Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) Legal Fellowship
Legal Fellowship Opportunity
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) is a collaborative research group and think tank of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). ANSIRH is dedicated to ensuring that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence. Our multi-disciplinary team includes clinicians, researchers and scholars from the fields of sociology, demography, anthropology, medicine, nursing, public health and law.
ANSIRH seeks a Legal Fellow to join our Law & Policy group. Under the direction of ANSIRH's supervising attorney, the fellow will provide legal research support for a variety of ANSIRH's projects related to abortion and reproductive health care, some of which include:
* Heartland Abortion Regulations Project (HARP): Uses qualitative methods, including in depth interviewing and ethnography, to collect and analyze women's and clinical providers perceptions of the regulation of abortion care in several key states.
* The Primary Care Initiative (PCI): Addresses the critical shortage of abortion providers in the United States by making the health care systems and regulatory changes necessary to allow properly trained clinicians to offer early aspiration services to their patients as part of quality early pregnancy care.
* Linking Abortion Science to Activism and Public Policy: Aims to increase the accessibility of abortion research for advocates, funders, and policy makers.
* Program to Protect Access to Second Trimester Abortion: Works to address health systems, policy, and training barriers that limit the provision of second trimester abortion.
* Health Care Refusals in California: develops policy recommendations for limiting the impact of health care refusals on women's health in general and vulnerable populations specifically.
* Bridging the Language Gap in Science and Law: Collaborative project between ANSIRH and UCSF's Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE), which is committed to creating a healthier environment for human reproduction and development through advancing scientific inquiry, clinical care, and health policies that prevent exposures to harmful chemicals in our environment. This project emphasizes the right of a woman to become pregnant and raise her children in a health, safe, toxic-free environment.
The Fellow's duties will include drafting legal fact sheets, memoranda and other legal documents and providing analysis of legal and policy developments that may affect ANSIRH projects.
Duration of Position: One year with a possibility of renewal for a second year. The position is full-time, beginning in Fall 2009.
Salary: Competitive salary; comprehensive benefit programs.
Qualifications: A degree in law is required. Candidates should be recent law school graduates. A demonstrated commitment to reproductive health, rights and justice is required.
To Apply: Deadline for applications is February 1, 2009. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Please send cover letter, resume, legal writing sample and contact information for three references to:
Erin Schultz, ANSIRH
1330 Broadway, Suite 1100 Email: schultze@obgyn.ucsf.edu (preferred)
Oakland, CA 94612 Fax: 510.986.8934
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) Legal Internship
Legal Externship and Internship Opportunities
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) is a collaborative research group and think tank of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). ANSIRH is dedicated to ensuring that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence. Our multi-disciplinary team includes clinicians, researchers and scholars from the fields of sociology, demography, anthropology, medicine, nursing, public health and law.
ANSIRH seeks highly motivated law students to join our Law & Policy group as academic year externs or summer interns. Under the direction of ANSIRH's supervising attorney, law students will provide legal research support for a variety of ANSIRH's projects related to abortion and reproductive health care, some of which include:
* Heartland Abortion Regulations Project (HARP): Uses qualitative methods, including in depth interviewing and ethnography, to collect and analyze women's and clinical providers perceptions of the regulation of abortion care in several key states.
* The Primary Care Initiative (PCI): Addresses the critical shortage of abortion providers in the United States by making the health care systems and regulatory changes necessary to allow properly trained clinicians to offer early aspiration services to their patients as part of quality early pregnancy care.
* Linking Abortion Science to Activism and Public Policy: Aims to increase the accessibility of abortion research for advocates, funders, and policy makers.
* Program to Protect Access to Second Trimester Abortion: Works to address health systems, policy, and training barriers that limit the provision of second trimester abortion.
* Health Care Refusals in California: develops policy recommendations for limiting the impact of health care refusals on women's health in general and vulnerable populations specifically.
Bridging the Language Gap between Science in Law: Collaborative project between ANSIRH and UCSF's Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE), which is committed to creating a healthier environment for human reproduction and development through advancing scientific inquiry, clinical care, and health policies that prevent exposures to harmful chemicals in our environment. This project emphasizes the right of a woman to become pregnant and raise her children in a health, safe, toxic-free environment.
During their time with ANSIRH, law students will complete at least one substantial legal writing assignment and a series of shorter project-based assignments.
Qualifications: First and second-year law students are encouraged to apply. Summer interns will work full-time for 10-12 weeks from ANSIRH Oakland office.
To Apply: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Please send cover letter, resume, legal writing sample and contact information for three references to:
Erin Schultz, ANSIRH
1330 Broadway, Suite 1100 Email: schultze@obgyn.ucsf.edu (preferred)
Oakland, CA 94612 Fax: 510.986.8934
Sarah Weddington Writing Contest
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
WIN MONEY AND GET PUBLISHED
LSRJ is accepting submissions for its 4th annual Writing Prize.
The theme this year is "Seeking Reproductive Justice in All Places for All People."
Law Students for Reproductive Justice is looking for fresh student scholarship that a) focuses on marginalized individuals or communities, such as people of color, immigrants, minors, poor people, prisoners, and those who identify as LGBTQQI, and b) applies a reproductive justice lens in its analysis. For a clear understanding of reproductive justice, please refer to the resources listed under About Us at lsrj.org
Papers may have a domestic or international scope. Authors are encouraged to focus their research on issues or occasions of reproductive coercion or oppression: the political, social, legal, and economic forces that limit or control the reproductive options of individuals and communities. A wide range of topics will be accepted, including but not limited to a particular community's unique struggle against reproductive oppression; environmental conditions causing reproductive harms; coercive or forced contraception, sterilization, or birthing conditions; the shackling of pregnant prisoners during labor and delivery; discrimination against non-traditional family formation; the impact of pharmacist refusals or abortion provider shortages in geographically isolated communities; or access to the HPV vaccine.
Papers must be at least 20 pages in length, not including footnotes, double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman font. Papers submitted for publication elsewhere will be accepted; however papers previously published will not be allowed. An outside panel of attorney judges will select the winners.
Send your submission as a pdf or Word attachment to info (at) lsrj.org by March 2nd!
Winning authors will receive $750 (1st place) or $250 (2nd place), get published on LSRJ's website, and perhaps be invited to present their papers at conferences.
ACLU Foundation Women's Rights Project
Spring Legal Internship
The ACLU:
The Women's Rights
Project (WRP): Founded in 1972 by
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Women's Rights Project has been a leader in the legal
battles to ensure women's full equality in American society. WRP is dedicated to the advancement of the
rights and interests of women, with a particular focus on poor women, women of
color, and immigrant women“ those who historically have been the most deeply
victimized by gender bias and face the most pervasive barriers to equality today.
WRP
focuses on four core priority areas: employment (including the rights of
low-wage immigrant women workers, trafficking victims, women in non-traditional
employment, and welfare recipients), violence against women (including battered
women's rights to be free from discrimination in housing, employment, and
government services), criminal and juvenile justice issues affecting women and
girls (including the impact of drug laws on women and families and the rights
of girls in juvenile detention), and education (including single sex
education). Cutting across these core
priorities, WRP seeks to bring an international human rights framework to our
litigation and advocacy. Through
litigation, community outreach, advocacy, and public education, WRP pushes for
change and systemic reform in those institutions that perpetuate discrimination
against women.
The
Women's Rights Project has overall responsibility for implementing ACLU policy
in the area of gender discrimination. WRP conducts direct litigation, files amicus curiae
briefs, provides support for ACLU affiliate litigation, serves as a resource
for ACLU legislative work on women's rights, and seeks to advance ACLU policy
goals through public education, organizing, and coalition advocacy. WRP has been an active participant in
virtually all of the major gender discrimination litigation in the Supreme
Court, in Congressional and public education efforts to remedy gender
discrimination, and other endeavors on behalf of women.
Internship Overview:
The internship is open to second and third year law
students and requires a full semester commitment. This internship can be
performed remotely. The internship is unpaid and school credit may be
available. WRP requires a commitment of at least 8 hours per week, though
individual law schools may require more hours for students seeking credit. WRP seeks
spring interns to work on a wide variety of issues. Working closely with
WRP staff, interns assist in all aspects of litigation including legal
research, factual investigation, and drafting of memoranda, affidavits, and
briefs. Interns may also assist WRP staff in providing assistance and
advice to ACLU affiliates, private attorneys, and others who seek our help;
screening potential cases; and researching or drafting materials for public
education.
HOW
TO APPLY:
Applicants
should send a letter of interest, a resume, the names and telephone numbers of
two references, an unofficial transcript, and a legal writing sample of no more
than ten pages to:
Spring Internship
Hiring Committee
ACLU Women's Rights
Project
OR
Aliya Hussain
Subject: WRP Spring
Internship
We strongly encourage applicants to apply by November 9, 2008, but applications will
be accepted until the positions are filled. Please indicate in your
cover letter where you found this job posting.
The ACLU is an equal opportunity/affirmative
action employer and encourages women, people of color, persons with
disabilities, and lesbians and gay men to apply.
The ACLU comprises two separate corporate
entities, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation. Both the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation are national organizations
with the same overall mission, and share office space and employees. The
ACLU has two separate corporate entities in order to do a broad range of work
to protect civil liberties. This job posting refers collectively to the
two organizations under the name “ACLU."
ACLU Foundation Women's Rights Project
Summer Legal Internship
Internship
Overview:
The internship is open to all students who have completed their first year of law school. The Women's Rights Project seeks summer legal interns to work on a wide variety of issues. Working closely with WRP staff, interns assist in all aspects of litigation including legal research, factual investigation, and drafting of memoranda, affidavits, and briefs. Interns may also assist WRP staff in providing assistance and advice to ACLU affiliates, private attorneys, and others who seek our help; screening potential cases; and researching or drafting materials for public education. Interns should pursue public interest fellowships or other funding sources. In the absence of outside funding, a small stipend is available.
Application Procedure:
Applicants should send a letter of interest, a resume, the names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of two references, an unofficial transcript, and a legal writing sample of no more than ten pages to:
Summer
Internship Hiring Committee
ACLU
Women's Rights Project
OR
Subject: WRP Summer Internship
We strongly encourage second- and third-year law students to apply no later than November 14, 2008, and first-year applicants to apply no later than January 4, 2009. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.
Please indicate in your cover letter where
you found this job posting.
The ACLU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and lesbians and gay men to apply.
The ACLU comprises two separate corporate entities, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation. Both the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation are national organizations with the same overall mission, and share office space and employees. The ACLU has two separate corporate entities in order to do a broad range of work to protect civil liberties. This job posting refers collectively to the two organizations under the name “ACLU."