CHRGJ Summer Internships

The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law offers a full-time summer internship program, which normally runs for about 10 weeks from June to August.

Interns have worked under the guidance of one or more of the Center’s human rights faculty and staff on activities related to the Center’s current projects. CHRGJ works across a rich and diverse range of issues. The Center is home to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights; the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence; the Global Justice Clinic, and the Just Security online forum.

CHRGJ faculty and staff work on a wide range of projects. Topics covered include inequality and the global economy, with a focus on the intersection between human rights and tax policy; transitional justice; data visualization; human rights methodology; vicarious trauma and resilience among human rights defenders; and US national security law and international law involving use of force and armed conflict.

CHRGJ's Summer 2017 Interns: (L-R) Charlie Krem, Anna Chan, Julie Wilson, Hira Ahmed, Elizabeth Dominic, and Hannah Ryan
CHRGJ's Summer 2017 Interns: (L-R) Charlie Krem, Anna Chan, Julie Wilson, Hira Ahmed, Elizabeth Dominic, and Hannah Ryan

Interns’ work include legal research, writing, and advocacy support. Interns are expected to work well independently and as a team, and are encouraged to engage with staff and visiting scholars as active colleagues. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone seeking to enhance their knowledge of human rights law and practice and/or to pursue a career in public interest and social justice.

This internship is open to law students or recent law graduates, including LLMs. As it is unpaid, candidates are encouraged to seek funding from their Public Interest Law Centers and other sources.

Qualifications

Required

Preferred

Application Instructions

The application cycle for summer 2022 is closed. Stay tuned for summer 2023!

Apply by 3/31: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Summer Internship
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Summer Internship

The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law is currently accepting applications for its full-time 10-week summer legal internship program, which will run from May 30 to August 4, 2023. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until March 31, 2023.

The Center houses the Global Justice Clinic, the Earth Rights Advocacy Clinic, and several projects, including the Technology and Human Rights Project, Human Rights and Privatization Project, and the Prevention Project. Center faculty and staff will be working across a diverse range of issues, including:

  • Community-based human rights monitoring and data analysis
  • Human rights impacts of the digitalization of government
  • Climate and environmental justice
  • Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Human rights violations in the extractives industry
  • Rights of migrants
  • Preventive potential of initiatives at the intersections of human rights and civil society networks, constitutionalism, culture, the environment, health, and security

For additional information on CHRGJ’s current research, please visit our website and subscribe to our mailing list to receive announcements regarding new projects.

Interns’ work will include legal research, writing, and advocacy support. They will be expected to work well independently and as a team, and will be encouraged to engage with CHRGJ staff and visiting scholars as active colleagues. Interns will also participate in a series of educational seminars held every two weeks. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone seeking to enhance their knowledge of human rights law and practice and/or to pursue a career in public interest and social justice.

Application instructions

Please send the following to Gabrielle Apollon at gabrielle.apollon@law.nyu.edu with the subject: 2023 Summer Legal Internship:

  1. application form
  2. cover letter tailored to the area(s) of CHRGJ you are most interested in working
  3. current CV
  4. names and contact information of two references
  5. unofficial law school transcript
  6. writing sample (English-language, 10 pages maximum, excerpts acceptable)

Application materials should be consolidated into a single PDF file in the order listed above and received by no later than March 31, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and candidates are encourage to apply early.

Funding

Due to limited resources, candidates are strongly encouraged to seek other funding sources, such as their law school’s public interest law centers, local bar foundations and Equal Justice America.

Qualifications

Required

  • Current or recent enrollment in a law degree program (JD, LLM, or equivalent)
  • Eligibility to intern in the United States
  • Excellent analytical, research and writing skills as demonstrated by academic record and/or writing sample(s)
  • Demonstrated commitment to human rights and social justice
  • Knowledge of the international legal system
  • Strong capacity to work independently and with people from diverse backgrounds, including partner organizations

Preferred

  • Work experience prior to law school

Not required but will be considered assets for some positions:

  • Fluency and/or ability to conduct legal and human rights research in another language-particularly Spanish, French, and/or Haitian Kreyol
  • Experience with litigation in national, regional, or international bodies
  • Quantitative research skills
  • Systematic qualitative research skills, e.g., content coding, focus groups
  • Knowledge of extractive industries (oil, mining, and gas)
  • Knowledge of international financial institutions
  • Interest in corporate accountability or business and human rights

Applications from persons of color, LGBTQI persons, women, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged.

 

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