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Project: Intellectual property research and registration for a new nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid and promoting civil society development in Syria.

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If you’ll be in Texas over the break, check out the opportunity below.  

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) has 15 offices with 300 staffers in 69 Texas Counties and several more counties in some southern states where Texas migrant farm workers go to work.

Please click the "Read more" button below for the whole message. --- The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, through its Koons Family Institute on International Law & Policy, is seeking 1-2 legal interns/volunteers to provide short-term support in the completion of the 7th edition of the Child Pornography: Model Legislation and Global Review.  In particular, assistance is needed in researching the existing child pornography laws in a dozen countries, sending verification letters to local Embassies, reviewing and updating footnotes, and drafting and reviewing several new sections of the report on online grooming, data retention laws, and implementation. Ideally a student would work a minimum of 15 hours/week. The research work can be done  remotely, but the other components would need to be done onsite. Simply as a point of reference, the report is expected to be fully completed for publication by late February. Interested students can contact WCL Alumnus Sandra Marchenko at smarchenko@icmec.org or 703.837.6340.

Please click the "Read more" button below for the whole message. --- The Due Process of Law Foundation needs pro bono translation help.  The organization has a lot of Amicus Briefs and other official legal letters to judicial authorities in Latin America that need to be translated from Spanish to English for their website.  There are more than ten documents, and each document should not take more than 30 mins to translate each depending on the student’s level of Spanish. If you are interested in helping, please contact Stephanie Luckam, Intern Coordinator, sluckam@dplf.org

Please click the "Read more" button below for the whole message. -- The Humane Party is looking for pro bono support. The Humane Party is the U.S.A.'s first political party committed to running and electing only candidates who have committed to humane values both personally and politically.

Please click the "Read more" button below for the whole message. --- Shared Hope International just released the 2012 Protected Innocence Challenge report which grades all 50 states and the District of Columbia on how well their existing legislative frameworks combat domestic minor sex trafficking and protect victims. The organization needs help to create additional tools that advocates can use in the upcoming 2013 state legislative sessions to advocate for improvements in their states’ laws. This would involve reviewing and compiling specific results of their policy work into charts and other formats that allow for easy reference.

Please click the "Read more" button below for the whole message. --- The American Society of International Law needs help on some short-term projects consisting of bluebooking assignments for two publications (International Legal Materials and ASIL Insights), research of current developments in international law (with particular focus on main international tribunals/institutions), correspondence with authors/editors, tracking of status charts, proof reading, and short writing assignments. The supervisor will be out of the country until January 4, but may be able to supervise and train virtually before then. These projects could be completed during the spring semester.

Please click the "Read more" button below for the whole message. -- DC Survivors and Advocates For Empowerment (DC SAFE) is looking for volunteers for the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project. Commitment is flexible, training is short and occurs frequently, and students get to sit in CPO court to observe and record their findings. Volunteering for this project will be an important contribution to a project enhancing access to justice. To fill out an application form, and to find more information about the project, please visit the website:

Please click the "Read more" button below for the whole message. --- The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program was created in 1992 with a dual mission:  1) to provide assistance to unrepresented veterans or their family members who have filed appeals at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Court), and 2) to recruit and train attorneys in the field of veterans' law.  For additional information about the Consortium, please visit www.vetsprobono.org.

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AEquitas: The Prosecutors’ Resource on Violence Against Women is an organization whose mission is to improve the quality of justice in sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and human trafficking cases by developing, evaluating, and refining prosecution practices that increase victim safety and offender accountability.