Academic Calendar

Our academic year begins in mid-August, when we welcome first-year students for orientation and events, and closes with commencement in mid-May, when we hand hard-earned diplomas to our newest alumni.

Fall Semester 2020

LLM Students - add to calendar

Short Course Instruction (American Law in a Global Context) - August 12-21
Semester Course Instruction Begins - August 24

MLS Students - add to calendar

Short Course Instruction (Introduction to Law) - August 17-21
Semester Course Instruction Begins - August 24

First Year JD Students - add to calendar

Orientation - August 13-14
Short Course Instruction (Introduction to Legal Analysis) - August 17-21
Semester Course Instruction Begins - August 24

Advanced JD (2L & 3L) & SJD Students - add to calendar

Semester Course Instruction Begins - August 24

All Students - add to calendar

Labor Day Holiday (no classes meet) - September 7
Election Day (no classes meet) - November 3
Veteran's Day Holiday (no classes meet) - November 11
Instruction Ends - November 25
Thanksgiving Holiday (no classes meet) - November 26-27
Review Sessions / Reading Period - November 30-December 3 and December 11
Final Examinations - December 4-18
Semester Ends - December 18
Winter Campus Closure (tentative) - December 24-January 1

Future and Past Semesters

Spring 2021
Advanced JD (2L & 3L), LLM & SJD Students - add to calendar
- Short Course Instruction (J-term) - January 4-15
- Semester Course Instruction Begins - January 25
MLS Students & First Year JD Students - add to calendar
- Semester Course Instruction Begins - January 25
All Students - add to calendar
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (administrative offices closed) - January 18
- Presidents' Day Holiday (no classes meet) - February 15
- Spring Break - March 22-26
- Cesar Chavez Holiday (administrative offices closed) - March 26
- Instruction Ends - May 3
- Review Sessions / Reading Period - May 4-7 and 14
- Final Examinations - May 10-20
- Semester Ends - May 20
- Commencement - May 21
Fall 2019
LLM Students
- Short Course Instruction (American Law in a Global Context) - August 14-23
- Semester Course Instruction Begins - August 26
First Year JD Students
- Orientation / Short Course Instruction (Introduction to Legal Analysis) - August 15-23
- Semester Course Instruction Begins - August 26
Advanced JD (2L & 3L) & SJD Students
- Semester Course Instruction Begins - August 26
All Students
- Labor Day Holiday (no classes meet) - September 02
- Veteran's Day Holiday (no classes meet) - November 11
- Administrative Makeup Monday (Monday classes meet) - November 12
- Instruction Ends - November 26
- Thanksgiving Holiday (no classes meet) - November 28-29
- Review Sessions / Reading Period - November 27, December 02-04 and December 13
- Final Examinations - December 5-19
- Semester Ends - December 19
- Winter Campus Closure - December 24-January 1
Spring 2020
Advanced JD (2L & 3L), LLM & SJD Students
- Short Course Instruction (J-term) - January 6-17
- Course Instruction Begins - January 21
First Year JD Students
- Semester Course Instruction Begins - January 21
All Students
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (no classes meet) - January 20
- Presidents' Day Holiday (no classes meet) - February 17
- Spring Break - March 23-27
- Cesar Chavez Holiday (administrative offices closed) - March 27
- Administrative Makeup Monday (Monday Classes Meet) -April 7
- Instruction Ends - April 28
- Review Sessions / Reading Period - April 29-May 1 and May 8
- Final Examinations - May 4-14
- Semester Ends - May 14
- Commencement - May 15

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