Overview

UC Hastings provides a diverse array of clinical offerings. Due to the intensive supervision provided to each student, there are a limited number of available slots. The clinics below are accepting applications for the Spring 2020 semester. 

• Community Group Advocacy (Group)
• Immigrants' Rights (IRC)
• Individual Representation (IR)
  
• Mediation (MED)
• Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors (MLPS)
• Refugee & Human Rights (RHRC)
• Social Enterprise & Economic Empowerment (SEEE)

TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION, YOU MUST FIRST "JOIN THIS COURSE" (BUTTON ON UPPER RIGHT SIDE OF THIS HOME PAGE)

RESUME SUBMISSION REQUIRED FOR ALL CLINIC APPLICATIONS

You must also submit your resume:

• Resume submission page

 PRE-REQUISITES

Many clinics have pre-requisites. To find out the pre- or co-requisites for the clinic(s) of interest to you, please follow this link: Clinical Programs MyHastings page Links to an external site..
This link also provides information about all of the UC Hastings Clinical courses, including instructions on how to enroll in a clinic not listed above. 

APPLICATION INFORMATION

• You may apply to one clinic or as many as three.
• To apply to one or more of the clinics listed, complete the application(s) for each clinic from the links provided above. Follow the instructions once you have clicked on the application link.
• If you are applying to a second or third clinic, copy and paste your responses to the first four sections (student information, clinic preferences, additional commitments, and language ability) into those sections of each subsequent application.
• After downloading and completing each applicable Clinic Application, you will need to return to the link for each Clinic you are applying to submit the relevant application. 

SUBMISSION CONFIRMATION

After submitting a document, you will see a confirmation of submission on the top right of the screen:

CLINIC ACCEPTANCE INFORMATION

• Clinic acceptance decisions are determined by each individual clinic using clinic-specific acceptance criteria.
• Clinics often give preference to applicants who have listed the particular clinic as their first choice.
• It is important that you indicate the strength of your preferences, if any, among the clinics that you ranked (e.g. "strong preference for #1, no difference between #2 & #3" or "little difference between #1 & #2").  

The first priority date for students to apply is Friday, November 8th at noon.  After November 8th, applicants will be considered on a rolling basis until all spots are filled.  Offers to students who have been selected for enrollment into a clinic will generally begin to be extended on Friday, November 8th at 5:00 pm.  Certain clinics may offer you enrollment before November 8th.  Students will have until Monday, November 11th at noon to accept an enrollment offer.  You will generally have 24 hours to accept an enrollment offer from a clinic, although you may request more time to reply if you are waiting to hear back from another clinic.  In such cases, you may wait until Monday, November 11th at noon to accept the offer of your choice.  Your previous offer(s) will remain secure during this period.

Once you accept an offer with a clinic, you must withdraw any outstanding applications to all other UC Hastings clinics or externship positions within 24 hours. The only exception is if you wish to seek concurrent enrollment in both the clinic whose offer you accepted and another clinic, externship, or Startup Legal Garage module. Concurrent enrollment in more than one clinic, externship, or Startup Legal Garage module in a single semester requires a waiver by the Associate Academic Dean of the general prohibition on taking more than one in a semester. For more information on how to pursue a waiver, click here Links to an external site.. Because of the time commitment required by most clinics, few clinics will consent to concurrent enrollment in another clinic, externship, or Garage module. For Spring 2020, only the Environmental Clinic, Mediation Clinic, and Workers Rights Clinic are potentially amenable to such an arrangement.

You cannot accept an offer with one clinic, keep your application active or remain on the waitlist of another clinic, and then drop the clinic you accepted if an opening arises in the other clinic or an externship. This is a matter of professionalism and courtesy. Clinics must be able to rely on acceptances of enrollment offers, for they make commitments to clients and projects based on students' acceptances.