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Law Student Immigration Listserv
We have created a free e-mail forum for law students interested in
immigration issues. The list currently contains over 100 immigration law
students from around the nation. Members periodically post information on
helpful immigration law resources. You do not have to be a member of the
National Immigration Project to join, but we do encourage law students to
take advantage of our low ($25) membership rates.
If you are interested in joining the listserv, e-mail Ana Manigat.
Internships at the Immigration Project
2010 Spring Internship: OPEN
Academic Year Volunteer Internships
National Immigration Project academic-year volunteer interns assist our
staff by taking on projects involving legal research, writing amicus
briefs, writing comments on proposed immigration regulations, responding to
letters for incarcerated noncitizens, providing
technical assistance to lawyers or legal workers around the country
(depending on experience), organizing and participating in legal and
legislative strategy sessions via conference call on pending issues at the
national level, etc. All of our work is focused on immigration law and
carried out via email, listservs, telephone, and
fax. We serve as a national immigration legal back-up center and do not
provide direct service to clients at our office. Hours are flexible,
although we ask for a minimum commitment of ten hours per week from
academic-year interns. We give preference to applicants with
experience in immigration law.
Email your cover
letter and resume or any questions to Ellen Kemp.
Summer Internships
2010 Summer Internship: OPEN.
National Immigration Project typically has only one opening
(unpaid) for a summer law student intern to assist our staff by taking on
projects involving legal research, responding to letters for incarcerated noncitizens, writing comments on proposed immigration
regulations, writing amicus briefs, providing technical assistance to
lawyers or legal workers around the country (depending on experience),
organizing and participating in legal and legislative strategy sessions via
conference call on pending issues at the national level, etc. All of our
work is focused on immigration law and carried out via email, listservs, telephone, and fax. We serve as a national
immigration legal back-up center and do not provide direct service to
clients at our office. The internship is located in Boston, MA.
For summer 2010, we are looking for a law student or
graduate with a completed immigration law class. We ask for a minimum full-time
summer commitment of 10 weeks, but we may give preference to applicants who
can stay longer and who have experience in immigration law.
Email a cover letter,
resume, writing sample, and/or any questions to Ellen Kemp. Be sure to
specify if you meet the immigration law class requirement and also how long
you would be available. Thank you.
Other
Volunteer and Intern Projects
For more information on immigration-related volunteer opportunities, e-mail Ellen Kemp.
Detention Watch Internships - Directory of Immigration Internships
The Project has joined efforts with the Detention Watch Network (DWN) to
provide opportunities for students who wish to work for the rights of
immigrants (both children and adults) being held
in detention. This Directory was created as a Detention Watch Network
Resource by: the American Bar Association’s Immigration Pro Bono
Development and Bar Activation Project, the Catholic Legal Immigration
Network (CLINIC), the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), and
the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. Click
the following link to access the directory. Immigration Internships - Immigration
Detainee Defense Initiative Directory.
National Lawyers Guild
Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowship - NOT AVAILABLE FOR 2010
South Florida Internships
For the past ten years, the National Immigration Project of the National
Lawyers Guild has sent law students to South Florida, and more recently, to
the U.S./ Mexico border to volunteer in agencies that are at the forefront
in the fight for immigrants’ rights. These students have worked during
winter and spring breaks with asylum seekers, detainees, and other noncitizens seeking immigration status. In this
project, they employ advocacy skills in a context quite different from a
clinic or classroom. Click on the following link for more details. National Immigration Project Volunteer Project.
The New England Immigrant & Detainee Response Network
Needs volunteers to attend public hearings on detainment and post-9/11
enforcement issues and to help with collecting other kinds of relevant
background information on immigrant detainees. For more
information contact Urszula Masny-Latos,
President of the Mass. NLG Chapter, at 617 227-7335 or by e-mail.
Post-9/11 Hotline
The San Francisco Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has started a legal
support hotline. If you are interested in helping with on-call intake or
legal supervision for this hotline service, please visit www.nlg.org/sf/volunteer.html.
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