UCDC Law Program
Fall 2014 and Spring 2015
Student Registration
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Please read the addendum that has been attached to this application to ensure that you
meet your home campus’s requirements for participating in the UCDC Law Program.
Name:
Please mark the semester you are applying for:
Fall 2014
Spring 20151
Law School and current year:
E-mail:
Phone:
1. Please explain why you are interested in the UCDC Law Program.
2. Please list any specific agencies, non-profits, or organizations where you would like to extern
or where you have already applied.
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Applications for spring 2015 will be accepted after the October 15, 2014, deadline on a rolling basis. Please
contact UCDC Law Director, Nicole Lehtman at Nicole.lehtman@ucdc.edu with questions.
3. Mandatory Externship Statement: Although securing a placement is the student’s
responsibility, this statement will help the Program director assist you with placement
selection. In an attached document (750 words maximum) please discuss what sort of
externship you hope to secure. Please include as much detail as possible, such as:
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Preferred Issue areas (e.g. criminal prosecution or defense, environmental law,
health law, trade etc.)
Type of organization you are interested in (e.g. executive branch,
congressional, non-profit)
Type of work (e.g. litigation, policy, transactional)
Any relevant academic or life experience that will play a role in selection
(including any law school courses or activates which are relevant to the externship
you are seeking)
Ideological bent (optional, i.e., for Hill placement, think tanks etc.)
4. My signature below certifies that I have confirmed that I am eligible to participate in the
UCDC Law program, that I have complied with all of my home school’s requirements, and
that I have obtained all necessary approvals to participate in the UCDC Law Program for fall
2014 or spring 2015.2
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Student’s Signature
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Date
Please attach your most current resume and an unofficial transcript to this application.
Please submit this completed application electronically to the UCDC Law Program at
law@ucdc.edu and copy the appropriate individual listed below at your home school.
Berkeley Law: Sasha Thomas-Nuruddin at sthomas-nuruddin@law.berkeley.edu
UCLA: Wendy Haro at haro@law.ucla.edu
UC Davis: Rena Contreras at rgcontreras@ucdavis.edu
UC Irvine: Laura Fry at lfry@law.uci.edu
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The full requirements for each participating law school can be found as an addendum to this application. Please
read your school’s addendum carefully to confirm your eligibility to participate in the UCDC Law Program.
Addendum to UCDC Law Program Application – Fall 2014
Application Procedures and Eligibility Requirements
1. UC Davis Law students must be in their second or third year of law school to
participate in the Program.
2. UC Davis Law students must check their unofficial transcripts on Sisweb (and, if
they desire, meet with Rena Contreras or Dean Kulwin) to confirm that they are
eligible to participate in this program in terms of units, course requirements and
other academic planning issues.
3. UC Davis Law Students must confirm that they have enough externship/clinical
unitsto participate in this program. No more than 16 units of courses (up to 20
units with Dean Kulwin’s permission) numbered 400 or above (including the
UCDC externship) and non-law courses at any UC may be taken for credit
towards King Hall J.D. See Regulation 1.4(B)(3). No more than 14 of these units
may be taken in externships, including the UCDC externship. See Regulation
1.4(B)(4).<http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/current/registrar/law-schoolregulations.html> Note: the 3 unit seminar, “Law and Lawyering in the Nation’s
Capital” is a graded course and is not included in the calculations of Regulation
1.4(B).