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The Institute for Free Speech's First Amendment Fellowship
Summer fellows are eligible to earn $10,000 in salary for their 10 weeks of employment.
I am happy to pass along an announcement for the Institute for Free Speech's First Amendment Fellowship program:
The 2022 Institute for Free Speech Summer Associate Legal Fellowship is a unique opportunity for current law school students to explore a career in public interest and First Amendment law. The program is open to students who will finish their first or second year of law school by the summer of 2022.
Fellows are expected to work full time for 10 weeks in our Washington, D.C. headquarters, but other arrangements may be available to especially outstanding candidates.
Fellows are eligible to earn $10,000 in salary for their 10 weeks of employment.
During the fellowship, students will work with Institute for Free Speech attorneys for a portion of their time. Each fellow will also be expected to complete a project. Applicants are encouraged to be creative in suggesting a project as part of their application. While many projects may produce papers suitable for publication, we will consider any project related to protecting or advancing First Amendment rights.
The rolling submission deadline began on September 1.
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The project would best be the filing of a federal lawsuit. For example, mandamus the IRS Non-profit Office to pull the tax exemption of a school that does not adopt the Chicago Principles.
The student will learn, almost nothing they learned in law school applies to the real world of litigation. The student should try to write the lawsuit in a week, spend the rest of the time dealing with problems.
I would like Eugene to have a contest in which he presents numerous titles of past posts and we all guess who the authors are. I bet as a group we would do quite well.
No fair.
Prof. Blackman posts 70% of the blogs so even blindly guessing him on every blog will get you a good return.
This is basically the Blackman And Volokh Show these days, Prof. Blackman’s rhapsodic stream-of-consciousness performance and Prof. Volokh’s by-the-numbers, polemical lathering of his right-wing refugees from modern America.
Which is fine by me — this blog is the best right-wing academia can do, and its decline corresponds to conservatives’ performance and prospects in the American culture war.
Perhaps the sole interesting point remaining is what Blackman’s posts will look like in about 30 years, when he no longer needs to worry about whether Prof. Volokh will leash him, while still posting as the Alito Professor Of Law from the Scalia Law Building at the Gorsuch South Texas School Of Law Houston Central Business District (provisional accreditation pending), with the ruins of movement conservatism piled about his office .
Artie, dream on. You are deluding yourself. The country is not even going diverse. It is staying white. The Democrats at the Census are making a math error.