Announcements: Duke University Law School Vacancy; Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition; UN Audiovisual Library of International Law; Cognitive Sociology, Culture, and International Law

1. Duke University Law School Vacancy. Duke University Law School seeks to fill a Clinical Fellow/Supervising Attorney position in its International Human Rights Clinic beginning in the Summer of 2017.  The advertisement with additional details is here.

2. Registration open for the 22^nd Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition. We are pleased to invite you to participate in this year’s edition of the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition. Organized by American University Washington College of Law’s Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, this trilingual Competition (English, Spanish and Portuguese) serves as an important forum for the analysis of international law and human rights. The event will take place from May 21-16, 2017, at AUWCL’s campus in Washington, DC. Attorneys licensed in their own country can apply to participate as a Judge, evaluating written memorials, which can be done remotely, or participating in the oral rounds in DC. This is a great opportunity to interact and network with over 100 scholars, NGO experts, international organizations personnel and government officers from the all over the world, who volunteer to serve as judges in the Competition. As an additional bonus, all Judges are eligible for a partial scholarship to the Academy’s Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Judges are not subject to any registration fees and can apply until May 1, 2017. Registration can be completed online at our website. For questions, feel free to contact us at iamoot {at} wcl.american(.)edu.

3. Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs has added new lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law website, which provides high quality international law training and research materials to users around the world free of charge. The latest lectures were given by Ambassador Tommy Koh on “Straits Used for International Navigation” and Professor Simon Chesterman on “Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law and Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures”.

4. Cognitive Sociology, Culture, and International Law. iCourts (Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen) is pleased to announce the Third Workshop on the Sociology of International Law to take place on 28-29 April 2017. For more information please visit the iCourts webpage. For any inquiries, please contact Sungjoon Cho at- scho1 {at} kentlaw.iit(.)edu.