Students are required to earn a minimum of six credit hours of experiential learning coursework. Experiential learning courses include clinics, externships, and simulation classes. In addition to experiential learning courses, the law school offers experiences like pro bono work and trial competitions.
Our Legal Clinic, first directed by then-professor Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1975, gives students hands-on skills training by representing real clients in real life situations and provides legal services to the community.
Externships allow students to actively participate in a legal field while earning academic credit. Opportunities include six clinics and nine externship programs, including Fortune 100 companies.
Our Pro Bono and Community Service Program matches law students with legal services agencies, nonprofits and members of local bar associations to assist in the provision of free legal services.
The law school hosts three internal competitions that lead to the selection of moot court, trial, and client advocacy competition teams that travel to regional and national competitions.