Public Interest Employers
Each year, a significant number of law students devote half or all of their summer to work to public interest. During the summers of 2011 and 2012, Yale Law students worked at the organizations listed below. To jump to a specific public interest category, select from the following: Federal Government, State/Local Government, Public Interest Organizations, Public Defenders, and Public Interest Organizations Abroad.
Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel - Washington, DC
Department of Education - Washington, DC
Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights - Chicago, IL and Washington, DC
Department of Justice, Community Relations Service - New York, NY
Department of Justice – Washington, DC
Antitrust Division
Civil Division, Appellate Section
Civil Fraud Section
Federal Programs Branch
Civil Rights Division
Housing and Civil Enforcement Section
Voting Section
Criminal Division, Appellate Section
Computer Crime & IP Section
Office of Policy & Legislation
Environment & Natural Resources Division
Environmental Defense Section
National Security Division, Counterterrorism Section
Office of Legal Policy
Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser
Department of Treasury - Washington, DCEnvironmental Protection Agency - Region 1 – Boston, MA
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Atlanta, GA
Executive Office of the President - Washington, DC
Domestic Policy Council
National Economic Council
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Office of the Vice President
Office of White House Counsel
Federal Communications Commission, Office of the Chairman - Washington, DC
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Chairman - Washington, DC
Library of Congress, Office of the General Counsel - Washington, DC
Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Rockville, MDSecurities & Exchange Commission - Boston, MA and Washington, DC
Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs - Washington, DC
Senate Judiciary Committee - Washington, DCSenator Charles Schumer, Judiciary Committee - Washington, DC
U.S. Attorneys
Arizona - Phoenix
California - Los Angeles (CDCA)
California - San Francisco (NDCA)
California - San Jose (NDCA)
California - Santa Ana (CDCA)
Colorado - Denver
Connecticut - New Haven
District of Columbia - Washington
District of Maryland - Greenbelt (Southern Division)
District of Massachusetts - Boston
Georgia- Atlanta (NDGA)
Massachusetts - Boston
New Jersey - Newark
New Mexico - Albuquerque
New York - Brooklyn (EDNY)
New York (SDNY)
Pennsylvania - Philadelphia (EDPA)
Virginia - Alexandria (EDVA)
Washington - Seattle (WDWA)
Alaska Department of Law - Juneau, AK
Attorney Generals
Boston, MA
California Department of Justice - Oakland, CA and Los Angeles, CA
New York State - New York, NYCity Attorney’s Office
Los Angeles, CA
New Orleans, LA
San Francisco, CACity of New Orleans, Chief Administrative Office - New Orleans, LA
Connecticut Commission for Human Rights and Opportunities - Hartford, CT
New York City, Department of EducationLaw Department - New York, NY
Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office - Boston, MA
ACLU
California - Los Angeles
Immigrants’ Rights Project - San Francisco, CA
Michigan, Fund of Michigan - Detroit
Mississippi - Jackson
New York - Lesbian & Gay Rights Project
New York - Reproductive Freedom Project
New York - Women’s Rights Project
Texas - Austin
Washington - Seattle, WA
National Prison Project - Washington, DC
Program on Freedom of Religion - Washington, DCAdvancement Project - Washington, DC
Alliance Defense Fund - Phoenix, AZAppalachian Citizens Law Center - Whitesburg, KY
Appalachian Mountain Advocates - Lewisburg, WV
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty - Washington, DC
Bet Tzedek Legal - Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A - Brooklyn, NY
California Rural Legal Assistance - Oxnard, CA
Campaign Legal Center - Washington, DC
Center for Biological Diversity - San Francisco, CA
Center for Constitutional Rights - New York, NYCenter for Individual Rights - Washington, DC
Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment - San Francisco, CA
Change to Win (Warehouse Workers United) - Los Angeles, CA
Children’s Rights - New York, NYCommunity Economic Development Clinic, Yale Law School - New Haven, CT
Constitutional Accountability Center - Washington, DCConstitution Project - Washington, DC
Death Penalty Project/Doughty Street Chambers Fellowship - London, UK
DNA – People’s Legal Services - Window Rock, AZ
Earthjustice - Denver, CO and San Francisco, CA
East Bay Community Law Center - Berkeley, CA
Education Pioneers - Oakland, CAElectronic Frontier Foundation - San Francisco, CA
Environmental Defense Fund - New York, NY and San Francisco, CA
FairVote – Center for Voting & Democracy - Takoma Park, MD
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders - Boston, MA
Greater Boston Legal Services - Boston, MA
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center - New Orleans, LA
Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law - Los Angeles, CA
Human Rights Law Foundation - Washington, DC
Humane Society of the US - Washington, DC
Indego Africa - New York, NYInnocence Project - New Orleans, LA
Institute for Justice - Arlington, VA
Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School - New Haven, CT
Juvenile Regional Services - New Orleans, LA
LatinoJustice PRLDEF - New York, NY
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law - Chicago, IL and Washington, DC
Lawyers for Children - New York, NY
Legal Aid Society - New York, NY
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, Appellate Advocacy Project - Washington D.C.
Legal Momentum - New York, NY
Louisiana Bucket Brigade - New Orleans, LA
Louisiana Capital Assistance Center - New Orleans, LA
Make the Road by Walking - New York, NY
MALDEF - Washington, DC
MFY Legal Services - New York, NY
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund - New York, NY and Washington, DC
National Center for Youth Law - Oakland, CANational Immigrant Justice Center - Chicago, IL
National Immigration Law Center - Los Angeles, CA
New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) - New Orleans, LA
New York Civil Liberties Union - New York, NY
New York Legal Assistance Group - New York, NY
Oceana, Inc. - Washington, DC
Planned Parenthood Federation of America - Washington, DCPoverty & Race Research Action Council - Washington, DC
Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Legal Services - Louisville, KY
Public Advocates, Inc. - San Francisco, CA
Public Citizen - Washington, DC
Public Counsel Law Center - Los Angeles, CA
Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA
Public Interest Law Initiative - Beijing, China
Public International Law & Policy Group - Washington, DC
Red Hook Community Justice Center - Brooklyn, NY
Sargent Shriver National Center on Employment Law - Chicago, IL
South Brooklyn Legal Services - Brooklyn, NY
Tahirih Justice Center - Washington, DC
Texas Civil Rights Project - Austin, TX
Trust for Public Land - New York, NY
Tulane Public Law Center - New Orleans, LA
UNITE HERE! (Local 11) - Los Angeles, CA
Washington Lawyers’ Committee - Washington, DC
Bronx Defenders - Bronx, NY
Defender Association - Seattle, WA
Federal Defenders of Connecticut - New Haven, CT
Federal Defenders of New York - New York, NY
Federal Defender Program - Chicago, IL
Federal Public Defender-District of Maryland - Baltimore, MD
Federal Public Defender – Middle District of Florida - Orlando, FL
Office of the Appellate Defender - New York, NY
Office of the Public Defender
Federal, District of Arizona - Phoenix
Connecticut - New Haven
California - OaklandOrleans Public Defenders - New Orleans, LA
Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases - Lubbock, TX
San Francisco Public Defender’s Office - San Francisco, CA
Texas Defender Service - Houston, TX
Public Interest Organizations Abroad
Alternative Law Forum - Bangalore, India
Asylum Access - Quito, Ecuador
Center for Child Law, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria - Pretoria, South Africa
Center for Policy Alternatives - Colombo, Sri Lanka
Center on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, University of Palermo - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez - Mexico City, Mexico
Centro de los Derechos Migrante - Mexico City, Mexico
DESGUA - Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Documentation Center of Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
European Court of Human Rights - Strasbourg, France
GISTI - Paris, France
International Justice Mission - Kampala, Uganda and Manila, Philippines
Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project - Amman, Jordan and Istanbul, Turkey
Lawyers for Human Rights - Johannesburg, South Africa and Pretoria, South AfricaMental Disability Advocacy Centre - Budapest, Hungary
Supreme Court of India - New Delhi, IndiaSupreme Court of Israel - Jerusalem, Israel
Supreme Court of Pakistan - Islamabad, Pakistan
Timap for Justice - Freetown, Sierra Leone
United Nations Development Programme - Kathmandu, Nepal
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - The Hague, Netherlands
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda - The Hague, Netherlands
Office on Drugs & Crime - Nairobi, Kenya
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation - Iqaluit, NunavutWomen’s Watch - Beijing, China
Worker Rights Consortium - Dhaka, Bangladesh
World Bank
Office of Evaluation & Suspension - Washington, DC
Sanctions Board - Washington, DC
Country Office - Islamabad, PakistanYale Summer Linkage Project – Argentina and Chile













