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Registration ProceduresRegistering for ClassesRegistration for the fall semester is conducted in June; registration for the spring semester is conducted in November. Students eligible to graduate in January, May or August of that academic year are given priority registration. All other students register on a first come first served basis. Incoming 1L students will be registered by the Registrar for their first year of study and do not need to complete a registration form. All registration must be completed by the given deadline as set out in each semester's registration packet. Continuing students who submit materials after that date will be assessed a $250.00 late registration fee. If you plan to register for more than sixteen (16) credits or fewer than eight (8) credits, you must have the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (Dean Timothy Canova) approve and sign your registration form.Registration for Summer Session begins in April. There is no priority for summer session; registration will be on a "first come, first served" basis. Chapman University School of Law welcomes students visiting from ABA approved and state bar approved institutions. Visiting students must complete the Summer Session Application for Visiting Students and must provide a letter of good standing from the Dean or Registrar of their home institution. Visiting students must submit a $760.00 deposit with the application. The tuition balance must be paid in full by the first week of classes. The Externship course is not available to visiting students. Students are responsible for making certain they have satisfied the required prerequisites for taking a class. Instructor permission is required for Externship, Appellate Law Clinic, Law Review, Nexus Law Journal and Competitions. These courses will not be entered into the registration system until the necessary approval has been obtained. You may submit your registration in any of the following ways: 1) in person, Monday - Friday 9:00-5:00; 2) by email to misles@chapman.edu, 3) by fax to (714) 628-2570. Telephone registration is NOT accepted. American Bar Association StandardsLimit on Employment: American Bar Association Standards require full-time students to devote substantially all working hours to the study of law. Students shall not engage in remunerative employment for more than 20 hours per week, whether outside or inside the law school. If you have registered for 12 or more credit hours you must complete the Work Certification Form.Attendance: Regular and punctual attendance is necessary to satisfy residence and class hour requirements. Students are required to attend class meetings in the courses for which they have registered, and to be prepared to participate in the class discussion. Any student who has been absent from more than 20% of class meetings shall not further participate in class, shall not be allowed to sit for the final examination, and shall be given a grade of 'FW.' [Student Handbook §4.2.3.8] Students are cautioned that individual faculty may impose a higher attendance standard. JD/MBA StudentsStudents planning to undertake this joint degree program must schedule a consultation with Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Tim Canova. Those admitted to the program must furnish a copy of their MBA admission letter to the law school Registrar for the student file.Visiting StudentsChapman University School of Law welcomes visiting students from either ABA and state approved law schools. Students must complete a visiting student application and provide a letter of good standing from the Dean or Registrar of their home institution. Please contact the Office of Admissions at (714) 628-2500 for additional information. For summer visiting only, please contact the Registrar's office directly at (714) 628-2522.Curriculum Information2-Ls (Full-Time): You are required to register for Federal Income Taxation for the Fall semester. You are required to complete Corporations during the second year of law studies, but the course is not required during a specific semester. Constitutional Law, Evidence and Professional Responsibility are required for graduation, but you are not required to enroll in these courses at this time, although it is recommended that you do so. Evidence is required to become a Certified Law Student.2-Ls (Part-Time): You are required to register for Property I, Civil Procedure I, and electives for a total of 10-11 credits. Constitutional Law is required for graduation but you are not required to enroll for Constitutional Law at this time, although it is highly recommended you do so. Constitutional Law would be in lieu of an elective. 3-Ls (Part-Time): You are required to register for Federal Income Taxation. 3-Ls and 4-Ls (all): You may register for electives in any time block, i.e., day students may register for night courses and evening students may register for day courses. To assist you with course selection, all required courses are numbered 71xx. Courses that cover material that will be tested on the California General Bar Exam start with 73, such as LAW 7328-00 Legal and Equitable Remedies. Elective courses are numbered 7500-7999. Examination ScheduleThe examination schedule is included with the class schedule. Take it into account when choosing your courses. As a reminder, the Student Handbook states: "If the examination schedule is pre-published with the registration materials, then no conflict shall exist."If illness, family emergency or other catastrophic event prevents your taking an examination at the scheduled time, notify the office of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs ([714] 628-2516), immediately and in advance, if possible. Verification of illness or emergency should be obtained by the student if possible. Contact the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs as soon as possible to make arrangements to take the examinations at a later date. A student may be granted a departure from the examination schedule by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Whenever possible, the request for a departure from the examination schedule shall be accompanied by objective evidence, or if then unavailable, in a reasonable time thereafter. For the complete text of the examination policies, please consult your Student Handbook [§4.2.3.9]. If you have a disability that requires accommodation during exams, please notify the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs as soon as possible. Competition CreditThe faculty has enacted new policy regarding competition credits. For example, if in October, you elect to participate in a competition and you failed to register for the credit by the end of the add period back in August, you will not receive credit for that competition. In addition, you must have approval from the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (Timothy Canova) to exceed 16 credits in any semester.Directed ResearchCredit is available to 2-4Ls only to study and research topics which are not provided for by regular curricular offerings. To register for Directed Research, students must complete a Directed Research form and submit the completed form to the Registrar's Office for processing. The signatures of the supervising full-time professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs are required. The Directed Research form must be submitted no later than the designated add/drop date for that semester. Students are limited to two directed research courses during their course of study at Chapman. Each can be taken for 1 to 3 credits.Withdrawing from ClassesStudents wishing to drop a class during the first week of classes may do so by completing a Registration and Change Form and submitting it to the Registrar's Office. Courses dropped before the beginning of the second week of classes will not appear on the student's transcript. Students who withdraw from classes after the first week will receive a 'W' on their transcripts. Students wishing to withdraw from classes between the third and eighth weeks of the semester must obtain the approval of the instructor. Students may withdraw after the eighth Friday upon showing good cause and obtaining the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. It is the student's responsibility to officially withdraw from a class. Failure to attend a class does not constitute withdrawal. Students who stop attending a class or classes without submitting a Registration and Change Form will be held academically and financially liable and will receive grades of 'FW' (failure to withdraw).Students wishing to withdraw from the School of Law must receive the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and complete an exit interview with the Financial Aid office if any financial assistance, including scholarships, is being received. Rights to ConfidentialityThe Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and provisions of the California Education Code set out requirements designed to govern the access to and release of education records, to establish the right of students to inspect and review their records, and to provide guidelines for the correction of inaccurate or misleading data through formal and informal review processes.In accordance with FERPA, as amended, Chapman University adopted the following policies and procedures concerning the implementation of FERPA on campus. Student information qualifying as Directory Information will be disclosed without the consent or knowledge of the student, unless the student notifies Chapman University in advance that such information is not to be released. The student's name, photo, date and place of birth, dates of attendance, major field of study, class rank, degree and awards received, official recognition of activities and sports, height and weight if an athletic team member, and the student's most previously attended educational agency or institution, were designated by Chapman University as Directory Information. To prevent the disclosure of this information, students must submit a written and signed request to the Registrar's Office during either the Fall or the Spring registration periods. Requests to have confidentiality either added to or taken off the student's records will be accepted during registration only and no changes to student confidentiality flags will be processed at any other time during the year. Students who request confidentiality should be aware that NO INFORMATION will be given to anyone, including immediate family members and potential employers, regarding any information about them unless they request to release their information in writing to the Registrar. The Request for Confidentiality form is included in your registration packet, or may be obtained from the Registrar's Office, or may be printed from the University Registrar's Form Center on the Chapman University web site. Law School DirectoryAs a service to the students and faculty of Chapman University School of Law, a directory of students is published annually. In order to assure the information on file is accurate, please complete the Law School Directory form included with your registration materials. We will publish only that information you indicate may be published. The Law School Directory will be available after the beginning of the Fall semester.Tuition and FeesFor information about tuition and fees, please see Chapman's Business Office page. Required course supplemental material is now available at the Registrar's office for each semester.Your student account will be billed for the appropriate fee(s). Course supplement fees can be refunded up through the first week of classes only. Course supplements are non-returnable and the fees will not be refunded once you have picked up the course supplement. In some circumstances, the amount charged may have to be adjusted. Withdrawals, Refunds and CreditsChapman University's Refund Policy meets the minimum standards required by federal law governing the awarding and disbursement of Title IV Student Financial Assistance.The date of withdrawal for purposes of tuition credit shall be the date on which the official Registration and Change Form is received by the Registrar. Tuition credits will only be granted for students who officially drop or withdraw in writing. Students who register, but do not attend classes, will not receive a tuition credit unless they officially withdraw by the posted deadlines. Tuition deposits are not refundable. Pro-rata Refund Policy for Students Enrolling for the First Time and Receiving Title IV FundsThis pro-rata refund policy applies only to students attending Chapman University School of Law for the first time who are Title IV recipients. Chapman University shall refund Title IV recipients who are first time enrollees according to the following guidelines:
Refund ScheduleIf you reduce the number of units for which you have registered you will receive a tuition credit based on the table below.
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