Summer 2027 Legal Intern, Trone Center for Justice and Equality at Acluinternships · LumiJobs

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The ACLU seeks a Summer Legal Intern in the Legal Department’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality of the ACLU’s National office in Washington DC. This position can be remote or hybrid.
Qualifying applicants must currently be matriculated legal students and must be based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship.
The ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality leads cutting edge litigation focused on combatting inequity, oppression and dehumanization in the criminal legal system and systemic inequalities faced by communities of color across the country. The Center is comprised of five Projects/Programs working on these issues: the Capital Punishment Project, the National Prison Project, the Racial Justice Program, the Criminal Law Reform Project, and the John Adams Project. The Trone Center also leads the ACLU's work on unhoused justice, which focuses on challenging laws and practices that criminalize homelessness and protecting the rights of unhoused individuals.
The Trone Center for Justice and Equality is seeking a law student intern to work on the issues it addresses, including the following: combatting the criminalization of homelessness and protecting the rights of unhoused individuals, seeking to end excessively harsh criminal justice policies that result in mass incarceration, over-criminalization, and racial injustice; fighting for nationwide reforms to pretrial detention and surveillance, police practices, public defense systems, disproportionate sentencing and prosecutorial abuses of authority in the name of public safety; challenging the unfairness and arbitrariness of capital punishment while working towards the ultimate goal of abolishing the death penalty; improving conditions for people in prisons, jails, and detention centers and increasing oversight and accountability in places of detention; and confronting racial discrimination in education, housing, fair lending, policing, and the criminal justice system. The intern will be responsible for conducting legal research and writing support to the Center Director and Staff Attorney. The intern will also work collaboratively with various ACLU projects and affiliates on litigation and advocacy related to unhoused justice, racial justice, and criminal legal system change.
Conduct legal research and analysis
Draft legal memos, briefs, and other written products
Support the Center Director, Staff Attorney, and Legal Fellow in other tasks as assigned
What You'll Bring:
This Internship is open to law students who will have completed their first year of law school before the internship commences. Interns should possess the following:
Second- and third-year law school students pursuing a J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school; applicants must have completed at least one year of law school before the internship commences
Demonstrated commitment to the issues on which the Trone Center for Justice and Equality works
Outstanding legal research, writing, and communication skills

Summer 2027 Legal Intern, Trone Center for Justice and Equality

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