Clinics and Experiential Learning
New York Law School offers a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, including clinics, externships and other field placement courses, simulation courses, upper-level writing electives, competition teams, and certificate programs. At the heart of all of these programs is the opportunity to learn by doing.
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New York Law School offers a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, including clinics, externships and other field placement courses, simulation courses, upper-level writing electives, competition teams, and certificate programs. At the heart of all of these programs is the opportunity to learn by doing.
Housed within The Joe Plumeri Center for Social Justice and Economic Opportunity, these programs directly assist New Yorkers in need of legal services, allowing students to work with clients and expand access to justice well before they graduate.
Clinics
NYLS’s clinics provide students with opportunities to represent real people and work on actual cases. Rigorous as it is rewarding, the clinical experience instills in students a sense of professionalism, empathy, and know-how. The School’s wide range of clinical offerings exposes students to cutting-edge practice areas, including asylum and immigration, civil rights, housing, criminal prosecution and defense, cyberbullying, intellectual property, juvenile rights, legislative advocacy, mediation, post-conviction remedies, public policy and regulatory advocacy, securities and transactional law, and more. Each clinic is guided by expert faculty and attorney supervisors.
Externships
Through NYLS’s Externship Program, upper-level students earn academic credits while gaining practical experience in a supportive real-world setting. Students have two pathways: the Judicial Externship Program and the Law Office Externship Program.
Other Experiential Learning Courses and Programs
In addition to clinics and externships, NYLS offers student the opportunity to pursue a multitude of other experiential learning courses and programs, supporting their development of valuable, hands-on skills.
Clinics and Experiential Learning News
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NYLS’s “A” grade in Family Law was supported by its new Juvenile Rights Law Clinic, a partnership with The Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Practice. The School’s “A” in Human Rights Law was due in part to its Asylum Clinic, which represents refugees fleeing their home countries and seeking safety in the United States.
Working with a coalition of housing rights advocates, Professor Andrew Scherer and the Housing Rights Clinic helped in drafting newly introduced right to counsel legislation for New York State. In this article, Professor Scherer comments on why this bill comes at an essential time.
Coalition Launches Campaign To Guarantee Right To Counsel For New York State Tenants
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Today, Senator Rachel May and Assembly Member Latoya Joyner were joined by the Syracuse Tenant Union, CASA. New Settlement, Right to Counsel NYC Coalition members, tenants, and supporters for a Contin...Last year, students in NYLS's Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic worked with this driver cooperative in the early stages of their entity formation. Read about the cooperative in The New York Times article.
A Worker-Owned Cooperative Tries to Compete With Uber and Lyft
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About 2,500 drivers in New York are organizing to create what they say is a better deal for drivers than what the ride-hailing giants offer.Clinical and Experiential Learning Faculty
Leaders in their fields, NYLS’s clinical and experiential learning faculty harness their expertise and real-world experience to help students develop valuable, hands-on practical skills.
Full-Time Faculty and Distinguished Adjunct Faculty
Susan J. Abraham
Lenni B. Benson
Adele Bernhard
Alvin Bragg
Anna G. Cominsky ’05
Anthony W. Crowell
Kris Franklin
Lisa F. Grumet
Kim Hawkins
Sandra K. Janin ’75
Gerald Korngold
Gowri J. Krishna
Richard D. Marsico
Howard S. Meyers
F. Peter Phillips ’87
Samantha Pownall ’11
Andrew Scherer
Peter J. Strauss
Lynn Boepple Su
Ruti G. Teitel
Chair, Global Law and Justice Colloquium; Director, Institute for Global Law, Justice, and Policy; Visiting Professor, Hebrew University School of Law, Mt. Scopus
Britney Wilson
Office of Clinical and Experiential Learning • T 212.431.2179 • E ocel@nyls.edu