Each student is required to take a three-hour seminar during his or her fourth or fifth semester and submit, as a requirement for the course, one or more written projects that demonstrate a capacity for meaningful legal research and an ability to express such research in written form. The project must receive a grade of C or better in order to pass.
Ordinarily a student will satisfy this requirement by submitting a paper which is written in law review comment form. This requirement may also be satisfied by the submission of (1) a single significant work in other than law review comment form (e.g., brief, memorandum); or (2) two or more works (e.g., problem analyses, opinion letters, short memoranda) - provided that the single work or the multiple works, taken together, are substantially equivalent in quality and quantity to a law review comment. The major submission by a student in any such seminar must involve multiple drafts and significant research and analysis. In some cases, subject to the review and approval of the Faculty Advisor, an article written for the law review may satisfy the seminar writing requirement for graduation.