University of Maryland School of Law : Catalog, 1988-1989

Voluntary Withdrawal
A student who withdraws in good
standing after completion of at
least one semester at the law
school may return if the amount of
time the student will have been
absent from the school since the
student's first matriculation does
not exceed three years. The school
reserves the right to raise questions
as to character which have arisen
during the interim and to refuse
readmission on these grounds, subject
to the right of the student to
petition the Administrative Committee
for readmission.
A student who withdraws in
good standing after completion of
at least one semester of law school,
but who does not satisfy this requirement
as to time, is not entitled
to be readmitted but may be
by the Administrative Committee,
subject to such conditions as the
committee may impose. A student
who withdraws before the completion
of one semester is not entitled
to be readmitted but may be admitted
as a new student by the
Admissions Committee.
Voluntary withdrawal requires
the approval of the dean. A student
who drops out of the law
school without this approval after
the beginning of a semester for
which the student has registered
will be deemed to remain enrolled
in his or her courses. Failure to
take the examination or otherwise
complete a course satisfactorily will
result in a grade of 55 (F) in the
course.
Privacy of Records
Privacy of student records is assured
by the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974;
the act provides for student access
to his/her education records maintained
by the school, challenge to
content of the records and control
of disclosure of the records. Details
about the act and the school's
compliance with its provisions may
be obtained in the dean's office.
Honors and Prizes
Order of the Coif is a national law
school honor society founded to
encourage scholarship and to advance
the ethical standards of the
legal profession. Only students
standing among the first tenth of
the senior class are eligible for
membership. Selection of seniors
for the Maryland chapter of the
order is held during spring semester,
immediately prior to commencement.
Graduation with Honor is determined
by the Faculty Council and
may be awarded to students who
meet requirements for graduation
and who attain a weighted cumulative
average of 79.0 or better in all
work done at the law school, and
are in the top one-third of the
combined day and evening graduating
class.
The Sam Allen Memorial Prize, established
by the day division class
of 1950 in memory of their classmate,
Harry Samuel Allen, is
awarded annually to a member of
the graduating class who has demonstrated
outstanding qualities of
leadership and scholarship.
The American Jurisprudence Prizes,
sponsored by Lawyers Cooperative
Publishing Company and the
Bancroft-Whitney Company, are
given to the top students in various
courses.