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Internships

The Transnational Law Institute sponsors several summer internships involving international or comparative law matters in organizations of the selected students choice.

2007

Summer Associates

Akiko Krystina Nishino 08L will serve as an intern for the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT) in the Defence Support Section.  UNAKRT represents the international side of the 'hybrid court', known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), which was created to bring to trial senior leaders of Democratic Kampuchea and those who were most responsible for the crimes and serious violations of Cambodian penal law, international humanitarian law and custom, and international conventions recognized by Cambodia, that were committed between April 17, 1975 and January 6, 1979.

Seetha Srinivasan, 08L, Summer Internship in Alexandria, Virginia, at the International Missing Children's Division of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children("NCMEC") as an International Legal Intern.

Associates

Stephanie Barbour joined the Human Rights Department of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 2007. She is working on developing judicial outreach strategies for domestic war crimes prosecutions together with a host of other transitional justice issues.

Josh Nettinga '07L is with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo) Human Rights Department.

2006

Summer Associates

  Nick Devereux 07L. Devereux will serve as an intern for legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives International Relations Committee in Washington D.C.

 

Mohamed Younis 07L. Younis will serve as a trainee with African and Mid-East Refugee Assistance, a not-for-profit association in Cairo, Egypt.

   

Associates

 

James Lin '06L. Lin joined the Human Rights Department of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in August 2006, monitoring Bosnian war crimes trials among other responsibilities. Lin works under the auspices of W&L School of Law alumnus James Rodehaver, the Director of Human Rights operations for the OSCE in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The OSCE is tasked with promoting post-conflict peace, reconstruction, and justice throughout the Balkans.

In June 2007, Lin - based on his hard work and his Transnational Law Institute internship with the OSCE - moved now into a highly competitive full position with the OSCE where he will be monitoring domestic war crimes trials within the context of referrals from the ICTY.  Congratulations, James!