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 2026-2027

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 Prosecution Clinic

Defenders Clinic

Environmental Law Practicum

Health Justice Practicum

Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Program: Immigrants’ Rights Clinic

Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Program: Human Trafficking Clinic

International Human Rights Clinic

Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinic

Mental Health Litigation Practicum

Prison Education Practicum

Racial Justice Movement & Lawyering Clinic

Reproductive Justice Practicum

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.

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.

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

Immigration Law Research

IP Law Research

International Law Research

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: 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

Upper-class Legal Research

Vis International Commercial Arbitration

**Courses not offered 2026-2027