Externships
The School of Law's comprehensive externship program offers students the opportunity to learn, in supervised
governmental and not-for-profit organization settings, about significant aspects of law and its practice.
A small sampling of recent externship placements includes:
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Trade Commission
- Federal Communications Commission
- Maryland Attorney General's Office
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- National Institutes of Health
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- National Wildlife Federation
- NOW Legal Defense Fund
- Securities & Exchange Commission
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
- World Health Organization
Additionally, the School of Law offers a semester-long externship with public service organizations
in South Africa.