Public Interest Employers

Student Summer Public Interest Work

Each year, a significant number of law students devote half or all of their summer to work at a public interest, government or international organization. During the summer of 2007, Yale law students worked at the organizations listed below.

Public Interest Organizations

ABA—Washington, District of Columbia

ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project—New York, NY

ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project—Oakland, CA

ACLU National Prison Project—Washington, DC

ACLU Foundation of Southern California—Los Angeles, CA

ACLU National Headquarters—New York, NY

ACLU of Alaska—Anchorage AK

ACLU of Georgia—Atlanta, GA

ACLU of Massachusetts—Boston MA

ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief—Washington DC

ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project—New York, NY

Brennan Center for Justice-NYU School of Law—New York NY

Center for Appellate Litigation—New York NY

Center for Citizen Leadership—St. Louis MO

Center for Justice and Accountability—San Francisco, CA

Channel 13 Public TV- Religion & Ethics Newsweekly—Washington District of Columbia

Chicago Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law—Chicago, Illinois

Compassion Over Killing—Washington, District of Columbia

Connecticut Legal Services—Bridgeport CT

Council on Foundations—Washington District of Columbia

Fair Housing Justice Center—New York NY

Greater Boston Legal Services—Boston, MA

Human Rights Watch—New York NY

Immigrant Legal Resource Center—San Francisco, CA

International Crisis Group—Washington District of Columbia

Jerome Frank Legal Services Organization—New Haven CT

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law—Washington, District of Columbia

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights-SF Bay Area—San Francisco CA

Legal Aid Society—New York NY

Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia—Washington DC

Legal Momentum—New York, New York

Louisiana Capital Assistance Center—New Orleans, Louisiana

Ms. JD—New Haven CT

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, inc.—Washington DC

National Right to Life Committee—Washington District of Columbia

Natural Resources Defense Council—San Francisco, CA

Natural Resources Defense Council—Washington DC

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice—Newark New Jersey

New York Legal Assistance Group—New York NY

Planned Parenthood Federation of America—New York NY

Public Counsel—Los Angeles, California

SEIU—Washington, District of Columbia

SEIU Local 32BJ—New York NY

Sierra Club—San Francisco, CA

Southern Environmental Law Center—Atlanta, Georgia

Southern Environmental Law Center—Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Southern Poverty Law Center—Jackson, Mississippi

Stewards of Affordable Housing—Washington District of Columbia

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty—Washington, District of Columbia

The Constitutional Sources Project—Washington District of Columbia

The Legal Aid Society Employment Law Ctr.—San Francisco, CA

United Nations Department of Political Affairs—New York NY

Urban Justice Center, Mental Health Project—New York NY

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts—New York New York

Yale Law School- 9/11 Clinic—New Haven Connecticut

Government Organizations

Attorney General of Texas, Office of Solicitor General—Austin, TX

City of Chicago-Department of Law—Chicago IL

City of San Francisco Law Department—San Francisco California

District Attorney's Office- Maryland—Maryland

Federal Bureau of Investigation—Washington, District of Columbia

Federal Communications Commission—Washington, District of Columbia

Federal Defender Office—Hartford CT

Federal Public Defender- Central District of California—Los Angeles CA

Government of Argentina- Dept. of Environment & Sustainable Development—Buenos Aires Argentina

Hillary Clinton for President—Washington District of Columbia

Hon. Jed S. Rakoff—New York, NY

House Judiciary Committee—Washington, District of Columbia

John Edwards for President—Columbia South Carolina

John Edwards for President—Manchester New Hampshire

Judiciary of Hong Kong—Hong Kong

Miami-Dade County Attorney Office—Miami FL

New York City Law Department—New York NY

Obama for America—Chicago IL

Office of the Attorney General- California Department of Justice—Oakland CA

Office of the Mayor Cory Booker—Newark NJ

Office of the Public Defender—San Francisco California

Permanent Court of Arbitration—The Hague, Netherlands

Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia—Washington DC

San Francisco Office of the City Attorney—San Francisco, California

Senate Judiciary Committee—Washington, DC

Senator John Cornyn—New York New York

State Council-Legislative Affairs Office—Beijing, China

State Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina- Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor—Sarajevo

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California—Los Angeles CA

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona—Phoenix Arizona

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia—DC

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut—New Haven CT

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Idaho—Boise Idaho

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of MA—Boston MA

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of South Carolina—Greenville South Carolina

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York [EDNY]—Brooklyn NY

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois—Chicago, Illinois

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas—Dallas TX

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, San Francisco—San Francisco CA

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York [SDNY]—New York NY

 U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington—Seattle, Washington

U.S. Department of Commerce, General Counsel—Washington DC

U.S. Department of State, Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Vienna, Austria

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser—Washington, DC

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Asset Control—Washington DC

U.S. Department of Justice—Washington, DC
Civil Division, Appellate Section

National Security Division

Civil Division

Civil Division Torts Branch

Constitutional Torts

Counterterrorism Section

Criminal Appellate

Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Crimes Section

Office of Legal Policy
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Rockville MD

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission—New York NY

International Organizations

Article 19 —London UK

Asociacion Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia—Buenos Aires Argentina

Beijing Legal Aid & Research Center for Juveniles & Rural Migrants—Beijing, China

Center for Gender, Health & Justice—Cape Town, South Africa

Center for Legal and Social Studies—Argentina South America

Centre for Human Rights - University of Pretoria —South Africa

Documentation Center of Cambodia—Phnom Penh Cambodia

Georgian Young Lawyers' Association—Tbilisi, Georgia

International Justice Mission in South Asia

KWIECO- Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization—Moshi, Tanzania

Open Society Institute, Justice Initiative —Budapest Hungary

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons—The Hague Netherlands

Social & Economic Rights Action Center—Ogudu Nigeria

South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre—New Delhi, India

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees—Geneva

United Nations Mission in Sudan—Sudan

Yale Law School China Law Center—Beijing China

Yale Law School- Information Society Project—Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yale Summer Linkages Program—Brazil

Yale Summer Linkages Program—Santiago, Chile