EXT: Federal Defender - Appellate Unit (Quaglia)
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
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 course.)
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
7.0
*THE APPLICATION PERIOD FOR APPLYING TO THIS EXTERNSHIP HAS NOW CLOSED*
The Office of the Federal Community Defender for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is pleased to accept applications for the Appeals Unit Externship. The Federal Community Defender represents indigent defendants charged with federal crimes.
Roles and Responsibilities: This externship will provide law students with a close-up and hands-on view of the federal appellate process from initial record review through certiorari proceedings in the Supreme Court. The student will assist Appeals Unit attorneys by researching legal issues, drafting research memoranda and/or sections of appellate briefs, and participating in moot courts in preparation for oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The student may also work on certiorari petitions. As time permits, the student is welcome to attend trial proceedings and appellate oral arguments that he/she is not directly involved with. If desired, the student may work on a project to yield a writing sample.
Prior Experience: Preference will be given to those who have completed criminal procedure coursework.
Externship Seminar Requirements: To receive academic credit, students will be automatically enrolled in an in-person, semester-long Criminal Externship Seminar that meets 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 and will meet individually with the professor mid-semester and at the end of the semester. Shortly 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. The Criminal Externship Seminar begins the first week of classes and students will choose either Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. or Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Students may not change their seminar time once the semester has started.
Students who previously completed a criminal externship and are doing another criminal externship will be placed in an Advanced Criminal Externship Seminar. Those students must 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 satisfy 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:
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. Criminal Law and Procedure
Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of criminal law and procedure; Perform legal analysis in the context of criminal law and procedure; Communicate effectively on topics related to criminal law and procedure; Demonstrate an understanding of the role criminal law and procedure play in society and their impact on other areas of law and society. 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.