WashULaw students in the Entrepreneurship Clinic provide advice and legal assistance to individuals and entities in all entrepreneurship endeavors. The clinic helps with start-ups and small businesses and non-profit organizations.
In collaboration with the St. Louis County office of the Missouri State Public Defender System, students in the WashULaw Criminal Justice Clinic have the opportunity to help St. Louis adults who have been charged with misdemeanor or felony offenses. Students may assist with serving as counsel on preliminary hearings to helping with to assisting with Circuit Court Dockets and probation revocation hearings.
Public Interest Fellowships allow WashULaw graduates to experience public interest practice. Students are able to pursue their passions and interests while helping St. Louis citizens.
The WashULaw Civil Rights and Mediation Clinic focuses on housing, education, and consumer discrimination. Clinic students provide representation for low-income St. Louis clients on a multitude of different legal subjects ranging from housing to education to municipal court claims.
The WashULaw Clinical Education Program is considered one of the finest in the country. Established in 1973, the clinical education program allows WashU’s law students, and sometimes students outside of the Law School, to work to provide legal advice and litigation to clients in the St. Louis area.
The externship program at WashULaw provides students with the opportunity to develop legal skills as they work in law offices and legal departments of non-profits, corporations, and government. Students can be assigned to a placement arranged by the school or they can find their own at different St. Louis corporations.
The CORTEX Innovation Community is a hub of bioscience and technology research, development, and commercialization. The community allows for hundreds of research and technology-based jobs, and industry and biotechnology start-ups in the St. Louis area.
The Live Near Your Work program provides employees help with purchasing homes in select St. Louis neighborhoods near WashU and BJC.
STEMpact District Immersion (DI) is an ambitious effort launched by the Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis (ISP) to support school districts in creating systemic change in mathematics education.
STEM TQ through the Institute for School Partnership at WashU fosters a strong mindset for STEM integration. Teachers learn to STEMitize their curriculum; to see STEM is everywhere, and to see themselves as STEM-capable teachers and their students as STEM-capable learners. The program includes field trips to area employers where teachers experience STEM to career connections that they can pass on to students. Also included are field activities that allow teachers to experience first-hand how STEM can be threaded throughout all subjects and activities.