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Location: New Orleans, LA
Deadline: Open until filled
Learn more about the Legal Intern position. This job posting has not been vetted by our office and the employer has not given assurances of non-discrimination or compliance with our recruitment policies.

Location: Arlington, VA
Deadline: Open until filled
Learn more about the Law and Policy Intern position. This job posting has not been vetted by our office and the employer has not given assurances of non-discrimination or compliance with our recruitment policies.

Location: Washington, D.C.
Deadline: Open until filled
Learn more about the Summer Legal Intern position.

OPIA staff discuss factors to consider when choosing a 2L summer job.

To prepare you to get the most out of your summer internship, read our suggestions for navigating some common summer internship challenges students face, particularly around communicating with your supervisor or the intern coordinator to make a clear request for what you need.

A few plaintiffs’ firms and several litigation boutiques participate in EIP, but most plaintiffs’ firms and private public interest law firms (PPILFs) do not participate in campus recruiting programs like EIP or V-PIIP. Learn more about how the hiring processes differ with these types of firms.

All HLS students who are receiving SPIF funding and will traveling abroad this summer, including international students returning to their home countries, must fulfill several pre-travel requirements prior to departing the U.S. If you have any questions, email International Legal Studies.

Relevant research topics will include human rights, reparations, and the impact of mass incarceration on individual and community well-being, broadly defined. The research assistant would be called upon to read and summarize relevant literature in law, sociology, politics, and history. The research assistant would be called upon to read and summarize relevant literature in law, sociology, politics,, and history and to contribute to writing, copy-editing and fact-checking review articles and other papers. 15 hours/week through the summer and additional hours in the fall, if possible.

Watch our panel of HLS alumni speak about their own journey from practicing at a law firm to a public interest career. Of varied backgrounds, our alums will share what they did to successfully make the transition and what they experienced along the way.

Location: Washington, D.C.
Deadline: Open until filled
Learn more about the Civil Rights Law Clerk (Part-Time) position.
This job posting has not been vetted by our office and the employer has not given assurances of non-discrimination or compliance with our recruitment policies.

Location: San Francisco, CA
Deadline: September 5, 2022
Learn more about Summer 2023 Clerkship position.
This job posting has not been vetted by our office and the employer has not given assurances of non-discrimination or compliance with our recruitment policies.

OPIA's end-of-year survey is a key opportunity to tell us what's working well in OPIA -- and what isn't! We will use your thoughts to inform our planning for future years. All responses to the survey are anonymous.

Location: Kampala, Uganda
Deadline: Open until filled
Learn more about the Summer Internship.

Watch this panel discussion with public-interest-minded current students as they reflect on their own decisions about whether to participate in EIP.

Professor Lucian Bebchuk and the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School are seeking incoming HLS students to work as research assistants during summer 2022 on research projects in the areas of corporate governance and law and finance. Some background or interest in the corporate area or in economics/finance could be useful but not required. Please email a CV and a cover note describing your interest and the extent of your availability during the summer to Marzieh Noori at programcoordinator@corpgov.law.harvard.edu.

Location: Multiple offices nationally
Deadline: August 31, 2022
Learn more about the Student Trainee (Field Examiner) position.
This job posting has not been vetted by our office and the employer has not given assurances of non-discrimination or compliance with our recruitment policies.

Location: Edison, NJ
Deadline: Open until filled
Learn about the Summer Internship, Immigration. This job posting has not been vetted by our office and the employer has not given assurances of non-discrimination or compliance with our recruitment policies.

Summer public interest job posting

Location: Boston, MA Deadline: June 3, 2022 Learn more about the Summer Internship.

Professor Goldsmith is looking for two to three 1Ls or 2Ls to work on the Water Wars feature of Lawfare. Water Wars is a monthly (potentially bi-monthly) column covering maritime news, analysis, and trends in the Indo-Asia Pacific. You would be expected to write approximately once every 4 weeks.

Tuesday, February 15 is the deadline to apply to spend the fall 2022 semester abroad.

Location: Remote
Deadline: May 20, 2022
Learn more about the Legal Fellow position.

Professor Natapoff is looking for one or two research assistants to help with several different criminal law-related projects, mainly an article on the legal relationship between the police and prosecutorial function. Preference for students who have taken criminal procedure and/or have a demonstrated interest in criminal law.

Julia Devanthéry, who co-teaches the Housing Clinic at the Legal Services Center and directs the Housing Justice for Survivors Project, seeks a research assistant on topics at the intersection of gender-based violence, housing instability, and the criminal legal system.

Research Assistant for Climate Change Regulation: to investigate a series of specific questions relevant to climate change mitigation policies and cases in the United States and to develop climate change resilience case studies.

Daniel Francis is looking for a research assistant with an interest in antitrust to work on a variety of projects in Spring 2022. Previous or concurrent antitrust experience, in the form of a class or other substantive exposure, would be preferred, but wild enthusiasm about antitrust is even more important. Interested applicants should send a resume / CV and transcript, along with a short cover email explaining the applicant’s interest, to Daniel Francis at dfrancis@law.harvard.edu.

Climenko Fellow Michael Francus seeks an RA with an interest in bankruptcy, public finance, health law, or state and local government. Michael’s current project explores public hospital bankruptcies. The RA’s work will largely focus on data in these bankruptcies and what they tell us about the reasons that public hospitals file, what they do in bankruptcy, and whether bankruptcy ultimately helps them as it does private businesses. The RA will also have the opportunity to read and give feedback as the article draft develops.

Sarah Winsberg seeks up to 3 research assistants to work on current projects on the legal history of common law, labor, slavery, and capitalism. The first project examines laws of "slave hiring," the practice of enslaved people working for others in exchange for payment to the slaveholder. The RA will primarily collect, read, and assess historical cases fitting the project's parameters. The ideal RA will have substantial availability in the first two thirds of the spring semester.

Office of Senate Counsel Internship Position Description    The Office of Senate Counsel is responsible for a variety of legislative and legal matters for the…

Interested in learning more about public international law work? These resources can help you begin your exploration.

Jobs to Move America is a strategic policy center that works to transform public spending and corporate behavior using a comprehensive approach that is rooted…

We are often asked by students interested in public service work about the value of extracurricular involvement; while we cannot offer formal career counseling before October 15, we can help you make choices about extracurricular activities before then.

We've expanded our popular summer public interest job search FAQs with additional answers to common general and post-grad public interest job search questions to help you get started or answer questions wherever you are in the process. Check out all of our FAQS!

Are you still searching for a 1L or 2L summer position? OPIA advisors are here to help - sign up for an open advising appointment!

Welcome to career advising at Harvard Law School! We enjoyed meeting the Class of 2023 during our introductory program on September 29. (If you missed the program, you can view the video and presentation slides). We are writing to provide additional information on meeting with OCS and OPIA.

The 1L Mock Interview Program on Monday, November 18, offers you a stress-free opportunity to practice your interview skills before starting your summer job search. Attorneys from the public and private sectors will be here to conduct mock-interviews and give you candid feedback. 

Attorneys general are independent state constitutional officers vested with extraordinarily broad criminal and civil responsibilities. Learn more about state AG work and resources available to you at HLS.

“If you spend 12 hours a day doing work you hate, at some point it doesn’t matter what your paycheck says.” The upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn’t make them happy at work.

A federal judge has struck down a decision by the Trump administration to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 U.S. Census, setting up what’s expected to be a drawn-out appeal process from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Through these examples, we highlight the paths of a number of alums who have taken varied career routes to show that there is no “right” path to a fulfilling career.

A comprehensive listing of diversity scholarships, clerkships, mentorships, internships, conventions, and job fairs available to law students.

"The point is not just to protect victims and hold people accountable—the deterrence function—but to make sure we’re using our resources to effectively address what led the person to commit this act."

1Ls are now able to apply for for entry into the Graduate Law program while 2Ls are able to apply for the One Year College Program. Online applications will be accepted until January 10, 2019. Other important deadlines for the program include:
January 10, 2019: Complete an interview with AFROTC Detachment Commander
February 1, 2019: Complete an interview with a Staff Judge Advocate

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Stephanie Gendell '98, a veteran advocate with Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, has joined the New York City Administration for Children’s Services.

"What I bring to it is really being out in the community, figuring out why people don’t vote, supporting them, figuring out how to engage with them and making it easier to vote in New York,”

The Office of Career Services (OCS) and the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA) welcomes 1Ls to career advising at Harvard Law School. We look forward to working with you and partnering with you to help you achieve your career goals. As you think about your career goals for the next three years, we encourage you to explore the many options available to you and make an advising appointment.

Listen to the Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA) and the Office of Career Services (OCS) for an introduction to our offices. Hear from OPIA and OCS staff and learn about career paths and hiring processes in the public and private sectors for J.D. students.