The Guarini Center Summer Internships in Public Interest Environmental and Land Use Law, available to up to five first and second year NYU Law students, is designed to provide students with public interest environmental law experience through summer internships, mentoring by the School’s environmental and land use law faculty, and exposure to leading practitioners in the field. The Program provides grants in the amount of $7,000 for 2Ls and $5,000 for 1Ls, for summer internships with environmental groups, government agencies, and other public interest law practice institutions in the United States or abroad.
The Center’s internship program provides students with unique opportunities to work on national, regional, and global environmental problems. These internships create valuable training and networking opportunities that help students secure full-time positions following graduation. Students have worked for organizations such as NRDC, Lawyers for Equal Justice in Honolulu, the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, the Mexican Center for Environmental Law, the Institute for Environmental Law and Economics in Paraguay, Earthjustice, the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and numerous state and environmental departments.
In the fall following their placements, interns are also invited to attend a series of workshops held by NYU’s environmental and land use law faculty; distinguished public interest environmental law practitioners will also participate. For more information about this program and the Public Interest Law Center, follow this link.
If you are interested in the program, you will be required to complete (1) the Public Interest Summer Internship Funding registration due on December 1, 2015 and (2) submit the Guarini Center for Environmental and Land Use Law Fellowship application due on February 10, 2016. Selections will be made by a faculty committee consisting of Professors Richard Stewart and Katrina Wyman. To apply, please submit a resume, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest in public interest environmental and land use practice including information about placements secured or contemplated to Professor Wyman’s assistant, Cory Conley at cory.conley@nyu.edu. Students are responsible for finding their own placements, but the faculty listed above will be happy to provide suggestions and other help.