverage of limited areas of subjects previously covered in an overview course and to courses that are lawyering- and process-oriented, including skills, problem, and planning courses. This is not to say that a course that concentrates on breadth coverage cannot or should not be taken in the third year. It is fully expected that there will be courses of both types taken in the second and third years. All that is intended to be conveyed by these characteristics is the difference in the principal objectives of the second and third years.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS - Under Construction