Jobs & Fellowships
Program Director Deena Hurwitz and other law faculty meet frequently with students to discuss fellowship and career opportunities, and students are invited to join an e-mail list that sends out job and fellowship announcements regularly. The student body, many of whom have worked abroad, also offer a significant networking resource for those interested in human rights work.
SUMMER FELLOWSHIPSThe Program arranges a student summer internship with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. Students may also apply for a limited number of grants for summer human rights internships. DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary (D.C.) has established a place for a UVA student to work as a summer fellow with the firm’s pro bono legal reform initiative in Kosovo.
The Law School has also arranged for two unpaid internships with Human Rights First (one in New York and one in Washington, D.C.). The application deadline for both is January 15, 2006. For more information, contact Cindy Derrick at cal7y@virginia.edu. See www.humanrightsfirst.org
Last summer, the Human Rights Program helped fund students working with:
- Human Rights Watch (London)
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague)
- Center for Justice in International Law (CEJIL) (San Jose, Costa Rica)
- Cambodia Women’s Crisis Center (Siem Reap)
The student-run Public Interest Law Association also offers grants, from approximately $3,500 to $6,000, to help fund a broad array of summer public interest opportunities. Last summer students worked with:
- Cambodian Defenders Project (Phnom Penh)
- International Centre for Ethnic Studies (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
- Hungarian Helsinki Committee (Budapest, Hungary)
- South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center (New Delhi, India)
- El Rescate (Los Angeles)
- International Christian Support Fund (Nairobi, Kenya)
See Where PILA Grantees Worked.
Several opportunities for public international law related fellowships are available to Virginia graduates, including:
International Court
of Justice (The Hague) Virginia Law is one
of a select group of American law schools who nominate candidates
for a clerkship with the ICJ. The Law School will provide up
to $20,000 to support the nine-month clerkship, which is open
to graduates in the five most recent classes.
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Monroe Leigh Fellowship in International
Law
Provides a total of $10,000 for one or two students to pursue
a public international law project of their own during a summer
internship, during their third year, or after graduation.
Application information | Related
Article
The Law School’s Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center also offers a generous loan forgiveness program for students who take lower-paying public service positions after graduation.
The Program is building a network of recent graduates who are involved in the human rights law field. Some of the places where alumni are employed or work pro bono include:
- Capitol Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- Center for National Security Studies
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court
- Earthjustice
- EarthRights International
- Freedom House
- Global Rights, Partners for Justice
- Iran-United States Claims Tribunal
- Iraq Memory Foundation
- U.S. Agency for International Development
Through the human rights listserv, the Program provides students information about human rights jobs and fellowship opportunities. To join the listserv, contact Cindy Derrick.
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