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Academic Calendar

Download a PDF of the 2023-2024 calendar.

The Law School reserves the right to alter this calendar.

Spring 2023

Date Event
January 9 Spring Law Classes Begin All Day
January 16 Martin Luther King Day Holiday: Classes Will Not Meet All Day
February 24 Q-III Classes End All Day
February 27 Q-IV Classes Begin All Day
March 3 Spring Recess Begins at the end of classes All Day
March 13 All Law Classes Resume All Day
April 21 Law Classes End All Day
April 22 until April 24 Reading Period 6:00am
April 25 until May 5 Spring Examinations 6:00am
May 10 2L JD/MBA Summer Classes begin All Day
May 15 University-Wide Graduation Ceremony in the a.m. Penn Carey Law School Graduation Ceremony at 3:00 p.m. All Day
May 15 CANCELED: ML Orientation All Day

Summer 2023

Date Event
May 10 2L JD/MBA Summer Classes begin All Day
May 15 University-Wide Graduation Ceremony in the a.m. Penn Carey Law School Graduation Ceremony at 3:00 p.m. All Day
May 15 CANCELED: ML Orientation All Day
June 5 ML Summer Classes begin All Day
June 12 Penn Early Recruiting Program (PEP) – applications due All Day
July 21 Transfer Student Orientation All Day
July 25 until July 26 On-Campus Interview Program All Day
July 31 LLM Orientation All Day
August 1 until August 2 On-Campus Interview Program All Day
August 1 until September 1 LLM Pre-Term Program All Day
August 28 ML Orientation All Day

Fall 2023

Date Event
July 25
until July 26
On-Campus Interview Program
All Day
August 1
until August 2
On-Campus Interview Program
All Day
August 1
until September 1
LLM Pre-Term Program
All Day
September 4
Labor Day Holiday: No Classes
All Day
September 5
Fall Law Classes Begin
All Day
September 22
Faculty Retreat – Classes Will Not Meet
All Day
October 20
Q-I Classes End
All Day
October 23
Q-II Classes Begin
All Day
October 30
until November 3
Public Interest Week (15th Annual)
All Day
November 23
until November 24
Thanksgiving Recess: Classes Will Not Meet
All Day
December 8
Classes End
All Day
December 9
until December 10
Reading Period
All Day
December 11
until December 20
Fall Exams (1L exams begin Tuesday, December 12)
All Day
December 21
Make-up Exams
All Day
December 22
Winter Recess Begins
All Day

Notes
*First-year students are advised that membership on the Law Review, and many of the Journals is determined through participation in a writing competition, tentatively scheduled from May 10 to May 20. Details will be announced in March 2021.

**Faculty are reminded that grades for all graduating students are due by 9 a.m. on Monday, May 10, and that the faculty meeting to vote degrees will be held at 9 a.m. on Friday, May 14. Other grades are due one month after the exam.

*** In some years, special credit-bearing programs are scheduled across spring break. Details on any such programs will be announced in Fall.

Law School Graduation and Reception dates are tentative and subject to change.