Policy on self-identification
Faculty Council has resolved that the following be adopted as a regulation and placed in the academic calendar as regulation G.3.1, following the existing regulation on Identification of examination booklets:
It is a serious matter for a student to attempt to circumvent the anonymity of the examination process by identifying themselves on a law school exam. An obvious case of self-identification is the placing of one’s name on the cover or on any other part of the exam booklet. Self-identification may take an indirect form as where a student informs a professor after the exam that he or she has written the exam in a particular distinctive ink colour. Where a professor believes that a student has self-identified, they should report the matter to the Associate Dean, Academic. The Associate Dean, Academic shall then refer the matter to the Studies Committee.
Gratuitous references in an exam answer to personal identifying information shall constitute self-identification within the meaning of this regulation. However, reliance on and reference to personal background or experience relevant to answering the question shall not constitute self-identification.
A student who is granted an accommodation by Studies Committee which results in an exam written at a time or in a format which might identify the student will not be found to have self-identified within the meaning of this policy.
Where the Studies Committee determines that a student has deliberately or carelessly identified him or herself on an exam, the committee will impose a five per cent penalty. The imposition of the penalty does not depend on a finding of intent to self identify. The fact of self-identification is sufficient to warrant the imposition of the penalty.
EFFECTIVE DATE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2001
