Animal Legal Defense Fund

Attorney

• The Animal Legal Defense Fund summer clerkship program gives law students who demonstrate an interest in animal law the opportunity to work with and be trained by top experts in the field.
• Clerks are integral members of a program team and work on projects that further the current work of the program and advance the mission and goals of the Animal Legal Defense Fund.
• Clerks will complete research for an upcoming Aquatic Animal Law & Policy Textbook.
• Students will assist the Senior Student Programs Attorney with completing legal, factual, regulatory, and policy research relating to a wide variety of aquatic animal law issues.
• General editing and checking sources and citations; and preparing written work products.
• Clerks will also assist with student chapter outreach, animal law curriculum development, and project and event planning.

Animal Legal Education & Scholarship Program Clerkship