Experiential Learning Requirement
Every JD student must take 6 credits of experiential course offerings as part of their degree requirements. Note that any course offering may not be used to satisfy two requirements. If you are using a course, clinic, or externship to satisfy Professional Responsibility or your Upper-class Writing requirement, it cannot be counted again for experiential credit.
Courses Satisfying Requirement 2025-2026
Clinical Programs:
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Access to Justice Clinic
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Appellate Clinic
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Consumer Economic Justice Clinic
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Civil Litigation Clinic
Compassionate Release Practicum
Criminal Law Clinic
Environmental Law Practicum
Health Justice Practicum
Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Program: Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Program: Human Trafficking Clinic Program
International Human Rights Clinic
Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinic
Mental Health Litigation Practicum
Prison Education Practicum
Racial Justice and Movement Lawyering Clinic
Student Innovations Law Clinic
Externships:
*Note that seminars may not be used to satisfy two requirements. If you are using a course component to satisfy Professional Responsibility or your Upper-class Writing requirement, it cannot be counted again for experiential credit.
Cannabis Externship**
Corporate Counsel Externship
Criminal Justice Externship – Criminal System: Seminar and Criminal Justice Fieldwork**
Health Law Externship
Independent Proposal Externship
Judicial Externship
Learning from Practice Externship
Legal Externship Ethics Program: Fieldwork and Legal Ethics
The three-credit Legal Ethics seminar may satisfy either the Professional Responsibility requirement or count as credit towards the Experiential Learning requirement. It may not be used for both.
State and Local Taxation Externship (Offered through the Grad Tax program)
Semester-in-Practice
New York Pro Bono Scholars Program
Simulation Based Courses and Seminars:
*Note that courses may not be used to satisfy two requirements. If you are using a course component to satisfy Professional Responsibility or your Upper-class Writing Requirement, it cannot be counted again for experiential credit.
Administrative Law Research**
Advanced Evidence and Advocacy
Advanced Legal Research
Advanced Legal Writing & Editing (S)**
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Client Counseling
Contract Drafting
Criminal Motion Practice & Advocacy
Effective & Ethical Depositions
This seminar may be used to satisfy the Professional Responsibility requirement, upper-class writing requirement, or count as credits towards the Experiential Learning requirement. It may not be used to satisfy more than one requirement.
Health Law Research
IP Law Research
International Law Research
Introduction to Government Oversight
Jessup Moot Court: Problem Solving in International Law
Mediation: Theory & Practice
Negotiation
Patent Trial Advocacy
Tax Law Research (TX 985)
The Role of In-House Counsel
Transaction Simulation: Auction and Sale of a Private Company**
Transaction Simulation: Forming & Financing a Start-Up Business
Transaction Simulation: Pharma/Biotech Collaboration for Drug Development
Transaction Simulation: Public Company Go-Private
Transaction Simulation: Rise and Fall of a Syndicated Loan
Transaction Simulation: Structuring and Negotiating an International Business Collaboration
Transactional Law Research
Trial Advocacy
**Courses not offered 2025-2026