Originally published in Student Lawyer magazine, October 2003 (Vol. 32, No. 2). All rights reserved.

ABA Division for Public Services Seeks Summer Interns

The ABA Public Services Division invites you to participate in the ABA's annual Public Service Summer Internship Program.

The internship is designed for law students to engage in an individualized public interest legal research and writing project during a 10-week summer period. With Public Services Division lawyers and a law school faculty reviewer, a student will develop and complete a substantive legal monograph.

Areas of involvement are: bioethics and the law, disability law, election law, environmental law, homelessness and poverty, immigration law, Law Library of Congress and access to legal resources, national security law, substance abuse, and public interest in law school and as a career.

Applicants must be entering their second or third year at an ABA-approved law school, identify a law school faculty member knowledgeable in the subject who will help review the work in progress, and demonstrate exceptional research and writing skills.

To apply, please submit the following: (1) a cover letter stating your interest and qualifications, (2) a résumé, (3) names and addresses of two references, and (4) an essay of three to five pages describing the public interest law research and writing summer project you propose in one or more of our areas of involvement or in the interplay between law and public policy decision-making in one of these substantive areas.

The position does not pay a stipend. Students are encouraged to incorporate the internship into an externship/internship program at their law school or to seek additional supportive law school funding where needed.

The deadline for applying is Jan. 31, 2004. For information on how to apply, contact Carrie Coleman at 202-662-8608 x3004, colemanc@staff.abanet.org.