The Linklaters India Internship program provides Harvard Law School JD students in their 2L and 3L years the opportunity to receive hands on experience interning in Indian law firms, legal departments, and courts.

For more information, or to request application materials, please email Hakim Lakhdar. 

Internship
Students will spend 3 weeks at prominent Indian law firms, legal departments, and courts doing research on their paper topics. Placements in the past have included: Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, AZB & Partners, Nishith Desai Associates, Talwar Thakore Associates, the Tata Group, and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud at the Mumbai High Court. 

Travel
Students are expected to schedule and book their own transportation and housing. In past years, students have chosen to stay together at local hotels or rented apartments. 

Academic Requirements
Students must produce a paper following the internship. They will receive credit as Winter Term Writing Credit. Papers are due by April 1.  

Application Process
Students must submit an application, which includes a paper proposal, signature of faculty sponsor willing to supervise the paper, and a copy of the applicant’s resume.

Related Faculty
Professor Ashish Nanda has served as faculty chair of the program since its inception. Other professors who have served as advisors for the students are: William Alford, Jeanne Charn, Einer Elhauge, Jesse Fried, Robert Greenwald, Louis Kaplow, Catharine MacKinnon, John Manning, Ashish Nanda (faculty chair of program), Guhan Subramanian, Mark Roe, Mark Tushnet, David Wilkins, and Mark Wu.

Past Student Research
Please see below past student paper topics.

• Aadhar: A Universal ID System in a National Controversy
• Structural Alternatives: Creating an organizational model to encourage the success of women lawyers at Amarchand & Mangaldas
• Globalization, Cooperation, and Indian Legal Education: Case study of Jindal Global Law School - White & Case LLP Collaboration
• “Going Global” and Being Indian: The dilemma facing Indian regulators allowing access to global public capital
• Electrification, Entrepreneurship and Equity: The Indian experience in building a 21st century energy policy
• American Venture Finance in India: Application and effects of Indian law
• Indian Law on Abuse of Dominance: Three landmark judgments and the road ahead
• Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation in India
• International Medical Tourism: Perspectives on the global industry and the opportunity as experienced in India
• The ‘Decade of Innovation’?...Not Quite Yet.
• A Competition Act by India, for India: The first three years of Indian antitrust enforcement
• The Search for Certainty: An analysis of India’s Vodafone decision