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.<\/p>\n
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Access to Justice Clinic **<\/p>\n
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Appellate Clinic<\/p>\n
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Consumer Economic Justice Clinic<\/p>\n
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Civil Litigation Clinic<\/p>\n
Compassionate Release Practicum<\/p>\n
Criminal Prosecution Clinic<\/p>\n
Defenders Clinic<\/p>\n
Environmental Law Practicum<\/p>\n
Health Justice Practicum<\/p>\n
Immigrants\u2019 Rights & Human Trafficking Program: Immigrants\u2019 Rights Clinic<\/p>\n
Immigrants\u2019 Rights & Human Trafficking Program: Human Trafficking Clinic<\/p>\n
International Human Rights Clinic<\/p>\n
Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinic<\/p>\n
Mental Health Litigation Practicum<\/p>\n
Prison Education Practicum<\/p>\n
Racial Justice Movement & Lawyering Clinic<\/p>\n
Reproductive Justice Practicum<\/p>\n
Student Innovations Law Clinic<\/p>\n
*Note that seminars may not be used to satisfy two requirements. <\/em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n Corporate Counsel Externship<\/p>\n Criminal Justice Externship \u2013 Criminal System: Seminar and Criminal Justice Fieldwork<\/p>\n Health Law Externship<\/p>\n Independent Proposal Externship<\/p>\n Judicial Externship<\/p>\n Learning from Practice Externship<\/p>\n Legal Externship Ethics Program: Fieldwork and Legal Ethics State and Local Taxation Externship (Offered through the Grad Tax program)<\/p>\n Semester-in-Practice<\/p>\n New York Pro Bono Scholars Program<\/p>\n *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.<\/em><\/p>\n Advanced Evidence and Advocacy<\/p>\n Advanced Legal Research<\/p>\n Advanced Legal Writing & Editing (S)<\/p>\n Alternative Dispute Resolution<\/p>\n Client Counseling<\/p>\n Contract Drafting<\/p>\n Criminal Motion Practice & Advocacy<\/p>\n Effective & Ethical Depositions Health Law Research<\/p>\n Immigration Law Research<\/p>\n IP Law Research<\/p>\n International Law Research<\/p>\n Jessup Moot Court: Problem Solving in International Law<\/p>\n Mediation: Theory & Practice<\/p>\n Negotiation<\/p>\n Patent Trial Advocacy<\/p>\n Tax Law Research (TX 985)<\/p>\n The Role of In-House Counsel<\/p>\n Transaction Simulation: Forming & Financing a Start-Up Business<\/p>\n Transaction Simulation: Pharma\/Biotech Collaboration for Drug Development<\/p>\n Transaction Simulation: Public Company Go-Private<\/p>\n Transaction Simulation: Rise and Fall of a Syndicated Loan<\/p>\n Transaction Simulation: Structuring and Negotiating an International Business Collaboration **<\/p>\n Transactional Law Research<\/p>\n Trial Advocacy<\/p>\n Upper-class Legal Research<\/p>\n Vis International Commercial Arbitration<\/p>\n <\/p>\n **Courses not offered 2026-2027<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6977,"featured_media":0,"parent":4761,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39809"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124791,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39809\/revisions\/124791"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=39809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe three-credit Legal Ethics seminar may satisfy <\/em>either<\/em><\/strong> the Professional Responsibility requirement or count as credit towards the Experiential Learning requirement. It may not be used for both. <\/em><\/p>\nSimulation Based Courses and Seminars:<\/u><\/h4>\n
\nThis 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.<\/em><\/p>\n