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.

Federal Government

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, DC

Environmental 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, MD

Securities & Exchange Commission - Boston, MA and Washington, DC

Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs - Washington, DC

Senate Judiciary Committee - Washington, DC

Senator 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)

State and Local Government

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, NY

City Attorney’s Office
Los Angeles, CA
New Orleans, LA
San Francisco, CA

City of New Orleans, Chief Administrative Office - New Orleans, LA

Connecticut Commission for Human Rights and Opportunities - Hartford, CT

New York City, Department of Education

Law Department - New York, NY

Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office - Boston, MA

Public Interest Organizations

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, DC

Advancement Project - Washington, DC

Alliance Defense Fund - Phoenix, AZ

Appalachian 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, NY

Center 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, NY

Community Economic Development Clinic, Yale Law School - New Haven, CT

Constitutional Accountability Center - Washington, DC

Constitution 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, CA

Electronic 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, NY

Innocence 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, CA

National 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, DC

Poverty & 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

Public Defenders

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 - Oakland

Orleans 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 Africa

Mental Disability Advocacy Centre - Budapest, Hungary

Supreme Court of India - New Delhi, India

Supreme 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, Nunavut

Women’s Watch - Beijing, China

Worker Rights Consortium - Dhaka, Bangladesh

World Bank
Office of Evaluation & Suspension - Washington, DC
Sanctions Board - Washington, DC
Country Office - Islamabad, Pakistan

Yale Summer Linkage Project – Argentina and Chile