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Mar 09, 2025
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2025-2026 University of Wyoming Catalog
Juris Doctor
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The goal of the College of Law is to provide a sound and thorough education in the law that will prepare the student to practice law in accordance with the highest standards of professional competence and responsibility.
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Overall Hours
For students matriculating in or after the fall 2013 semester, each student must successfully complete (grade of “D-” or better for courses taken at this school, grade of “C” or better for courses taken elsewhere) 90 credit hours (required for graduation) in accordance with the official curriculum as adopted by the College of Law faculty. At least 59 of these credits must be completed at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Student must be enrolled in a minimum of 9 credit hours of law coursework each fall/spring semester, with the exception of their final semester if less hours are needed to achieve the 90 overall hours and all other requirements have been met. The College of Law automatically approves up to 9 hours of any joint degree core courses with the corresponding prefix to their joint degree (i.e. MBAM, POLS, ENR) that meet the grade requirement, of a letter grade of B or better, to transfer in toward their law degree. If additional courses are needed outside of these respective prefixes, these will be approved on a case by case basis. Those students enrolled in a joint degree program may take up to 9 hours required for graduation in non-law school graduate level courses (online courses will not be approved) and apply them toward their law degree. Law A-F hours
Regardless of the matriculation date, students must complete at least 76 credit hours through graded (A-F) courses. Those students enrolled in a joint degree program may take up to 9 hours required for graduation in non-law school graduate level courses (online courses will not be approved) and apply them toward their law degree. Students in a joint degree program who use 9 non-law credit hours toward their J.D. degree may reduce their required number of graded credits from 76 to 73 so that they can participate in other S/U offerings at the College of Law. Required Courses: First (1L) Year Students
(Additional courses cannot be taken the first year without special permission from a dean). Required Courses: Second (2L) Year Students
(offered once per year) Experiential Hours
Each student must successfully complete no fewer than 6.0 credit hours in experiential learning courses: Advanced Writing
As a condition of graduation, all students must complete an upper-level writing requirement. Elective Courses:
Second (2L) & Third (3L) Year Students (* subject to availability); See Law Courses section Additional Requirements
Students matriculating after August 2021, a student whose first-year GPA is in the bottom one-third of the class will be required to pass four of the following courses as a requirement of graduation: Business Organizations (or Agency and Partnership and or Corporations); Secured Transactions; Trusts and Estates; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Adjudication; Family Law; Constitutional Law II; or Real Estate Finance. During the fall and spring semesters after the 1L year it is required to take at least one of these courses as a minimum each semester, until the requirement has been satisfied. In order to graduate, a student whose first-year GPA is in the bottom one-third of the class will also be required to take and pass a law school-offered bar examination course as a 3L (typically in their final spring semester), unless for unanticipated reasons the College of Law does not offer that course in a particular year. |
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