Faculty Sponsor
Each student proposing an externship program must secure, in advance of submitting a proposal, a faculty sponsor who will be responsible for supervising the student and determining at the end of the term whether the student should receive academic credit for the externship in light of the student's performance at the host agency, the student's research project, and the student's final report on the externship. The faculty sponsor will be responsible for maintaining regular and persistent contact with both the student and attorney supervisors at the host organization during the course of the externship to ensure that the goals of the student's program are being met, that the externship functions as intended when approved, and that the student has not succumbed to inadequate or indifferent supervision. Prior to the commencement of the externship, the student and faculty sponsor should confer about how this will occur.

Research Paper
Satisfactory completion of a research paper is required before the student can receive credit for the paper or for the external studies program as a whole. The independent research paper must be assigned a letter grade by the faculty sponsor. The remaining credit hours for external studies will be treated as mandatory pass/fail.

Each student proposing an externship will identify, under the supervision of the faculty sponsor, the areas of study to be pursued and establish the general topic to be developed in the required research paper. The faculty sponsor and the student should discuss the subject matter, form, and length of the required research paper. A schedule for preparing the paper should be agreed upon. Although the flux of business at the host organization may preclude firm definition of the paper at the very beginning of the external studies semester, every effort should be made to settle the topic and begin work as promptly as possible. The finished paper must meet the standards ordinarily applied to seminar and independent research papers prepared for the same amount of credit, and must reflect the individual work of the student rather than a joint effort with other students or attorneys.

Contemporaneous Journal
The student must keep a contemporaneous journal of activities during the externship. It should be in narrative form and must be submitted every two weeks to the student's faculty sponsor, with a copy to Christine Gregory, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs. The journal shall include a description of the student's daily work, including the nature of the projects worked on, and the student's role in the projects and special assignments. It should also include a specific description of the training and supervision the student is receiving in connection with each project. The journal should include the student's contemporaneous reflections on the manner in which the work relates to the educational goals for the externship, the manner in which it has exposed the student to issues concerning professional responsibility and the role of attorneys, and how it has contributed to the student's development of knowledge in particular substantive areas and to the student's professional growth.

Final Report and Written Externship Assignments
At the end of the externship, the student must submit to the faculty supervisor, with a copy to Dean Gregory, a final report on the externship experience. It must be accompanied by a copy of any written work (e.g., reports, briefs, memos, etc.) the student produced during the externship. The final report must be in form and substance satisfactory to the faculty supervisor. Generally, the final report is 10 to 15 pages. Although it may naturally include some repetition with portions of the student's contemporaneous journals, it should be a report that stands on its own and provides an end-of-term retrospective summary of the student's externship experiences and their educational significance. The report should include a description of the specific projects the student worked on, the student's role in each project, the quality and method of supervision provided, and an overall evaluation of the externship. Most importantly, the report should specifically focus on the student's personal reflections on what the student learned from the externship, and the significance of the experience toward the student's intellectual and professional development and objectives.

Two Evaluations of Student by Supervising Attorney
The student's supervising attorney at the host organization must submit two formal written evaluations of the student's performance to the student's faculty sponsor and Dean Gregory; once at the middle of the externship and again at the end.

SOUTH AFRICA - The supervising attorneys for students on externship in South Africa need only submit one written evaluation of the student's performance, at the end of the externship.

On-Site Inspection
The ABA requires that a faculty member make an on-site visit to each placement when more than 6 academic credits are awarded for the externship. As a result, externships are generally limited to Chicago, Detroit, New York City, or Washington, D.C. A limited number of externships are approved each year for the AIRE Centre in London, England. Approval of externships at other locations is improbable. Students wishing to propose externships in another geographical location should consult with Dean Gregory. Approval for other locations may be given if a faculty member plans to visit that location during the externship term and commits to making an on-site visit to the externship placement.