Learn by Doing
Our 40+ clinics give you firsthand experience representing clients in areas as different as immigration and innovation. And with 30+ centers and 10 student journals, you can get involved in whatever interests you.
Watch: Students talk about clinics.
Clinics and Externships
You'll get hands-on experience in tackling complex, real-world issues through our clinics and externships. Roughly 500 students participate every year.
Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic
Business Transactions Clinic
Civil Federal Legal Services Externship
Civil Litigation - Employment Law Clinic
Civil Rights Clinic
Criminal Appellate Defender Clinic
Criminal Defense and Reentry Clinic
Earth Rights Advocacy Clinic
Education Advocacy Clinic
Education Sector Policy and Consulting Clinic
Entrepreneurship Clinic
Environmental Law Clinic
Equal Justice and Defender Externship (not offered 2022-23)
EU Public Interest Clinic (Paris)
Family Defense Clinic
Federal Appellate Clinic
Federal Defender Clinic
Federal Judicial Practice Externship
The Future of Human Rights Practicum
Global Justice Clinic
Government Anti-Corruption Externship
Government Anti-Corruption Externship
Government Civil Litigation Externship - EDNY
Government Civil Litigation Externship - SDNY
Guarini Global Law & Tech Externship – Legal Practice in Digital Society
Housing Law Externship - The Legal Aid Society
Immigrant Defense Clinic
Immigrant Rights Clinic
Innovation Externship (not offered 2022-23)
International Organizations Clinic
International Transactions Clinic
Juvenile Defender Clinic
Lawyers as Leaders: The Corporate General Counsel Seminar and Externship (not offered 2022-23)
Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic
LGBTQ Rights Externship
Local Prosecution Externship
Mediation Clinic
Mediation Clinic -Advanced
New York City Law Department Externship: Representing New York City
New York State OAG - Economic Justice Division Law Enforcement Externship
New York State OAG - Antitrust Enforcement Externship
New York State OAG Social Justice Externship
Policing Project Externship (not offered 2022-23)
Policy Advocacy in Latin America (Buenos Aires)
Pro Bono Scholars Program Externship
Prosecution Externship - EDNY
Prosecution Externship - SDNY
Racial Equity Strategies Clinic
Racial Justice Clinic
Regulatory Policy Clinic
Reproductive Justice Clinic
Technology Law and Policy
United Nations Diplomacy Clinic
Watch: Bobby Hunter ’18 on his journal experience with NYU Law’s Review of Law and Social Change
Student Journals
Working on a student journal is great way to gain valuable experience in legal research, writing, and editing. NYU Law students publish 10 journals. The NYU Law Review is oldest, first published in 1924; the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law began in 2012.
Watch a conversation with Professor Melissa Murray and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Centers & Institutes
30+ research centers and institutes connect you to NYU Law’s rich intellectual life through conferences, fellowships, and courses.
Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network
Brennan Center for Justice
Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Center for Cybersecurity
Center for Financial Institutions
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ)
Center for Labor and Employment Law
Center for Law and Philosophy
Center for Law, Economics, and Organization
Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law
Center on Civil Justice
Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law
Civil Jury Project
Classical Liberal Institute
Criminal Justice Lab
Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy
Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship
Guarini Global Law & Tech
Information Law Institute
Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance
Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ)
Institute of Judicial Administration (IJA)
Institute for Policy Integrity
Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice
Migration Policy Institute
National Center on Philanthropy and the Law
NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project
Peter L. Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
Policing Project
Pollack Center for Law & Business
Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement
Reiss Center on Law and Security
Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights
State Energy & Environmental Impact Center
Tax Law Center
US-Asia Law Institute