Vacancy Description
Applications are considered on a rolling basis.
The Institute for Justice’s Semester Clerkship programs provide an unparalleled opportunity for select law students to substantively contribute to IJ’s cutting-edge civil-rights litigation. Clerks conduct legal research; help develop litigation strategies for active and potential cases; and help draft discovery requests, motions, and briefs filed in both state and federal court. Clerks have been involved in projects as diverse as:
+ Researching appellate court treatment of FTCA actions to support United States Supreme Court merits briefing on application of the FTCA’s judgment bar in a police brutality case.
+ Participating in moots for dispositive-motion hearings in a challenge to protectionist mobile vending regulations.
+ Analyzing discovery objections in a civil forfeiture class action lawsuit.
+ Assessing how to certify a new class and add new plaintiffs to an existing class ...
The Institute for Justice’s Semester Clerkship programs provide an unparalleled opportunity for select law students to substantively contribute to IJ’s cutting-edge civil-rights litigation. Clerks conduct legal research; help develop litigation strategies for active and potential cases; and help draft discovery requests, motions, and briefs filed in both state and federal court. Clerks have been involved in projects as diverse as:
+ Researching appellate court treatment of FTCA actions to support United States Supreme Court merits briefing on application of the FTCA’s judgment bar in a police brutality case.
+ Participating in moots for dispositive-motion hearings in a challenge to protectionist mobile vending regulations.
+ Analyzing discovery objections in a civil forfeiture class action lawsuit.
+ Assessing how to certify a new class and add new plaintiffs to an existing class ...
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