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The full-time day program has two curricular tracks:

• Civil law, geared for students who will practice in Louisiana or other civil law or mixed tradition jurisdictions.
• Common law, geared for students who are likely to practice in other states or other common law jurisdictions.

JD students complete 90 academic hours in civil law or common law. The full-time curriculum is sequenced over a period of six semesters of resident study; this is a minimum time frame, and the program may not be completed by acceleration in two and one-half years. Full-time first-year students will be scheduled by the administration in required foundational courses totaling 15 hours in the first semester and 14-15 hours in the second semester.

The part-time day program offers a common law or civil law track. The part-time curriculum is sequenced over a period of eight semesters of resident study.

Part-time first-year students will be scheduled by the administration in required foundational courses totaling 12 hours in the first semester and 11-12 hours in the second semester. Any student who begins in the part-time program must remain in that program for the first academic year.

Loyola Law’s flexible evening JD program combines two evenings of in-person learning with asynchronous online coursework that can be completed from anywhere, on any schedule. Students graduate with a JD in just four years.

Evening classes meet in-person on Tuesday and Thursday evenings between 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Students will earn 8-10 credits in the fall semester and another 8-10 credits in the spring semester, with an additional 6-8 credits taken over the summer semester.

Please visit our evening JD program page for details and application information.

A student who has pursued law study at another law school may apply for transfer or advanced standing admission by utilizing Loyola Law’s Transfer & Select Foreign Attorneys Application available through LSAC. Transfer applicants must also present evidence of eligibility required of entering students the year in which they began the study of law and present evidence of above-average academic study in their prior law record. 

Documents which must be submitted directly to the Office of Law Admissions (via LSAC.org) prior to evaluation for transfer are:

• Most recent CAS report (applicant must have completed 15 credit hours at current law school)
• Two letters of recommendation; one letter must be written by a law professor
• Letter of good standing from previous law school
• Official copy of most recent law school transcript 
• Explanation for transfer