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About the Role
The ACLU seeks a Summer Legal Intern for the Women's Rights Project at its National office in New York City. This internship offers course credit only and can be remote or hybrid. Applicants must be matriculated legal students based in the U.S. for the internship's duration.
Responsibilities
- Conducting legal and policy research
- Drafting legal memoranda
- Researching prospects for new litigation, including both factual and legal claims
- Researching and drafting materials for public education
- Legislative bill tracking and analysis
Requirements
- Currently matriculated legal students
- Must be based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship
- Law students who will have completed at least one year of law school before the internship commences or are in an LLM or SJD program
- Excellent research skills, including conducting internet and legal database research
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and writing
- Attention to detail, excellent organizing and time-management skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- The initiative to see projects through to completion
- A commitment to civil liberties, civil rights, social justice, and gender justice
- Committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
- Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
- Committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict
- Formally submit an application
Skills
- Research skills
- Internet research
- Legal database research
- Verbal communication skills
- Writing skills
- Attention to detail
- Organizing skills
- Time-management skills
- Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
Location
- New York City
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Intern
Education Level
- Matriculated legal students
- Completed at least one year of law school
- LLM program
- SJD program
Salary/Compensations
- $24/hour
Benefits
- Stipend available for those lawfully authorized to work
- Partial stipend for students receiving outside funding
- Reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities
About the Company
- The ACLU's Women's Rights Project, founded by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1972, fights for gender equity under law through systemic legal reform.
- The ACLU has worked for over 100 years to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
- The ACLU takes up tough civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people, including efforts to end mass incarceration, achieve full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establish new privacy protections, and preserve the right to vote or have an abortion.
- Accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU.
- The ACLU is a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability.
- The ACLU believes in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging, one that respects and embraces difference, treats everyone equitably, and empowers colleagues.
- The ACLU is committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally and externally.
Equal Opportunity
- Strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.