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HOPE Public Interest News for Week of March 19, 2012

Please read below for upcoming events on campus, opportunities in the community, and other announcements: Events on Campus  Tuesday, March 20th, Fulbright Program Info Session with Alumni Ambassador, 5:30 pm, UC Flamingo Ballroom A: Click here for details. Tuesday, March 20th & Wednesday, March 21st, National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence Hearings, Robert […]

Visit PSLawNet for Great Resources and Information

PSLawNet, the nation’s largest online career center for public service law jobs, is a NALP public service initiative and is supported by over 200 law schools that give their law students and alumni free access to the site. PSLawNet offers: More than 13,000 employer organization profiles Over 1,100 job opportunity postings, including internships, postgraduate fellowships, […]

Summer Internship With the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation

Position Description: The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation has been established by the UN Human Rights Council in March 2008. As part of her mandate, the Special Rapporteur annually reports to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly and carries out thematic research for […]

HOPE Public Interest News for Week of March 5, 2012

Please read below for upcoming events on campus, opportunities in the community, and other announcements. Events on Campus: Monday, March 5th, Lecture: Religion and Civic Engagement in America, 7 pm, Learning Center Room 110: The Office of Civic and Community Engagement is pleased to co-sponsor “How Religion Both Divides and Unites Americans: Religion and Civic […]

Paid Public Interest Summer Job for 1Ls and 2Ls – Teach Criminal Law to Rising Ninth Graders in Legal Outreach’s Summer Law Institute

Legal Outreach, Inc. prepares urban youth from underserved communities to compete at high levels by using intensive legal and educational programming as a tool for fostering vision, developing skills, enhancing confidence, and facilitating the pursuit of higher education.  This is done through law-related education programming and an intensive college preparatory program. Legal Outreach seeks exceptional […]

Legal Outreach Seeks Law-Related Education Coordinator

Organization Profile: For over 25 years, Legal Outreach has been raising the bar of academic achievement for urban youth from underserved communities in New York City. Through intensive legal and educational programs, Legal Outreach works with students from middle school through college to provide them with the vision, skills, and support they need to matriculate […]

The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Seeks a Human Rights Lawyer

The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is an independent, non-profit and strictly non-partisan organization that promotes human rights and the rule of law by documenting and reporting on human rights abuses in Iran. IHRDC’s in-depth reports and legal analysis are published in Persian and English and disseminated world-wide. The IHRDC focuses on allegations of […]

National LGBT Bar Association Michael Greenberg Writing Competition

The Michael Greenberg writing competition scholarship recognizes and encourages outstanding law student scholarship on the legal issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. The scholarship was established in memory of Michael Greenberg, former National LGBT Bar Association board member and Philadelphia attorney, who died in 1996 from complications related to AIDS. TOPIC: Legal […]

HOPE Public Interest News for Week of February 27, 2012

Please read below for upcoming events on campus, opportunities in the community, and other announcements:  Events on Campus: Monday, February 27th, Public Interest Lecture Series featuring Judge Marcia Caballero, 12:30 – 1:30 pm, A110: Join us for an informal lunch and discussion with Judge Marcia Caballero of the 11th Judicial Circuit. Judge Caballero has served […]

This Week at the CDO (Week of February 27, 2012)

Wednesday, February 29: Is it IN to be OUT – 12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m., Room F-409 Thursday, March 1: Informational Session on Careers in the US Department of State Foreign Service – 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m., Room F-209