Applications for the final round of experiential enrollment for Spring 2026 close today at 12:00PM. Please see specific information about the courses offered on the experiential learning website: https://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/experiential/experiential-learning-enrollmen
The courses offered for this application round are below:
- Mediation Clinic - Spring 2026
- Ex. Criminal Appeals - Spring 2026
- Ex. Criminal Prosecution: Manhattan/Bklyn DA - Spring 2026
- Ex. Estate Planning (New Offering) - Spring 2026
- Ex. Experiential Practice: Advocacy and Litigation - Spring 2026**
- Ex. Experiential Practice: JD Judicial Externship - Spring 2026**
- Ex. Experiential Practice: General Counsel and Miscellaneous - Spring 2026**
- Ex. Federal Government - Semester in Washington D.C. - Spring 2026*
- Ex. Federal Prosecution: U.S. Attorney's Office for the EDNY - Spring 2026
- Ex. Immigrant Youth Advocacy - Spring 2026
- Ex. Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem Community Defense - Spring 2026
- Ex. Law, Power and Social Change - Spring 2026
- Ex. Power in Numbers: Representing Tenant Groups - Spring 2026
- Policy Lab: Structural Change in Public Education Policy and Social Change – Spring 2026
Students that match into an experiential learning course will receive an offer on or before October 28th. Students will have until October 31st at NOON to accept or decline any offer they receive.
*To apply to the DC Externship, students should submit their resume and brief statement explaining why they want to participate in the DC Externship, a list of possible placements, and their transcript. The document should be a single PDF. To submit the application, email Program Coordinator Ejaz Baluch ([email protected]). The application is due Wednesday, October 15th, 2025.
**Please note that Experiential Practice externships require you to secure your own placement. For the three Spring 2026 Experiential Practice Courses available for Spring 2026 in this round, you should start applying for placements ASAP and you will need to indicate where you have applied and/or secured a placement in your application in Lawnet. The Externships Program does not find a placement for you in the Experiential Practice courses; you find the placement yourself.