Experiential Learning Enrollment

Each instructor has their own method of selection, but all instructors consider the strength of the application, the applicant's clearly thought out reasons for wanting to take an experiential learning course, and the applicant's previous applications to the course.

To ensure the fullest access to experiential offerings for all, the enrollment system in Lawnet has been programmed to allow students to apply to, and to match students with, courses in line with the following limitations:

• Students may not take the same experiential learning course twice. 
   
• Students may not take an externship and a clinic in the same semester.
   
• Students may not take two externships in the same semester. 
   
• Students may not take more than one clinic during their time at CLS, with the exception of advanced clinics that may be taken following an initial enrollment in that clinic. Therefore, for example, if you have already taken a clinic, Lawnet will not allow you to apply to another clinic. 

Students may take multiple externships or policy labs and may take a clinic and externships in different semesters.
 

You may apply to up to ten (10) experiential courses for 2025-2026.  There will be a question in the application asking if you are interested in having an experiential placement in only one or both semesters. (If you apply to and are accepted into a yearlong course, you will be placed in both semesters of that course regardless of your answer to this question.) 

Before you apply, you should prepare a current resume and the answers to the questions below.  Unlike in prior years, you will submit one set of responses to these questions in the form of a common application for all the experiential courses to which you would like to apply.  Therefore, you should respond to the questions thinking broadly about what you hope to contribute to and learn from an experiential course.  However, you may also include references to specific interest in particular courses as you deem appropriate. 

1. Why are you interested in experiential learning? (3000 characters) 

2. What do you hope to learn and what role will this experience play in your future? (3000 characters)

3. Please describe what you will contribute to an experiential course, including the work of the course and your fellow students.  (3000 characters) 

4. Please describe any relevant courses or trainings you have taken or will take. (3000 characters) 

5. Describe any relevant past work, experiences, or personal    
background. (3000 characters) 

6. Please describe in detail your fluency in any languages other than English.  (500 characters)    

7. Please list any previous experiential courses (clinics, externships, policy labs, simulations) you have taken and the term in which you took them. Please also list experiential courses you have applied to previously but have not taken.  (1500 characters)      

* Please note that a few courses have additional questions. When you submit your common application to these courses on Lawnet, you will be provided an opportunity to answer any additional question for a course.*

**Please do not use generative AI tools in preparing your application.  The professors and lecturers want to hear your voice.** 

Spring 2026 Experiential Learning Courses Available in October Enrollment Round

Experiential Enrollment for Spring 2026 Information Session (Video)