The Villanova Law Summer Externship Program

The Villanova Law Summer Externship Program ignites career-long learning in practice.  This unique educational program provides a platform for Law Students, Practitioners and Faculty Members to join in a collaborative learning enterprise that builds legal competency and professionalism.  More than just “doing” – this program teaches learning through doing.  At the Program’s Core: mindfully integrating legal theory with legal practice.

Program Characteristics:

• committment to 8 - 10 weeks of closely guided experiential learning
• the ability to earn three (3) experiential education academic credits through an immersive experience (grading is pass/fail)
• a pre-summer experiential-learning based orientation that primes the experience
• guided written reflections to support better lawyering
• live online class meetings providing the opportunity to gain practice insights from a range of legal work settings
  

Student Requirements:

• submission of externship application (deadline: the last day of spring semester classes)

• attendance at a experiential-learning based orientation
  

• participation in two online Summer Externship class sessions, one in June and one in July (dates to be determined)

• submission of:
  • an executed Memorandum of Understanding (due at the beginning of the externship)
  • a completed Learning Objectives Worksheet (due at the beginning of the externship)
    
  • a completed Time Sheet (due at the end of the externship)
  • a Supervisor's Report (due at the end of the externship)
    
  • a Course Evaluation (due at the end of the externship)
    

• online submission (via Blackboard) of:
  •  four reflective writing assignments

Additional forms can be found here.

Questions?:

Contact Matthew McGovern, Director of Experiential Learning