Student Opportunities

The Center for Global Justice is designed for students interested in human rights who desire to gain real world experience in areas like fighting human trafficking, securing international religious freedom, upholding the rule of law, and advocating for refugees. We offer a variety of student opportunities throughout the academic year and summer.

CGJ Student Staff

To provide Regent Law students with practical experience in the legal protection of human rights, and to serve and support those in the field, the Center has created the Student Staff position. Student Staff perform pro bono legal work for our partner organizations, including International Justice Mission, Alliance Defending Freedom International, Shared Hope, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, Justice Ventures International, Advocates International (Bulgaria and Canada), the Virginia Coalition Against Human Trafficking, Handong International Law School, and others.

Past projects have included topics such as comparative analyses of laws in Uganda surrounding the issue of child sacrifice, the role of technology in anti-trafficking policy efforts in Romania, drafting Periodic Reviews to the United Nations on religious persecution cases in countries such as Afghanistan, and more.

Staff members are student volunteers who commit to provide an average of 5 hours of research per week for their assigned project. Students may apply to be on staff at the end of their 1L fall semester. Students sign up for their preferred project at the beginning of each semester, and research is overseen by a paid CGJ student law clerk (2L/3L) who reports to a faculty supervisor. The projects run through the semester. Students may apply for a staff position at the end of 1L fall, provided they meet the GPA requirements.

The online application here opens on November 1, 2025 and is due by January 3, 2026 to be considered for spring semester staff. Along with your online application, submit a cover letter, resume, and unofficial transcript to globaljustice@regent.edu. If 1L grades are released later than January 3, the deadline will be adjusted.

Student Staff Application

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Student Staff members work on legal projects, including writing articles and reports, drafting amicus briefs, and conducting research, throughout the school year.

Hours Required: 5 per week on average

Why a Human Trafficking Clinic?

Human trafficking victims are frequently forced or coerced by their traffickers into criminal activity. As a result, many survivors carry criminal records tied directly to their exploitation. Even when a survivor is no longer being trafficked, these records can create significant obstacles to rebuilding their lives—making it difficult to secure employment, housing, education, child custody, and other essential resources for independence. However, under Virginia law, survivors of human trafficking now have the right to vacate (or expunge) certain charges from their criminal records. Thanks in part to the advocacy of the Center for Global Justice, the vacatur law expanded in July 2025 to provide even more expansive relief. Under the original law, survivors with only 2 prostitution-related misdemeanor charges qualified for relief. Under the new law, more than 30 other misdemeanors and felony drug possession are considered eligible charges.

The Center created the Clinic in 2023 to offer free legal representation to human trafficking survivors who desperately need criminal record relief. By partnering with “Survivor Service Providers,” the Clinic is able to identify and represent victims who are eligible for relief under the statute.

Student Opportunities in the Clinic

Students working in the CGJ Human Trafficking clinic will represent human trafficking survivors in vacatur and expungement proceedings and related matters. They may also work on current legal and policy issues affecting trafficking victims in the justice system. Students will attend class weekly, meet with clients and prepare petitions.

The Human Trafficking Clinic course will be available in the Fall and Spring Semesters. There are no prerequisites, however preference is given to 3Ls who plan on taking the course for both the Fall and Spring. The first semester of the Clinic will be taken for 3 credits, and the second semester can be taken for 1-3 credits.

Applications for the Clinic course are received during class registration schedule. Navigate to the Clinic tab for more details.

Internship Grant Program

Our internship grant program provides funding for student internships with legal organizations in the U.S. and around the globe. Over 160 interns have served in countries including Mexico, Bulgaria, Kenya, Uganda, France, England, Russia, South Korea, India, in the Middle East, and throughout the United States.

Students interested in applying for a grant may apply based on an internship with one of the organizations that has already expressed an interest in having a Regent intern or by securing an internship of your choosing that aligns with the Center’s mission and values (subject to approval).

In order to apply for an internship grant, students must complete the online application form, and submit a resume, unofficial 1L transcript, and headshot to the Center for Global Justice by February 5. Submissions must be made electronically to globaljustice@regent.edu.

Sign up for Job Alerts or contact Kathy Stull in Career Services at lawcareerservices@regent.edu for further information on CGJ internships.

Handong Intern Application

Please email Dean Walton (stevwa1@regent.edu) or Director Meg Kelsey (mkelsey@regent.edu) for more information on this internship program.

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If this is an internship you have secured on your own, list the address and contact information for the organization, and list all details of the internship, including the type of work you will be doing in the internship, the length of the internship, the person or persons who will be supervising you and their qualifications, and all other factors that may be relevant to the placement.*

Email a copy of an agreement or correspondence verifying the terms of the internship to globaljustice@regent.edu and seefried@handong.edu. State how you obtained and secured the internship.

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Upon completion of the internship, I will submit a detailed report describing the internship to the Center for Global Justice.
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Meet Our Interns

The center needs $50,000-$100,000 annually to support these interns. Your tax-deductible gifts to the Center for Global Justice Internship Program make this program possible.

The Center for Global Justice is currently offering two post-graduate fellowship positions.

The Uganda Fellow

The Fellowship program began in Uganda when Professor Brauch and current Uganda Supreme Court Justice Mike Chibita became friends at a Christian Legal Society Conference. At that time, Justice Chibita was the Director of Public Proseuction (DPP) in Uganda – the equivalent of the Attorney General of Uganda. Under his leadership, Uganda began to take the issue of human trafficking and child sacrifice seriously. The Fellowship program began in 2017, when then-DPP Chibita invited Regent students to work with him at the DPP’s office and assist in cases involving child sacrifice and human trafficking. Due to Covid and following Justice Chibita’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the Fellowship program took a pause from 2020-2024, but students have continued to intern at the DPP’s office and the Uganda Supreme Court during the summers.

Currently, the 2025-2026 Fellow is living and working on campus at Uganda Christian University (UCU), supporting their clinical work and serving as legal counsel with Kyampisi Childcare Ministries (KCM) to combat and prosecute the practice ritual child sacrifice in Uganda.

The CGJ Fellow

The Center for Global Justice Fellow works on campus at the law school to assist the Director with legal and admin work, trainings around the Commonwealth, overseeing student research projects and preparing students for their summer internships. The CGJ Fellow will gain invaluable entry-level skills, while working in an environment that fosters spiritual, professional, and personal growth.

For students interested in a Fellowship, please email globaljustice@regent.edu to inquire about the application process.

To support the Fellows and the work they are doing, please consider donating today. It is your generosity that allows this important work to continue!