NYU School of Law offers the following year-long clinics and externships to NYU Law students. Each of these courses is 14 credits and therefore accounts for roughly half of a student's course load for the academic year. (The exceptions are the Affordable Housing and Faith-Based Organizations Transactional Clinic, Global Justice Clinic for JDs, Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic for JDs, and Racial Justice and Abolition Clinic, which each carry 12 credits; and the Eviction Defense and Tenant Protection Clinic, and the NYS Office of Attorney General Social Justice Externship, which each carry 10 credits.) Please select from the links below to learn more about each clinic. Beginning with the graduating class of 2027, students will only be permitted to take one year-long clinic or externship while at the law school. Students may, however, take a year-long lab in addition to one year-long clinic.
To apply for Clinics or Externships, please use the Clinic Application and Matching System (CAMS). For specific questions regarding individual clinics, please contact the professors. Their information may be found on the Contact Us page.
- Affordable Housing and Faith-Based Organizations Transactional Clinic
- Civil Litigation - Employment Law Clinic
- Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic (not offered 25-26)
- Civil Rights in the Criminal Legal System Clinic
- Criminal Defense and Reentry Clinic
- Eviction Defense and Tenant Protection Clinic - The Legal Aid Society
- Family Defense Clinic
- Federal Appellate Clinic
- Federal Defender Clinic
- Global Justice Clinic - for JDs
- Immigrant Rights Clinic
- Innocence Project Post-Conviction Clinic
- International Transactions Clinic - for JDs
- Juvenile Defender Clinic
- Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic - for JDs
- New York State OAG Social Justice Externship
- Racial Justice and Abolition Clinic
- Science, Health and Information Clinic
- The Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Clinic