Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Upcoming Events

TONIGHT, DEC 1: Tragic Gay Movie Night, Phid House, 8 PM. We'll be showing "Gia".

TOMORROW, DEC 2: Domestic Violence and LGBTQ Relationships: A Talk with Cristy Carpenter: 12:15 PM, 220 HH (cosponsored with Family Law Project)

TOMORROW, DEC 2: General Body Meeting. Elections, 3L Farewells, non-pizza food! 6:15 PM, 138 HH.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Public Service Job Resources

Last week Outlaws, APALSA, OPIS, LLSA, and ACS cosponsored a Public Service Job Event for 1Ls with panels on different areas of public interest law. Below please find some of the resources discussed at the event.

Thanks to Kaitlin for all her hard work on organizing!

GENERAL RESOURCES
PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIPS:

Equal Justice America (nationwide): Equal Justice America offers fellowships of up to $4,000 to students at the law schools listed below who work full-time during Summer 2009 for organizations providing direct civil legal assistance for the poor.
http://www.equaljusticeamerica.org/prev_applications/ApplicationSummer.htm
Equal Justice Works Summer Corps (nationwide - NON-POLITICAL work only)- Summer Corps is an AmeriCorps-funded program that in 2010 will provide more than 600 law students with the opportunity to earn a $1,000 education award voucher for dedicating their summer to a qualifying legal project at a nonprofit public interest organization
(http://www.equaljusticeworks.org/communities/participants/summercorps)
J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund (nationwide): A prize of two thousand dollars will be awarded to one or more college or university students involved in public service. The award is meant to enable the student to gain practical experience in public service by taking a no-pay or low-pay: http://www.jwsaxefund.org/apply.php
Massachusetts Bar Foundation Legal Intern Fellowship Program (Massachusetts only)- To assist law students in gaining practical experience in the public sector, the Massachusetts Bar Foundation awards up to six (6) stipends of $6,000 each to law students who intern during the summer months at nonprofit organizations providing civil legal services to low-income clients in Massachusetts.
(http://www.massbarfoundation.org/grant-programs/legal-intern-fellowship-program)
Public Interest Law Initiative (Chicago only)- PILI funds dozens of 400-hour internships for first and second-year law students from across the country to work at public interest law agencies in the Chicago area. PILI also offers a limited number of 200-hour school year internships for Chicago area law students. http://www.pili-law.org/internships.htm

JOB WEBSITES:

Internships USA- Federal Legal Internships: http://www.internships-usa.com/fedlaw/fedind.htm
PSJobnet: Includes job information; funding information; how to apply; where to apply; etc. http://www.pslawnet.org/
UMich OCS: http://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/publicservice/practicearea/international/Pages/default.aspx
Idealist Links to different non-profit organizations and materials. idealist.org/career
Yale Guide to International Public Interest Law 2007-08 (This is a long guide (150 pp); you can request a PDF version from Sara Malkani via email)

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GOVERNMENT

JOB RESOURCES:
OPS website with links. The website also has connections to different students who have worked in these fields before, and you should feel free to contact them. http://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/publicservice/practicearea/Pages/governmentlaw.aspx
There are opportunities with the Department of State; Capitol Hill; White House; etc. State Department: http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/
University of Arizona Website: All the different volunteer and honors program websites. Username: cookie, Password: dough
http://www.law.arizona.edu/career/honorshandbook.cfm
Department of Justice- Volunteer program: http://www.justice.gov/oarm/arm/int/legalinternjq.htm
Catalog of Federal Legal Jobs: http://www.makingthedifference.org/federalcareers/law.shtml
Government Law Links Page: http://people.usd.edu/~legalint/gov.html
If you are interested in working on Capitol Hill: Tom Manatos Job Listserv, or RollCall: http://www.rollcall.com/
If you are trying to get a job with think tanks. Go to their respective websites and apply directly. Examples: Council on Foreign Relations, Brookings Institute, CATO, Carnegie Endowment for Peace.
If you are interested in “rule of law” type work, ABA offers different divisions: http://www.abanet.org/careercounsel/crcofferings1.html


CIVIL RIGHTS
JOB RESOURCES:
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. http://www.naacpldf.org/content/pdf/jobs/Internship_Summer_2010.pdf
GLAD Internships: http://www.glad.org/help/internships/
Feminist Internships: http://www.yale.edu/wc/feminist%20internships.html
Lambda Legal Internships: http://www.lambdalegal.org/about-us/jobs/summer-internships-for-law.html
ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities: http://www.abanet.org/irr/interns.html
ACLU- (various Internship programs): http://www.aclu.org/careers/8
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Career Opportunities: http://www.usccr.gov/jobs/jobs.htm
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - Career Center: http://www.civilrights.org/career_center/

FELLOWSHIP RESOURCES:
Carol H. Pitchersky Development Fellowship: http://www.civilrights.org/about/fellowship/
Human Rights Campaign (LGBT advocacy): http://www.hrc.org/about_us/5628.htm
Thurgood Marshall Fellowship: http://www.lccr.com/about_jobs.shtml#TMF
George N. Lindsay Civil Rights Legal Fellowship: http://www.lawyerscommittee.org/about?id=0006

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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
GENERAL INTERNATIONAL JOB RESOURCES:
International Law Institute: 
http://www.ili.org/
Amnesty International Employment and Internships:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/about/employment.do
Arms Control Association Internships: http://www.armscontrol.org/internships.asp
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Jobs and Internships: http://www.cceia.org/about/jobs/positions.html
The Carter Center Internships and Careers Internships: http://www.cartercenter.org/involved/internship/index.html
Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives: http://www.abcny.org/VanceCenter/index.htm
Freedom House Employment and Internships: http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=13
Human Rights Watch-Fellowships in International Human Rights for Law Students: http://www.hrw.org/en/about/jobs
International Court of Justice Employment: http://www.icj-cij.org/registry/index.php?p1=2&p2=5&p3=3
International Criminal Court Job Opportunities: http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/Recruitment/Job+opportunities/
InterAction (American Council for Voluntary International Action):
Comprehensive links to organizations and coalitions that provide 
humanitarian assistance to the world's poor. http://www.interaction.org/career-opportunities
International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES):
http://www.ifes.org/careers.html
Lawyers Without Borders http://www.jobtarget.com/home/index.cfm?site_id=175 
http://www.lwob.org/Pages/ContentPage.aspx?zkXbC2o7SrsQed9E8jw0qvyiMY%2bkybJnSjDsYSBkcu4%3d

Peace Brigades International Jobs and Volunteering: http://www.peacebrigades.org/get-involved/
United Nations Headquarters Internship Program 
Deadline: Send application no later than six months before the date you would like to begin work. 
http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/sds/internsh/index.htm
US Committee for Refugees Internships: http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1096&subm=54&area=Participate
American Society for International Law – contains database of organizations on its website. www.asil.org

AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONS:
African Development Bank Employment: http://www.afdb.org/en/careers/


ASIAN ORGANIZATIONS:
Asian Development Bank,
Young Professionals Program, Internships, Professional Staff Positions: http://www.adb.org/Employment/ypp.asp
Asia Society Career Opportunities: http://www.asiasociety.org/about/career-opportunities

EUROPEAN ORGANIZATIONS:
American Bar Association-Central and East European Law Initiative Internships: http://www.abanet.org/rol/opportunities/internships.shtml
European Roma Rights Center Employment Opportunities: http://errc.org/Employment_index.php
European Union (EU) Internships:
http://ec.europa.eu/stages/index_en.htm

FELLOWSHIP INFORMATION:
UofM International Fellowships, Scholarships and Travel Grants: http://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/publicservice/practicearea/international/Documents/fellowsinternational.pdf
Human Rights First: http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/about_us/jobs/apply.aspx
American Society of International Law: The program currently consists of a one-time "micro-grant" of up to $1000, for law students and young lawyers to pursue human rights work and research at an established NGO or human rights organization. http://www.asil.org/search.cfm?displayPage=314
American Society of International Law-Only the first 50 completed applications, submitted on-line, and received in full by the submission deadline will be reviewed. http://www.asil.org/aboutasil/HeltonApplication.html
Upper Midwest Human Rights: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/center/uppermidwest/documents/2010_UpperMidwest_Brochure.pdf

IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRATION ORGANIZATIONS BY STATE:
AL Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery)
AZ Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (Florence, Eloy, and Phoenix)
CA Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (San Francisco)
Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco)
Asylum Access (San Francisco)
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the (San Francisco Bay Area)
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (San Francisco Bay Area)
The Greenlining Institute Legal Academy (Berkeley)
HIV/AIDS Legal Services Alliance (Los Angeles)
Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (Los Angeles)
Public Counsel Law Center (Los Angeles)
National Immigration Law Center (Los Angeles)
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (Oakland)
East Palo Alto Community Legal Services in (East Palo Alto)
California Immigrant Policy Center (various cities)
DC Women Empowered Against Violence
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition
U.S. House of Rep. - Committee on the Judiciary
American Immigration Council
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
- Center for Religious Immigration and Protection
Detention Watch Network
Human Rights First
National Immigration Law Center
DHS
DOJ – Civil Rights Division, Office of Special Counsel for Immigration
GA Southern Poverty Law Center (Atlanta)
International Rescue Committee (Decatur)
IL Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (Chicago)
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan (Chicago)
National Immigrant Justice Center (Chicago)
MD CASA de Maryland (Silver Spring and Baltimore)
MA Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project (Boston)
National Lawyer's Guild – National Immigration Project (Boston)
MI Freedom House (Detroit)
MN Advocates for Human Rights – Refugee and Asylum Project (Minneapolis)
NJ American Friends Service Committee (Newark)
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark-Imm. Assistance (Newark)
NY Manhattan Legal Services (Manhattan)
InMotion, Inc. (Bronx)
HIV Law Project (NYC)
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (NYC)
Immigrant Defense Project (New York State Defenders) (NYC)
Immigration Equality (NYC)
International Rescue Committee (NYC)
Human Rights First (NYC)
OH Advocates for Basic Lgal Equality, Inc. (various cities)
RI International Institute of Rhode Island, Inc. (Providence)
TX Mexican American Legal defense and Educational Fund (San Antonio)
VA Just Neighbors Ministry, Inc. (Falls Church)
Boat People SOS (Falls Church)
Tahirih Justice Center (Falls Church)
USCRI National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children (Arlington)
WA Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (various cities)
OFFICES THAT DO IMMIGRATION WORK IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS:
Various Legal Aid Organizations
DOJ – Executive Office of Immigration Review
ACLU (Georgia, CA-San Francisco, and New York have Immigrant Rights Project)
Appleseed
Public Defenders [for example, the Bronx Defenders does immigration work for those facing criminal convictions. (like a separate immigration practice)]
International Rescue Committee
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRATION WORK:
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
International Rescue Committee
Refugees International
United National High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
United Nations Relief & Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Africa-Middle East Refugee Assistance
BADIL-Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Church World Service
European Council on Refugees and Exiles
International Organization for Migration
Jesuit Refugee Services
Refugee Law Project (Uganda)
International Displacement Monitoring Centre

CRIMINAL LAW

GENERAL JOB RESOURCES:
• Government Honors Handbook (includes internship listings for FBI, DOJ, Public Defender for DC, as well as various district attorneys and public defenders throughout the country) Username: Cookie Password: Dough http://www.law.arizona.edu/career/honorshandbook.cfm

PROSECUTION RESOURCES:
• DOJ-Criminal Division Internships http://www.justice.gov/oarm/arm/int/internsum10.htm#criminal
• Directory of United States Attorney’s Offices throughout the country, containing links to websites for individual offices (Each office has an employment tab on the side menu, which contains a link to summer internship opportunities) http://www.justice.gov/usao/offices/index.html
• Links to every Attorney General and District Attorney in the United States http://207.74.121.45/Prosecutor/proslist.htm
• Michigan prosecutors group that pays interns and places them with local prosecutors throughout Michigan. They hire more than 20 paid interns each summer. http://www.michiganprosecutor.org/Downloads/Summer_Interns/2010ProgramOverview.pdf

DEFENSE RESOURCES:
• NYU’s Public Defender Handbook http://www.pslawnet.org/uploads/NYU_PD_Handbook-public_version_August_2008.pdf
• Capital Defender Internship list: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/capitaldefense.htm#Summer_2009_Internship_Opportunities
FAMILY LAW
CHILD ADVOCACY RESOURCES:
ABA Links to Children’s Law Centers and Statewide Legal Advocacy/Support Programs: http://www.abanet.org/child/links.html
Children’s Advocacy Institute’s links to Child Advocacy Organizations (mostly CA): http://www.caichildlaw.org/links.htm
Bergstrom Child Welfare Law Summer Fellowship: http://www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/ccl/calc/bergstrom/Pages/summerfellowship.aspx
Children’s Rights Legal Internships (New York): http://www.childrensrights.org/about/employment-opportunities/internships/
Youth Law Center Summer Law Clerks (San Francisco, California): http://www.ylc.org/about_opps
National Center for Youth Law (Oakland, California): http://www.youthlaw.org/about_ncyl/jobs_volunteering/law_clerks_and_interns/
Blog listings of internships in Family Law: http://lawstudentjobs.net/?tag=family-law
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Legal Internships: http://www.bazelon.org/about/intern/legal.htm
Georgia Child Advocacy Summer Internships for Law Students: http://childwelfare.net/activities/interns/2009summer/atl_internships.html#0

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCES:
Women’s Law: http://www.womenslaw.org/simple.php?sitemap_id=87
WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence): http://www.weaveincorp.org/about/index.cfm?fuseaction=job
CONNECT- Safe Families, Peaceful Communities: http://www.connectnyc.org/work/internships.php
House of Ruth Maryland Domestic Violence Legal Clinic: http://www.princeton.edu/pace/pdf/09houseruthlegaladvocate.pdf
Domestic Violence Legal Clinic-Chicago: http://www.dvlcchicago.org/Volunteers.html

EDUCATION LAW FELLOWHIP:
Education Pioneers - Their fellows are placed in one of the several major cities they have programs in, and it is not exclusive to law students. The fellowship provides an intensive training program in urban education reform and they have a network of partner organizations in several major cities, including state departments of education, major school systems and charter school orgs, and a variety of non-profits, some of which do legal or policy work in education. A note about this fellowship, any money available comes from the organization the student is placed at. http://www.educationpioneers.com/

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HOUSING

JOB WEBSITES:
Many legal services organizations do fair housing or homelessness issues. For help finding legal services organizations in a particular state, try these links: http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/probono/directory.html# or http://www.nls.org/lsclist.htm
The Department of Justice: Civil Rights Division: Washington DC http://www.justice.gov/crt/index.php. Also, many regional DOJ offices have civil rights divisions that do housing work as well, so it's worth it to search out ones in your area.
Greater Boston Legal Services Housing Unit: Boston, MA (Contact: rculley@umich.edu) http://gbls.org/
WilmerHale Legal Services Center: Boston, MA http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/lsc/student/summer.htm
Fair Housing Justice Center: New York. http://www.fairhousingjustice.org/internships.htm
National Housing Law Project: Oakland, CA and Washington, DC. http://www.nhlp.org/aboutjobs
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago. http://www.lafchicago.org/content/view/37/83/
Washington Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights: Fair Housing Project (Washington, DC): http://www.washlaw.org/job.htm
Relman & Dane (2Ls only): Washington, DC (Contact: rculley@umich.edu) http://www.relmanlaw.com/practice.html

LINKS TO FUNDING:
John J. Curtin, Jr. Fellowship (nationwide; housing-specific): The Curtin Justice Fund Legal Internship Program is managed jointly by the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty and the Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants. The Program will pay a $2,500 stipend to students who spend the summer months working for a bar association or legal services program designed to prevent homelessness or assist homeless or indigent clients or their advocates. http://www.abanet.org/homeless/curtin.shtml

Friday, November 13, 2009

Outlaws Thanksgiving!


Tonight, 7 PM, 321 E. Ann St. #4.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Movie Night

Your Monthly Tragic Gay Movie Edjumacation

This Month: "Boys in the Band"

Tomorrow, October 13, 8 PM
Phid House

Be there or be square.

-GH

General Body Meeting!

We will have food!

Tuesday, Oct. 14
6:15 PM
138 HH

Come learn about current student initiatives and take part in shaping Outlaws’ objectives for the year.

Law students Rebecca Oyama and Ashley Brownlee will speak about the Student Diversity Task Force and Gabe Javier of the Spectrum Center will be on hand to address gender and sexuality in the classroom.


Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Facebook!

Outlaws has a Facebook group! Please join!

Upcoming events:

Mentor/Mentee Brunch on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 1 PM
Progressive Pub Trivia on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7 PM
Kickball Tournament (sponsored by BLSA and LLSA - we've got a team entered), on Sunday, Oct. 3, at 2 PM

Friday, September 18, 2009

T-Shirts


We're getting Outlaws T-Shirts made over the next few weeks: baseball Ts, with a white background and sleeves (in either gold, blue, or black). If you're interested, contact kaitjack@umich.edu for more information.

Here's the design (designed by me)!


New Board!

First, thanks to our outgoing board members - Rachel Culley (1L Rep), Steve Berge (PAC), and especially Tom Bousnakis (Co-Chair) - for their hard work on the Outlaws Board over the last year.

And please welcome our new board members!

Co-Chair: Jess Bernfeld (2L)
Co-Chair: Brendan Baker (2L)
Secretary: Gautam Hans (2L)
Treasurer: Matt Talley (2L)
Campus Liaison: Nick Ferre (3L)
Social Chair: Jenny Egan (2L) and Aurora Maoz (1L)
PAC: Lawrence Stierhoff (2L)
Basement Group Relations: Alysha Rooks (3L) and Joe Jones (3L)
Alumni, Admissions, & Faculty Rep: Kaitlin Jackson (2L) and Stephanie Denzel (2L)
1L Rep: Vivian Chang (1L) and Erin Cass (1L)

Monday, August 31, 2009

Welcome Back!

Join Outlaws at Dominick's tomorrow, September 1, from 6:00 - 7:00 PM to celebrate the start of the new year! Food and non-alcoholic drinks will be served. All are welcome to attend.

Remember - to sign up for the Outlaws listserv, email talleymj@umich.edu.