This position is a fall internship for JD/LLM recent graduates or law students with excellent research and writing abilities.
Responsibilities:
• Research and writing on international human rights law and comparative constitutional law.
• Copyediting and translating legal reports and press releases.
• Managing administrative tasks for the legal department.
• Clerical tasks.
The ideal candidate is a hard-working, passionate law school student interested in gaining work experience with international human rights law. This is an ideal position for someone who plans to pursue a public interest career, sharpen his/her legal research skills before entering academia, or work with a nonprofit organization before starting a career in the private sector.
Qualifications:
• JD/LLM graduate or law student in the United States
• Good knowledge of public international law and constitutional law
• Excellent, proven research and writing abilities
• Spanish or French fluency is required
• Translation experience beneficial but not required
About HRF’s Legal Department:
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is currently involved in a wide range of challenging legal projects, ranging from writing amicus curiae briefs for the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights, to writing comparative constitutional law/international law reports, to filing petitions with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, as well as with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
About HRF:
HRF is a non-profit organization whose mission is to defend human rights globally, with an expertise in the Americas. HRF investigates and reports on human rights abuses with a special focus on civil and political rights. Our organization campaigns against human rights abuses—such as torture, slavery, and arbitrary imprisonment—using film, social networking sites, and other new media to enhance our efforts.
HRF also organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum, an international conference for human rights. The forum brings together human rights defenders, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, media pioneers, and philanthropists to share their perspectives and expertise on how to bring human rights to the top of the global agenda.
For more information on HRF and its work, please visit our website atwww.HumanRightsFoundation.org To learn more about the Oslo Freedom Forum please visit our website at www.OsloFreedomForum.com
Please email cover letter and resume with the subject line "Junior Legal Researcher” to:
Intern Directorinternships@humanrightsfoundation.org
Application materials should be included as email attachments as well as pasted into the body of the email.
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