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Academic Calendar: 2024-2025
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Summer Term 2024
JD-LLM-LE Summer Immersion (2L JD-LLM-LE students only)
| Monday, May 6 - Friday, May 17 | Durham, North Carolina |
Master’s Program in Judicial Studies (MJS students only)
| Monday, May 20 | First Day of Class |
| Friday, June 14 | Last Day of Class |
Leiden Summer Institute
| Monday, June 24 | First Day of Class |
| Friday, July 19 | Last Day of Class |
| Monday, July 22 - Weds, July 24 | Reading and Examination Period |
Summer Institute on Law, Language & Culture (International LLM students only)
| Tuesday, July 16 | Orientation |
| Wednesday, July 17 | First Day of Classes |
| Friday, August 9 | Last Day of Classes |
Fall Term 2024
CAREER DEVELOPMENT (Upper Level JD Students Pursuing Private Sector)
| Tuesday, July 30 – Friday, August 2 | On-Campus Interviewing (Virtual) |
LEAD Week / Orientation (incoming students)
| Thursday, August 15 - Friday, August 23 | International LLM Students |
| Tuesday, August 20 - Friday, August 23 | 1L JD Students |
| Wednesday, August 21 | LARW classes begin (times and rooms TBA) Distinctive Aspects of US Law begins |
| Thursday, August 22 | LARWINT classes begin (times and rooms TBA) |
Regular Semester
| Monday, August 26 | 1L Classes begin and Upper Level classes begin |
| Friday, August 30 | Clinic Intensive Training |
| Monday, September 2 | Labor Day (no classes) |
| Wednesday, September 4 | Drop Add ends at 11:59 pm |
| Friday, September 13 | Designated make-up day |
| Friday, October 4 | Designated make-up day |
| Monday, October 14 - Friday, Oct. 18 | Fall Break (1L Writing Week) |
| Monday, October 21 | End of 7th week of classes |
| Friday, November 15 | Designated make-up day |
| Tuesday, Nov. 26 | *Only Friday classes meet |
| Wednesday, Nov. 27 - Friday, Nov. 29 | Thanksgiving break |
| Thursday, December 5 | Last day of Classes *Only Thursday classes meet |
| Friday, December 6 | Reading period begins |
| Friday, December 6 | Drop Add ends for Wintersession at 11:59 pm |
| Tuesday, December 10 | Examination Period Begins |
| Friday, December 20 | Examination Period Ends |
Wintersession Term 2025
- Saturday, January 4, to Wednesday, January 8, 2025.
Spring Term 2025
(make-up days TBD)
| Wednesday, January 8 | LARW Writing Classes Meet (lunch hour) |
| Thursday, January 9 | First Day of Classes |
| Friday, January 17 | Clinic Intensive Training |
| Friday, January 17 | Drop Add ends at 11:59 pm |
| Thursday, Sat. & Sunday, Jan. 16, 18 & 19 | Intensive Trial Practice Weekend |
| Monday, January 20 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (no classes) |
| Friday, January 24 | Designated make-up day |
| Friday, February 21 | Designated make-up day |
| Thursday, February 27 | End of 7th Week of classes |
| Monday, March 10 - Friday, March 14 | Spring Break (no classes) |
| Friday, March 28 | Designated make-up day |
| Thursday, April 17 | Last day of class *Only Monday classes meet |
| Friday, April 18 | Reading period begins |
| Tuesday, April 22 | Examination period begins |
| Friday, May 2 | Reading and Examination period ends |
| Tuesday, May 6 | Graduating students clearing deadline at Noon |
| Saturday, May 10 | Law School Convocation, diploma distribution |
| Sunday, May 11 | University Commencement |
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