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Our students work in a variety of placements including the World Bank, the Internal Revenue Service, US Securities & Exchange Commission, National Institutes of Health, the US Attorney's Office, KPMG, the Joint Committee on Taxation, The Center for Justice and International Law, and the Center for Telehealth & E-Health Law.
- Students work a minimum of 10 hours a week for at least 11 weeks.
- Students must be under the direct supervision of a lawyer, and the work must be legal in nature, i.e., it is work which presumes you have a legal education.
- Students receive 2 credits for their externship.
- The Academic Externship credits do not count toward the specialization credit requirements for either the LL.M. degrees or the LL.M. certificate programs.
- International students are eligible to do an externship only in the Spring semester.
- It’s a good idea for all students to wait until the Spring semester, and devote the Fall to your classes. However, if a U.S.-educated student wants to undertake an externship during the Fall semester, he/she will need to begin that search prior to the beginning of the Fall semester. Many deadlines for Fall externships occur during the summer months.
- All students are responsible for finding their own placements. The Office of Graduate Programs has collected a list of organizations where students have secured externships in past semesters to get you started in your search. (http://www.law.georgetown.edu/graduate/documents/Spring2012PreApprovedOrganizations.pdf)
- Some externships require security clearances, so apply early…especially if you are an international student. The clearance process can take a long time. (For example, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission urges international students to submit their application in July for the Spring semester.)
For more detailed informatino, go to http://www.law.georgetown.edu/graduate/ExternshipProgram.html
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