About Civis
Civis helps citizens understand laws that impact their daily lives and give feedback on these laws in real time.
About Online Law Internship Opportunity at Civis
Civis’ Policy Leaders Internship Programme is a 12-week internship from October to December 2025.
What we do
At Civic Innovation Foundation, we work to enable effective dialogue between Governments and citizens, on laws and policies. Through our online platform Civis, we support the process of public consultations, i.e. help citizens share their inputs on upcoming laws with the Government. Civis has been a recipient of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia award, Agami Prize for Legal Innovation, D-Prize, and two state government awards at the Maharashtra StartUp Summit and Vibrant Gujarat StartUp Summit. Civis has successfully sourced more than 1173 public consultations and has uploaded the same on our online platform.
Responsibilities
- Summarising draft laws and policies that are open for consultations and public feedback for citizen understanding.
- Conducting detailed research on the content and background of the upcoming laws and policies open for consultation.
- Getting an opportunity to publish articles and policy analysis on draft policies on Civis’ blog as well as other publications.
Skills gained through the programme include, but are not limited to:
- Hands-on training on public consultations and civic participation in law-making.
- An understanding of public policy.
Benefits
- Internship Certificate from Civis.
- Refining the skills mentioned above.
- Networking with a pan-India network of students.
Duration
The internship will be for a minimum duration of 12 weeks in the months of October-December and may be extended at the request of the intern, only after approval of the internship coordinator.
Location
The internship would function on a remote working policy.
Eligibility
Students of law and public policy, in their 3rd year or above, are encouraged to apply.
Application Deadline
21st September 2025. Successful candidates will hear from us by: 25th September 2025
Internship starts
29th September 2025