Toledo College of Law

The University of Toledo College of Law. UT Law provides dynamic legal education, practical experience, and plenty of opportunities to explore all areas of the law including trial advocacy, dispute resolution, and the growing specialization of intellectual property law, environmental law, health law, tax law, and international law. At UT Law, you will find an attentive faculty, a helpful staff, and plenty of internship opportunities. The University of Toledo College of Law will help you meet your goals and exceed your dreams.

Areas of Concentration

Business and Commercial Law

Employment and Labor Law

The Study of Law

The faculty's primary emphasis is to provide a quality education for each of its students through a meaningful classroom experience. Teaching at Toledo begins with the construction of a solid foundation in basic legal rules and principles and progresses to an examination of difficult concepts and theories. Students are taught to think and write clearly, to reason abstractly, and to be effective advocates. The faculty, therefore, blends an emphasis on "practical" learning with a concentration on "theoretical" analysis needed for a successful career and essential for intellectual growth and stimulation. An extensive curriculum covers the traditional subjects of legal education and incorporates the development of professional legal skills and values

The College of Law requires the successful completion of 89 semester hours for graduation. Because of a favorable student faculty ratio and wide-ranging interests of the faculty, the College of Law is able to offer a great variety of courses. The curriculum in the first year of the full-time program and the first two years of the part-time program consists of required courses. To become eligible for recommendation for the Juris Doctor (JD) degree, a student admitted or readmitted or reinstated on a fresh start basis to the College of Law for the 1998 fall semester or thereafter must complete 89 semester hours of credit; a student admitted or readmitted or reinstated on a fresh start basis prior to the 1998 fall semester must complete 87 semester hours of credit

Advanced Required Courses

All students must complete Evidence, Legal Ethics and successfully complete the Advanced Writing Requirement or the Upper Level Writing Requirement. Part-time students admitted, readmitted or reinstated prior to the 1998 fall semester and full-time students admitted, readmitted or reinstated prior to the 1999 fall semester must complete the Advanced Writing Requirement. Part-time students admitted, readmitted or reinstated for the 1998 fall semester or thereafter and full-time students admitted, readmitted or reinstated for the 1999 fall semester or thereafter must complete the Upper Level Writing Requirement.

Upper Level Writing Requirement

After completing at least 30 hours, each student is required to satisfy the upper level writing requirement. To satisfy the requirement, each student must earn five writing units. A unit is earned by completing a faculty supervised writing assignment. At least two of the units must include a research component. Writing units are graded on an "honors - satisfactory - unsatisfactory" basis. To earn a writing unit, the student must achieve a grade of "satisfactory" or "honors." A student's faculty adviser will maintain a portfolio of all work submitted to earn writing units and will certify to the College of Law Registrar that the student has met all writing unit requirements with either "satisfactory" or "honors" achievement.