One-Semester Clinics
To apply for all clinics, please use the Clinic Application and Matching System (CAMS).
New York University School of Law offers the following semester-long clinics. Please select from the links at the left to learn more about each clinic.
Business Law Transactions Clinic
Students in the Business Law Clinic will provide legal services to senior leaders of nonprofit organizations in the $300,000 – 2 million range on matters including corporate governance, contracts, and communications work. The students’ work will include advising executives and boards on governance and disclosure practices; reviewing and preparing bylaws, conflict-of-interest and other board policies and materials; planning transactions; drafting contracts and other operating agreements; and preparing work plan and other project documents. A weekly two-hour seminar will support the clinic’s field work. Using discussion and simulation, the seminar will focus on the business lawyer’s multiple roles in assessing, planning and managing corporate events and transactions. Taught by Adjunct Professors Stephanie Abramson and Sean Delany. (Offered Spring 2010)
Children's Rights Clinic
This course will examine the legal and ethical issues, and the unique skills involved, in representing adolescent clients, with a particular focus on LGBTQ youth. Students will do their fieldwork in one of 4 different organizations that specialize in representing youth in civil matters of various sorts: Advocates for Children, The Door, The Juvenile Rights Practice of the Legal Aid Society and the Peter Cicchino Youth Project of the Urban Justice Center. Taught by Adjunct Professor Jacqueline Deane. (Offered Fall 2009 and Spring 2010)
Community Development and Economic Justice Clinic (formerly Neighborhood Institutions Clinic)
The focus of this clinic is the provision of legal services to grass-roots organizations that provide a variety of social services to their members and engage in community development efforts. Students will perform fieldwork with attorneys from the Community Development Project (CDP) of the Urban Justice Center, and provide legal services to CDP’s clients throughout New York City. (Offered Spring 2010)
Comparative Criminal Justice Clinic - Focus on Domestic Violence
This clinic offers students the opportunity (1) to compare and contrast different nations use of criminal prosecution to combat domestic violence, (2) to develop a critical analysis of the advantages and limitations of different criminal justice strategies, and (3) to assist agencies and non-governmental organizations, in the United States and elsewhere, working to devise and implement changes in those strategies. Taught by Professors Holly Maguigan and Shamita Das Dasgupta. (Offered Spring 2010)
Criminal Appellate Defender Clinic
This clinic, which is operated in conjunction with the Office of the Appellate Defender, represents criminal defendants in appeals of their felony convictions to the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department. Taught by Adjunct Professors Rosemary Herbert and Eunice Lee. (Offered Fall 2009 and Spring 2010)
Environmental Law Clinic
Students work out of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a national, non-profit legal and scientific organization, assisting attorneys in bringing public interest environmental litigation. The students also join in a weekly seminar at which current environmental policy issues, environmental litigation and legal advocacy strategies are discussed. Taught by Adjunct Professors Sarah Chasis and Eric Goldstein. (Offered Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)
Family Defense Clinic
This clinic works to prevent the unnecessary break-up of indigent families and to reunify them when children are in foster care. Students in the clinic represent parents in Family Court neglect and abuse proceedings, proceedings to terminate parental rights, and foster care review proceedings. Fieldwork includes substantial advocacy both in and out of the courtroom, as well as policy projects designed to improve the experiences of families with the foster care and Family Court systems. The clinic includes both law and graduate social work students and emphasizes the importance of approaching child welfare from an interdisciplinary perspective. (Offered Spring 2010)
Government Civil Litigation Clinic - Eastern District of New York
Students will work closely with Civil Division Assistant United States Attorneys in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. The U.S. Attorney's Office (EDNY) is committed to providing meaningful opportunities to students to gain experience with and exposure to federal civil litigation by and on behalf of the United States and its agencies in a broad range of affirmative and defensive cases seeking monetary and/or injunctive relief. (Offered Fall 2009 and Spring 2010)
Government Civil Litigation Clinic - Southern District of New York
Students are placed in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where they work closely with Assistant United States Attorneys representing the federal government on a wide range of defensive and affirmative civil litigation matters, including civil rights, employment discrimination, fraud, environmental, tax/bankruptcy, and tort cases. Taught by Adjunct Professor Danna Drori from the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. (Offered Fall 2009 and Spring 2010)
Immigrant Defense Clinic
Students will work at the Legal Aid Society's Immigration Unit, which handles a wide range of types of cases in which non-citizens contest deportability, apply for asylum, or seek other forms of relief from deportation. Taught by Adjunct Professors Yvonne Floyd-Mayers and Jojo H. Annobil. (Offered Spring 2010)
Mediation Clinic
First instituted in Fall 2004, the Mediation Clinic is designed to foster mediation skills while orienting students to major issues in the intersection between law and informal dispute resolution. Fieldwork mediation study takes place primarily at the Mediation Center affiliated with the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings ("OATH"). After students participate in an intensive mediation training, they co-mediate employment disputes referred by City agencies. Students contrast facilitative mediation with evaluative mediation of the court-imposed settlement process. Taught by Professor Sarah Burns and Adjunct Professor and OATH Administrative Law Judge Ray Kramer. (Offered Fall 2009)
Mediation Clinic - Advanced
The advanced mediation course is offered only to students who have taken the Fall course in 2008 or 2007. The advanced course is designed primarily to give students experience working with a variety of organizations that offer mediation services in the New York City region. Taught by Professors Sarah Burns and Ray Kramer. (Offered Spring 2010)
Medical-Legal Advocacy Clinic
This Clinic employs a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to provide legal advocacy in a medical setting for clients referred by medical professionals. The clinic’s fieldwork will be based at LegalHealth, a project that partners with medical professionals to provide free legal services in medical facilities for low-income people with serious health issues and trains health care professionals on the legal issues affecting their patients. Taught by Professors Paula Galowitz and Debra J. Wolf. (Offered Fall 2009)
New York Civil Liberties Clinic
Students in the New York Civil Liberties Clinic spend a semester working on litigation with the New York Civil Liberties Union, including cases involving racial and economic justice, free speech, religious freedom, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, and the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people. The cases are all on the docket of Professor Corey Stoughton at the NCYLU who, together with Professor Claudia Angelos of the full-time NYU faculty, supervises all the students’ work. Clinic students are responsible for their cases and clients and for the tasks that the litigation calls for, including making intake decisions, handling clients, case planning and strategy, taking depositions, drafting pleadings, and preparing and arguing motions. The clinic has dedicated workspace at the NYCLU and the students’ work is an important component of the NYCLU’s legal program. A seminar completes the students’ work in the clinic by taking a simulated civil rights case from initial client interview through settlement. (Offered Spring 2010)
Prosecution Clinic - Eastern District of New York
This clinic works out of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, prosecuting defendants in felony cases. Taught by Adjunct Professors Greg Andre and Marshall L. Miller. (Offered Fall 2009 and Spring 2010)
Prosecution Clinic - Southern District of New York
Students are placed in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where they work with Assistant United States Attorneys representing the federal government in a wide range of criminal prosecutions, including fraud, immigration, firearms, narcotics, terrorism, and public corruption cases. Taught by an Adjunct Professor William Harrington from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. (Offered Fall 2009 and Spring 2010)
Racial Justice Clinic
Students in the Racial Justice Clinic spend a semester working under the supervision of Prof. Claudia Angelos and Prof. Vanita Gupta on cases brought by the Racial Justice Program of the American Civil Liberties Union, which specializes in racial justice issues nationwide. The program’s cases, including affirmative action, criminal justice, education, school to prison pipeline, juvenile justice, health care, and indigent defense, are designed to have significant and wide-reaching effects on communities of color. Each clinic student participates fully in the team that is handling one of these cases and may engage in work ranging from initial investigation of a problem through the drafting of pleadings, participation in discovery, hearing preparation and negotiation. A seminar completes the students’ work in the clinic by taking a simulated racial justice case from initial client interview through settlement. (Offered Fall 2009)
Tax Clinic
Students in this clinic will work in conjunction with the tax department at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP to represent low-income taxpayers in cases before the U.S. Tax Court and in various administrative proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service. The fieldwork will be supplemented with weekly classroom discussions of the students' cases and address the procedural and strategic aspects of federal income tax controversy and litigation practice. Taught by Adjunct Professor Mark Allison. (Offered Spring 2010)
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