Curriculum Guide · Courses

Professor Carmia Caesar

J.D. Seminar 515 | 3 credit hours

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 governmental, judicial or non-profit 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 the first year full-time or part-time program. The externship course is graded pass/fail and the externship credits count toward from the seven-credit limit on pass/fail courses.

Credit Requirements
Students in the 3 credit seminar must work at their placements at least 15 hours per week for 11 weeks. Students in the 2 credit seminar must work at their placements at least 10 hours per week for 11 weeks. All students are required to submit reflective journals totaling 10 to 12 pages. In addition to fieldwork, students must attend a series of four seminars throughout the semester to receive course credit.

Externships and Clinics
Students may not concurrently enroll in an externship and a clinic, except Street Law.

Externships and Practicum Courses
Students may not concurrently enroll in an externship and a practicum course unless granted special permission by both the instructor and the Assistant Dean of Clinical Programs.

More detailed information about externship requirements is available at: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/registrar/externship.html.

Externships and Practicum Courses
Students who wish to receive credit for the Externship Seminar and a practicum course that has the same field placement may do so only if: (1) the practicum course is taken in a semester following the Externship Seminar; and (2) the student receives permission from the Assistant or the Associate Dean for Clinical Programs. To receive such permission, the student must explain in writing how the practicum course field work would serve substantially different learning goals than did their externship field placement.

Eligibility for Second Externship
To be eligible for a second externship, a student must submit a memo to the Associate Dean of Clinical Programs, Public Interest and Community Service, explaining: (1) what his/her learning objectives are, and how they differ from those for the first externship; and (2) why these learning objectives cannot be met by existing clinical or practicum course opportunities.