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Monday, 1 August 2011

Law students, Chloe Gall and Rachel Paljetak, were recently offered internships at the ICTY and will be leaving for the Hague early December 2011, Rachel for three months and Chloe (pictured left) for four. They will both be interning in the Office of the Prosecutor which, as Rachel said, “will no doubt be an interesting experience given that the last wanted war criminal, Goran Hadzic, was arrested only a fortnight ago”.

ICTY is a United Nations court of law dealing with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990’s. Since its establishment in 1993, it has irreversibly changed the landscape of international humanitarian law and provided victims an opportunity to voice the horrors they witnessed and experienced. The Tribunal employs about 1000 staff members and offers a broad range of work opportunities and internships in the field of criminal law, international and humanitarian law, social sciences and administration.

A majority of the internship positions available at the Tribunal are of a legal nature and preference is given to law graduates who are acquainted with one or more of the following disciplines: public international law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, private international law, criminal law, comparative law, and criminology.

Dean Stuart Kaye said he was delighted with Chloe and Rachel’s success, commenting: “ I am sure you will both find it a remarkable, if occasionally sobering, experience”.

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