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Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History Law School Bulletins 1905-2000 Academics 10-1-1989 Bulletin of Information 1989-1990 Fordham Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/bulletins Recommended Citation Fordham Law School, "Bulletin of Information 1989-1990" (1989). Law School Bulletins 1905-2000. Book 84. http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/bulletins/84 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Academics at FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law School Bulletins 1905-2000 by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FORDHAM University SCHOOL OF LAW BULLETIN 1989-1990 I TABLE OF CONTENTS The Fordham University School of Law is located at Lincoln FORDHAM UNIVERSITY 1 Center in New York City, on West 62nd Street between Columbus Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policies and Amsterdam Avenues— one block west of Broadway. It is SCHOOL OF LAW 3 Accreditations and Affiliations two blocks west of Central Park, three blocks northwest of OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY 4 Columbus Circle and is accessible from the 59th Street- Law School Board of Visitors Columbus Circle subway station. Lines serving this station are LAW SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION 5 6th Avenue IND (D train), 8th Avenue IND (A, AA, B, CC FACULTY 6 trains), and the 7th Avenue IRT (#1 train). The area is also Endowed Professorships served by several bus routes. Full-time Faculty Adjunct Faculty OBJECTIVES AND COURSE OF STUDIES 13 Day Division Evening Division Required Courses Writing Requirement ELECTIVE OFFERINGS 16 ELECTIVE OFFERINGS FOR VARIOUS CAREERS 28 THE CLINICAL PROGRAM 29 • SUMMER SCHOOL 30 CENTER ON EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW AND INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST 31 HONOR PUBLICATIONS 32 Law Review Urban Law Journal International Law Journal MOOT COURT PROGRAM 34 THE LEO T. KISSAM MEMORIAL LIBRARY 35 CAREER PLANNING AND PLACEMENT CENTER 36 ADMISSION TO THE LAW SCHOOL 38 Requirements Three-Three Program Joint J.D./M.B.A. Program Advanced Standing Visiting Student Status Foreign Lawyers Deferred Admission Admission to the Bar REGISTRATION 40 Entering Students Enrolled Students ACADEMIC REGULATIONS 42 Transfer from One Division to Another Discipline Attendance Tape Recorders Withdrawal/Readmittance Leave of Absence Requests for Transcripts Withholding Transcripts and Diplomas Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act EXAMINATIONS, GRADES, HONORS, AND PRIZES ... 43 FEES AND TUITION 47 FLNANCIAL ASSISTANCE 49 STUDENT SERVICES 54 STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS 55 GRADUATE PROGRAM 57 SPECIAL PROGRAMS 58 FORDHAM LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 60 CONTINULNG LEGAL EDUCATION 61 FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND 61 DEGREES CONFERRED, MAY 1989 62 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 64 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY BULLETIN • SERIES 23 • NUMBER 12 • OCTOBER, 198' FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Founded in 1841, Fordham University is a Federalist Society private institution, located in New York City, Fordham Democratic Law Students with an enrollment of some 13,000 students. Association For nearly a century and a half, it has served Fordham Follies (a musical review of life American society by offering instruction in at the Law School) the liberal arts and sciences and selected pro- Fordham Law Women fessional areas on both the undergraduate Fordham Republican Law Students and graduate levels. It has three campuses, Association and it offers more than seventy academic Gay and Lesbian Law Association programs in its ten schools and colleges. The In Summation (Law School yearbook) faculty numbers approximately 1,000, and Latin American Law Students ninety-four percent of the 500 full-time fac- Association ulty hold the Ph.D. or other terminal degree. National Lawyers Guild The combined university libraries contain Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity about 1.4 million volumes, 8,300 periodicals, Pro Bono Program and eight special collections of scholarly, his- Fordham law students may use the torical and scientific materials. Fordham of- Vincent T. Lombardi Athletic Facility located fers one of the nation's most comprehensive at the University's Bronx campus. The facility internship programs, and its students work features exercise rooms; a swimming pool; with more than 2,000 organizations in the diving area; weight rooms, saunas; vol- areas of business, communications, educa- leyball, basketball, squash, and tennis tion, government, health care, the arts, pol- courts; and a 220-yard track. A commuter itics, science, social work, and law. van provides transportation between the Fordham is a member of the Colonial Law School and the Rose Hill campus and League, whose constituent members include departs every hour on the half hour. Bucknell, Colgate, Davidson, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, and Army and whose NONDISCRIMINATION AND goals are to integrate athletics into the total AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES life of the college; to encourage academic, NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY: Ford- interschool competition; and to resist pres- ham University reaffirms its policy of non- sure to compromise academic standards. discrimination. Through its admissions and More than 150 clubs and organizations hiring process, no one is denied admission, serve the varied interests of students and, appointment or promotion because of color, along with academic departments and ad- race, religion, sex, age, or national origin. ministrative offices, sponsor numerous lec- Nor does Fordham University knowingly tures and a variety of arts, athletic, and social support or patronize any organization which events. Included in this number are organi- discriminates on the basis of color, race, re- zations at the Law School which are listed ligion, sex, age, or national origin. This in- below: cludes a ban on the purchase of goods or the Student Bar Association use of facilities of such discriminative organi- The Advocate (student newspaper) zations. American Bar Association/Law Student It is the policy of the University not to Division discriminate on the basis of handicap. No Asian American Law Students otherwise qualified person shall be denied Association admission or access to, treatment or employ- Black Law Students ment in, any programs or activities solely Association because of any physical, mental or medical Crowley Labor Law Guild impairment; nor shall any such person be Entertainment & Sports Law Council treated upon admission or employment in a Environmental Law Council discriminatory manner. — Hill \ FORDHAM I MYKKSITY School of Law OFFICE OF HANDICAPPED SERVICES: VERTPLUS speech synthesizer, which has access to and a braille printer. The Office of Handicapped Services was es- WESTLAW, Kurzweil machine for visually tablished to insure the implementation of the The Reading impaired students is located in the basement University's policy to treat handicapped stu- of Duane Library at the Rose Hill campus and dents without discrimination for all educa- in the Lowenstein Library at the Lincoln tional purposes. Center campus. The Office of Handicapped Services is lo- should their needs known cated on the Lincoln Center campus in the Students make to the Office of Handicapped Services and to Lowenstein Building, Room 420, telephone their teachers as necessary. Students are re- number (212) 841-5626. Information on hand- sponsible for arranging for certain services, icapped services available on the Rose Hill mobility training, campus can be secured from the Assistant such as: attendant care, transportation, special sources of finan- Dean of Students for Commuter Services and and Special Projects, located in the McGinley cial aid. Center, Room 213, telephone number (212) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICY: The 579-2338. Services are provided to students University not only ensures nondiscrimina- with mobility, hearing and visual impair- tion and equal opportunity in its employ- ments, as well as those with learning dis- ment practices, but also has developed an abilities. Services include: reading services, affirmative action program providing addi- library assistance, registration assistance, tional efforts in recruitment, employment proctoring of exams, and community refer- and promotion of women, members of mi- rals. There is available in the Law Library a nority groups, and Jesuits. SCHOOL OF LAW Fordham Law School, founded in 1905, offers Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philhar- the Doctor of Law (J.D.) degree to approx- monic; and the Metropolitan Opera House. imately 1,300 students in its day and evening It is also minutes away from the world's lead- divisions. Over 140 American and foreign ing legal and financial centers. New York's colleges are represented in the student body. Central Park lies two blocks to the east. This The faculty is composed of approximately fortunate location affords Fordham law stu- fifty full-time professors and over ninety- dents an opportunity for personal and pro- adjunct professors. The adjunct faculty is fessional growth which is rare in American drawn from leading jurists, practicing attor- legal education. neys, and government officials. The Law School also offers the Master of ACCREDITATIONS AND Laws (LL.M.) degree in two areas: Banking, AFFILIATIONS Corporate & Finance Law and International The Law School shares in the following Business & Trade Law. In addition, it offers accreditations and affiliations of Fordham the joint Doctor of Law/Master of Business University: The University