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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.

We are often asked by students interested in public service work about how to weigh their wide-ranging academic options while in law school. Our advice gives broad guidance on the choices you may be contemplating.

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.

If you haven’t yet secured an internship for this summer, don’t panic. There are still public interest employers that are actively hiring in March and even in April. If you put in the effort, apply broadly, and remain persistent, you WILL find a summer job.

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.

"Make space for an unplanned journey."

"I had no problem getting interviews."

"I have never worried about the 'perfect path'."

"I could never have anticipated that I would end up doing what I do now."

"I felt a bit insecure because my path didn't align with what I expected or what I saw others doing."

"I was concerned that my experience was too narrow."

"There is no wrong path--only a wealth of choices."

"Your first job is not necessarily your final job!"

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.

OPIA has compiled a few key dates that may be useful as you plan your summer internships and other commitments, including the confirmed 2022 EIP dates.

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

"I couldn't have predicted most of this."

"Very few paths are linear, and often the most fun experiences are those you weren't counting on."

"Embrace uncertainty and appreciate the unconventional path."

"I expect to have more shifts in my career down the line."

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.

Read our advice on communicating with employers throughout the potentially difficult public interest hiring timeline to make it easier for you to manage your timeline and make your decision.

"You're not committing for life!"

"My life since law school has been an adventure!"

"I could not have predicted where I would be now."

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.

"I had a lot of anxiety about picking the right path."