探究：法学院的特殊学习项目
学习法律都有哪些项目可供选择呢?本文为大家介绍了美国一些大学法学院的特殊学校项目，分析了这些项目的具体内容，希望能给大家的选择提供一些参考。
Prospective attorneys searching for the right fit in a law school might be surprised at the rich variation they find when they delve past a school's rank to the details. Here are three examples of the many ways law schools are honing their distinctiveness to offer a special experience along with the legal basics.
想要成为律师的同学们在搜索法学院时，一定会被选择的多样性感到吃惊吧。下面是美国一些法学院为学生提供的独特学习项目。
1. An intensively experiential third year: As an extern for a federal judge in Washington, D.C., last fall, Krystal Swendsboe, 27, spent 25 to 30 hours a week in chambers, "far more" than students from other schools, she says. That's because her schedule in Washington and Lee University law school's practice-intensive third year is designed around her real-world workday, shifting the focus from "learning in the classroom to learning in the profession," says Dean Nora Demleitner.
So 3Ls spend most of their year in externships and in clinics built into the curriculum, where work ranges from preparing appeals for coal miners seeking benefits from the federal black lung program to assisting defense counsel in death penalty cases. The pace can be grueling, says Demleitner; faculty at the Lexington, Virginia, school tend to treat students like junior partners, calling at all hours if a client is in need.
1. 在第三学年进行深入实习
27岁的法律系研究生Krystal Swendsboe每周都要在美国议会实习25-30小时，时间比学校其他系的学士长多了，因为她所在大学Washington and Lee University法学院第三学年的重点是从理论学习转向实践学习。实习生的工作可有为旷工争取利益、为死刑辩护等形式。
过程可能是艰苦的，比如维吉尼亚大学往往把学生当成初级合伙人，24小时随叫随到。
2. A shorter, skills-oriented option: Students in the new accelerated J.D. program at Gonzaga University's law school pack 90 credits into two calendar years, the same number required in the school's three-year track. Both reflect a curriculum revamp in 2009 responding to feedback from employers that new hires needed better skills.
Along with torts, criminal law and other traditional first-year classes, 1Ls take skills labs in which they draft complaints and contracts, engage in discovery, and conduct client interviews. All students at the Spokane, Washington, school also must take four terms, out of six, of legal research and writing, plus at least 12 credits of experiential learning. Those are earned by doing an externship or by choosing among the eight in-house legal clinics dedicated to such specialties as elder law, Indian law andenvironmental law.
2. 以培养技能为导向的更短的学习项目
龚萨格大学法学院把某些硕士生的学习从三年缩短到两年，学生在第一年除学习民事法和其他传统法律外，还会锻炼一些起草合同之类的技能。斯波坎和华盛顿法学院的学生都必须在6门课程中选修4门，还必须获得有关实践学习的12个学分。
3. A global perspective: Interested in practicing in the international arena – or at least gaining a global perspective? Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, has an array of options for students wanting to add international credentials to their degree. The joint J.D.-Master of Laws, or LLM degree, in international and comparative law is the most rigorous, cramming 20 extra credits into the standard curriculum. An international legal studies specialization, by contrast, requires five extra credits.
Exposure to international law is critical these days even for lawyers who never leave the country, argues Laura Spitz, associate dean for international affairs. "We don't live in a world that's packaged domestically and internationally," she says. "That line is increasingly blurred."
3. 全球化学习项目
康奈尔大学提供全球化的法律学习项目。比起法学院其他项目，这种全球化视角的学习计划要多得到5个学分才能拿到学位。
尽力对国际法律的熟悉对律师来说变得很重要，即使他永远只待在自己的国家。这是因为当今世界日趋全球化，国家之间的界线也不再那么明显。
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