Spring 2027 Legal Intern, Immigrants' Rights Project- San Francisco
ACLU - Internships · CA, US
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About the Role
The ACLU seeks a Spring Legal Intern for the Immigrant Rights Project at the National office. This internship is for course credit only and requires applicants to be matriculated legal students based in the U.S.
Responsibilities
- Drafting memoranda, affidavits, and briefs
- Conducting legal and policy research
- 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
- Based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship
- Students enrolled at U.S. law schools who will have completed at school before the internship commences
- 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, and social justice
- Committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
- Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work
- Committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflicts
- Must formally submit an application
Skills
- Research
- Legal database research
- Internet research
- Verbal communication
- Writing
- Attention to detail
- Organizing
- Time-management
- Microsoft Office Suite
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Legal student
Salary/Compensations
- Course credit only
About the Company
- For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
- The Immigrants’ Rights Project is part of the Legal Department of the national ACLU and has offices in New York and San Francisco.
- For nearly 40 years, the Project has litigated in trial and appellate courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of immigrants and seek equal justice under the law.
- Our work has focused on due process, access to the courts, unfair detention, equal treatment, and state and local laws and policies.
- We work closely with partners at the national ACLU and affiliates, as well as allied organizations, to pursue litigation and to engage in and support other forms of advocacy and education.
Equal Opportunity
- Accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all.
- We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability.
- We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible.
- We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally.
- With this commitment in mind, we 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.