Academic Calendar
Download a PDF of the 2019-2020 calendar.
The Law School reserves the right to alter this calendar.
Spring 2020
January 13th, 2020
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January 13 Spring Law Classes Begin
All Day
January 20th, 2020
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January 20 Martin Luther King Day: Classes Will Not Meet
All Day
March 6th, 2020
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March 6 Spring Recess Begins at the end of classes / Q-III Classes End
All Day
March 16th, 2020
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March 16 All Classes Resume / Q-IV Classes Begin
All Day
March 24th, 2020
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March 24 CANCELED: Norton Rose: 1L Panel via Webinar
12:00 PM
March 27th, 2020
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March 27
until March 28Admitted Student Weekend
All Day
April 21st, 2020
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April 21 Penn Law Clinics Info Session
12:00 PM
April 23rd, 2020
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April 23 Clinical Legal Studies Workshop
4:30 PM
April 24th, 2020
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April 24 Classes End
All Day
April 25th, 2020
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April 25
until April 27Reading Period
All Day
April 28th, 2020
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April 28
until May 8Spring Examinations
All Day
Summer 2020
May 18th, 2020
Fall 2020
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 7 to May 17. Details will be announced in March 2018.
**Faculty are reminded that grades for all graduating students are due by 9 a.m. on Monday, May 7, and that the faculty meeting to vote degrees will be held at 9 a.m. on Friday, May 11. 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.