This is the last week to apply for a summer clerkship at the Institute for Justice. IJ is the national law firm for liberty and clerkships are a great way to get a foot in the door. Clerks are an integral part of our team. We rely on them for legal research that will factor into our strategic litigation for years to come as well as work on our current cases. Some of our hottest cases right now:
– Ending the abuse of civil forfeiture (The Philadelphia Daily News reports that we’re shaming the DA into submission)
– An eminent domain case in Atlantic City, New Jersey that just garnered over 100,000 signatures on Change.org
– Galassini v. Town of Fountain Hills, where we’re challenging Arizona’s definition of a political committee (spoiler: it’s an unintelligible 183 word sentence, includes a woman who emailed 23 friends to make posters about a road bond issue, and it’s unconstitutional)
– Ocheesee Creamery v. Putnam and Newton where our client simply wants to label her pure, pasteurized skim milk as “pasteurized skim milk,” but the government has banned her honest label unless she injects the milk with an artificial additive.
– Defending Texas craft brewers who are forced to give away a valuable part of their business to distributors just to make beer distributors wealthier
The application is on our website with more information at www.ij.org/students. We’ll begin interviews the week of January 12 with rolling offers until all positions are filled. The clerkships last for 10 weeks with a somewhat flexible start date in late May.