Southern Poverty Law Center Fellowship

The Southern Poverty Law Center offers two-year fellowships to recent law schools graduates who possess strong academic backgrounds, excellent research and writing skills, and a strong commitment to public interest law.  The Center is a national non-profit organization dedicated to reducing bigotry and oppression through education and litigation.  Currently, the Center’s areas of legal advocacy include juvenile justice, immigrant justice, education reform, and combating hate groups.  For additional information, visit our website at http://www.splcenter.org/legal/legal.jsp.

Fellowship positions begin in September 2009.  The Fellow may be placed in any one of the Center’s offices in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Florida and will work primarily on juvenile justice and school-to-prison pipeline litigation and campaigns.  The decision regarding placement of the Law Fellow will not occur until the Spring of 2009, as the Center’s staffing needs are assessed.  Please note that the Center’s Immigrant Justice Project has a separate fellowship that is not at this time hiring for 2009.

The salary and benefits are excellent.  Bar admission is not required.

To apply for the 2009-2011 fellowship, please submit a cover letter, resume, one unedited writing sample, and the names and phone numbers of three references by December 1, 2008, to:

Southern Poverty Law Center

ATTN:  Human Resources

400 Washington Ave.

Montgomery, AL 36104

or:  humanresources@splcenter.org

Due to the high volume of applications received by the Center, the legal department is unable to respond to inquiries by telephone. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, or status with regard to public assistance.