All classes and final examinations for the 2023-2024 Academic Year will be held in-person, and the examinations will be run in secure mode using ExamSoft's Examplify software. Secure mode means that students will not be able to access the internet or applications other than Examplify on their computer while taking their exams.
RegisterAnchor2024 Winter Session (Fall Term 1 & Spring Term 2) Registration Dates
ThirdAnchorThird-year and Second-year Students:
- You are allowed to register for a maximum of 17 credits per term (effective 2024W) and 34 credits per Winter Session (terms 1 and 2 combined).
- Registration will occur in late June and early July 2024 for the 2024-2025 academic year. Registration for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 (2024W) will take place on UBC's new student information system, Workday Student. The guidance below about registration will be updated prior to July 2024 to reflect the move to Workday Student. Summer 2024 (2024S) registration will continue to take place on the current Student Service Centre (SSC).
Exchange Students:
- You are allowed to register for a maximum of 17 credits per term (effective 2024W) or up to 30 credits per Winter Session (terms 1 and 2 combined).
WorklistAnchorCreate a Worklist & Register on the SSC (this information will be updated prior to July to reflect the move to Workday Student)
Students must have all registration holds (i.e., financial holds) cleared prior to registration. Please contact a Law ES Advisor for financial advising or assistance.
New to UBC students such as transfer and visiting students must ensure that they have paid their registration deposit for 2023W. You can do this through the SSC beginning two weeks prior to the first day of registration for your year. Registration deposits are: $600 for new to UBC domestic JD transfer students, $600 for returning to UBC domestic JD transfer students, $500 for new domestic JD visiting students. Continuing students and exchange students do not pay a registration deposit.
Students seeking guidance on registration may wish to view the UBC step-by-step video on how to register including how to create a worklist.
Upper-Year Law Courses will be viewable and the timetable worklist function is available to you on the Student Service Centre (SSC) one week prior to the first day of registration. The timetable worklist will enable you to pre-select your Law courses and timetable preferences for registration (you will NOT be able to actually register until registration opens).
In order to successfully save changes to your worklist when selecting a course to add to your worklist, make sure that you click the course code with the specific section number that you want – even if the course has only one section – before you click Save to Worklist.
If you experience any technical difficulties with the timetable worklist function or with online registration, assistance is available through Enrolment Services (604-822-2844). If you have any non-technical questions regarding registration, please email Susan Morin, or if you have advising questions contact Kaila Mikkelsen, Assistant Dean, Students, or Barbara Wang, Manager, Student Affairs. Appointments with Kaila or Barbara can be made via Calendly.
TipsAnchorRegistration Guidance & Tips (this information will be updated prior to July to reflect the move to Workday Student)
Review the Beyond 1L Upper Year Course Selection Advice, Degree Requirements and Frequently Asked Questions; they answer the most common questions Academic Services receives about registration and advising. If your question is not answered , then please follow up with the relevant Student Affairs Office staff member.
Make sure not to register for any courses that have exams that conflict.
Make sure to have backup courses planned in advance in case you are not able to register into the courses that are your first choice.
After you register, log completely out of the SSC, then log back into the SSC and check your personal timetable to make sure that you actually are registered in the courses in which you think you are registered.
Credit/D/Fail - Not Available in Law
When viewing the details about Law courses on the SSC, you may notice a generic message stating, "This course is eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading." Students in the Law programs are not eligible for this grading option.
Instructors/TBAs
You will notice that there are TBAs for some courses listed in the SSC while there are instructor names listed in the course listings above. This is because these instructors are new and are still being setup in the University's human resources and course scheduling systems. Once they have been setup in these systems, their names will be reflected on the SSC. For now, you can rely on the course listings documents above for those instructor names.
Pre-Requisites and Co-Reqiuisites
There are no hard pre-/co-requisites set on any of our courses in the SSC that will prevent you from registering. You may receive messages about pre-requisites or co-requisites, but you will not be prevented from registering for any courses because of the messages. Please see the FAQs for more guidance on pre-requisites.
Please make sure to check the timetables, course listings, exam schedules and “Changes to Schedule” documents above prior to creating your registration worklists and again just prior to registering in July as the information is subject to change. Do not rely on old copies of documents that you may have saved or printed!
Directed Research and Other Special Registration Forms
Request forms to apply for directed research, audit a law course or register in a non-law course are available online. Please email penaflorida@allard.ubc.ca if you have any questions.
Registering for Courses With the Same Course Number
If you attempt to register in a course that has the same numeric code as another course or in which you previously registered, such as 343C.001 and 343B.001, you will need to be registered into a Directed Research for one of the courses. For technical reasons, we cannot register you in the same course number more than once. In this case, please contact the Student Affairs Office, and they will attempt to save a seat for you in the course during your registration date and time and will later register you in a Directed Research if they are able to save a seat for you.
Unreleased Seats
This means that there are no seats open for self-registration. The Section Comments on the course section number at the SSC will explain why.
Moots, Clinics, First Year Courses and Other "by Permission Only" Courses
Students taking part in moots, clinics, first year courses (as an upper year student) and other “by permission only” courses will be contacted through email by Student Services staff about their registration into those courses prior to July 1. Student Services staff will register those students into their moot, clinic, first-year and other "by permission only" courses after July 14.
Full Courses
If a course that you wish to take is full, then you should monitor the SSC regularly to see if a space opens up in a course. No waitlists will be kept.
Seminar Requirement Reminder
Students are required to complete a 3 credit seminar or directed research as a graduation requirement. Courses worth 3 credits and identified as seminar in the course listings, meet the seminar requirement. Workshops and courses do not meet the seminar requirement
Intensive Seminars
We allow time conflicts for intensive courses only (those are the 1-2 credit courses held over a 1-2 week period with visiting professors) where the online course description clearly states conflicts are allowed, however you will not be able to self-register in an intensive course that conflicts with another course. If you have such a time conflict, contact the Student Affairs Office in advance of registration so that she can attempt to register you in the intensive course when registration opens.
advising anchorStudent Affairs Office: J.D. Academic Advising & Registration Questions
General course advising can be found on the Beyond 1L - Upper Year Course Selection Advice page.
If you require academic advising, please contact Kaila Mikkelsen, Assistant Dean, Students or Barbara Wang, Manager, Student Affairs. Contact info (including Calendly appointment bookings) can be found here.
Student Services will be holding Drop-in Academic Advising sessions through June and July. Please check the Allard Law Academic Calendar for dates and times, and your email for Zoom links.
If you have registration questions, please contact Susan Morin, Director, Academic Services (Allard 151, morin@allard.ubc.ca or 604-822-6731), Patricia Penaflorida, Coordinator of Student Academic Services (Allard 153, penaflorida@allard.ubc.ca or 604-827-5728), or Katie Gardner, Coordinator of Student Academic Services (Allard 153, gardner@allard.ubc.ca).
Photo of Patricia Penaflorida, Cherry Chiu, Susan Morin and Katie Gardner.