EXT: Federal Appellate Litigation (Quaglia)
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Drafting Legal Documents
Other Professional Skills:
Grading
100% Other (Externships are graded credit/no-credit and based on successful completion of fieldwork and externship seminar.)
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can make PowerPoint slides or other class materials available to you.
Meeting Times/Location
TBA
TBA
Category
Clinics/Externships
Credits
1.0
*THE APPLICATION PERIOD FOR APPLYING TO THIS EXTERNSHIP HAS NOW CLOSED*
Field Placement Description: Penn Carey Law School, in partnership with Dechert LLP, a major national law firm, offers an innovative opportunity for students who are interested in federal appellate litigation to participate in the Federal Appellate Litigation Externship at Dechert's Philadelphia office. Externs will work closely with attorneys from Dechert to identify issues for appeal, conduct research, draft briefs, moot oral arguments, and, whenever possible, argue their assigned cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (to the extent allowed by Third Circuit Local Rule 46.3 which permits law students to represent indigent pro se litigants in certain circumstances).
Requirements: 3L Students Only
Externship Seminar Requirements: To receive academic credit for this externship, students will be enrolled in an in-person, semester-long Civil Externship Seminar that meets at Penn Law School during the same semester as the field placement. Students will meet as a group for one hour every other week during the semester for a total of six meetings. In addition, students will meet individually with the professor mid-semester and at the end of the semester. Soon after course schedules are released, students will receive a Qualtrics Survey to choose one of two seminar times and should plan their course and work schedules accordingly. Students may not change their seminar time once the semester has started.
Students who previously completed a civil externship and are doing another civil externship will be placed in an Advanced Civil Externship Seminar. Those students should notify Professor Kathryn Quaglia at kquaglia@law.upenn.edu for a Qualtrics survey after course schedules have been released to arrange a convenient class meeting time.
Grading: The externship seminar and the field placement are combined for one Credit/No Credit grade. To receive credit, students must complete the field placement credit hours and all externship seminar requirements.
Credit Restrictions: No more than 14 semester hours (of the 22 co-curricular semester hour maximum) can be earned in externships (both Gittis and ad hoc externships). Students are not permitted to enroll in a Clinic and Externship in the same semester, or in two Externships in one semester. International JD students must seek and be approved for CPT (Curricular Practical Training) credit for the externship well before the start of the semester. Students should review important externship registration information: Enrollment Procedures for externships
International JD Students must seek CPT (Curricular Practical Training) credit for the externship work BEFORE the start of the semester. Students will use the completed Statement of Understanding and upload that to their ISSS portal. International students who either get into a Gittis externship through the registration lottery or via a submitted application, or who receive an ad hoc externship approval notice, should email externships@law.upenn.edu right away so we can help you comply with the government’s CPT externship requirements.
Skills Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of the individual course skill; Demonstrate the ability to receive and implement feedback; Demonstrate an understanding of how and when the individual course skill is employed in practice.
Constitutional Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of constitutional law; Perform legal analysis in the context of constitutional law; Communicate effectively on topics related to constitutional law; Demonstrate an understanding of constitutional law affects other areas of law.
Public Interest Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of the varied legal aspects of public interest law; Perform legal analysis in the context of public interest law; Communicate effectively on topics related to public interest law; Demonstrate an understanding of how public interest law is connected to and affected by a wide variety of legal and regulatory structures and doctrines.