UCLA School of Law's Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) and Immigrant Family Legal Clinic (ImmFam) are seeking rising second-year and third-year law students to join as the 2026 CILP/ImmFam class of Summer Fellows. Students can apply for the joint fellowship, in which fellows split their time learning about CILP’s policy, litigation, and advocacy work and ImmFam’s direct representation for immigrant families and unaccompanied minors. Alternatively, students can apply to be full-time CILP or ImmFam fellows. Projects will likely involve legal
research, as well as opportunities to learn how to apply that research in the real-world. Potential topic areas could include federal litigation challenging unlawful detention and protecting those in lawful temporary statuses, research into measures that can hold the government and

Apply through email, attach cover letter, resume, short writting sample (10 pg max), and transcripts with subject line "CILP Summer Felllow Application." Indicate if you want to be full time or part time in email. Fellowship is 40 hrs per week from May to August. Preference to those in LA and fluent in Spanish.

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