Academic Calendar
Download a PDF of the 2017-2018 calendar. The Law School reserves the right to alter this calendar.
Summer 2017
July 28th, 2017
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July 28 LLM Class of 2018 Orientation
All Day -
July 28 Transfer Orientation
All Day
Fall 2017
August 31st, 2017
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August 31
until September 1First-Year Registration and Orientation
All Day
September 4th, 2017
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September 4 Labor Day: No Classes
All Day
September 5th, 2017
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September 5 Fall Classes Begin: 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM, LLCM and ML
All Day
September 18th, 2017
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September 18 1L Professionalism Program Classes
All Day -
September 18 Faculty Retreat: Classes Will Not Meet
All Day -
September 18 SJD Workshop
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
October 25th, 2017
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October 25 Q-l Classes End
All Day
October 26th, 2017
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October 26 Q-ll Classes Begin
All Day
November 23rd, 2017
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November 23
until November 24Thanksgiving Recess: Classes Will Not Meet
All Day
December 8th, 2017
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December 8 Classes End
All Day
December 9th, 2017
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December 9
until December 10Reading Period
All Day
December 11th, 2017
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December 11
until December 21Fall Exams
All Day
December 22nd, 2017
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December 22 Make-ups Exams
All Day
December 23rd, 2017
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December 23 Winter Recess Begins
All Day
Spring 2018
January 8th, 2018
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January 8 Spring Classes Begin: 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM, LLCM and ML
All Day
January 15th, 2018
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January 15 Martin Luther King Day: Classes Will Not Meet
All Day
February 23rd, 2018
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February 23 Q-lll Classes End
All Day
February 26th, 2018
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February 26 Q-IV Classes Begin
All Day
March 2nd, 2018
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March 2 Spring Recess Begins at the end of classes
All Day
March 12th, 2018
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March 12 All Classes Resume
All Day
April 20th, 2018
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April 20 Classes End
All Day
April 21st, 2018
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April 21
until April 23Reading Period
All Day
April 24th, 2018
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April 24
until May 4Spring Examinations
All Day
May 14th, 2018
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May 14 University-Wide Graduation Ceremony
10:15 AM -
May 14 Penn Law School Graduation Ceremony
3:00 PM
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.