The Bluto Blutarsky Option: Arizona State to Offer Seven-Year JD

Students who would like to earn their law degree at a more leisurely pace may want to consider Arizona State’s Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law.

The school has announced a new flexible schedule program that gives students seven years to earn a law degree. The program allows students to take a reduced course load of two or three courses a semester alongside candidates in the full-time program. The first year’s course work would have to be completed in two years.

The program is designed to appeal to students who need to keep working or who have other significant obligations.

TaxProf Blog notes the flex-time option and the seven-year time frame.

“One of my favorite lines in Animal House is when John Belushi's Bluto Blutarsky is told that he and his frat brothers are going to be kicked out of Faber College,” blogger Paul Caron writes. “He says, ‘Seven years down the drain!’ ”