Registrar

Clinic and Externship Registration Process

Clinic early registration begins April 7, 2008 and ends on April 14, 2008.

Clinics

Students who have not participated in the early sign-up process will have the opportunity to request Clinics for both the fall 2008 and spring 2009 semesters on a space-permitting basis during the registration and drop/add periods.  Students should use the Clinic Request Form found on the Registrar’s web site.  If you are applying for CARES, you must use this form. Students will not register for Clinics on NOVASIS.

• During the first phase of registration, preference for clinics will be given to rising 3Ls who have not previously taken a clinic.  Please see next bullet for the exception to this policy,
   
• Two (2) slots each in the spring semester Farmworker and Tax Clinics are reserved for rising 2L students.  The Tax Clinic preference will only be given to rising 2L’s who will have completed Introduction to Taxation by the end of the fall semester.

Notification

Students will receive notification of their enrollment status in a clinic from the Registrar's Office.

Dropping a Clinic

Students enrolled during the early signup for Clinics cannot drop a Clinic after May 12, 2008.  To drop a Clinic, notify the Clinic Office and supervising Professor.

Student Commitment

Once the deadline to drop a clinic has passed, only under the most extraordinary of circumstances will a student be allowed to drop.  Your commitment to the clinic is an indication of the professional responsibility you will be entrusted with in your live client matters. Given the demands associated with certifying students for practice in respective clinics and the importance of advance notice needed to schedule appropriate client matters, drops will not be permitted later than the dates indicated above.  Any request for a drop must receive the consent of the faculty supervisor of the particular clinic in which the student is enrolled.

Externships

Students interested in Externships should contact the faculty member supervising the externship.  Externships have unique requirements and the selection process varies greatly for each one.

Create Your Own Externship

If no available clinic or externship offers the experience you're looking for, you may create your own. The law school has an externship policy that allows the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs to approve externships for three credits that comply with the policy. You should note, however, that law school policy does not permit creation of summer externships.

To comply with the policy, you must have a faculty sponsor and a host agency that is a public or not-for-profit agency or organization. You must identify a supervising attorney at the host agency. The externship, which awards 3 credits, requires you to work a minimum of 12 hours per week at the host agency, maintain a journal, and meet every other week with your sponsoring faculty member. To review the policy and to inform yourself of the requirements and obligations involved, check the on-line information found here.

An externship that does not comply with any aspect of the policy must be approved by the full faculty after review by the Curriculum Committee. In special circumstances, when truly unusual and valuable opportunities have presented themselves, students have obtained approval of externships outside the specific provisions of the policy.

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