Courses

    The externship program offers students the opportunity to gain perspective on the legal system by seeing law in action, and to gain a deeper understanding of the law by integrating theory with practice. Students are permitted to work for government, judicial officers or for public interest organizations. Students will be enrolled after obtaining an externship and submitting a signed supervision agreement with the Office of the Registrar.

This course is open to students who have completed 29 law school credits. Students may receive credit for only one externship. Externships may be with a governmental, judicial, or public interest organization. Students also are required to have completed or be taking an upper-class course that directly relates to the substantive area of law of the externship. Students cannot take an externship in the same semester that they are in a clinic or an experiential learning course. The externship course is grade pass-fail and the externship credits are deducted from the six-credit limit on pass-fail courses. Students are required to attend a class in the first week of the semester and write a memo identifying their goals for the externship experience. Students must devote at least 10 hours per week at the placement for a minimum of 11 weeks. At the end of the semester, students write a memo reflecting on the experience and the extent to which their goals were achieved. Students are required to keep time sheets that describe the general nature of the work.