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
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










