This page lists job openings, internships, fellowships and other career opportunities in the area of intellectual property and technology.

If you are interested in promoting an opportunity on IP Osgoode’s website, please contact us at iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca

IP Osgoode Opportunities: 

IP Osgoode Internship:  Access Copyright is looking for a student intern to work with their legal team in Toronto during the spring term, and potentially during the summer.  Application details here.  Application deadline December 14, 2009.  This position is open to Osgoode Hall Law School students in any year of the JD program.

IP Osgoode Internship:  The Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC) is looking for a student to work with their legal team in Toronto during the spring term, and potentially during the summer.  Application details here.  Application deadline November 27, 2009. 

Professor Rosemary Coombe is seeking a Research Assistant to the Working Group on Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural heritage: Customary, Conventional and Vernacular Legal Forms.  Application deadline September 11, 2009.

IP Osgoode: Part-time graphic artist and illustrator (2009-2010).  IP Osgoode invites applications for a volunteer part-time graphic artist and illustrator to provide illustrations for use on our website.  Application deadline September 4, 2009. 

IPilogue Editors (2009-2010).  IP Osgoode invites applications for IPilogue blog editors.  Application deadline September 4, 2009. 

IP Osgoode Internship: Canadian Intellectual Property Council.  The Canadian Intellectual Property Council is looking for a summer intern to assist in the development of a report on the intersection between IP and the creative ecosystem in the digital age.  This is a fantastic opportunity to work on cutting edge IP issues.  Application deadline May 15, 2009. 

IP Osgoode Internship: Inometrix Inc.  This is a unique opportunity for students to work on intellectual property strategy projects.  Inometrix is looking for student interns (to start in May 2009).  Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

Osgoode Public Interest Requirement (OPIR) Projects with the Songwriters Association of Canada.  The Songwriters Association of Canada requires two students to work on projects this May, 2009 in Toronto.  This is a unique opportunity to fulfill your OPIR hours with the Songwriters Assocation of Canada.  Note: Involvement in these projects is limited to Osgoode students entering their 3rd year of law school (the Class of 2010). 

IP Osgoode Internship: McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute. The Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University is looking to hire a student intern to work with their team during the summer.  Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.  Note: This position has been filled.

Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is hiring a research assistant for the summer of 2009 (May to August). The successful applicant will be awarded a 2009 BLG Summer Student Research Fellowship, valued at $12,000.00.   Application deadline March 13, 2009.

IP Osgoode Internship: Yahoo! Canada.  Yahoo! is looking for a student intern to work with their legal team in Toronto during the summer.  This internship is unpaid.  Application deadline March 16, 2009.

IP Osgoode: Part-time graphic artist and illustrator.  IP Osgoode invites applications for a volunteer part-time graphic artist and illustrator to provide illustrations for use on our website.  Application deadline March 16, 2009.  APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO March 30.

IPilogue Summer Editors.  IP Osgoode invites applications for part-time summer IPilogue blog editor positions.  Application deadline March 16, 2009.  APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO March 30.

Other opportunities:

Opportunity for a placement fellowship in the UK – Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP).  Closing date for the call is 24 February 2010.

University Of Ontario Institute Of Technology (UOIT) – Two core faculty positions in legal studies are available. 

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP - There is a 2010 summer student opportunity for 2L students interested in intellectual property. The student would spend the summer working in the Gowlings IP department in Toronto.  Only students with a dedicated interest in IP should apply.  Applications should be sent to Patti MacDonald (patti.macdonald@gowlings.com), Director of Student and Associate Programs.  Application deadline is Jan. 31, 2010.

Google is accepting applications from students interested in being a summer 2010 Google Policy Fellow.   The application deadline is December 28, 2009.

New York Law School seeks a summer research fellow to conduct research for the Peer to Patent program.  The application deadline is April 30, 2009. 

The University of Richmond seeks a full-time Clinical Assistant Professor of Law to develop, administer and teach in a new Intellectual Property and Transactional Law clinic.  The application deadline is May 1, 2009.

The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is looking for a volunteer Summer Intern to work on public interest issues involving technology and the Internet.  Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis with preference given to those received by March 1st.

The Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard is looking for law student interns for the spring and summer — and for a new staff attorney.  See individual postings for application deadlines.

The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School is accepting applications for a fellowship program to support future legal academics interested in the field of copyright and authors’ rights.  Application deadline April 30, 2009.