Externships
Vanderbilt Law School offers many opportunities for students to pursue externships that provide valuable professional experience while gaining academic credit. Students may engage in externships in Nashville during the school year or during the summer. Also during the summer, students may engage in externships anywhere in the U.S. or the world. The Externship Program allows students to choose and design placements tailored to their individual goals and interests, typically by working with federal or state judges, prosecutors, defenders, or agencies; state attorneys general or legislative offices; or legal aid or other non-profit or non-governmental organizations.
Externship placements and proposals are approved by the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. Students may not receive course credit for any work for which they are paid. A limited number of students may engage in a full semester externship outside Nashville. These students spend the entire semester at the externship site. Students who do not engage in full semester externships may count a maximum of 6 externship credits toward graduation requirements. Students who engage in full semester externships receive 8 credits for their externship, and may count no additional externship credits toward graduation requirements.
Externship Program
Submit enrollment applications to Linda Williams in the Legal Clinic.
- Externship in Nashville (Fall, Spring, Summer)
- Externship Outside Nashville (Summer)
- Externship - Full Semester (Fall, Spring)
International Law Externship Programs
Email questions regarding the externship programs to: externships@law.vanderbilt.edu
Contact Ms. Sammie Huffmon in the Office of Student Financial Aid to apply for summer loans to finance your externship. Apply for summer loans by May 10.
Email: s.huffmon@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615-322-3591
