Each summer it participates in the County Attorney Internship Program, through which students work as paid employees for county attorneys throughout the state. It also helps place students in a variety of unpaid clerkships and internships that provide insight into the workings of the legal system. The college has developed programs with a number of University graduate programs through the Graduate College, under which students pursue degrees simultaneously in both colleges. Joint degree candidates may count up to 12 semester hours earned for the graduate degree toward the 90 required for the J.D., providing the courses are relevant to both degrees and the 12 semester hours are earned after admission to the joint degree program and after matriculation at the College of Law. Graduate departments establish their own requirements for the joint degree program, including the number of semester hours taken for the J.D. that may be counted toward the graduate degree.
Many departments have joint program advisers.
For more information, consult the associate dean of the College of Law and the individual graduate departments. In keeping with its educational mission of encouraging both broad social awareness and technical professional competence, the College of Law offers a strong program of study in the rapidly expanding fields of international, comparative, and foreign law. It does so essentially for three reasons. First, virtually any lawyer in this era of accelerating global interdependence may be confronted by problems that require knowledge and understanding of international law and foreign legal systems. Second, as professionals and community leaders, lawyers often are called upon to influence, directly or indirectly, the theory and conduct of U.S. foreign policy.