internships and fellowships

Internship Guide

This one-of-a-kind tool can guide you toward summers, semesters, or careers in reproductive justice advocacy. Career counselors and students alike can use it to identify, target, and apply for pre- and post-graduate professional training opportunities. The guide contains listings for legal internships and fellowships at over 70 non-profit organizations across the country. Each entry includes information about the organization’s mission, contact and application information, and details about internship projects and requirements. Their approaches range from local grassroots education and state court litigation to federal policy advocacy and analysis of international legal norms.

Check it out today at your Career Development Office, borrow a copy from your chapter leader, or download it here as a pdf.

Opportunities

Recent Law School Grads Invited to Apply for LSRJ’s New Fellowship

LSRJ is accepting applications for its new yearlong post-graduate fellowship position beginning this fall. The Fellow will work closely with LSRJ’s three other staff members and play a central role in the effective functioning and overall success of the organization. We offer a rewarding position with opportunities for professional growth in a supportive atmosphere – ideal preparation for anyone interested in someday founding or serving a nonprofit as staff, counsel, or board member.

LSRJ fills in the gaps left by formal legal education through innovative programs in four core areas: curriculum, campus activism, community building, and professional training. The Fellow’s work will reach all four areas with a strong concentration on curriculum. As a focal point, the Fellow will contribute research and writing to LSRJ educational materials, such as the Model Curriculum, Reproductive Rights Reader (forthcoming), Constitutional Law Primer, Human Rights Law Primer (forthcoming), fact sheets, and papers. S/he will also support student-led campaigns for new courses and reading groups in reproductive rights and facilitate student scholarship by developing LSRJ’s Resource Guide and coordinating its annual Sarah Weddington Writing Prize. The Fellow will likely assist the Program Director with major events and campaigns. Additional projects may include:

• Coordinating a large-scale research project among LSRJ members and alumni;
• Translating original research into peer education materials for law students;
• Assisting with academic symposia; or
• Crafting CLE programs for LSRJ to offer its alumni and allies.

Applications must be received by 5:00 pm PST on August 15, 2008. Early applications will be given preference, and late applications will not be considered.

Click here for details on qualifications, compensation, or the application process.

Looking for a Host Organization for your Fellowship Next Year? Look no Further!

LSRJ is seeking qualified applicants to consider hosting for project-based fellowship programs, such as Equal Justice Works, New Voices, Soros, and Liman, in the fall of 2009.

We invite rising 3Ls, judicial clerks, and other recent law school graduates to apply to be hosted by our organization in project-based public interest fellowship programs. We are interested in sponsoring a candidate with a project proposal that serves our members through one or more of our core areas of concentration: curriculum, campus activism, community building, and professional training. Proposed projects must be feasible to complete within the timeframe of the fellowship (12 or 24 months). LSRJ staff will help selected candidates shape and strengthen their projects and proposals.

Applications must be received by 5:00 pm PST on August 15, 2008. Early applications will be given preference, and late applications will not be considered.

For details on qualifications, compensation, or the application process, click here