If you plan to complete your SAWR paper on a high tech topic this year, we strongly recommend that you consider taking Advanced Legal Writing Scholarship: IP next semester. Right now, this class still has openings.
Opportunities to complete independently supervised SAWR papers will be extremely limited this year because a larger than usual number of high tech faculty members will be on leave. Please do not assume that you will be able to find a supervisor for an independent high tech SAWR paper.
Rising 2Ls should also note that, beginning with your class (i.e., “students matriculated on or before August 1, 2014”), the paper requirement for the High Tech Law Certificate is a bit more restrictive. Specifically, to obtain the certificate you must write your SAWR paper either (1) in a HTLC-designated class, or (2) on a high tech topic approved by Prof. Love. If you complete your SAWR paper on a non-high tech topic, you will not be able to obtain the certificate, even if you write a second paper on a high tech topic. (This change does not apply to students who began law school prior to the Fall 2014 semester.) If you want to earn a High Tech Law Certificate, be sure to plan ahead and write your SAWR paper on an approved high tech topic.
As always, if you have any questions about choosing courses or anything else, feel free to visit or email Prof. Love at blove@scu.edu or Joy Peacock at jbpeacock@scu.edu. If you have specific questions about the certificate requirements, please contact Dorice Kunis at dkunis@scu.edu.
