Careers
Monroe Leigh
Fellowship in International Law
The fellowship provides a total of $10,000
for one or two students to pursue a public
international law project of their own choosing during the
summer following the first or second year, during the fall
and/or spring of the third academic year, or for a postgraduate
internship. Application Information
International Court
of Justice (The Hague)
Virginia Law is one of a select group of American law schools that nominates candidates for a clerkship with the ICJ. The Law School provides up to $40,000 to support the nine-month clerkship, which is open to graduates in the five most recent classes.
Summer Opportunities
In addition to working summers at firms and other employers that deal with aspects of international law, a number of students find public service positions abroad. The student-run Public Interest Law Association offers $3,500 to $5,900 grants to help fund a broad array of summer public interest opportunities, which have recently included internships with the U.N. World Food Program in Rome; the Justice for Widows and Orphans Project in Lusaka, Zambia; and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Protection Unit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, among others. The Human Rights 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 other human rights internships. DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in Washington, D.C., has established a place for a Virginia student to work as a summer fellow with the firm’s Kosovo pro bono legal reform initiative, and the Law School recently established internships with Human Rights First. More on Human Rights Program Fellowships
ALUMNI
Nearly 200 Virginia Law graduates currently work overseas in 35 countries and every continent. They include the Chief Legal Officer of Citibank-Japan (Tokyo), the Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Paris), and the Head of European Operations for Morgan Stanley (London). Alumni also practice abroad in the various global offices of firms such as White & Case, King & Spalding, Linklaters, and Clifford Chance. Graduates have received Fulbright fellowships to study abroad, and have worked for government and NGO employers dealing with international law and human rights at home and overseas, including the United Nations, the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, the Center for Justice and Accountability, Human Rights Watch, the Center for National Security Studies, the U.S. Department of Justice Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. Army JAG Corps, Global Rights, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, among others.
Here's what a few of our alums have been up to recently:
Katherine Redford and Tyler Giannini, both Class of '95, founded EarthRights International (ERI) in 1996, after becoming interested in human rights and environmental issues during their second-year summer spent at the Thailand border with Burma. Since then, ERI has been co-counsel in leading cases that use the Alien Tort Claims Act to prosecute U.S. companies like Unocal for their involvement in human rights abuses abroad. More
Ed Burley '90 returned from 14 months of duty with the Army Special Operations Command in Iraq to work with classmate Gregg Nivala on Iraq Regime Crimes at the Department of Justice. (reported spring 2005 in UVA Lawyer)
Jim Black '94 works in the Frankfurt office of London-based Linklaters, focusing on capital markets and crossborder mergers & acquisitions. (reported spring 2005 in UVA Lawyer)
Christopher Bernard '96 was elected to the partnership of Allen & Overy LLP in London, England in May 2004. Bernard is a partner in the U.S. law group and specializes in international capital market transactions. (reported spring 2005 in UVA Lawyer)
Brett Braude '94 works with Spectrum, a gaming consulting and business intelligence group that has a regional office in Bangkok. From there he shuttles back and forth to Hong Kong, Macau, and Manila.
Scott Castle '79 was the General Counsel of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the first government of post-Saddam Iraq
Cam Cowan '81 is Managing Partner of Orrick's China practices.
Amelia Chilcott Fawcett '83 is a Commander
of the British Empire, an award presented by the Queen of England
in 2002 in recognition of Fawcett's services to the finance
industry.
Until 2007, Fawcett was Head of European Operations for Morgan Stanley (London). She stepped down to sit on various boards and pursue institutional management consulting, and is now with Pensions First LLP which aims to help faltering, defined-benefit pension plans in the United Kingdom. The new company will use capital markets to deal with longevity risks.
Cees Flinterman '71 is serving a four-year term on the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Steve Okun'91 continues to live in Singapore with his wife, Paige, and sons, Bennett (7) and Mason (5). Since 2003, he has served as vice president of public affairs for UPS in Asia.
Cynthia Orchard '02 works for the Immigration
Advisory Service in Cambridge, England.
Stephen Geoffrey Rademaker '84 currently heads the newly-created Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the Department of State. The bureau was created with the merger of the Bureau of Arms Control and the Bureau of Nonproliferation. Rademaker became Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control in 2002 and in February 2005 he was named as head of the Bureau of Nonproliferation pending merger of the two Bureaus.
Louise Sams '85 is president of Turner Broadcasting Systems International.
John Sinders '79 is a principal owner of Aston Martin, which as part of a consortium he bought from Ford in 2007.
Jing Wang '89 is Chairman of Qualcomm-Asia Pacific and divides his time between Beijing and San Diego.
Until spring 2008, Anne Marie Whitesell '85 was Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Paris). She is now with Dechert in the US.
OUR ALUMS LIVE
IN Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belgium,
Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece,
Guam, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria,
Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Phillipine Islands, Poland,
Russia, Saudia Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, South
Korea, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,
The Netherlands, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,
and the Virgin Islands.