Applications are considered on a rolling basis. 

The Institute for Justice’s Semester Clerkship programs provide an unparalleled opportunity for select law students to substantively contribute to IJ’s cutting-edge civil-rights litigation. Clerks conduct legal research; help develop litigation strategies for active and potential cases; and help draft discovery requests, motions, and briefs filed in both state and federal court. Clerks have been involved in projects as diverse as:

+ Researching appellate court treatment of FTCA actions to support United States Supreme Court merits briefing on application of the FTCA’s judgment bar in a police brutality case. 

+ Participating in moots for dispositive-motion hearings in a challenge to protectionist mobile vending regulations. 

+ Analyzing discovery objections in a civil forfeiture class action lawsuit. 

+ Assessing how to certify a new class and add new plaintiffs to an existing class ...