Who We Are

Just Futures Law is a woman of color-led immigration legal project that defends and builds the power of immigrants’ rights and criminal justice activists, organizers and community groups working to disrupt and dismantle our deportation and mass incarceration systems. We develop legal and advocacy strategies aimed at disrupting criminalization and deportation, file litigation aligned with organizing, and are building a political home for lawyers and legal workers who want to partner with directly-impacted communities to tear down the systems of oppression that have resulted in our mass deportation and incarceration state. We have published multiple reports through the Take Back Tech fellowship project, investigating how tech corporations and police surveillance drive mass deportation. We have represented individuals incarcerated under Texas’s Operation Lone Star program, brought civil rights litigation on behalf of immigrant rights organizers subjected to ICE retaliation, and sued a facial recognition company and local police over its unlawful surveillance activities in California.

About The Internship

Just Futures Law seeks a remote law student intern for Summer of 2025. The intern will support the organization’s litigation and program work around the fast-developing field of technology-driven immigration enforcement and local policing. Legal interns will be exposed to a range of legal research and writing projects including but not limited to affirmative or defensive casework, legal policy briefs, and legal support in the context of grassroots and national organizing campaigns.

• Time Commitment: A legal internship requires a minimum commitment of approximately 35 hours per week
• Internship Duration: Fall internships are for a 10 week period. Summer internships normally begin in May/June and conclude in August.
• Stipend: A stipend of up to $5,950 is available for those law students who do not receive outside funding. Students who receive outside funding are eligible for a partial stipend to bring their total funding up to the level of Just Futures Law’s stipend amount for that term, if applicable. Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit.
• Location: Anywhere in the United States. This is a remote internship and will be conducted virtually.
• Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit.

Requirements

·   Good work ethic and communication skills

·   Ability to work independently and a positive attitude

·   Excellent legal research and writing skills

·   Immigration law course or equivalent experience preferred

·   Strong commitment to racial justice, immigrant rights, and civil rights.

Application Procedure

The position is open until filled. Please send a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to team@justfutureslaw.org. Please indicate “Summer 2025 Law Intern” in the subject line. In your cover letter, please specify the time period that you are applying for, including an approximate start and end date of your internship. If your university requires working through a time-frame outside of these dates, please note that in your cover letter.

Deadlines: We will have separate application cycles for 1L and 2L law students.

• 2Ls are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible, as we plan to conduct application review and interviews in early November 2024.
• 1Ls are encouraged to submit applications before Jan. 15, 2025. 1L application review and interviews will begin in late January 2025.  

Just Futures Law is an equal opportunity employer and does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious beliefs, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

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