As an extern with the Department of Justice, Olivia Rosenzweig L’23 worked on projects in the Office of Foreign Litigation and the Office of International Judicial Assistance.
Mostafa El-Harazi L’23 leveraged his international law experience as an extern with Center for Justice and Accountability in co-founding the International Law Society at Penn.
The Bar Council of the Maldives visited the Law School to assist its efforts in regulating legal education and the legal profession in the Republic of Maldives.
Downey’s article was developed during a federal habeas corpus course at the Law School and will appear in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law.
Sarah Best L’21 details her externship experience with the Education Law Center.
Bridget Lavender L’21 completed an externship with the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia in the fall of 2019.
The Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies offers more than 15 externships in addition to the nine clinical offerings, and students may also design their own externships.
In his new role, Kosuri will assume responsibility for the oversight and development of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies.
During this busy and successful year, they took on important public interest projects, made their voices heard on major issues in local and national government, gained hands-on practice experience through a variety of experiential learning programs, won cases, competitions, fellowships, and more.
Judah Bellin L’18 won a recent case under the Prison Litigation Reform Act through Penn Law’s Federal Appellate Externship
Judah Bellin L’18 won a recent case under the Prison Litigation Reform Act through Penn Law’s Federal Appellate Externship
As part of the Federal Appellate Externship, four third-year Law School students make an argument in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Sozi Tulante will teach an upper-level course on prosecutorial ethics and will work to evaluate the Law School’s student externship opportunities.
Amanda Johnson L’15 had the opportunity to argue a case in front of the Third Circuit at a 3L at Penn Law. In a recently released decision, the court accepted her argument and in doing so created a circuit split with the four other circuits to have considered the issue.
A new gift from the Leo Model Foundation to the University of Pennsylvania Law School will create the Model Government and Public Affairs Initiative, a series of new programs designed to prepare students for fulfilling work in government and public policy.
More than two dozen second- and third-year students participating in Penn Law’s Externship Program are working this semester in government agencies and nonprofit organizations from New York, to Philadelphia, to Washington, D.C.
In a video feature, Sarah Alba L’11 highlights Penn Law’s clinics and pro bono opportunities, as well as her postgraduate work at Manhattan Legal Services.
Jane Marie Russell L’14 is one in a series of firsthand accounts by Law School students about how their summer employment opportunities are preparing them for their legal careers. Russell is working at Holland & Knight LLP in Miami, Florida, where she grew up and plans to practice in litigation after graduation.
Andreas Kuersten L’14 is one in a series of firsthand accounts by Law School students about how their summer employment opportunities are preparing them for their legal careers. Kuersten, who is working at Andrews Air Force Base, is from Redding, CA, and hopes to join the United States military as an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
Lauren M. Bennett L’13 took time from her bar examination studies to present oral argument to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on July 10 in a prisoner’s civil rights case upon which she worked while a student in the Law School’s Federal Appellate Litigation Externship.
Marsha Chien L’10 is a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center (LAS-ELC) in the National Origin, Immigration and Language Rights program.