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ILSP Intern/Externships

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.

View photos of past externship recipients.

Current and recent externships served by Vanderbilt law students include:

Semester Externships:

Spring 2012

• International Bar Association, London, England  [Kathryn Maxon, ’13]
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel, International Affairs Division, Washington, D.C. [Mackenzie Phillips, ’13]
• U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Office of Chief Counsel, Regulatory Affairs Legal Division, Washington, D.C. [Nathaniel Greeson, ’12]

Fall 2011

• Office of the Legal Advisor, United States Mission to the United Nations, New York [Evan Brewer, ’11]
• U.S. State Department, Office of the Assistant Legal Advisor for Private International Law, Washington, D.C. [Laura Deck, ‘12]

Spring 2011:

• U.S. State Department, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Washington, D.C. [Tiffany Nichols, ‘12]
• U.S. State Department, Bureau of U.N. Political Affairs, Washington, D.C. [Noah Coakley, ‘12]
• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Law and Policy, National Security Division, Washington, D.C. [Clare Hatfield, ’12]
• U.S. Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel, International Affairs Division, Washington, D.C. [Raquel Stringer, ‘12] 

Summer 2011

• Counterinsurgency Advisor to COMISAF, Kabul, Afghanistan [James Danley, ‘13]
• Alternative Dispute Resolution practice group, Tilleke & Gibbins, Bangkok, Thailand [Martha Hoskins, ‘12]
•  American Bar Association, Center for Human Rights, Washington, D.C. [Bethany Eichler, ’12, Erin Reimer, ’13 and Mackenzie Phillips, ’13]
• U.S. State Department, International Organizations Bureau, Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions, and Counter-Terrorism, Washington, D.C. [Angie Bergman, ‘13]
• OHIM, Trademarks and Designs Registration Office of the European Union, Alicante, Spain [Aminata Sabally, ’13]
• UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Legal Development Office, Rome, Italy [Nathaniel Greeson, ‘12]
• Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands [Noah Coakley, ’12]
• Special Tribunal for Lebanon, The Hague, Netherlands [Evan Brewer, ’12]
• European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin [Kristin Rexroat, ’13]
• Department of Justice, Southern District of New York [Rebecca Dunnan, ’12]
• Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Army [Anthony Contrada, ’12]
• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Defence Team, The Hague, Netherlands [Margaret Artz, ‘13]
• Federal Bureau of Investigation [Clare Hatfield, ’12]
• Uganda Law Society, Kampala, Uganda [Hilary Robinson, ’13]
• Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway, Ireland [ Jennifer Morrissey, ’13 and Constance Davis, ’13]
• Reprieve (Human rights litigation NGO) [Jade Preis, ’13]
• World Intellectual Property Organization, Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland [Nicky Moody, ’13]
• World Intellectual Property Organization, Patents, Geneva, Switzerland [Michael Ritter, ’13]
• Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Air Force [Rebecca Dunnan, ’12]
• US Court of International Trade, New York, New York [Jairo Lamatina, ’13]
• Summer Associate, Wyatt Tarrant and Combs (international business transactions) [Amber Johns, ’12]
• International Bar Association, IBA/ICC Monitoring and Outreach Programme, Peace Palace, The Hague, Netherlands [Meihui Xiao, ’13]
• No Peace Without Justice, Brussels, Belgium [Deborah Yang ’12]
• The LIST Project to assist Iraqi Refugees, immigration law practice of Mayer & Brown, Washington, D.C. [Vijnata Trivedi, ‘12]
• Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, Tel Aviv, Israel [Peako Brook Jenkins, ’13]
• International Criminal Law Network, The Hague, Netherlands [Molly Hall, ’13]
• Lily of the Valley HIV Clinic, South Africa [Palmer Harston, ’13]
• Kitahama Law Offices, Osaka, Japan [Sean Deitrick, ’12]
• Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Air Force [Stephen Josey, ’12]
• Center for Law and Military Operations, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia [Jean O’Friel-Quigley, ’13]
• Human Rights Law Centre, Nottingham, England [Haroon Iqbal, ’13]
• Section Crimes Contre l'Humanite et Crimes de Guerre/Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section Justice, Ottawa, Canada [Remington Lenton-Young, ’13]
• U. S. Department of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Washington, D.C. [Vance Berry, ’13]
• Bass Berry & Sims, Nashville, Foreign Corrupt Practices Office [Alexander Rinn, ’13]
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C. [Erica Evans, ’12]
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, Global Human Resources Department (transnational tax work), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Matthew Meltzer, ’12]
• Immigration Offices of Elliott Ozment, Nashville [Colin Ferguson, ’13]
• Office of Military Commissions, U.S. Department of Defense [Maxwell Sills, ’13]

Fall 2010:

• International Bar Association, London, England  [Cara Walsh, ‘11]
• U.S. State Department, Intelligence, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, D.C. [Scott Rufener, '11]
• U.S. State Department, Office of the Assistant Legal Advisor for Private International Law, Washington, D.C.[John Foster, ’11] 
• U.S. State Department, Office of Policy and Global Issues, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Washington, D.C [Shannon Kelley, ’11]
• U.S. State Department, Office of Population, Refugees and Migration, Washington, D.C. [Marissa Cwik. ‘11]
• U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce, Washington D.C. [Lee Williams, ‘11]

Summer 2010:

• U.S. State Department, Office of Population, Refugees, & Migration [Marissa Cwik. ‘11]
• International Civilian Office, International Civilian Office/European Union Special Representative, Pristina, Kosovo [Evan Brewer, ’12]
• T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, Netherlands [John Ablan, ‘12][
• Oxford University Press [Ping An, ’11 and Ben Halperin, ’12]
• OHIM, Trademarks and Designs Registration Office of the European Union, Alicante, Spain [Matthew Fagen, ‘12]
• Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway, Ireland [Kelly Donley ’12 and  Laura Deck, ‘12]
• Childreach Africa, Gulu & Kampala, Uganda [Tiffany Nichols, ‘12]
• U.S. Department of State, Office of Development and Finance, Washington, D.C. [Lee Williams, ’11]
• International Criminal Law Network [Raquel Stringer, '12]
• World Legal Forum Foundation at the International Criminal Law Network, The Hague, Netherlands [Vijnata Trevedi, ‘12]
• European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin, Germany [Martha Ann Hoskins, '12]
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha, Tanzania [Heather Barnes, ’11]
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha, Tanzania [Amber Johns, ’12]
• No Peace Without Justice, Brussels, Belgium, and Kampala, Uganda  [Noah Coakley, ‘12]
• No Peace Without Justice, New York, New York [Matthew Fagen, ‘12]
• World Intellectual Property Organization, Copyright and Related Rights Sector, Geneva, Switzerland [Mike Sherby, ’12 and Xiaoou Huang, ’11]
• U.S. State Department, Office of Global Affairs, Washington, D.C. [Clare Hatfield, ’12]
• UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Legal Development Office, Rome, Italy [ Nathaniel Greeson, ‘12]
• Human Rights Watch, Terrorism and Human Rights Bureau [Bethany Eichler, ‘12]
• The LIST Project to assist Iraqi Refugees, Mayer & Brown, Washington, D.C. (immigration law practice) [Annie Prescott, ’11 and Rachel Weisshaar, ‘12]
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of International Affairs, Washington, D.C. [John Foster, ’11] 
• Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C. [Scott Rufener, ’11]
• The Heritage Foundation [Shannon Kelley, ’11]
• Singapore International Arbitration Center [Patrick Hely, ’11 and Andrew Harline, ‘12]
• International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France [Paul Kleist, ’11 and Eugene Endress, ’11] 
• U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps [Pete Schroepfer, ‘11]