Fellowship Opportunities

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The newly established Law School Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality (CLORE) is staffed in part by two paid CUNY Law 2L and 3L Fellows, who may apply in the Spring semester for a position in the following academic year.

The mission of CLORE is to:

• develop programs and scholarship focusing on issues impacting the Latino community in order to educate the legal community and the general public on these issues;
  
  
• promote the expansion of equality under the law, regardless of national origin, ethnicity, race, gender or sexual orientation;
  
  
• develop and implement projects on issues impacting the Latino community, including establishment of a speakers' series, development of a special collection in the CUNY Law School Library, updating of the CLORE Web mini-site, and the development of two special projects exploring academic scholarship and litigation opportunities involving language access and gender equity;

The two students are selected each year based on their interest in and work on issues impacting the Latino community, overall academic success in the Law School, strong research and writing skills, strong organizational skills, and public interest commitment to working after graduation on issues impacting the Latino community. Fellows are paid the applicable hourly research assistant rate.

The CLORE Fellows will work directly with the CLORE Director, Professor Jenny Rivera. During the 2009-10 academic year, they will be responsible for several projects, including:

• research assistance for curricular development of Law School courses and community legal education courses;
  
  
• research assistance on various writing and oral presentation projects, e.g. policy brutality against Latinas, language rights and sex discrimination at the workplace
  
  
• organization and development of speakers series programs for the spring 2009 semester and a Hispanic Heritage month fall 2009 conference
  
  
• development of the CLORE administrative infrastructure, including collecting and organizing materials for the CLORE Web mini-site and newsletter.

There may also be the opportunity to work on litigation-related projects.

If you are interested in serving as a CLORE fellow, submit the materials listed below in hard copy or by email:

• Resume
• Law School transcript (list of courses and grades may be submitted)
• The name of your first-year lawyering seminar and legal research professors
• Cover letter detailing experience, skills and interest (in the form of an e-mail message is acceptable)

Applicants will be sent a confirmation of receipt of the application.

Please direct questions about ongoing fellow opportunities to Professor Rivera at 718-340-4304 or by email.