Hours: Fall Part-time (10-15 hrs. /week)
Pay: $10.00/hour - Work Study; Volunteer
The Center for Public Health and Tobacco Policy (Center) at New England Law | Boston is seeking current day or evening students who have completed their first full year to work part time during the spring semester.
The Center supports the New York State Department of Health, the Vermont Department of Public Health, and local communities with tobacco control and chronic disease prevention policies. The Center examines the efficacy, feasibility, and legality of public health policies and provides guidance to state and local governments and community mobilizers on policy language and implementation strategy. To learn more about the Center and view our work product, please visit http://www.tobaccopolicycenter.org/.
The position of law clerk provides a rare opportunity for to directly assist in the development and implementation of evidence-based public policy. Law clerks research policies aimed at reducing tobacco use and the incidence of chronic disease, including initiatives likely to reduce existing health inequities across disparate populations. Law clerks typically:
- conduct legal research on issues such as First Amendment conflicts, federal/state and state/local preemption, equal protection, tax law, Native American law, zoning and evidentiary standards;
- review legal and social science literature and media reporting on marketing, human behavior, tobacco use, cancer screening, breastfeeding and nutrition;
- compose legal memoranda;
- draft fact sheets and newsletter articles for lay audiences;
- design user-friendly format to convey complex information;
- create presentation slides;
- produce and organize website content;
- prepare spreadsheets summarizing data;
- edit legal citations in correct Bluebook format;
- assist with general administrative duties as needed.
Preference will be given to those students with demonstrated interest in public health law or policy as well as students with law review or journal experience.
Please contact Financial Aid to determine work-study eligibility. Students who volunteer with the Center are eligible for the Public Service Transcript Notation Program.
Applicants may e-mail a resume, brief writing sample, (unofficial) transcript, and a cover letter detailing their interest and availability tobacco@nesl.edu. Please include “Fall Law Clerk” in the email subject. The deadline for applications is December 12th, 2013.
