Job o’ the Day: Legal Clerkship with International Rights Advocates in DC!
Interested in international law and women’s rights? Today’s job of the day is just for you!
The International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) in Washington, DC is looking for law clerks to start in the summer of 2013. From IRAdvocates:
International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) builds and supports the capacity of women, human rights, labor, and legal organizations to develop and promote innovative legal strategies to hold multinational corporations accountable for labor, human rights, and environmental violations. IRAdvocates does so by supporting direct legal advocacy both in the U.S. and abroad, and by working with local partner organizations to develop and undertake precedent-setting legal actions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. IRAdvocates believes that only when multinational corporate actors are subject to meaningful and enforceable legal mechanisms both in the country
where the violation occurs and abroad can individual human rights be fully realized.
Law clerks will be expected to research legal issues relating to multinational corporate accountability litigation, specifically the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victims Protection Act. In addition, clerks will draft legal memos and help out with depositions.
Check out the full listing on PSJD.org (log-in required).