Externships with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, The Netherlands; with the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Embassy in the Hague, and with the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg are currently available to Vanderbilt students each academic year, and additional externship opportunities in international law are also open to students during each academic year and over the summer. For information about current international externship programs, contact Professor Michael Newton.
Financial Aid for Summer Externships
The Ones W. Polk II International Studies Legal Fund provides a stipend of up to $1,500 each year to a student in financial need for a summer externship relating to international law. Applications for the Polk Stipend, which describe the criteria considered by the application review committee, are available in the Career Services.
Pursue an Externship in International Law
The Vanderbilt International Legal Studies program’s internship and externship programs allow Vanderbilt students to gain substantial experience working alongside legal professionals on a range of important international law projects in organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Coordinated by Professor Michael Newton, the program places students in international courts, international institutions, offices of the U.S. government, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
As part of the International Legal Studies Program, Vanderbilt students frequently participate in opportunities directly related to client support that lead directly to externship opportunities or create contacts that later lead to employment opportunities. Current and recent opportunities include:
Fall 2009 International Law Externships
U.S. State Department, Office of the Assistant Legal Advisor for Private International Law - Carlee Hobbs ’10
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate - Christopher Bellamy ’10
U.S. Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Chad MacDonald, ’10
Office of the Legal Advisor, United States Mission to the United Nations, New York - Rebecca Everhardt ’10
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - Andrew Stuart Ellington ’10
U.S. State Department, Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs Bureau Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement - Fahren Devine ’10
Office of Law and Policy, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice [Elizabeth Renieris ‘10]
Summer 2009 International Law Externships
U.S. State Department, International Organizations Bureau, Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions, and Counter-Terrorism, Washington, D.C. - John Foster ’11
T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague - Aubrey Menisch ’11
International Association of Genocide Scholars - Jamie Kern ’10
U.S. State Department, Office of Global Women’s Issues - Barbara Barreno, ’11
U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Political and Specialized Agencies Section - Hafsah Ullah ’10
U.S. State Department, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor - Drue Preissman ’10
U.S. State Department, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor - Samantha Yanco ’11
U.S. State Department, Bureau of International Information Programs - Joshua Thomas ’11
World Intellectual Property Organization, Copyright & Related Rights Sector, Geneva, Switzerland - Michael Bowers ’11
UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Legal Development Office, Rome, Italy - Jesse Bellam ’10
International Civilian Office, Pristina, Kosovo - Peter Wiltenburg ’10
UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Legal Development Office, Rome, Italy - Jared Gardner ’11
U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps - Daniel Jones ’10
Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Air Force, Patrick Air Force Base - Benjamin Raybin, ’10
U.N. Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management & Emergency Response, Vienna - Sarah Becker ’11
Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway, Ireland - Elizabeth Viole ’11 & Eugene Endress ’11
Global Constitutional Justice Project, Utrecht, Netherlands - Tatiana Boza ’11
Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) - Lee Williams ’11
ABA Rule of Law Project, Baku - Andrew Stuart Ellington ’10
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha Tanzania - Luke Rasmussen ’11
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - Marissa Cwik ’11
Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy with additional responsibility in Enforcement division - Katie Connors,’10 (in affiliation with the VULS regulatory program)
