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.

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 2008 and Spring 2009)

Civil Rights Clinic (semester-long)

Students in the semester-long Civil Rights Clinic will have the opportunity to work on a broad range of civil liberties litigation under the supervision of Professor Corey Stoughton at the New York Civil Liberties Union. Professor Stoughton is new to the Clinic, and will bring with her a docket that includes a wide variety of cases and projects. These include such matters as free speech and religious freedom, racial and economic justice, immigrants’ rights, and the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people.

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 2009)

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 Spring 2009)

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)

Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic
This clinic, taught by Professors Bryan Stevenson and Randy Susskind, provides representation to death row prisoners in Alabama postconviction proceedings, juveniles sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and assists in the development and implementation of impact litigation through the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Students take the clinic for 14 credits and spend a substantial portion of the semester in Alabama conducting research, case investigation, developing mitigation, interviewing clients, witnesses, jurors and family members, and preparing legal pleadings which are filed in state and federal court. (Offered Spring 2009)

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 2008 and Spring 2009)

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 with Assistant United States Attorneys representing the federal government on a wide range of defensive and affirmative civil litigation matters. (Offered Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

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 2009)

International Environmental Law Clinic
Students research and draft laws and regulations, legal and policy positions, and analysis on international and comparative environmental law issues. Clients include public interest environmental groups in the US and abroad, UN and other international organizations, and developing country governments. Taught by Professor Richard Stewart. (Offered Fall 2008)

International Human Rights Clinic
The International Human Rights Clinic explores multifaceted approaches to human rights advocacy in both domestic and international settings. The seminar emphasizes practical skills, including litigating human rights claims in domestic and international forums; investigating and documenting human rights violations; advocating before United Nations, regional, and national human rights bodies; and engaging with global and local human rights campaigns. Students also address questions of ethical, political and professional accountability related to human rights work. Fieldwork consists of projects undertaken for: 1) individual clients; 2) human rights organizations in the United States and abroad; and 3) intergovernmental human rights experts and bodies (including the United Nations). Taught by Professors Smita Narula and Meg Satterthwaite. (Offered Spring 2009)

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 2008)

Mediation Clinic - Advanced
The advanced mediation course is offered only to students who have taken the Fall course in 2007 or 2006. 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 2009)

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 2008)

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 2009)

Offender Reentry Clinic
The Offender Reentry Clinic focuses on individual assistance to clients, as well as policy reform aimed at facilitating the offender reentry process of individuals being released from prison. Looking at the reentry process on both a micro and macro level, students will become familiar with the range of legal restrictions and practical hurdles facing individuals with a criminal record, as well as their families and communities. On a philosophical level, we will consider the delicate balance between promoting public safety and stigmatizing people who have paid their debt to society. In addition, we will explore the family and community-based effects of incarceration and reentry, as well as the role of the media in shaping criminal justice policy. Students enrolled in the Reentry Clinic will do their fieldwork placement in different service delivery and policy settings, with the primary fieldwork taking place at the Center for Employment Opportunity. Students enrolled in the Reentry Clinic will work on a variety of legal and policy assignments. (Offered Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

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 Christina B. Dugger and Marshall L. Miller. (Offered Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)

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 from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. (Offered Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)