Upper-class students have various opportunities to engage in clinical work for academic credit. The law school presently operates an expansive clinical program and attempts, within the limits of available teaching resources, to ensure that each upper-class student has at least one opportunity to enroll in an intensive clinical course.
Clinical activity normally entails closely supervised work on actual cases and problems (as opposed to simulations). Students can have a direct impact on peoples' lives, whether by representing clients in landlord-tenant, criminal, matrimonial, or similar cases; advocating for the rights of children in need; correcting abuses of government power; protecting civil rights and civil liberties; or by guarding the creation and operation of community-based nonprofit organizations and new and emerging businesses. The faculty believe that clinical experience can be an extremely useful technique for imparting both practical skills and substantive knowledge. Students are closely supervised by teaching faculty, and cases and clients are carefully selected for pedagogical value.
