Office of Clinical and Experiential Learning (OCEL)

Clinics

Overview

Under the direct supervision of NYLS faculty, both full-time and adjunct, students in clinical programs act as lawyers for real clients, as mediators in real disputes, or as court evaluators in judicial guardianship proceedings. All clinics have a seminar component in addition to the fieldwork. Broadly speaking, our clinics are of three types:

Those taught entirely or partially "in-house," by members of our full-time faculty, often working closely with other practicing lawyers; Civil Rights Clinic, Criminal Defense Clinic, Criminal Prosecution Clinic (CPC), Criminal Prosecution Clinic-Richmond County (CPC-RC), Elder Law Clinic, Mediation Clinic, Securities Arbitration Clinic, and Wills Clinic.
Those taught by adjunct faculty at their own law offices here in New York City (which we call "field placement clinics"); Domestic Violence Litigation and Field Placement and Immigration Field Placement Workshop.
Those classes in which students work on specially-focused - but still challenging! - legal matters, such as a single appellate brief or a research memo for a public interest organization, typically for more limited numbers of credits than in our clinics. (These courses also are part of another group of classes called project-based learning courses.); Conservation Law and Policy, Community-Based Initiatives in Family Law Reform, CRES Capstone Seminar on Real Estate Transactional Skills, The Guardianship Project, Immigration Law and Litigation, and Racial Justice Litigation.

Office of Clinical and Experiential Learning (OCEL)

Clinics

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