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The registration appointment period for fall 2024 will begin on March 22 for veteran students and on March 25 for all other students. The first two weeks of registration is the appointment period (March 25 - April 5). After that, open enrollment (add/drop) begins on April 6, and continues through the end of the first week of class in August.
The University Registrar assigns each student an appointment. Once your appointment time arrives, you can register for courses, and adjust your schedule, 24/7, anytime PeopleSoft is available. You DO NOT need to wait for the open enrollment period to adjust your schedule.
Open enrollment will begin on Saturday, April 6, 2024, and end on Friday, August 23, 2024. During open enrollment, all courses except for those requiring departmental consent will be open to all Law students for self-enrollment for the remainder of the enrollment period. Please note that the Law School's add/drop ends at the end of the first week of class which is before the University's add/drop period ends.
With self-enrollment, you will know immediately after you submit your selections whether or not you have been placed in a course.
Below is information you will need to know in order to register for courses. Please check the course lists frequently for updates to the curriculum during registration and prior to the start of the term. Please review the materials and familiarize yourself with the information so you are prepared to register for courses once your appointment time has arrived. There is no formal training for self-enrollment. Therefore, you should make sure you have reviewed and fully understand all the materials and procedures discussed below before registration begins. Please read all the information on this page before you proceed to review the University documents.
All 2L and 3L students must meet with their faculty advisor once each semester and have their advisor sign the Advising Form. The signed form must be submitted to the Registrar's Office. Failure to submit the form will result the ADV hold remaining on a student's account until the required form is submitted. Students cannot register with the ADV hold on their account. Please see the Advising Program tab for additional information.
Course & Class Lists
Course lists are available on both the Law school web pages and the University Registrar’s web page. The Law School’s web pages provide more detailed information, such as grading details, but the University Schedule of Classes list contains the class meeting pattern, and Class Number information you will need to register for courses. The University Class Schedule for the fall term is available by clicking the above "Preparing for Self-Enrollment", and following the instructions in "Step 2: Class Search". Please note that the class meeting patterns are in PeopleSoft and is what you will use to register for courses. We will continue to post a course list for the fall and spring on our web page; however, no class meeting patterns are included. The course lists we post on our web pages are done as a courtesy to students so they can see what courses will be offered each semester, as well as the additional detailed information not available in the PeopleSoft description.
University Registrar Information
Courses are listed in the University Schedule by department and then are listed in numerical order by the 4-digit Catalog Number. Please make sure you are registering for the JD (Law- begins with leading digit '5') offering of the course and not the MSL (Graduate Course- begins with leading digit '2') offering. If you do a class search in PeopleSoft, make sure to enter "Law" as the course subject and "Law" as the career. In adding both Law as the subject and the Law career, you will get the JD course offering results. If you only use Law as the course subject, you will get the first occurrence of courses in PeopleSoft which are the MSL course offerings. If you attempt to register for the MSL offering of the course, you will get an error message telling you that the course is out of your career and you will need permission to register for it. The scheduled meeting times for classes can also be found there; the University updates the schedule daily during registration. The meeting days, times and room assignments are listed in this schedule.
You can search for details on a specific course (including the description, and prerequisites) by using the Class Search on the University Registrar’s web page.
Law School Registration Information
The Law School course list contains more detailed information, such as course type, exam and grading methods; and in some cases, additional information from the instructor. You can access that list here:
Law School Schedule of Classes
The Enrollment Worksheet can help you organize your class schedule prior to registration. You can print an enrollment worksheet here:
No matter what state’s bar exam you choose to take, a significant portion of the exam will test your substantive knowledge of law. While you are strongly advised to take a commercial bar exam preparation course after graduation, the two-month commercial “cram” courses are not the right venue for learning a large number of new subjects. Hence, you should strive to take as many law school courses that correspond to bar subjects as possible. See the following document for help choosing the right courses:
Bar Exam Considerations for Scheduling Classes
ADV Holds
In the University documents regarding self-enrollment, references will be made to Advisement (ADV) Holds. The Law School does place these holds on student's records. In order for the hold to be released, you must meet with your faculty advisor, sign the Advising Form and submit it through Docusign. The signed form is the trigger to release your account for registration.
Permission Numbers
In order to register for those classes that are: (1) flagged as departmental consent, (2) list requisites that have not been met, or (3) are full, you must request permission from the Law School Registrar’s Office. If permission is granted, you will be issued a Permission Number via return email, which you will enter when you add the course.
Transfer students who need to register for a First-Year course must obtain a Permission Number from the Law School Registrar's Office.
If you wish to register for a non-law course, you must obtain a Permission Number from the department offering the course. You will also need to obtain permission from the Associate Dean of the Law School using this form “Permission to Register for Non-Law Elective” which you will need to download, complete, and submit to the Law School Registrar’s Office.
Students should request a permission number by emailing the Registrar's Office at lawreg@pitt.edu. Requests for permission numbers are issued in the order the requests are received. Students should never contact faculty directly requesting permission numbers.
Cross Registration
Students who seek to enroll in courses outside the University of Pittsburgh must come to the Law School Registrar’s Office.
MSL, LL.M. & SJD students
These students will not participate in self-enrollment. MSL students should contact Beth Ann Pischke in room 519 for course registration. LL.M. and SJD students should contact CILE Program Administrator in room 318 for course registration.
Help
Students who experience difficulty self-enrolling online should come to the Law School Registrar’s Office during business hours. You also can email the Law Registrar’s Office at lawreg@pitt.edu. or refer to the interactive demonstration (iDemo) video posted in my.pitt. To access that, Click Learn More just below the Student Center link on your portal home page. You can obtain technical assistance anytime by calling the University Technology Help Desk at (412)624-HELP[4357].