One credit is awarded per semester for serving as a teaching assistant or for 60 hours of other substantive legal work. A student who both serves as a teaching assistant and performs other substantive legal work may earn up to a maximum of two credits in any one semester. In the summer the teaching assistants help with the preparation of research and writing exercises. In the spring their work includes helping students prepare for oral arguments. Each year two or three students who have served as teaching assistants are selected as Supervising Teaching Assistants for the following academic year.
Teaching assistants earn two credits for participating in the program for one year.