Students earn academic credit for externships with qualifying judicial, government, and non-profit (501(c)) organizations. Students may participate in the Field Placement program in the fall, spring, or summer semester after they have successfully completed the law school’s full-time first-year curriculum. Students who have not completed the entire full-time first-year curriculum may be eligible to participate in the program if they can demonstrate that their placement will provide sufficient contemporaneous training to ensure the quality of the student educational experience in the Field Placement Program. Students must complete two full academic years of law school prior to receiving credit for an international placement. Students who have previously taken a corequisite course in conjunction with a previous placement (for which they earned Field Placement credit) may be eligible to participate in Advanced Field Placement (See Law 6667). Preference distance sections will be given to students with externships outside of the DC area. Field Placement students are not permitted to concurrently enroll in Law 6668 and the Clinical Program without the express permission of both the assistant dean of field placement and the director of the clinic. This course is graded on a CR/NC basis and requires students to complete 60 hours of work and 5 pages of original and substantive writing per Field Placement credit. Additional information about the Field Placement Program, including a detailed description of the application process, permissible externship formats, externship and placement site supervisor eligibility (including international externships), program requirements, policies, and procedures, is located in the Field Placement Program Student Handbook. Students are responsible for reading the Field Placement Program Student Handbook, reading any applicable policy supplement, and complying with all program policies and procedures. (E) (BCR)