Legal Fellowship
The Equal Justice Initiative is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded two-year fellowship for law school graduates beginning in Fall 2024.
About EJI
EJI is a nonprofit law office and human rights organization that provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, children in the criminal justice system, people wrongly convicted or sentenced, and the poor and vulnerable facing imprisonment. We advocate for more hopeful solutions to the violence, powerlessness, and despair that plague many marginalized communities.
About the Position
EJI is engaging in an initiative on race and poverty that seeks meaningful solutions to long-standing problems. Specifically, we aim to document and contextualize issues surrounding race and poverty in America by examining the legal history of racial subordination, exclusion, and segregation. We will be considering particular remedies designed to address contemporary and historic injuries that many people of color have experienced in the rural south. We are excited about the possibility of giving voice to widespread structural barriers and systems that are limiting opportunities and progress to many rural poor.
In addition, we are challenging excessive and abusive punishments imposed on children across the United States, working on large reform projects relating to racial injustice and economic inequality, and we maintain a large docket of death penalty cases, wrongful conviction cases, and civil rights cases. In addition, we are committed to challenging violence against incarcerated individuals, abuse of power by correctional officers, unsafe prison conditions, mistreatment of mentally ill inmates, and illegal detention of the poor. We work with and provide training to lawyers, law students, community leaders, and low-income communities to improve access to justice. We issue research reports and materials aimed at educating the public and increasing awareness of problems related to criminal justice, race, and poverty.
EJI is seeking lawyers or law graduates with strong advocacy skills who are highly motivated, hard-working, and who embrace our mission and program goals enthusiastically. EJI provides full benefits.
How To Apply
To apply please send a letter of interest and a resume to [email protected]. Positions for the Fall 2023 fellowship have been filled. We will be accepting applications for the Fall 2024 fellowship from August 1, 2023, until November 7, 2023.
EJI especially encourages people historically underrepresented in the practice of law to apply.