The Blackstone Fellowship
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is a nine-week summer leadership
development program in law and servant ministry, the first of its kind
and unlike any summer legal internship program offered in America. It
is a rigorous program for exceptionally capable and highly motivated
Christian law students from law schools across the nation
The Christian Legal Society's Law Student Ministries
The
Christian Legal Society offers a number of resources for law students
including conferences and links to scholarships. Their mission is "to
train and encourage Christian law students, law professors, and
practicing lawyers to seek and study Biblical truth, including the
natural law tradition, as it relates to law and legal institutions."
American Center for Law and Justice
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) focuses on constitutional law and is based in Washington, D.C.
Through
our work in the courts and the legislative arena, the ACLJ is dedicated
to protecting your religious and constitutional freedoms.
In
addition to providing its legal services at no cost to our clients, the
ACLJ focuses on the issues that matter most to you – national security,
protecting America’s families, and protecting human life.
Law.com
Law.com
connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning national and
regional legal publications online, including The American Lawyer, The
National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times, and
delivers top legal news electronically to a growing national and global
audience of subscribers each day on The Newswire.
New York Legal Opportunity Program
Chief
Judge Judith S. Kaye has established the New York Legal Opportunity
Program (NY LEO) to help ensure a diverse legal community by promoting
academic success for individuals historically under-represented in the
legal profession.
THE NY LEO PROGRAM assists minority,
low-income and educationally disadvantaged college graduates in
acquiring the fundamental and practical skills necessary to succeed in
law school. The program is available to qualified candidates who will
attend law school in New York.
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The
Christian Trial Lawyers Association exists to advance Christian
principles as they co-exist with the practice of legal work and to
demonstrate professional competence and godliness while defending
Christian values in the public sector.
ADF National Litigation Academy
ADF launched the National Litigation Academy - a state-of-the-art lawyer
training project - in 1997. The Academy sessions consist of worship and
devotional activities, banquets, theological exhortation, worldview analysis,
fellowship, common meals, and joyful interaction. They feature an intense
course of study conducted by some of the top law school professors,
litigators, and constitutional experts in the country. These experts instruct on
public interest practice topics such as the Free Exercise Clause of the First
Amendment, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, Equal Access law, 42
USC § 1983 actions, Family and Marriage law, legal aid to the poor, and other
matters.
The Law School Admission Council
The
Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation whose
members are more than 200 law schools in the United States, Canada, and
Australia. It was founded in 1947 to coordinate, facilitate, and
enhance the law school admission process. The organization also
provides programs and services related to legal education.
All
law schools approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) are LSAC
members. Fifteen Canadian law schools recognized by a provincial or
territorial law society or government agency are also included in the
voting membership of the Council.
AALS Faculty Recruitment Services
The
AALS offers three main services for those interested in finding a job
as a law teacher. The Association serves as a conduit, sending to law
schools information on candidates via the Faculty Appointments
Register, and sending to candidates advertisements for positions at
schools via the Placement Bulletin. In addition, the Association
sponsors a Faculty Recruitment Conference where schools can interview
candidates. The Association does not offer career counseling services.
A candidate should contact the law school from which he or she
graduated for such assistance.
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Bill Of Rights Institute
Do
you know your rights? Are you looking for help with classroom
assignments, or maybe looking to learn more about citizenship? Are
freedom and liberty important to you, and do you want to know more
about what it takes to preserve them? The Bill of Rights Institute has
a number of programs and resources that can help you do these things.
Searle Young Legal Scholars Research Fellowships
Up
to two junior tenure-track faculty members will receive funding to take
a semester-long research leave in order to make major progress on an
important scholarly article.Fellows will receive a stipend set at a
level reasonably comparable to their salary for half of a year. The
stipend will be sufficient to enable fellows to take negotiated leaves
from teaching duties in order to devote themselves full time to
production of a significant piece of legal scholarship. In addition,
fellows will receive advice and feedback on their project from a member
of the Fellowship Selection Committee. The leave should begin no later
than the middle of the 2009-2010 academic year.
Fellowships for Law Professors
For
practitioners and others contemplating joining the law professor ranks,
many law schools offer wonderful opportunities to transition into the
legal academy with one- or two-year fellowships which allow you to
enter the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference (the "meat market") with
published scholarship (and in many cases teaching experience) under
your belt:
Atlantic Legal Foundation Internships
The
Atlantic Legal Foundation believes that educating students about
limited, responsible and effective government, free enterprise,
individual liberty, school choice, and sound science is fundamental to
the survival of a free society.
Atlantic Legal seeks focused,
dynamic, and high-energy students or recent graduates with excellent
research and communication abilities. Responsibilities and tasks
include web research, writing, clerical and administrative tasks, and
some data entry.
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