Seattle U Law students are invited to apply for positions as volunteer reporters or correspondents with JURIST (jurist.org), the award-winning international legal news non-profit powered by law students from across the US and around the world. JURIST is the only global collaboration of law students working together around the clock. JURIST reports the rule of law in crisis.
Gain unique writing and research experience as a member of our dynamic team of over 100 public-spirited law students from 50 law schools in 25 countries covering the latest US and international legal developments as they happen. Get your own byline on a service that reaches a global audience of over 1 million readers a year. Make friends and build connections with future lawyers from elsewhere in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia that can last a lifetime!
JURIST:
• In 2022-23 JURIST was staffed in the US by law students from Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Boston University Law School, Pitt Law, Fordham Law School (NY), Vermont Law School, and UNLV Law (NV). We’re expanding to more US law schools this year!
• JURIST has a fast-growing network of volunteer reporters and correspondents filing from many countries around the world, including (but not limited to) Afghanistan, Australia, Belarus, Canada, China, India, Ireland, Kenya, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Uganda, Ukraine and the UK.
Qualifications:
• Journalistic experience is helpful, but not required. New volunteers will be trained by US-based law professors and professional journalists.
• Applicants must have 5 hours a week to volunteer, enthusiasm for news and reporting, strong writing skills, good discipline and attention to detail and an interest in carefully explaining law-related developments to a worldwide public.
Apply:
• Visit www.jurist.org/apply
• Complete the application by 5 PM ET Friday, September 8.
• Questions? Email JURIST Executive Editor Jaclyn Belczyk at jbelczyk@jurist.org
Reporting the rule of law in crisis
JURIST (on the Web at www.jurist.org; on Twitter/X @JURISTnews) is an international legal news service powered by law students. Established in the US at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1996, it’s now an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit staffed by over 100 volunteers from law schools in 25 countries working together as members of a virtual editorial team under the direction of several US-based law faculty and professionals. JURIST is the first and only global organization of law students collaborating across borders around the clock.
JURIST’s North American law students hail from Harvard, Stanford, Boston University, Fordham, UNLV, Vermont, Pitt, UCalgary and the University of Ottawa. In South America, law students volunteer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) in Lima and Saint Anthony University of Cusco. In Europe, JURIST staffers and correspondents come from major law schools in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Ukraine; in Africa they work from Kenya and Uganda; in the Near East, they file from Israel, Iraq and Iran; in Asia, they come from Afghanistan, mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; in Australasia they operate from both Australia and New Zealand.
JURIST’s mission is to engage law students with the most important events and issues of their time, inviting them to strengthen the rule of law by reporting its challenges and successes around the world while preparing them for informed and responsible leadership in later professional and public life. JURIST news writers, correspondents, commentary writers and editors learn about law as it happens, connect with and interview legal newsmakers, build 21st century legal research and writing skills by finding and explaining in plain English the primary documents behind the headlines, and collaborate with a diverse range of national and international colleagues while sharing their work with a global public.
JURIST’s content and its dedicated staff have been featured by major US and international media, including CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CBC Radio and the Toronto Star in Canada, and the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper in Japan. JURIST reports and commentaries have been republished and/or cited numerous times in law school casebooks, law reviews and in testimony before US Congressional committees; several have figured in briefs to US federal appellate courts and even the Supreme Court of the United States.
In addition to its Web presence, JURIST is available on social media platforms such as Twitter/X, Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube, and has developed its own apps, available for both Apple and Android devices. JURIST is open-access across all formats and is paywall- and subscription-free.
JURIST is headed by Pitt Law professor and Canadian Rhodes Scholar Bernard Hibbitts, an Oxford University and Harvard Law School graduate who in the late 1990s hand-coded the early iterations of JURIST’s website in raw HTML. Most of JURIST’s funding comes from private donors.
For more information, please contact JURIST Executive Editor Jaclyn Belczyk at jbelczyk@jurist.org.
