Educational Commitment & Host Statement

The host organization must be shown to have undertaken a specifically educational commitment to the student, including an explicit statement that the student will be supervised by an identified attorney or group of attorneys.

There must be a commitment to participate with the student in analyzing and discussing the intellectual lessons to be drawn from the student's experience. A formal program of seminars or like activities is not required, but such programs are especially desirable.

The attorneys who supervise the student must assume responsibility for continuous evaluation of the student's work, with particular attention paid to ways in which it can be improved.

The host organization must commit itself to provide an experience that can be integrated directly with the faculty-supervised research project undertaken by the student as a required part of the external studies.

The host organization must also agree not to use student externs primarily for undesirable make-work tasks, such as cite-checking or perfunctory research projects.

The host organization must provide a written statement describing with specificity the nature of the work to be undertaken by the student; the manner in which supervision and training will be provided to the student; the name(s) of the attorney supervisor(s); the resume(s) of the attorney supervisor(s); and the nature of the organization's educational commitment to the student.