Law internship fellowship
Internship fellowship
· Social sciences, policy and law
This environmental law internship tests India’s waste and plastic rules against what happens on the street, with a mentor who reviews your research and drafting. You study a rule such as the Plastic Waste Management Rules, check how it is applied where you live and write a legal brief on the gaps you find.
For school students thinking about law and for law students who want field research behind their legal writing. Online, with field work near where you live. The fellowship is paid because every fellow receives time and attention from senior researchers and leaders.
Law and sustainability
Why environmental law matters for sustainabilityEnvironmental law decides who must act on pollution and waste. In India, the Solid Waste Management Rules require waste to be segregated Plastic Waste Management Rules make producers and brand owners responsible for the plastic packaging they put on the market. These rules work only when people know them and someone enforces them. Lawyers who study both the text and the field can draft clearer rules and hold the right parties to account.
Earth5R’s field work shows how these rules play out in 150+ Indian cities. Its teams train housing societies on segregation and composting. At lake and river cleanups, they run brand audits that sort and count plastic items by brand. Its TERRA Score work checks the BRSR filings of 1,200+ companies listed in India against field data. As a fellow you use these records to test a rule against what happens on the ground.
This work links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 12, Responsible consumption and production and Goal 16, Peace, justice and strong institutions.
You join Earth5R’s live work through your own subject. Your mentor shapes the final project with you.
Study what large listed companies in India disclose in their BRSR filings, then help compare their claims with field data using the TERRA Score method, with company names masked.
Visit an informal recycling unit near you, record how waste pickers and recyclers work, and study how India’s waste rules treat their role.
Every fellow moves through four phases. Each phase is checked by your mentor before you move on.
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Go into the field near where you live and collect primary data for your project in Law.
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Find the root cause in your data and frame a problem worth solving, with your mentor.
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Build a working model, analysis or design for your solution, and test it.
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Put your solution to work, measure the result and publish a verified record on earth5r.org.
Along the way you take part in research conversations with professors at MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, LSE and other universities, and ask your own questions. See how FIELDWORK works.
Your next step
Where this can take you Degrees this work supports- BA LLB or BBA LLB, the five-year law degree in India
- LLB, the three-year law degree after a first degree
- LLM in Environmental Law
- LLM in Energy and Climate Law
- JD with an environmental law focus
- Environmental lawyer
- Legal researcher at an environmental organisation or think tank
- Compliance or ESG legal analyst
- Policy and regulatory adviser
- Law clerk at a court or tribunal
Universities
Universities known for LawStrong law schools look for applicants who can read a legal text closely and build a clear argument from it. An environmental law internship with Earth5R gives you a legal…
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