UCDC Law ProgramFall 2015 and Spring 2016

Student Registration __________________________________

Please read the eligibility requirements included in this application to ensure that you meet your home campus’s requirements for participating in the UCDC Law Program. Name:

Please mark the semester you are applying for: Fall 2015 Spring 20161

Law School and current year:

E-mail: Phone:

1. Please explain why you are interested in the UCDC Law Program.

2. Please list any specific agencies, non-profits, or organizations where you would like to extern or where you have already applied.

1 Applications for spring 2016 will be accepted after the October 14, 2015, deadline on a rolling basis. Please contact UCDC Law Director, Nicole Lehtman at Nicole.lehtman@ucdc.edu with questions.

3. Mandatory Externship Statement: Although securing a placement is the student’s responsibility, this statement will help the Program director assist you with placement selection. In an attached document (750 words maximum) please discuss what sort of externship you hope to secure. Please include as much detail as possible, such as:

Preferred Issue areas (e.g. criminal prosecution or defense, environmental law, health law, trade etc.)

Type of organization you are interested in (e.g. executive branch, congressional, non-profit)

Type of work (e.g. litigation, policy, transactional) Any relevant academic or life experience that will play a role in selection

(including any law school courses or activates which are relevant to the externship you are seeking)

Ideological bent (optional, i.e., for Hill placement, think tanks etc.)

Eligibility Requirements

Please check each item below to indicate understanding and compliance.

☐ Berkeley Law students must be in their fourth, fifth or sixth semesters of law school to participate in the Program.

☐ Berkeley Law students must confirm with the Dean of Students that they are eligible to participate in the Program in terms of units, course requirements, and other academic planning issues.

☐ Students must confirm that they have enough externship/non-classroom units available to participate. There is a 15 unit cap on non-classroom units and a 10-unit cap on field placement units. Please refer to Academic Rule 1.03(A)(2)(c) and (e).

My signature below certifies that I have confirmed that I am eligible to participate in the UCDC Law program, that I have complied with all of my home school’s requirements, and that I have obtained all necessary approvals to participate in the UCDC Law Program for fall 2015 or spring 2016.

__________________________________________ __________________Student’s Signature Date

Please attach your most current resume and an unofficial transcript to this application.

Please submit this completed application electronically to the UCDC Law Program at law@ucdc.edu and copy Susan Schechter, Field Placement Program Director, at sschechter@law.berkeley.edu