Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Summer Fellowship
The Center on the Administration of Criminal Law will select up to two summer fellows. The center’s mission is to promote good government and prosecution practices in criminal justice matters. The center accomplishes this mission by conducting research, publishing scholarship, and hosting conferences; litigating criminal cases as amicus and on the merits; and participating in legislative, policy, and media debates on important issues of criminal law.
Fellows will be involved in all aspects of the center’s work. Fellows will help prepare amicus briefs in state and federal courts, including appellate courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Fellows will also be responsible for following developments in criminal cases nationwide to identify cases of potential interest to the center’s litigation practice. In addition to researching legal issues for the center’s litigation practice, fellows will also conduct research for the center’s policy-related projects and empirical studies—research that may later be used for opinion pieces in the media and for white papers for interested policymakers. For example, summer fellows will research techniques used by prosecutors to interrogate, question, and seek cooperation by defendants and suspects as part of the center’s project analyzing the potentially coercive effects of those techniques. Finally, fellows will help plan and organize future conferences and other events involving prominent legal scholars and practitioners.
Summer fellows will work with the center’s executive director, Anthony S. Barkow, a former assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, and the center’s faculty director, Professor Rachel E. Barkow.
Successful applicants will have a demonstrated interest in criminal law and the ability to work independently and without close supervision. Familiarity with substantive criminal law or work in a criminal law setting is desirable, but not required.
Fellowship applicants must submit the following:
• Cover letter including a statement of interest in the fellowship
• Résumé
• Unofficial law school and undergraduate transcripts
• List of one or two references, including telephone number and/or e-mail address
Deadline for the applications is February 16. Selections will be made on a rolling basis, and interviews may be held after the application deadline. E-mail applications to prosecutioncenter@nyu.edu.
Although the fellowships are unpaid, NYU Law students who meet the guidelines of NYU’s Public Interest Law Center (PILC) (including the requirement that fellows work a minimum of 10 weeks and work 35 hours per week) are eligible for PILC funding, with determinations of actual awards being made by PILC, not the center.
February 9th 2009