LexPostBacc Honor Code

LexPostBacc is designed to help prepare participants, called Scholars, for the academic rigors and financial commitment of law school. Scholars are exposed to a range of substantive topics and skills and are expected to demonstrate sufficient levels of intellectual effort and ethical behavior.

The LexPostBacc Honor Code is a statement describing the standards of intellectual effort and ethical behavior required of Scholars.

Intellectual Effort

The LexPostBacc curriculum will expose Scholars to new knowledge, concepts, and skills. Scholars will be required to demonstrate proficient acquisition of the covered material. Proficiency will be the outcome of a process of exposure to information; understanding, interpretation, and application of the information; and feedback and assessment.

Scholars are expected to expend high levels of intellectual effort throughout the program. The hallmark of effort is diligence. Examples of diligence include attendance at mandatory live sessions; proactive, responsive, and appropriate interaction with program staff; and timely submission of one’s best work on exercises and assessments.

Ethical Behavior

Lawyers are held to high standards of personal and professional ethics. While not yet members of the legal profession, law students are nonetheless expected to model the ethical behaviors of lawyers. LexPostBacc Scholars, as aspiring law students, will be held to these same heightened ethics standards. Scholars are expected to demonstrate integrity, honesty, and civility. Scholars must adhere to the terms of the LexPostBacc Participation Agreement.

Scholars must undertake and complete their own work. When external resources are used to complete work, Scholars must cite those resources. Scholars are discouraged from using AI tools, but whenever AI tools are used, that usage must be acknowledged, and the tool must be cited as an external resource. Failure to cite external resources is plagiarism and can result in dismissal from the program.