National Center for Youth Law
2026 Summer Law and Policy Clerkships
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Job Description
- Req#: 3797443
- Education Team: law students, policy students
- Immigration Team: law students
- Litigation Team: law students
- Learn to support initiatives to protect access to public education and enforce education civil rights, including through the work of the Education Civil Rights Alliance and NCYL’s Education Defense Fund.
- Learn and have the opportunity to help with the rollout and implementation phase of a project that will share model legislation and policies for states to improve enforcement of civil rights for students.
- Learn and support ongoing research regarding funding equity in schools and help develop a model for a data infrastructure that more effectively captures violations of students’ civil rights.
- Learn and have the opportunity to support NCYL’s advocacy for immigrant youth, including the cases of Angelica S. v. HHS and L.G.L.M. v. Noem.
- Learn and have the opportunity to conduct legal and factual research, writing, and other tasks as assigned.
- Learn and have the opportunity to support litigation across all of NCYL’s areas of focus through legal research, writing, and other tasks as assigned.
- Have the opportunity to support cases at all stages of litigation, including pre-litigation legal and factual research, active litigation, and implementation of settlement agreements.
National Center for Youth Law (NCYL)
NCYL is a national nonprofit that puts children — especially those pushed to society’s margins — at the center of every fight for justice. For more than 50 years, we have partnered with young people, families, and communities in efforts to dismantle racism, discrimination, and inequity wherever they appear. We recognize that harmful policies don’t affect children in isolation. Each young person’s well-being depends on their family’s stability, their community’s resources, and the opportunities they can access. By working across all systems that shape young people’s lives in a rapidly evolving society, we advance solutions that are holistic, intersectional, and transformative.
Position
NCYL is inviting graduate students in law or policy to learn and have the opportunity to support its work in the summer of 2026. We have learning opportunities available on the following teams:
These are volunteer positions and will be remote.
Essential Functions
All law and policy clerks will learn NCYL’s work through research and writing and assist with other tasks as assigned.
The Education Law Clerk will:
The Education Policy Clerk will:
The Immigration Law Clerk will:
The Litigation Law Clerk will:
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Youth Law, center for youth law
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