The Intesa Sanpaolo Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law at NYU is pleased to announce that both the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) will each again be offering a summer internship for students who obtain NYU PILC grants. These grants are only available to JD students. There is one internship for each institution. You can learn more about these institutions on their websites.
The PCA internship focuses on international arbitration. The Hague Conference internship involves issues of private international law, sometimes in the commercial area and sometimes in the family law field. The Hague Conference does try to accommodate a student’s interest, but often they will specify ahead of time what they plan for the student intern and that may affect the selection process.
Interested students should send a letter of application to Professor Linda Silberman (linda.silberman@nyu.edu) (Co-Director of the Intesa San Paolo Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law) and copy her assistant Contessa Beckford (cb5291@mercury.law.nyu.edu ). Applications should include the following information: a resume, your unofficial law school transcript with first-semester grades (to the extent you have them), and a statement of interest and experience. In particular, your foreign language abilities, any experience abroad, and courses of study in areas involving private and public international law and international arbitration should be noted. The statement should also include reasons why you would like the internship and what skills you would bring to it. Identify whether you are interested in one or both internships, and if both, which one you would prefer and why. You may submit an application prior to the receipt of first-year grades and then update that information as it comes in.
For additional information, interested applicants may contact Professor Silberman directly or current NYU students who had one of these internships in the past.
For the Hague Conference: Alice Militaru, 2025 summer intern (arm9357@nyu.edu; Ella Hetfield, 2024 summer intern (emh9516@nyu.edu);
For the PCA: Masha Galay, 2025 summer intern (mg8571@nyu.edu); Junius Williams, 2024 summer intern (jw3621@nyu.edu)
Applications should be submitted to Professor Silberman, at the latest by January 20, 2026. Professor Silberman will be in her office this semester until the end of the 2025 calendar year and is available to talk about the internships. She is not in residence at NYU in January and February 2026, but can speak with students by phone. Once applications are in, she may try to schedule a few interviews of the strongest candidates via zoom. A decision will be taken by mid-February.