Job Opportunities

Professor Sachs is seeking additional teaching assistants for his Fall 2022 class in Civil Procedure. TAs will be available to help this year's 1Ls with emailed questions or in occasional office hours, whether in person or over Zoom. If interested, please contact him at ssachs@law.harvard.edu.

Visiting Professor Mariana Pargendler would like to hire a research assistant for a project on corporate corruption, ownership structures and corporate governance

Family Defense Clinic research and development assistance for LSC clinic.

Visiting Professor Carlos Portugal Gouvêa is looking for research assistants for ESG and Business and Human Rights.

Professor Schwartztol is looking for an RA to assist in research on democracy reform, election administration, and anti-discrimination law.

Professor Kaplow is looking for research assistants, mainly for taxation & antitrust but also for tax theory and policy and for law and economics.

Looking for new Research Assistants to work with Prof. Cohen and others on the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR).

Emeritus Professor Hal S. Scott seeks to hire a research assistant to work with a former top Treasury official on the question of what corporations know about their shareholders.

Professor Kaplow is looking for research assistants, mainly for taxation & antitrust. Please send to Molly Eskridge (HA318A, meskridge@law.harvard.edu) the following information: (1) a letter indicating your area(s) of interest, relevant background, and amount of time available, (2) a resume, and (3) a law school transcript (informal is fine). Incoming 1Ls are encouraged to apply. Please also include undergraduate information for item #3. (Please note that you will need to be in Cambridge to begin work.)

Research Assistant for Professor Parker

Location: Boston, MA or remote
Deadline: Open until Filled
Learn more about the Law student intern.

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.

Research Assistants are needed for the summer and fall to work on a project involving solitary confinement of immigrants.

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.

The Health Law and Policy Clinic (HLPC) of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) of HLS is seeking a paid Research Assistant (RA). HLPC is currently working with the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) to collect data regarding Medicaid coverage of hepatitis C treatment. The RA will review state Medicaid websites for 8 states, identifying and analyzing policy documents to determine whether specific coverage restrictions for hepatitis C treatment are in place. No health law knowledge or experience is necessary.

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.

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

The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) of Harvard Law School is seeking a paid Research Assistant (RA). CHLPI is currently working with the Illinois Community Health Worker Association to conduct roundtable sessions with stakeholders. The RA will review and prepare transcripts from roundtable meetings for analysis including reviewing transcripts and video recordings in order to reorganize transcripts according to speaker and to correct text for errors where necessary. No health law knowledge or experience is necessary.

Emeritus Prof. Hal S. Scott is seeking a research assistant to work on a section of the 24th edition of his textbook, International Finance: Transactions: Policy and Regulation (co-author Anna Gelpern, Georgetown Law). A team of RAs will work in close contact with the authors, using materials already collected and some outside research, to update chapters from the last edition (2 years ago). Prof. Scott seeks an RA to work specifically on two chapters of the textbook discussing European capital markets and financial regulations.

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.

Research Assistant positions involving administrative law, climate change, environmental law, and behavioral economics for Prof. Cass Sunstein

Research Assistant Positions in Health Law for Prof. Glenn Cohen

Professor Lessig is looking for RAs who can devote substantial time to research, beginning as soon as possible but especially over the summer. If interested, please send CV and a brief statement of interest to a2lessig@pobox.com.

Prof. Glenn Cohen Seeks Research Assistants for Health Law/Bioethics/Drug Law Projects

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.

We at the Islamic Law Blog are looking for a staff editor to join our editorial team (remotely) at Harvard’s Program in Islamic Law / SHARIAsource. This staff editor will be working with Professor Intisar Rabb, editor-in-chief, and a small team of dedicated editors. We seek a candidate who has superb editorial, organizational, and scholarly skills and interest in scholarship on Islamic law and history. Expected time commitment varies, but is estimated to be 10-20 hours per month; the position comes with a stipend.

Summer public interest job posting

Professor Kraakman is looking for an RA to assist in research on the composition of corporate boards.

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

For our research activities and projects within Harvard’s SHARIAsource, we are looking for a Digital Humanities assistant. As part of the SHARIAsource Digital Humanities team led by Dr. Yusuf Celik, you will be mainly working on a variety of data-oriented tasks. These tasks include but are not limited to recording and updating information on historical sources, figures, and locations. Applicants should submit (1) a CV/resume, (2) an unofficial transcript, and (3) a brief statement of interest at https://harvardlaw.formstack.com/forms/pil_dh_application_spring_2022

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.

For our research activities and projects within Harvard’s SHARIAsource, we are looking for a (freelance) Ruby on Rails developer with React experience. As part of the SHARIAsource team led by Professor Intisar Rabb, you will be working on the further development of SEARCHStrata, our in-house catalogue and virtual library tool. The initial project duration will be three months for 20 hours per week. Payment will be commensurate with experience.

Professor Subramanian seeks a research assistant to help with a small project on freezeouts. The project will primarily involve data collection and some writing. If interested, please send your resume or CV and a brief statement of interest to Jenna Cowie (jcowie@law.harvard.edu).

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

RAs Needed for Randomized Trial of Accreditation of Health Care in Jails

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.

Research assistants needed for projects related to modern American criminal procedure and (separately) medieval English felony law.

RA to advise on causation in tort law in civil law countries

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.

The new Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Sue Hendrickson, and the Managing Director, Elisabeth Sylvan, are looking to hire entrepreneurial research assistants for the spring semester to support their leadership of the Center and the Center’s engagement on a broad range of initiatives relating to the rapidly evolving relationship between the Internet, technology and society.

Professor Goldsmith is interested in hiring a research assistant for work over the summer. The research will mostly concern federal courts issues. The work can be part time and at a distance. If you are interested send a resume and transcript to dqashat@law.harvard.edu.

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.