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Check Out The Blog Post “Paid, Overseas Fellowship Positions with Atlas Corps”

Atlas Corps seeks nonprofit leaders from around the world to apply for Fellowships in the U.S.and Latin America. Fellows serve full-time at Host Organizations such as Acumen, Ashoka, the Grameen Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the UN Foundation, Oxfam and the World Wildlife Fund. In addition to serving at an […]

Council for American Students in International Negotiations: Two Openings on the Board of Directors

Application deadline: 27 November 2012 The Council for American Students in International Negotiations (CASIN) strives to deepen the commitment of American students to multilateral discourse through scholarship and engagement with intergovernmental and supranational institutions and the processes that govern them. An educational non-profit, non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization with UN ECOSOC consultative status, CASIN provides young Americans […]

HOPE Public Interest News for the Week of November 12, 2012

Please read below for upcoming events on campus, opportunities in the community, and other announcements. Featured: Wednesday, November 14th, Championing Children’s Voices, 12:30 pm, F-209. Join Judge Ellen Sue Venzer, Marissa Leichter, and Bernard P. Perlmutter for a panel discussion involving children’s rights in their own hearings. RSVP HERE.  Events on Campus: Monday, November 12th, […]

The Cardozo School of Law’s Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic Seeking Clinical Fellows

The Cardozo School of Law’s Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic is interested in hiring two attorneys or recent law graduates as a Clinical Fellows to start in fall 2013. The fellows’ responsibilities would include some combination of the following: work on deportation defense, or related cases, in the immigration and federal courts; work on […]

Attorney/Teaching Fellow – Mediation Clinic for Families School of Law

The University of Baltimore School of Law invites applications for a Fellowship in its Mediation Clinic for Families to start on or about July 1, 2013, although the start date is negotiable. This public interest fellowship program offers practicing attorneys exposure to law school clinical teaching. The Fellow’s duties include supervising clinic students in the […]

Children’s Staff Attorney Opening With The Florence Project

The Florence Project was founded in 1989 to respond to a representation crisis for indigent non-citizens detained at the rural Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Center in Florence, Arizona. Through their programs today, they provide services to approximately 3,000 men, women, and children detained in Eloy, Florence and Phoenix, Arizona on any given day. […]

Two Lecturer/Practitioner-in-Residence Positions to Begin Summer/Fall 2013 – Human Rights Clinic & Immigration Clinic

The University of Miami School of Law’s Clinical Program is pleased to announce that it is hiring two lecturers/practitioners-in-residence to work in its Human Rights Clinic and Immigration Clinic. The positions will begin in the summer or fall of 2013. The positions are open until filled. Applicants are encouraged to apply before December 14, 2012. […]

The Deadline For The Nadine Strossen Fellowship Has Been Extended to November 16, 2012!

The ACLU’s systems have been affected by Hurricane Sandy. If you applied for a position on the ACLU website between October 6, 2012 and November 3, 2012, it is possible that they did not receive your submission. Please re-apply. Please note that the deadline for applying to the following fellowship has been extended to November […]

HOPE Public Interest News for the Week of November 5, 2012

Please read below for upcoming events on campus, opportunities in the community, and other announcements.  Events on Campus: Tuesday, November 6th, CEPS Lawyers in Leadership Luncheon with Carlos Martinez, JD ’90, 12:30 pm, Law Library Faculty Meeting Room. The Lawyers in Leadership Series is a program sponsored by the University of Miami School of Law […]

Article Submissions for the Fall Edition of Africa Law Today Due November 23, 2012

This is just a quick reminder that article submissions for the fall edition of Africa Law Today, the Africa Committee’s quarterly newsletter, are due by November 23, 2012. Articles may be of any length, so long as they are of superior quality and relate to both Africa and legal issues. Brief updates on a legal […]