Nov 29, 2012
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas is accepting applications for summer 2013 Legal Program internships.? The ACLU is one of the nation?s foremost defenders of civil liberties and civil rights.? We are a nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending the Bill of Rights through litigation, legislation, and public education.? The Texas affiliate of the ACLU, founded in 1938, is headquartered in Houston, and includes regional offices in Austin and Brownsville.
Description:
The ACLU Foundation of Texas? Legal Program seeks highly motivated law students, with a demonstrated commitment to civil rights and civil liberties, and the initiative and energy to see projects to completion.? Preference will be given to second-year law students.? First-year law applicants should have a demonstrated commitment to civil rights.? Spanish language ability is preferred.
Legal Program interns will be supervised by the ACLU Foundation of Texas? Legal Director and/or staff attorneys.? Assignments include:
- Assisting in litigation;
- Investigating complaints;
- Completing fact research and legal analysis; and
- Drafting memoranda in preparation for litigation of civil rights cases.
The ACLU of Texas works across the spectrum of the Bill of Rights.? Our campaign priorities for 2011-2013 are Immigrants Rights, Youth Rights, Religious Freedom, and Criminal Law Reform.? Each intern will be assigned primary responsibility for working on cases and investigations in one or more of the campaign areas below and efforts will be made to accommodate the particular interests of each intern.
- Immigrant Rights Campaign:? focus is on ending state and local law enforcement of federal immigration law; ensuring equal protection of the law to all non-citizens; stopping abuse of power by federal authorities along our border; and ending civil immigration detention and sub-standard living conditions for non-citizens in custody.
- ? Criminal Law Reform Campaign: focus is on ending over-incarceration in Texas with an emphasis on eliminating racial disproportionality; ending the privatization of prisons and jails in Texas; and ending the death penalty in Texas.??
- Religious Freedom Campaign: focus is on ensuring K-12 public school curriculum and textbooks are free from government-sponsored religion; promoting the separation of church and state on public school campuses; and ensuring Texans are able to practice their faiths, or no faith at all, without government interference.
- Youth Rights Campaign:? focus is on keeping students from entering the criminal justice system; ending the use of solitary confinement of children in prisons and jails; and ensuring all children are treated equally in Texas schools.
Legal Program interns have the opportunity to participate in ACLU Foundation of Texas summer internship events, such as workshops, meetings with civil rights and social justice lawyers from around Texas, social events, and summer outings.
Funding
Unfortunately, the ACLU Foundation of Texas is unable to fund summer internships; however, we will assist students to obtain their own funding in any way we can.? We have had significant success working with students to secure grants and fellowship funding.? We will also assist students who wish to obtain clinical or academic credit for their internship.
Application:
For students attending law school outside of Texas, positions will be filled on a rolling basis.? Second-year law students should apply as soon as possible; first-year law students as soon after December 1 as possible.
Students attending law school in Texas are required to apply through the University of Texas School of Law?s Public Interest Career Day process.? We will be conducting interviews at the 2013 Career Day (http://www.utexas.edu/law/career/employer/pscd.html).? For students unable to participate in the Career Day or second-year law students in Texas who would like to secure an internship prior to the Career Day, please follow the submission and timing guidelines established for non-Texas law students.
Please send a cover letter, specifying which issue area you are interested in; a resume; a brief (no more than 5 pages) writing sample; and a law school transcript, if available.? Applications will not be accepted after January 31, 2013.? If you have joined the University of Texas School of Law?s Public Interest Career Day Interview program, please post documents to the ACLU of Texas? Symplicity account by January 7, 2013.
Out of state applicants not applying through Symplicity should send documents electronically in PDF or Word format to btorres@aclutx.org ?with ?Summer 2013 Legal Internship Application? in the subject line.
Please, no phone calls.
Please visit www.aclutx.org for additional information about the ACLU Foundation of Texas.
Source: http://www.aclutx.org/2012/11/29/summer-2013-legal-internship-opportunity/
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