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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW
UPPER LEVEL REGISTRATION INFORMATION
FOR SPRING 2010

You Will Be Able to Find on the Law School Website:

1. Course Descriptions for Spring 2010 Upper Level Courses
2. Alpha Listing of courses being offered Spring 2010
3. Schedule Grid – courses by day and time
4. Curricular Advice from the Faculty
5. Information on New Courses, Visiting Professors, and Courses of Special Interest
6. Last-Minute Updates on the Spring 2010 Schedule (as they arise)

IMPORTANT NOTICES

Rescheduling or Cancellation:  The Law School reserves the right to reschedule or cancel any course, seminar or workshop due to unforeseen changes in faculty responsibilities or where fewer than ten students have registered for that class.  Students should check the website frequently during the registration period for any corrections, additions and deletions affecting the Spring schedule.

Students on Academic Probation: Students on Academic Probation must have their schedules approved in advance by the Dean of Students office.  Failure to do so will result in the student being involuntarily removed from classes for which the student has registered.

Students on Academic Oversight:  Students are subject to Academic Oversight if they either:
(i) Have a cumulative GPA of less than 2.5  OR
(ii)Achieved a GPA of 2.5 or less in the Spring 2008 semester. 
Students in this category should come to Registrar’s office for information regarding oversight    requirements they must meet.

SPRING 2010 UPPER CLASS

REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

Student Responsibility to Learn and Follow Registration Procedures.  Upper level students who intend to enroll in Spring 2010 classes must complete registration in accordance with the procedures described here. It is your responsibility to read and understand the information provided here and to follow the procedures accordingly.  Absent documented system-wide problems, a student’s failure to properly register for one or more classes must be assumed to be due to the student’s own failure to understand or follow directions.  Those students who have not complied with the registration procedures risk being limited to courses in which space is still available at the end of the regular registration process.  To protect yourself, you should:

1. Read these instructions carefully.
2. If any of the instructions are unclear, ask for clarification from the Registrar’s Office or the Dean of Students Office by e-mail or in person before you Register
3. If you encounter problems while registering online, report them to the Registrar’s Office immediately.  We are happy to help you solve problems, but cannot do so if we are not informed in a timely manner.

Overview of Basic Registration Procedures:  Students will use the university’s web based myUM system first to find out their registration appointment time and then to select their courses. Students do not register in person except for those students on Academic Oversight and Probation.  To access myUM go to the law school home page, at the bottom of the page there is a link to myUM. Students must use their Cane ID number. Students who have not completed financial registration for Fall 2009, have stops - inparticular Health Center stops regarding immunization records, are on academic probation or academic oversight will not be allowed to register using myUM.

Finding Your Appointment Time:  Your appointment time can be found on myUMat the MY STUDENT MENU tab.  Your appointment time was randomly assigned within your student priority group (year in school). LLMs and third-year students are scheduled first, followed by second-year students and lastly first year students.  If you feel that you have received late appointment times for a second consecutive semester, please come to Registrar’s Office or send an email to lawreg@law.miami.edu and request a change of appointment time.  Appointment time records have been kept for past semesters (including any changes); your request will be approved if the records substantiate your claim. 
Note for Students on Academic Oversight or Academic Probation: Please be aware that the system will assign you an appointment time even though you are not eligible to use myUM to register.  Please follow the separate registration procedures you have been given and do not attempt to register online at the time you are assigned.  If you are in doubt please check with the Registrar’s Office

Schedule Planning:  You should have your scheduled planned out before you go online to register. A full-time day student wishing to take more than 16 credits must get approval from the Dean of Students and will need to manually register with the Office of the Law Registrar for the extra credit(s). In addition to the basic scheduling information available in this packet, you may find it helpful to use some of the following resources for planning:

1. Detailed Course Descriptions (available on the website)
2. Short Biographies of Professors (available on the website)
3. Faculty Curricular Advice for Specific Practice Areas (available on the website)
4. Prior Years’ Teaching Evaluations (available at the Law Library Circulation desk)
5. Discussions with Individual Faculty Members
6. The Degree Audit that monitors compliance with Graduation Requirements (available on myUMat the MY STUDENT MENU tab.)

Registering for Courses on myUM:  Once you have completed planning your schedule, you may log on to myUMto registerat or after your scheduled appointment time.  You will be asked to enter your Cane ID and password.  You then can register for the classes you want, so long as they are not already filled.  If you should select a course that is full, you will have the option of being placed on a wait-list. If you wish to be placed on a wait-list, you must do so during the initial registration period (November 4, 10th ,  and 9th); you cannot be added afterward.
Note that the system will not let you register or even be placed on a wait-list for a class if you are already scheduled for another class that meets at the same time or for another section of the same course.  If you wish to register for a course, but be wait-listed for another course at the same time or another section of the course, you need to put yourself on the relevant wait-list before registering for the conflicting alternative.  For example, if you registered for LAW208B but want to be waitlisted for LAW208A you would have to drop LAW208B, and then put yourself on the wait list for LAW208A, and then add LAW208B again. myUM will not let you wait-list for a course if you select the course from list of courses.  From the “Register for courses page” you must actually type in the course number and section, for example LAW100A. 

            A course for which a student is wait-listed does not count toward total enrollment credits.  The wait-list only guarantees that if a seat becomes open in a course those students on the wait-list will have an opportunity to add the course before students who are not on the wait-list.

Verification of Registration. In the past, some students have not followed the proper procedures to finish the online registration process and have found out after the fact that part or all of their registration was not recorded by the system.  To verify that your registration was successfully completed, check the class schedule found under MY STUDENT MENU/ Academic/Class Schedule on myUM.  Print and keep a copy of the schedule as proof that you have in fact registered for all the classes you chose. This is the only location that will show the classes you registered for as well as any wait listed classes. Once you have verified your schedule, class registration is complete if you do not wish to make subsequent changes in your assigned schedule.

Schedule Change Period and the Operation of the Wait Lists: Once all students have had the opportunity to register there will be a drop/add period (see the registration schedule included in this packet).  During the drop/add period, you may use myUM to drop a class for which you had registered or to add a class if there are open seats available.  After you add or drop, you should again verify that your choices have been properly entered by checking the class schedule found under MY STUDENT MENU on myUM.  The myUM system will be open weekdays, 9am-5pm, after the initial registration period.  It may be open at other times but no set schedule is available.     
The procedures for moving from the wait-list on to the class rolls are outlined below.  Wait-listed classes MAY NOT be added using the myUM system.  Moreover, a faculty member may not sign a student into a wait-listed course or a course with 0 seats without consulting with the Registrar.  Thus, students should deal with the Registrar on matters regarding a closed class and wait lists to avoid taking the time of the faculty
During the add/drop period, wait-lists will be posted outside of Room F209 as well on the web site and updated daily by 10:30 a.m.. Those students approved to add a wait-listed course will have an O.K. and the date marked in red next to their student ID number. These spaces will be reserved for the corresponding number of approved students on the wait-list until close of business on the date that the student is approved to add the course. Approved students must come into the Office of the Law Registrar and complete a drop/add form. If you cannot be on campus the day you are approved, please contact our office via phone, 305-284-4825 or e-mail, lawreg@law.miami.edu. Students who do not register for the wait-listed class on the date they are approved will be deleted from the wait-list and their space will become available to the next person on the wait-list the following day. 
Wait-lists will be re-posted the week prior to the beginning of classes.  Approved students will have through the first day of classes to add the class.  Students may continue to drop and add courses with open seats through the end of the first week of classes. Seminars and workshops with open seats may be dropped or added through the second week of classes.