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(a) The Probation and Grievance Committee has jurisdiction:
1. to hear allegations regarding alleged offenses committed by a faculty member, the dean or Associate Dean, not otherwise covered by the Code of Student Conduct, asserted by any administrator, student, faculty member, the Dean or Associate Dean of
(i) arbitrary, capricious or substantially unfair application of any rule or regulation of the law school;
(ii) discrimination, including harassment, on account of the person's age, race, color, ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, creed, sexual orientation, or disability
2. to hear student allegations of arbitrary, capricious or bad-faith grading procedures,
such as a breach of anonymity, a professor's failure to read the examination,
materially misleading examination terms, an examination wholly unrelated to course
content, or other procedure that is egregiously unfair.
The Probation and Grievance Committee shall have no jurisdiction to review the substantive grade decision of another faculty member, only to hear allegations challenging a faculty member's grading procedures. Prior to the filing of complaint with the Probation and Grievance Committee under this subdivision, a student shall make an appointment with the professor to review the examination. If after meeting with the professor, the student believes that jurisdiction may exist under this subdivision, the student shall make an appointment with the Associate Dean to review the matter. After meeting with the Associate Dean, the student may then file a complaint with the Probation and Grievance Committee under this subdivision.
An arbitrary grading procedure is not established by the absence of a model answer, the fact that the professor has not provided a written explanation of the grade provided, or by comparison of the grades with the grades for other papers. The Probation and Grievance Committee shall have no jurisdiction to re-evaluate, regrade, or rescore a student's examination. The Committee shall have jurisdiction to recommend relief under this subdivision only if the Committee finds that a faculty member's grading procedure was arbitrary, capricious, or in bad faith.
(b) Except as stated above, the Probation and Grievance Committee has no jurisdiction over grading or of the administration of rules and regulations of the law school.
(c) No decision of the Committee shall be made nor any hearing held unless there is a quorum present, which shall consist of a majority of the Committee membership. A majority of such quorum shall consist of full time tenured or tenure track faculty.
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