EXT: Phila. Museum of Art (Quaglia)
Faculty
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| Kathryn Quaglia Curricular Director of Externships and Adjunct Professor of Law kquaglia@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
Drafting Legal Documents
Grading
100% Other (The externship seminar and the field placement are combined into a single Credit/No Credit grade. )
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.
- Students absent for an illness or other emergency should contact Professor Quaglia for a mandatory make-up assignment.
Meeting Times/Location
TBA
TBA
Category
Clinics/Externships
Credits
4.0
** THE APPLICATION PERIOD FOR THIS EXTERNSHIP CLOSED ON MAY 13, 2026.**
This Externship provides a unique opportunity to explore art law in practice with the General Counsel and Senior Leadership of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The student will have meaningful opportunities and will get a great deal of feedback. The work will be interesting and varied. Students will spend the majority of their time working on: (1) contract issues; (2) intellectual property issues; (3) labor and employment issues; (4) governance issues; (5) policy issues.
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 the 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 five meetings. In addition, students will meet individually with the professor mid-semester and at the end of the semester. A few weeks before the semester begins, students will receive a Qualtrics Survey to choose one of two seminar times and should plan their course and work schedules accordingly. The Civil Externship Seminar begins the first week of classes and students will choose either Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. or Wednesdays from 12 to 1:00 p.m. Students who previously completed an externship and are doing another externship will be placed in an Advanced Externship Seminar. Those students should notify Professor Kathryn Quaglia at kquaglia@law.upenn.edu after course schedules have been released to arrange a convenient class meeting time.
Grading: The externship seminar and the field placement are combined into a single 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: Enroll
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.