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INVITATION TO APPLY
DEADLINE: 1 October 2016
Are you interested in how economic, human rights and environmental law come together for just and sustainable development? Would you like to learn more about cutting-edge international research
and educational initiatives? Would your studies or practice benefit from new legal analysis,
experiences, and networks?
Apply now for a pro bono legal research position in the international Legal Research Group of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), an independent international legal research center. Join law and graduate students from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, McGill, Stanford, Montreal, Costa Rica, Nairobi, Hanoi, Manila, Chile and other institutions to gain access to new experiences, opportunities and professional development, and to build excellent new research and communities of practice in the fields of environment, development, economics and law.
Successful candidates will join an international network with the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge legal research projects on law and policy related to: climate change; biodiversity & biosafety; natural resources governance; trade & investment; human rights & poverty eradication; health & hazards; and governance, institutions & accountability.
Upcoming projects and publications include…
- Compiling a Sustainable Development Law on Climate Change Paper Series,
and supporting Climate Law and Governance Day (CLGD) as well as official side-events at COP22/23 to the UNFCCC - Assisting an international legal research and training project on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), including Biodiversity Law and Governance Day (BLGD) an official side-event at COP13 to the UNCBD
- Editing a new book on sustainable development in the Chicago Convention
on aviation (with CUP) - Drafting the authoritative legal Commentary on the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Supporting a new international legal research project on innovative laws
to implement the UN Biodiversity Convention, the Ramsar Convention on
Wetlands, the Convention on Migratory Species, and the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) - Joining a legal research project on the sustainable use of biofuels
across the Americas - Leading an international legal research project on assessing and
implementing sustainable development obligations in new regional trade
agreements (with CUP) - Editing a new textbook on human rights and climate change
- Editing a Legal Working Paper and Workshops Series on legal aspects of indigenous sustainable management of natural resources, leading to a new book on the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (with CUP)
- Leading a research project on the involuntary hospitalization of the
mentally ill
Creating new online sustainable development law courses and developing
sustainable development law course materials, and much more…
The Legal Research Group is global, and research group members are based
everywhere in the world, including in the developing and developed
countries of Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East.
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