Legal Internships

Legal Internships

We accept second and third year law student interns each semester and during the summer and winter terms to work at our offices in San Francisco.  Exceptional first year law students may be considered for the summer term.  These positions are unpaid.

Deadlines

The deadline for submissions for Fall 2010 is June 15, 2010.

The deadline for Spring 2011 is October 15, 2010.

The deadline for Summer 2011 is December 31, 2010.

Applications for the winter term are filled on a rolling and as-needed basis.

How to Apply

To apply for an internship please mail or email us a cover letter, resume, and transcript.  Please state the semester for which you are applying. Mail to:

CJA, 870 Market Street, Suite 680, San Francisco, CA 94102

or email: center4justice@cja.org

What to Include In Your Application

Please identify in your cover letter and/or resume:



1. Any relevant coursework (especially evidence, trial advocacy, human rights law, public international or comparative law, and immigration law), and your professor(s) for any human rights or international law courses;


2. Any language abilities, especially Spanish, French, Arabic, Farsi, Haitian Creole, Swahili, Somali or any southeast Asian languages.
   

We are particularly interested in students with some familiarity with human rights law and evidence. The work that you do will depend greatly on our case needs at the time of your internship, but you can expect that much of the work will involve legal research and writing. Please be aware that much of our work is litigation-related, and that a majority of research assignments may relate more to evidence, procedure and domestic law than to matters of international or human rights law.