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UCLA School of Law Transfer Credit Acceptance Policy
​Transfer applicants must have successfully completed an entire first-year curriculum at another American Bar Association (ABA)-approved law school. UCLA will award a maximum of 39 credits earned at another institution. Transfer students must spend four (4) full-time semesters at UCLA School of Law upon transferring. Students from law schools that are only state-approved are not eligible for admission. For more information about the transfer admission process and procedures, please contact our Admissions Office at (310) 825-2080 or admissions@law.ucla.edu

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Curriculum Guide

In compliance with ABA Standard 302, the Faculty of UCLA School of Law has adopted the following institutional learning outcomes for our J.D. students:

1. Be familiar with a diversity of approaches on the study of law and legal reasoning, including doctrinal, theoretical, interdisciplinary, and critical perspectives.
2. Be able to identify and understand key concepts in substantive and procedural law.
3. Understand the role of law in public policy.
4. Be able to conduct and evaluate competent legal analysis, including issue spotting, factual analysis, and legal reasoning.
5. Be able to conduct and evaluate competent legal research.
6. Be able to communicate effectively in writing and orally in various legal settings.
7. Be prepared to practice in a diverse society and world and to engage competently with persons from a variety of backgrounds and holding a variety of views.
8. Be familiar with problem-solving and other professional skills needed for competent client representation, including interviewing, counseling, negotiation, fact development, trial practice, document drafting, conflict resolution, organization and management of legal work, collaboration, cultural competency, and self-evaluation.
9. Be proficient in the rules of professional ethics and be capable of exhibiting professionalism in the practice of law in accordance with the legal profession’s values and standards, including commitment to the rule of law, access to justice, and public service.
10. Understand how emerging technologies are affecting the practice of law, including the tradeoffs posed and ethical issues raised.

In addition to a bar examination, there are character, fitness, and other qualifications for admission to the bar in every U.S. jurisdiction. Applicants are encouraged to determine the requirements for any jurisdiction in which they intend to seek admission by contacting the jurisdiction. Addresses for all relevant agencies are available through the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

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As an ABA accredited law school, UCLA School of Law is subject to the ABA Standards for Approval of Law schools. The Standards may be found on the American Bar Association website. Student concerns about significant issues or problems that directly implicate UCLA Law’s program of legal education and its compliance with the ABA’s Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools are governed by the school’s Complaint Policy Regarding Compliance with ABA Standards.

Filing a Complaint

1. A UCLA Law student (prospective, current, or former) who wishes to bring a formal complaint to the Administration of the Law School of a significant problem that directly implicates the school’s program of legal education and its compliance with the ABA Standards should take the following steps:
2. The student complaint should be submitted in writing to the Law School’s Assistant Dean for Student Services or the Vice Dean for Curriculum and Academic Affairs.
3. The writing should describe in detail the behavior, program, or process complained of, and, when possible, should discuss why the student believes it implicates the Law School’s program of legal education and the school’s compliance with a particular identified ABA Standard.
4. The writing must provide the name of the student submitting the complaint and the student’s official UCLA School of Law email address for further communication about the complaint.

Procedures for Addressing Complaints

1. The Assistant Dean or Vice Dean to whom the complaint is submitted should acknowledge the complaint via email within three (3) business days of receipt of the written complaint.
2. Within two weeks of acknowledgment of the complaint, the Assistant Dean or Vice Dean, or their designee, shall either meet with the complaining student or respond to the substance of the complaint in writing. In this meeting or in this writing, the student should either receive a substantive response to the complaint, or information about what steps are being taken by the school to address the complaint or further investigate the complaint.
3. If further investigation is needed, when the investigation is completed, the student shall be provided with either a substantive response to the complaint or information about what steps are being taken by the law school to address the complaint within two weeks after the completion of the investigation.

Appeal Process

1. Appeals may be taken to the Dean of the School of Law. The appeal must be made in writing within two (2) weeks after communication to the complainant of the substantive response to the complaint.
2. Any decision made on appeal by the Dean shall be final.

Maintaining a Written Record of the Complaint

A copy of the complaint and a summary of the process and resolution of the complaint shall be kept in a confidential manner in the office of the Assistant Dean for Student Services, from the date of the final resolution of the complaint through the date of full accreditation.

Subsequent complaints and a summary of the process and resolution of the complaint shall be kept in a confidential manner in the office of the Assistant Dean for Student Services from the date of the final resolution of the complaint through the date of the next accreditation period.