Internship Experiences

Your 8-10 page paper is not simply ‘what I did on my internship’ narratives. Nor is it a research paper. I do not expect you–nor do I want you–to do additional readings beyond what I’ve assigned to you. Rather, your paper is intended to have you reflect critically, and confidentially, on your internship experiences, comparing and contrasting those experiences with what political scientists have found in their research. What do political scientists have right and wrong? How can your internship experiences inform the scholarly literature? For those of you interning with law firms or legal clinics or attorneys, you should read and reflect on Douglas Litowitz’s book, Beyond 1L: The Destruction of Young Lawyers.