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May 17, 2024Fall 2024 Government Lawyer: United State Attorney Clinic Drop Deadline
June 1, 2024International Human Rights Clinic Advanced Options Drop Deadline
August 1, 2024Fall 2024 Child Advocacy Clinic Drop Deadline
August 2, 2024Fall 2024 Education Law Clinic: Legislative and Administrative Lawyering Drop Deadline
August 5, 2024Fall 2024 Education Law Clinic: Individual Representation Drop Deadline
August 16, 2024Winter-Spring 2025 and Spring 2025 Semester in Washington Clinic Application Deadline
August 19, 2024 (midnight)Fall 2024 Independent Clinical Application Deadline
August 23, 2024Final day to add/drop Fall, Fall-Winter, Fall-Spring clinics

Fall 2024 Advanced Clinical Application Deadline
September 2, 2024Labor Day – No Classes; University administrative offices will be closed
September 3, 2024Fall Term Classes and Clinical Work begin for all students
September 6, 2024Early Clinical Drop Deadlines: (Capital Punishment Clinic-Winter-Spring; Crimmigration Clinic-Spring; Government Lawyer:Attorney General Clinic-Winter and Spring; Government Lawyers: U.S. Attorney Clinic – Spring; LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic – Spring)
September 8, 2024Student Practice Organizations Panel
October 1, 2024Winter 2025 Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic Application Deadline
October 2, 2024Supreme Court Litigation Clinic Winter 2025 Application Deadline
October 4, 2024Last day to change credits for Fall 2024
October 11, 2024Sports Law Clinic Winter and Spring 2024 Application Deadline
October 14, 2024Columbus Day (Federal)/Indigenous Peoples’ Day (City of Cambridge) – No Classes; University administrative offices will be closed.

Students are excused from clinical work and must notify placements.
October 15, 2024No classes for all students; Students are excused from clinical work and must notify placements.
October 18, 2024Institute to End Mass Incarceration Spring 2025 Clinic Application Deadline
October 18, 2024Fall 2024 Externship Supervisors’ Mid-Semester Check-In Deadline
October 21, 2024 (midnight)Winter 2025 Independent Clinical Application Deadline
October 25, 2024Winter 2025 Advanced Clinical Application Deadline
October 31, 2024Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic Winter 2025 Application Deadline
November 1, 2024Child Advocacy Clinic: Child Welfare, Education, & Juvenile Justice Winter-Spring 2025 Early Drop Deadline
November 5, 2024Election Day (Presidential Election) – No Classes for All Students
Students are excused from clinical work and must notify placements.
November 11, 2024Veteran’s Day – All classes meet on regular schedule; University administrative offices will be closed.

If clinical placement is closed, students must make up hours missed.
November 15, 2024Spring 2025 Education Law Clinics: Individual Representation and Legislative and Administrative Lawyering Drop Deadline
November 18, 2024 (midnight)Winter 2025 and Winter-Spring 2025 Clinics Add/Drop Deadline
November 27-29, 2024Thanksgiving Recess
December 1, 2024Child Advocacy Clinic: Child Welfare, Education, & Juvenile Justice Spring 2025 Early Drop Deadline
December 3, 2024Upper-Level Fall Term Classes End

Fall 2024 Externship Supervisors’ Student Evaluation Deadline

Final Paper for Fall 2024 Clinical Work Due
December 13, 2024 (midnight)Spring 2025 Clinic Add/Drop Deadline
December 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025Winter Break
January 6, 2025Winter Term Classes and Clinical Work Begins
January 10, 20251st Weekly Reflection Email Due (Independent Clinical Students)
January 10, 2025Spring 2025 Advanced Clinical Program Application Deadline
January 13, 2025Spring 2025 Independent Clinical Application Deadline
January 17, 20252nd Weekly Reflection Email Due (Independent Clinical Students)
January 20, 2025Martin Luther King Day – No Classes; University administrative offices will be closed.

Students are excused from clinical work and must notify placement.
January 24, 2025Upper -level Winter Term Exams; Winter Term Clinical Work Ends; Final Day for all Winter Term Academic Programming

3rd Weekly Reflection Email Due (Independent Clinical Students)

Winter Term Supervisors’ Student Evaluation Deadline
January 27, 2025All Spring Term Classes and Clinical Work Begin
February 14, 2025Last day to change clinical credits for Spring 2025
February 17, 2025Presidents Day – All classes meet on regular schedule; University administrative offices will be closed.

If clinical placement is closed, students must make up hours missed.
March 14, 2025Spring 2025 Externship Supervisors’ Mid-Semester Check-In Deadline
March 15-23, 2025Spring Break; Students are excused from clinical work and must notify placement.
April 25, 2025Spring Term Classes and Clinical Work End for All Students

Spring 2024 Final Externship Supervisors’ Student Evaluation Deadline
May 26, 2025Memorial Day; University administrative offices will be closed
May 29, 2025Commencement Day