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Experiential learning at The University of Tulsa College of Law prepares students for the practice of law through a combination of real-world experience, intensive supervision, and dynamic seminars. Through clinical education and externship experience students learn by doing. They gain practical, live-client experience and professional development.
Clinical education at TU Law prepares students for the practice of law through a combination of real-world experience, intensive supervision, and dynamic seminars. The TU College of Law Legal Clinics, housed on campus in the Boesche Legal Clinic and downtown at the Oxley College of Health Sciences, function as a law firm. Through participation in the Community Advocacy Clinic, Immigrant Rights Project, and Solo Practice Clinic, students experience the formation and development of the attorney-client relationship and accompanying professional obligations through direct representation of clients as students to develop advocacy skills. Our clinical programs offer opportunities to appear in court, represent immigrants seeking legal status, learn how to run a law firm, represent organizations and advocate for systemic change.
Law students at the College of Law also experience live learning through the TU Law externship program. Law student externs join supervising attorneys, judges, and non-traditional JDs in real-world settings for academic credit. Students receive substantial lawyering experiences through monitored, mentored field placements doing real legal work, interacting with clients, solving problems, and developing a sense of who they are in the profession. This experience is supplemented by a seminar designed to help students achieve personal learning and professionalism goals, explore the roles and responsibilities of attorneys, as well as ethical and strategic issues that can arise in the field of law. Through externships, students discover fulfilling work, build confidence in the ability to practice, and experience the challenge and satisfaction of work that matters while finding a path to a rewarding career.
TU Law clinic and externship students also provide essential legal services to underserved individuals and communities. By engaging in public interest legal practice, students have the opportunity to critically reflect on the justice system, and their role in it, in the context of their development as lawyers. Many students find that experiential learning through a clinic or externship is the most valuable, rewarding, and challenging aspect of their legal education.
Clinics and externships at the TU College of Law provide students with real-world, hands-on experience in a variety of legal settings while deepening their substantive legal knowledge, strengthening their lawyering skills, and building their professional identities.
