243.7 sec. 001 - 9th Circuit Practicum Seminar (Fall 2025)
Instructor: William H D Fernholz (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
Instructor: Judah B Lakin (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
W 3:35 PM - 5:25 PM
Location: Law 129
From August 20, 2025
To November 19, 2025
Course End: November 19, 2025
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 8
As of: 04/04 07:13 AM
Information sessions will be held at 6:00pm on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 and Thursday, April 3, 2025 at the following zoom link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/93397827095
Please apply for the course through our online application: https://forms.gle/USPTVxhGa3VJbnSVA. The application is due at 5:00pm on April 7, 2025. (Only one application is required for both the seminar and clinic components.) We plan to interview applicants and make decisions shortly thereafter.
Admission to the Practicum Clinic and the co-requisite Seminar is by application only. The Ninth Circuit requires that a student have completed two-thirds of their law school training to practice before the Court. As a result, we will consider applications only from rising third-year students.
This Seminar is the classroom component for the Ninth Circuit Practicum. The Seminar introduces the substantive and procedural federal law involved in the Practicum’s appeals and techniques of appellate advocacy. The Seminar also serves as a forum to workshop the cases and strategies. We frontload the learning. Students must attend an all-day in-person Seminar meeting on the Saturday before the first week of class. The Seminar will meet less frequently after the opening briefs are filed in October.
The Ninth Circuit Practicum requires students to enroll in both the Practicum and Seminar for the entire academic year. The Fall Seminar is limited to students who are accepted for enrollment in the Practicum for academic year 2025-2026. Accepted students will enroll in the Advanced Practicum and Advanced Seminar in Spring 2026 at the appropriate time.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
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Exam Notes: (P) Final Paper
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Litigation and Procedure
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Practicums
Public Law and Policy
Social Justice and Public Interest
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