Laura, LA

I spent the summer in New Orleans, Louisiana working in capital post-conviction and I can genuinely say it was the best summer I have ever had. I have always been passionate about human rights law and the abolition of the death penalty but spending...

Posted on Oct 2, 2018

Liz, AZ

From mid-May to mid-August this summer, I completed an Amicus internship in Tucson, Arizona. I was placed with a firm which represents clients at both the trial and post conviction stages of a capital case. Throughout my internship I undertook a...

Posted on Sep 26, 2018

Tariq, LA

Over the course of three months, I worked under several attorneys on various assignments ranging from drafting post-conviction petitions to Federal Habeas corpus claims, filed to the State District Court and Supreme Court respectively. After...

Posted on Sep 25, 2018

Will, LA

At the end of March 2018, I travelled to New Orleans to undertake a three-month internship. I was fortunate enough to receive the Matrix bursary, which proved incredibly valuable in allowing me to make the most my stay in the Big Easy. At the office...

Posted on Sep 25, 2018

Rhodri, MO

I am a law graduate from Wales who is about to begin the Bar Professional Training Course. For six weeks, during July and August 2018, I was fortunate enough to intern at a US office in St Louis, Missouri. Whilst interning, my primary role was to...

Posted on Sep 25, 2018

Georgia, AZ

Exhilarating, thrilling, invigorating. Perhaps three words you would attribute to visiting a theme park. For me, this is how I would describe my Amicus ALJ internship. I was lucky enough to spend just over 3 months Stateside working on death row...

Posted on Sep 25, 2018

Yasmin, MO

My internship was with an affiliate non-profit organisation of Amicus' in St Louis, Missouri. The internship itself was focused on a research study that has an aim of proving that the use of the death penalty is arbitrary in the state of Missouri...

Posted on Sep 20, 2018