Program: Law, Full-Time Program, J.D. - Florida A&M University (2024)

First Year Required Courses

First year students are required to take the following courses in the sequence set forth below. Full-time students must enroll in day sections of required courses.

Fall Semester

• Civil Procedure I (3)
• Contracts II (3)
• Introduction to Analytical Skills I (0)
• Legal Methods I (3)
• Property I (3)
• Tort I (3)

Spring Semester

• Civil Procedure II (3)
• Contracts II (3)
• Introduction to Analytical Skills II (0)
• Legal Methods II (2)
• Property II (2)
• Torts II (2)
• Constitutional Law I (3)

Upper-Level required Courses

• Business Organizations (4)
• Constitutional Law II (3)
• Criminal Law (3)
• Evidence (4)
• Mission-Related Course (3)
• Professional Responsibility (2)

Mission-Related Courses

Courses designated as mission-related will be taught in a manner that includes thematic coverage of issues central to the College of Law’s mission, including, as appropriate, themes related to slavery and enslavement, colonization, segregation/apartheid, globalization/neo-colonization, and freedom movements (civil rights, human rights, women’s rights).

The College of Law has designated the following courses as mission-related.

• Race and the Law
• Public International Law

Sequencing of Upper-Level Required Courses

Elective Courses

The College of Law offers a wide variety of elective courses. Full-time students may take day or evening elective courses.

Upper-Level Writing Requirement (All Students)

In addition to completing Legal Methods I and Legal Methods II, students must also satisfy the Upper-Level Writing Requirement.

Students may complete the Upper-Level Writing Requirement paper as a part of a seminar or through an approved two-credit independent research project. Independent research projects must be supervised by a member of the full-time faculty who is not a member of the faculty in the Legal Methods Program or the Academic Success and Bar Preparation Program. Adjunct faculty members are not eligible to supervise independent research projects.

In order to satisfy the requirement, the research paper must be a minimum of twenty-five (25) pages in length including footnotes; earn a grade of B- or above; and the paper must meet all of the standards listed below, as certified by the faculty supervisor of the paper:

• Significant analytical paper;
• Reflects substantial legal research;
• Contains original thought;
• Displays proper writing style; and
• Uses correct citation form.

Under no circ*mstance may a student satisfy the Upper Level Writing Requirement without satisfactorily completing Legal Methods I and II.

Substantial Professional Skills Requirement (All Students)

All students are required to obtain substantial instruction in professional skills. A student may satisfy this skills requirement by participating in and satisfactorily completing either one of several available clinical offerings or by successfully completing two of the courses designated as professional skills courses or certified as a professional skills course by the Dean or the Dean’s designee. For more information regarding clinical offering, see “Clinical Programs.” The list of courses designated as professional skills courses is below.

• Contract Drafting
• Domestic Violence Workshop
• Interviewing, Counseling And Negotiation
• Law Office Management
• Mediation Theory And Practice
• Pretrial Practice Workshop
• Trial Practice