The New York Law Journal reports that the number of summer interns working in government or at non-profit organizations is up this year. This “bumper crop” of public interest summer interns is partially a result of the increased funding for such work from many law schools, making it much easier to find and accept positions. Harvard Law School guarantees summer funding for all its students doing public service work through the SPIF program. The article, which quotes HLS students Christine M. Billy ‘08 and Kara Loewentheil ‘08, also notes that public interest jobs offer more responsibility than summer work at private firms. Full story here (free subscription required).
July 23rd, 2007
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Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Louise Arbour, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. Ms. Arbour, onetime chief prosecutor in the Yugoslav and Rwandan tribunals, discusses U.S. policy on detainees in the fight against terrorism, as well as her position as a female lawyer and the differences between her work as a prosecutor and at the U.N.
July 23rd, 2007
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William Dalrymple’s recent piece in the New Yorker investigates the May lawyers’ demonstrations in the streets of Islamabad against the military government of President Pervez Musharraf. Dalrymple focuses on Asma Jahangir, one of Pakistan’s top human-rights lawyers, who has “spent her professional life fighting for a secular civil society, challenging the mullahs and generals, and championing the rights of women at risk of ‘honor killing’ and religious minorities accused of blashpemy.”
July 23rd, 2007
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