Gain real-world business experiences at UC Klekamp Law’s clinics, externships, and fellowships. Whether you spend time in our popular Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic (ECDC) and work alongside innovators and disruptors or research corporate law topics, you’ll get the coursework and guidance you need to graduate with an impressive portfolio.

Learn more about the Corporate Law Concentration.

Learn on the job through judicial externships with the U.S. District Court, the Ohio Court of Common Pleas and other courts with criminal jurisdiction, or sign on for a stint with a prosecutor or defense organization. As a UC Klekamp College of Law student, you can also participate in our Indigent Defense Clinic and the Domestic Violence and Protection Order Clinic.

You’ll also find our students embedded at the Ohio Innocence Project at UC Klekamp Law and various nonprofits focused on justice and reform.

Learn more about the Criminal Law and Wrongful Convictions Concentration

With its expert faculty members, UC Klekamp Law provides opportunities for hands-on learning about complex environmental legal issues in a region that’s home to an EPA office in a city with its own Green Plan.

Challenging, highly varied work across a broad spectrum of practice areas is a hallmark of a general or small law firm practice. It requires a lawyer with a superior understanding of the law and the ability to work closely and effectively with clients. UC Klekamp College of Law graduates are prepared to deliver sophisticated legal representation to both individuals and small businesses.

Gain expertise in health law at UC Klekamp Law, thanks to our expert faculty as well as the broad range of top-quality healthcare facilities that surround us: a regional VA Medical Center, a top-ranked Children’s Hospital, one of country’s few Shriners’ Hospitals, to name just three. Learn about litigation and negligence, regulatory and public policy issues and the very business of healthcare institutions and enterprises.

Learn more abou the Health Law Concentration

Delve into the world of artistic and literary creation, advertising and marketing, and scientific invention when you study IP at UC Klekamp Law. Our new clinic will support learning about trademarks and patents as well, and associated state laws about publicity rights and trade secrets.

Learn how globalization impacts legal practice, and policy, through coursework, fieldwork and specialized programs at UC Klekamp Law. From commerce, corporations, telecommunications, trade, tax, investments, finance, intellectual property, product liability, the environment, crime, and human rights, we have the expertise to help you learn how to navigate a global legal practice or diplomatic career.

In addition, our groundbreaking Urban Morgan Institute continues to serve as a model for many other human rights programs with its emphasis on teaching, research and service.

Learn more about the International Legal Studies Concentration 

Understand the intricacies of litigation, mediation, negotiation and dispute resolution through simulated and real-world experiences at UC Klekamp Law.

From American Bar Association sponsored competitions to Trial Practice Team national and regional competitions, our students benefit from multiple opportunities to present in courtrooms.

Discover the legal policies and procedures on public interest topics like housing discrimination and child welfare as you work on real-world cases and for real-life causes around the world.