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LL.M. EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM 
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Georgetown University Law Center offers a two (2) credit externship program for current graduate students each Spring semester. Students are graded on a pass/fail basis, and may participate in only one externship. Externships offer students the opportunity to gain insight into the legal system by seeing law in action, and to gain a deeper understanding of an area of the law by integrating classroom work with real world experience. Externships also allow students to explore their professional objectives, to understand better an area of practice, and to enhance opportunities for public/community service. The Academic Externship credits do not count toward the specialization credit requirements for either the LL.M. degrees or the LL.M. certificate programs. *Note: Organizations select their own for-credit extern(s), and select these externs based on their own hiring criteria.
PROGRAM DETAILS: All current LL.M. students are eligible to participate in the externship program, except COST Scholars. LL.M. students will receive two (2) credits that will be graded on a pass/fail basis, provided they meet all deadlines and complete program requirements. Although LL.M. students may participate in only one (1) “for-credit” externship during their LL.M. program, they are free to participate in as many non-credit internships as they can arrange and manage. All students are responsible for finding their own placements. The Office of Graduate Programs has contacted a group of employers with whom we are familiar and arranged some “pre-approved” placements. These employers have not agreed that they will necessarily take an LL.M. extern, but these are placements that we have concluded will meet the educational objectives of the program. Students may also secure a placement that is not pre-approved (known as a “student initiated placement” or “SIP”). Direct supervisors MUST be lawyers. ALL SIPs must be approved by the Office of Graduate Programs in order to receive credit. Placements must be with a government agency or a non-profit organization. Placements with law firms or Please note: Students CANNOT receive any credit for an externship with an employer for whom the student will be working for pay during the fall semester. All students who wish to receive academic credit for an externship must submit a completed “Externship Application and Supervsion Agreement Form.” Students whose placement is a “student-initiated placement” must also submit a “SIP Approval Request Form.” LL.M. students who have submitted the required forms and will enroll in a “for-credit” externship must also attend a mandatory externship orientation program held during the first week of the semester. LL.M. students are then required to devote a minimum of ten (10) hours per week for at least eleven (11) weeks to the externship. The work week is Monday - Friday. Please note that some organizations request more than 10 hours per week (most students participating in the program average 12-16 hours per week), but no full-time student should work more than 20 hours in any given week. LL.M. students must keep a weekly time sheet that confirms the number of hours the student has worked and generally describes the nature of the work performed without disclosing any confidential information. At the end of the semester, the student will be required to submit a 5-10 page paper reflecting on the externship experience (see description in the Spring 2009 LL.M. Externship Program Information). Prior participants included the following organizations:
Externship Program Coordinator Molly Jackson
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