The Institute for Humane Studies offers paid public policy internships. Participants spend a rewarding summer completing internships with more than 80 think tanks and policy organizations across the country, learning about the principles and practices essential to policy making, and critically analyzing current events and policies. The program includes instructive seminars, resume workshops, mentoring, and […]
The International Internship Program strives to contribute to the development of democracy and human rights throughout their international network by recruiting 2 interns from overseas, who have been working for human rights, democracy, and peace building organizations in their home countries, and by giving them an opportunity to experience and learn the history and development process […]
With her book Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits, Lesley Rosenthal, the astute General Counsel of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, has created the indispensable guide for the most common legal, governance and fundraising compliance issues facing nonprofits. Good Counsel, the first-of-its-kind guidebook written by the sitting General Counsel of a major […]
Spots are filling up fast! The 25th Annual Robert M. Cover Public Interest Law Retreat is taking place in Peterborough, New Hampshire from March 2-4, 2012. The Retreat brings together public interest law students and practitioners for an engaging weekend of learning, networking and fun. The 25th Annual Cover Retreat is being organized by students […]
Public Counsel is the largest pro bono law office in the nation and works with major law firms to change people’s futures. Their staff of fifty-one attorneys and forty-six support staff – including five social workers – along with over 5,000 volunteer lawyers, law students and legal professionals assisted over 32,000 low-income children, youth, adults and […]
FELOWSHIP FUNDING SOURCE FOR 1L’S: Goodwin Public Interest Fellowships for Law Students of Color Please note that you must be a registered PSLawNet user to view job postings. To register, go to PSLawNet and sign up as a ‘Job Seeker’.
INTERIGHTS is pleased to invite applications for “summer interns” for the period between May to September 2012. INTERIGHTS specialises in the strategic litigation of human rights cases before regional and international human rights bodies, on cases from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. With programmes of work on […]
Application deadline: 15 January 2012 Established in 1982, INTERIGHTS works to promote respect for human rights through the use of law. This is achieved this through a range of activities: strategic litigation through co-representation, legal support to applicants and third party interventions before international, regional, and national human rights courts and bodies; advising lawyers on […]
Application deadline: January 20, 2012 PILnet, the Global Network for Public Interest Law, is seeking a full-time Legal Officer for its Pro Bono Program. He/She will be based in PILnet’s Budapest office. PILnet is an international NGO devoted to building a global network to activate, empower and connect those who use legal tools to work […]
RebLaw 2012 will be held at YaleLawSchoolon the weekend of February 17-18. This year’s keynote speaker will be Gerald Lopez, UCLA law professor and author of “Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law Practice.” The keynote panel on “The Criminalization of Poverty” will feature Andrea Ritchie, co-author of “Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT […]