Prepare to Practice
Experiential Learning
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is well known for its longstanding commitment to building practice-ready lawyers. In addition to our litigation clinics, we offer students the opportunities to develop their transactional skills, helping start-up businesses through the Entrepreneurship Project. Environmental Law & Policy Lab students engage in policy development, legislative drafting, and advocacy for local individuals and community groups.
The Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic
In the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic, third-year law students practice under the supervision of experienced clinic faculty in areas including immigration, family, children's rights, criminal defense, and community justice.
Externships
Our curriculuar offerings are supplemented by a robust Externship program, which placed 62 students last year.
Environmental Policy Lab
This is a unique course in which students, individually or in teams, work under the supervision of skilled attorneys with years of city, state, federal and in…
Entrepreneurship Project
Through the Entrepreneurship Project, students help local start-ups organize their legal entities, develop contracts, and prepare for outside financing. …
Human Rights Advocacy Project
Working directly with local, national and international non-governmental organizations, second and third year students will conduct fact-finding and legal res…
The Advocacy Center
Launched in 2018, the Advocacy Center reinforces the ongoing and comprehensive nature of advocacy, from the early stages of negotiation and litigation, through mediation or arbitration, pre-trial and trial practice, and finally with appellate practice. The Center builds on the law school’s rich tradition of advocacy within the Center’s five programs by offering an expanded, cohesive, and seamless vehicle for advocacy education yielding stronger and more complete advocates.
Experiential Course Offerings
Loyola also offers a number of courses with an experiential component to help you develop your practice skills in a more traditional class environment
Skills Curriculum
All Loyola students participate in our extensive Skills curriculum, which helps them build competencies in various areas.