This page includes materials and information you can use to navigate the registration process. All students are required to register for courses each semester. Upper level students register via Cardozo's lottery registration process, and 1L students are manually registered for courses by the Office of the Registrar. Registration materials are distributed in mid-July for the Fall semester and early November for the Spring semester. Additions and changes to registration materials will be posted throughout the registration period and during the first few weeks of class.
Follow the How To's below for step-by-step instructions regarding Self-Service Banner registration. To access Self-Service, students must first sign into Inside Track and click on the "Students" tab.
After the add/drop period, students cannot add a new course. They may still withdraw from a course until the date designated as the last day to withdraw from courses.
After the date designated as the last day to withdraw from courses, students will be granted permission to withdraw from courses only under exceptional circumstances. A student who wishes to withdraw from a course at such a time must contact the Dean of Students to discuss withdrawal and must submit a completed request for permission to withdraw from a course” form. If permission to withdraw is granted, a grade of "W" is recorded on the student's transcript. (The grade of "W" means "withdrew without penalty or prejudice"). A student who is allowed to withdraw from a year-long course after completing the first semester will lose credit for the first semester.
If a student does not follow the procedures outlined above to drop or withdraw from a course before the end of the semester in which the student is registered for the course, and the student does not take the final examination or otherwise complete the course requirements, the student automatically receives a grade of “F” or "G" (administrative failure; counted as a failure in GPA calculations) for the course.
Any student contemplating dropping or withdrawing from a course should consider the effect on residency status, financial aid requirements, health insurance and if applicable, immigration status.
Students must have an official copy of their undergraduate transcript showing receipt of a baccalaureate degree on file with the Office of the Registrar in order to be permitted to register. Official transcripts must be mailed directly from the registrar's office of the undergraduate institution to Cardozo School of Law’s Office of the Registrar. Students who have questions regarding their undergraduate transcripts should contact the Office of the Registrar.
A student may not enroll in a course for which any meeting time conflicts with any meeting time of another course in which the student is enrolled. In the event that a student attempts to enroll in courses with such conflicts, the student will be registered only for the course which he or she listed first. Students should check their course confirmations and course times carefully. Should there appear to be a time conflict, students should check with the Office of the Registrar immediately.
It is each student's responsibility to ascertain the prerequisites and co-requisites, if any, for enrollment in upper-class courses. These are indicated in the course descriptions included in the registration information packet.
If a student enrolls in a course for which the prerequisite has not been previously satisfied or the co-requisite contemporaneously satisfied, no credit for the course will be granted, even if the prerequisite or co-requisite is satisfied subsequently.
Upon occasion, a faculty member may waive a course prerequisite for an individual student. When such a waiver is granted, the faculty member must submit written notice of the waiver to the Office of the Registrar.
Students who have already registered can make changes in their schedule during the drop/add period prior to the beginning of the semester. Courses dropped during this period do not appear on the student's transcript.
Students should not assume that they will be able to enroll in a class for which they have been wait-listed. Rather, they must register for another course, which they can drop if and when they are allowed into the previously closed course.
Students should also not attempt to circumvent the waiting list system by contacting professors for permission to enter a closed course. Even if permission is granted by the professor for a student to enroll, the student will not be permitted to register for the class.
