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Public Interest Employers

Student Summer Public Interest Work

Each year, approximately 75% of first-year students and 25% of second-year students devote half or all of their summer to work to public interest. During the summers of 2016 and 2017, Yale Law students worked at the organizations listed below.

Environmental Protection Agency – Washington, DC

Federal Trade Commission – Washington, DC

Securities and Exchange Commission – New York, NY

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California – Los Angeles, CA

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut – New Haven, CT

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York – New York, NY

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York – New York, NY

U.S Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia – Alexandria, VA

U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division – Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division – Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division – Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division – Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division – Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Policy & Legislation – Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division – Washington, DC

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser – Washington, DC

U.S. Department of the Treasury – Washington, DC

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Washington, DC

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee – Washington, DC

White House, Counsel's Office – Washington, DC

Office of the Attorney General, Colorado – Denver, CO

Office of the Attorney General, New York State – New York, NY

Office of the Attorney General, Northern District of California – San Francisco, CA

Office of the Attorney General, Southern District of California – San Diego & Los Angeles, CA

Office of the City Attorney, San Francisco – San Francisco, CA

Office of the Governor, State of California – Sacramento, CA

Office of the Solicitor General, Ohio – Columbus, OH

Office of the Solicitor General, Virginia – Richmond, VA

New York City Law Department – New York, NY

New York City Department of City Planning – New York, NY

ACLU of Connecticut – Hartford, CT

ACLU of the District of Columbia – Washington, DC

ACLU of Massachusetts – Boston, MA

ACLU of New York – New York, NY

ACLU of Northern California – San Francisco, CA

ACLU of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA

Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund – New York, NY

California Women's Law Center – Los Angeles, CA

Campaign Legal Center – Washington, DC

Center for Children's Advocacy Bridgeport, CT

Constitutional Accountability Center – Washington, DC

Earthjustice – New York, NY

Environmental Defense Fund – Boulder, CO & Washington, DC

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Washington, DC

Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama – Montgomery, AL

Equal Justice Under Law – Washington, DC

Human Rights First – New York, NY

Human Rights Watch – New York, NY

Institute for Justice – Arlington, VA & Bellevue, WA

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law – Washington, DC

Legal Aid Society – New York, NY & Washington, DC

Legal Services for Children San Francisco, CA

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund – New York, NY & Washington, DC

National Center for Law & Economic Justice – New York, NY

National Center for Lesbian Rights – San Francisco, CA

New York Legal Assistance Group – New York, NY

New York University School of Law, Brennan Center for Justice – New York, NY

Southern Center for Human Rights - Atlanta, GA

Texas Innocence Network – Houston, TX

World Bank – Washington, DC

Yale Law School, Community & Economic Development Clinic – New Haven, CT

Yale Law School, Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic New Haven, CT

Yale Law School, Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic New Haven, CT

Bronx Defenders – New York, NY

Brooklyn Defender Services – New York, NY

Committee for Public Counsel Services Boston, MA

Federal Defenders of New York – New York, NY

New Haven Public Defender – New Haven, CT

Office of the Public Defender, Northern District of California Oakland, CA

Orleans Public Defenders – New Orleans, LA

Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia – Washington, DC

San Diego County Public Defender San Diego, CA

San Francisco Public Defender’s Office San Francisco, CA

Asylum Access – Quito, Ecuador

Council of Europe – Strasbourg, France

Death Penalty Project London, UK

European Court of Human Rights – Strasbourg, France

JUSTICE – London, UK

Justice Project Pakistan – Lahore, Pakistan

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law – Incheon, South Korea

United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Bogota, Colombia & Geneva, Switzerland