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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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn about entry-level and post-clerkship job search topics like how to get started, what hiring mechanisms different types of employers use, and how to find job opportunities.

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.

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.

A last-minute seat has opened up in the Spring 2022 Transactional Law Clinics. Please contact Maggie Bay (mbay@law.harvard.edu) a.s.a.p. if you would like to…

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.

The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic has space available for a small number of additional students in the spring 2021 semester.  Potential projects include…

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

The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs is offering several pre-approved independent clinical opportunities for the Spring 2022 semester. The full list of available…

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…

Location: San Francisco, CA Deadline: Open until filled Learn more about the Summer Associate position.

Learn the ins and outs of the [link_to id=102023 title="Public Interest Interview Program"]Public Interest Interview Program[/link_to].

Over 110 organizations have signed up to participate in this year's [link_to id=102023 title="Public Interest Interview Program"]Virtual Public Interest Interview Program (V-PIIP)[/link_to], either through virtual interviewing or resume collection! Take advantage of this exceptional opportunity to apply for summer and postgraduate positions with public interest organizations all across the country.

If you would like OPIA to review your materials for V-PIIP, you must submit them through our resume and cover letter review portal by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, August 6th.

Although the vast majority of public interest employers will not begin to consider applications for 2L summer internships until the fall, we wanted to alert you to a few earlier deadlines of which we are currently aware.

Learn more about the government employers currently recruiting through V-PIIP with these resources to help you prepare your applications.

Some of you may be considering government work for your 2L summer. Most federal (and some state and local) agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, offer formal internship programs.

Read how the 2L summer job search differs from the 1L summer job search in timeline, application strategy, networking, splitting summers, and application materials.

Once you hone in on the jobs for which you are interested in applying, it is important to start preparing your job search materials in advance. The typical application will include a resume, cover letter, and writing sample. Some employers will also ask for a transcript and references or recommendations. Follow our advice to help you submit materials that get you the interview.

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!

A significant majority of HLS graduates begin their public service careers through domestic and international fellowships offered by Harvard University and hundreds of other organizations. We provide a short roadmap for the coming months; stay tuned for more information on the post-graduate public interest job search and fellowships beginning in March, and mark your calendars for OPIA’s spring fellowship and job search events.

Missed the MLSC bidding deadline for the U.S. DOJ, Civil Rights Division, Disability Section? It's now extended to Friday, September 20, 2019! Learn more and submit your materials.

“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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