Prof. Vivien C. Gross
The Judicial Externship Program is a 4-credit hour program open to second and third-year law students
with a minimum 3.2 cumulative grade point average. This prestigious program enables students to serve
as judicial externs with participating federal judges in district, appellate and bankruptcy court.
Externs work directly with the judge and the judge's law clerks researching, writing memoranda of law,
drafting opinions, and generally observing and participating in the day-to-day operation of the court.
Students put in a minimum of sixteen hours per week during the fourteen week semester. Externs are
selected by the individual judge(s) through an application procedure conducted by the law school.
Judicial Externships are offered fall, winter and summer semesters.
LABOR/EMPLOYMENT LAW EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Prof. Martin H. Malin
The Labor/Employment Law Externship Program is offered through
the Labor/Employment Law Certificate Program. The externship is available
to students enrolled in the Labor/Employment
Law Certificate Program during their last year of law school and is
used to satisfy the experiential learning requirement of that certificate
program.
The educational objective of the externship is to provide the student
externs with a well-supervised lawyering experience in labor or employment
law by enabling each of them to extern with a law school approved placement.
Student externs are placed with a law firm, corporation, union, or governmental
agency.
Externs spend approximately fifteen-hours per week during the
fourteen week semester at their designated placements and attend periodic
meetings with the faculty supervisor. Students in the program enroll
in a three-credit field-work course graded on a pass/low pass/fail basis
and a one- credit graded classroom course.
RULE OF LAW EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Dean Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
The Rule of Law Externship Program is a new and experimental
externship program which began in the spring 1998 semester. It seeks
to develop externship in emerging democracies such as Bosnia, Poland, Macedonia.
In the spring 1998 semester two students externed, one in Bosnia
and one in Macedonia. Two students also externed in the summer 1998
semester, both in Poland. In Bosnia the student assisted the state
constitutional court to understand its legal relationships with other constitutional
courts and the two supreme courts located in the two sub- divisions of
the country.
In Macedonia the student worked with the American Bar Association's
Central and East European law Initiative on topics related to Macedonia's
new commercial code. One of the students who externed in the summer
in Poland did research on electronic commerce at the Institute for Intellectual
Property at the Jagiellion University and the other assisted the American
Bar Association's Central and Eastern European law Initiative and the Polish
Judges Association in their study of criminal law in Poland.
Students spend some time prior to the externship familiarizing themselves
with the relevant law of the country in which they will extern and they
then spend two or three weeks in the country in which the externship placement
is situated performing their assigned tasks.
Students receive two or three externship credits depending on whether
they spend two or three weeks on their externship, graded on a pass/low
pass/fail basis. After they return to Chicago-Kent they write a scholarly
paper on a topic related to their externship for which they receive two
graded credits.
TAX, CORPORATE TAX, BUSINESS LAW EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Prof. Gerald
Brown
The Tax, Corporate Tax, Business Law Externship Program is a
new and experimental externship program established by the Law Offices
in the fall 1998 semester. The Program is open to a limited number
of students in their second or third year of law school. Students
enroll in the program for three-credits graded on pass/low pass/ fail basis
and devote a minimum of twelve-hours per week during the fourteen week
semester.
To be eligible to participate, a student must be in the upper 25% of
the class, have successfully completed Personal Income Tax at the time
he or she applies, and either have successfully completed or be currently
enrolled in at least three designated commercial, tax, or business related
courses by the time the placement begins. After the student has been
accepted into the program, the clinical professor will work with the student
to procure a placement.
The Tax, Corporate Tax, Business Law Externship Program currently has
a limited number of available placements at the Internal Revenue Service,
an in-house corporate legal department, a bank trust department, a law
firm, and an accounting firm.
