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Course Registration for First-Year Law Students

FALL 2019:

First year students do not have to register for classes in the fall; the Registrar’s Office will enroll first-year students in courses by section (Section 1, Section 2, and Section 3). All first year students are required to take: Civil Procedure, Torts, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, and Legal Practice Skills (a yearlong course), as well as a regulatory elective and a general elective, taken in the spring.  Students are required to register for spring courses during advance registration (in October).  More on spring registration below…

Spring 2020:

Spring advance registration opens in October.  Please visit Penn InTouch to enter your course requests. Your spring schedule will be available on Penn InTouch in late November.

Here are the steps you should follow:

1)  Request enrollment in a regulatory elective and a general elective course.  

The spring 2020 electives are:

Regulatory Electives (choose one as a primary + an alternate) -
Administrative Law
Bankruptcy
Financial Regulation
Internet Law

General Electives (choose one as a primary + an alternate) -
International Law
Intro to Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Intro to Philosophy of Law
Judicial Decision-Making
Privacy Law
Property
Reproductive Rights and Justice

[Joint degree candidates may elect to take a course in the other department in lieu of the Law School general elective course]

2) Request enrollment in your 4 required spring courses (section numbers will vary):

Constitutional Law 
Criminal Law 
Legal Practice Skills
Legal Practice Skills small section

Maximize your chance of getting into your electives:  we suggest you enter the Regulatory Elective as your first primary request (with an alternate), followed by your General Elective (with an alternate), followed by your required courses.  Be sure to enter the correct section of your required courses. Courses and course numbers can be found in the First-Year Course List . 

Review the Advance Registration Instructions  (prepared for upper-level students but has helpful information on how the scheduler runs and add/drop, waitlist procedures).

During advance registration your course requests are being collected. Courses are not scheduled until the advance registration period is over. Your chance of being placed in a course is not affected by when you enter your requests; however, we suggest that you not wait until the deadline to enter your requests.  

Resources for Reviewing the Curriculum