For Wayne Law Students
We offer a wide range of programs and opportunities for Wayne Law students to inspire their interest in public service and public policy roles, and to highlight the many career paths open to them after law school.
How Wayne Law students can get involved with us
Our programs include our annual summer legal internship placements on congressional oversight (sub)committees in Washington, D.C.; our library of career panels; research assistant and student assistant opportunities, involvement in the Wayne Law Review oversight edition; and more!
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Find out more about our student programming and opportunities in this brief one-pager!
Internships
We provide annual stipends for Wayne Law students to spend the summer working as legal interns on Capitol Hill, experiencing first-hand a bipartisan approach to congressional oversight.
More Opportunities for Students
We offer additional oversight opportunities for Wayne law students including regular career panels, Wayne Law Review editions focused on oversight, legislation courses and much more.
Career Panels
Watch our collection of recorded career panels!
The Levin Center periodically sponsors panels of lawyers who work in oversight related fields so that Wayne Law students can learn more about the work and consider possible career paths.
- Careers in Government Panel for Wayne Law Students (Fall 2019)
- Careers in Corporate Government Relations Panel (Spring 2019)
- Careers in Government: Inspectors General (Fall 2020)
- Career Paths in State Government Panel (Spring 2021)
- Federal Agencies’ General Counsel’s Office (Fall 2021)
- Careers in Financial Regulation and Enforcement (Spring 2022)
- Legal Careers in Congress (Fall 2022)
Levin Center Alumni
Meet our 2021 Intern and 2022 Extern - Yara Gayar
Since graduating from Wayne Law in 2023, Yara Gayar has become Counsel, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee at the U.S. House Financial Services Committee. Yara was a 2021 Levin Center intern working with the Financial Services Committee and returned to the committee the following year as our inaugural Levin Center extern in 2022.
Meet our 2019 Intern - Daina Robinson
Daina Robinson, a 2020 Wayne State University Law School graduate, has become a member of the oversight community in Washington, D.C. In 2021, she was hired by the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee where she served as a Levin Center legal intern in 2019, and worked as a legal counsel assisting committee investigations into policy matters. In 2023, she moved to the Oversight Team in the legal division of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, helping the agency to interact with requests made by congressional committees and members of Congress.
