School of Law
School of Law
Beginning in fall 2025, the law school is launching Flex J.D., a hybrid part-time evening program that offers students greater convenience and flexibility while maintaining academic rigor, a dynamic classroom experience, and the sense of community that come from in-person learning.
Flex J.D. students attend class in person two evenings per week, typically between 6 and 9:15 p.m. Some courses are traditional in-person courses. Others are 鈥渂lended,鈥� combining one night of in-person instruction with online learning, including instructional videos, written assignments, and virtual 鈥渄iscussions鈥� with classmates and faculty. The curriculum will be identical to our day program and is taught by the same faculty members.
Here is an example of a typical first-semester schedule, for illustration purposes only. In this example, Contracts is a traditional, in-person course. Introduction to Lawyering Skills and Civil Procedure I are 鈥渂lended鈥� courses, in which one of the weekly class meetings is replaced with online activities that students complete on their own schedule.
| Tuesday | Thursday |
|---|---|
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5:45-7:30pm: Contracts |
5:45-7:30pm: Contracts |
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7:45-9:00pm: Civil Procedure I |
7:45-9:00pm: Intro. to Lawyering Skills |
The two-evening-per-week, in-person schedule empowers students to organize their coursework around professional responsibilities and enhances access to law school for students who, due to personal obligations or mobility constraints, are unable to commute daily to campus.
Blended courses are capped at 25 students. This small class size will facilitate robust engagement among students and faculty and enables faculty to provide much more substantive, individualized feedback on students鈥� written work than is typically possible in a traditional in-person course.
Once Flex J.D. students complete their required courses, they will have the opportunity to select more or fewer blended courses, depending on their preferences. Over the course of their eight semesters, students thus will be able to take as many as 50 percent or as few as 25 percent of their total J.D. credits online.