Two-Year Fellowship at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School
Deadline: 1/15/2019
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law seeks a Climate Law Fellow for a two-year appointment beginning September 1, 2019. The Fellow must have received a JD or LLM within three years of the start date. Applications are due January 15.
Under the supervision of Michael Gerrard, Faculty Director and Michael Burger, Executive Director, the fellow will work on a wide variety of research and writing projects concerning climate change mitigation and adaptation; contribute to advocacy-oriented programs and projects; help organize conferences, seminars, and collaborative publications; contribute to conceptualization, management and implementation of the Center’s web resources; and oversee student interns and volunteers, among other projects.
Our past fellows have gone on to high-impact positions with leading environmental groups, government agencies, boutique and Big Law firms, financial sector firms, philanthropies and in academia.
Further information is available here.
University of Miami School of Law Environmental Justice Clinic Two-Year Fellowship Position
Deadline: 1/31/2019
The University of Miami excited to announce that they are hiring a new Mysun Foundation Fellow to start in May 2019. This is a two-year fellowship based in University of Miami School of Law’s Environmental Justice Clinic. For more information on the position and instructions on how to apply, please click here.
The University of Miami School of Law’s Environmental Justice Clinic provides rights education, interdisciplinary research, policy resources, and advocacy and transactional assistance to underserved low- and moderate-income communities in the contexts of the built and natural environment across the fields of civil rights, environmental protection, poverty law, and public health. Our current projects include two toxic tort class actions: one in federal court addressing an open dump under RCRA and one in state court addressing contamination from an incinerator, both contaminated sites were in historically segregated and predominantly minority communities. We are also working with communities to address municipal practices that are having a disproportionately adverse effect on disenfranchised communities, through law reform proposals, policy recommendations, fair housing litigation strategies, and community rights education workshops. One of our largest legal-political projects focuses on challenging policies that are facilitating the rapid mass displacement of these communities. Adding to this purview, the EJC plans to increasingly integrate issues and perspectives relating to climate change and climate justice into its projects and cases.
NRDC and Yale Joint Fellowship
NRDC and Yale are currently hiring for a joint environmental law fellowship. The two-year fellowship is available to graduates of all law schools starting in September 2019. For the first year, the Fellow will work at NRDC. During that time, the Fellow will focus on litigation or policy efforts to redress environmental and public health harms. For the second year, the Fellow will work at Yale, providing support for environmental law clinics, dual degree students, and events and activities relating to environmental law and policy. Please see the full fellowship description here (https://careers-nrdc.icims.com/jobs/4037/yale-environmental-law-fellow/job).
NYU School of Law Post-Graduate Fellowship
The Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law is hiring a Legal Fellow for a 1-2 year fellowship that can be post-JD or pre/post-clerkship. The Institute for Policy Integrity-a non-partisan think tank housed at New York University School of law-is seeking applicants for a legal fellowship. Legal Fellows work with Policy Integrity’s economist, lawyers and policy analysts on all these tasks, including drafting amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, D.S. Circuit, and other courts; drafting regulatory comments, petitions for rulemakings, and other formal submission to federal and state agencies; advising other advocacy organization and guiding them through meeting with the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; supervising NYC Law School students on their projects in the Regulatory Policy Clinic and publishing academic articles, op-eds, and other literature. Legal Fellows may be assigned projects across this whole range of area of may be tasked to specialize in a key area, such as energy policy, depending on the fellow’s interest and experience. Please see the full job posting here(https://policyintegrity.org/documents/Legal_Fellow_Position_Description.pdf).
To apply, interested attorneys should send (1) a cover letter, (2) a resume, (3) a law school transcript, (4) a writing sample, and (5) the names of three references to [email protected], with “Legal Fellow Application” in the subject line.
The Western Environmental Law Center is accepting applications from law students currently in their second or third year of law school for summer 2019 legal internship positions to work with our attorneys in Helena, Montana. We are looking for bright and motivated individuals committed to public interest environmental law. Under the supervision of a staff attorney, interns assist our attorneys with case development and strategy, conduct legal research, and draft pleadings, briefs, and other legal documents. Please email, as PDF attachments, a cover letter, resume, unofficial transcript, a short writing sample of 3-5 pages, and a list of three references to [email protected]. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until positions have been filled.
For students interested in learning more about interning at WELC, our very own Frank Sturges has offered his expertise. Frank interned at WELC last summer in their Helena office. Feel free to contact him at [email protected]