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Top UC law schools launch Washington, D.C. field placement program

By Richard Binder

Students at UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA School of Law are learning first-hand how laws are made in a new internship program in Washington, D.C. called UCDC Law. This uniquely collaborative program among the UC law schools places second and third-year students in congressional offices on Capitol Hill, the U.S. Department of Justice, regulatory agencies and more. UC Irvine law students will eventually join their peers in this full-semester academic program.

A companion seminar for students examines the unique role of lawyers in creating federal legislation. Weekly classes include talks by influential policymakers from all three branches of government, independent agencies, the media, lobbying firms and leaders of national nonprofit organizations.  The line-up includes senior counsel from the House Office of Legislative Counsel, U.S. State and Treasury Departments,  the Congressional Research Service, Lawyer?s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, U.S. Senator Boxer?s staff?as well as National Public Radio?s legal reporter Nina Totenberg.

See the full press release, with links to a full program description, here.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).