International Law Programs Newsletter YLS

International Law Programs Newsletter

This YLS community e-newsletter aims to help you navigate events and opportunities relating to international, transnational, foreign, and comparative law.

YLS EVENTS

Monday, March 2, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm SLB Room 128 The Breakdown of the Rule of Law in Poland post-2015 Sponsored by the YLS European Law Association

Monday, March 2, 4:10 pm- 5:30 pm SLB Room 128 Maria Ressa, "Journalism and Human Rights: Fighting Back Against Disinformation Sponsored by the Schell Center for International Human Rights

Tuesday, March 3, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm Alumni Reading Room A Conversation between Garth Schofield, Senior Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration, and Harold H. Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School. Sponsored by the International Law Programs at Yale Law School

Tuesday, March 3, 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm SLB Room 128 Saudi Islamists from Heroes to Villains Sponsored by the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization

Wednesday, March 4, 12:10 pm - 1:40 pm SLB Room 121 Rachel Nolan, “Adoptions as a Tool of Political Violence: Guatemala,1980s to the Present” Sponsored by the Schell Center for International Human Rights

CAMPUS EVENTS

Monday, March 2, 4:00 pm- 6:00 pm Anthropology Building 10 Sachem Street Anya Bernstein | The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia Sponsored by the European Studies Council

Monday, March 2, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 203 34 Hillhouse Avenue South Asia Writes @ Yale Series: Title TBA, Preti Taneja Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council

Tuesday, March 3, 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 203 34 Hillhouse Avenue South Asia Brown Bag Series Spring 2020: The Intermediate Capacity Trap: Explaining Inertia in India’s Bureaucracy Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council

Tuesday, March 3, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Whitney Humanities Center, 208 53 Wall Street CLAIS Lunchtime Speaker Series presents “The Role of Bolivian Society Today,” a panel discussion with Pedro Lijeron Vargas and Ernesto Federico Viscarra Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies

Tuesday, March 3, 3:30 pm- 5:30 pm Linsey-Chittenden Hall, 204 63 High Street Hacking Democracy Sponsored by the Macmillan Center

Tuesday, March 3, 4:00 pm- 5:30 pm Rosenkranz Hall, 102 115 Prospect Street A Tale of Two Aqyns: Pushkin, Abai, and the Making of the Kazakh Literary Canon Sponsored by the European Studies Council

Tuesday, March 3, 4:30 pm- 5:30 pm Horchow Hall, GM Room 55 Hillhouse Avenue Journalism and Human Rights: Fighting Back Against Disinformation Sponsored by Jackson Institute for Global Affairs

Tuesday, March 3, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 203 34 Hillhouse Avenue PRFDHR Seminar: Allowing Migrants to Work: Impacts of a Massive Regularization Program on Labor Markets and Crime - Dr. Ana María Ibáñez Sponsored by the Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses

Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 pm- 9:00 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 101 34 Hillhouse Avenue CLAIS Spring Film Series Presents “La Nación Clandestina/The Secret Nation” Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies

Wednesday, March 4, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 203 34 Hillhouse Avenue CSEAS Brown Bag Seminar: “Confession, Cosmopolitanism, and Catholic Identity in Early Modern Vietnam” Sponsored by the Council on South East Asian Studies Council

Wednesday, March 4, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 203 34 Hillhouse Avenue CAS Lecture Series: Everyday Miracles & Mysteries: A Poetics of Maternal Death & Survivial in Nigeria Sponsored by the Council on African Studies

Thursday, March 5, 12:00 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 203 34 Hillhouse Avenue CMES Colloquium: Protests in Time and Space: Generating Contention in Authoritarian Regimes Sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies

Thursday, March 5, 12:00 pm- 1:15 pm Institution for Social and Policy Studies, A002 77 Prospect Street “Life After Bootstrap: Residual Randomization Inference in Regression Models with Complex Error Structure,” Panos Toulis, University of Chicago Sponsored by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Thursday, March 5, 12:00 pm- 2:00 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 202 34 Hillhouse Avenue Leitner Seminar Series: Electorates vs. Voters Sponsored by the Leitner Program

Thursday, March 5, 3:00 pm- 5:00 pm 34 Hillhouse Avenue, 203 Dijana Jelaca | Unaligned: The Legacies of Socialist Yugoslavia Talk Sponsored by the European Studies Council

Thursday, March 5, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm Henry R. Luce Hall, 202 34 Hillhouse Avenue SASC Colloquium Series: The Context Principle in Indian Philosophy of Language, Andrew Ollett Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council

Thursday, March 5, 7:00 pm Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium 53 Wall Street The Films and Videos of Richard Serra Sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center

Friday, March 6, 12:00 pm Institution for Social and Policy Studies, A001 77 Prospect Street Iran Colloquium: Oil Workers and the Making of Modern Iran Sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Funding for International Research - Summer Recess Deadline: April 27, 2020

The Streicker Fund for Student Research provides support for academic projects requiring international travel. Examples include field research, in-country interviews with relevant stakeholders, and archival research. Research trips are typically conducted during extended academic recesses (e.g., summer or winter break).

The Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund for student domestic research projects provides support for students to engage in domestic research and pursue academic inquiry and discourse. This fund is part of the larger Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund.

Check the YLS website for information regarding other opportunities, including support for student research and activities, post-graduate fellowship opportunities and the international law career guide. The Yale University student grants databases also a great resource for both Yale-specific and external funding sources.

For writing and publishing opportunities, check out the YLS Student Activities Resources site.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Career Opportunity: Seeking an Executive Director at CitySeed CitySeed is a dynamic, community-based nonprofit organization based in New Haven, Connecticut, whose mission is to engage the community in growing an equitable, local food system that promotes economic development, community development, and sustainable agriculture. Please reference the job description here for further details.

Career Opportunity: Seeking 2 Legal Interns at ICRC New York. This is a full-time, paid internship position with benefits for a period of 12 months, non- renewable.The intern will provide support to the Legal Adviser/ Deputy Head of Delegation, and other units/departments, as necessary. Please click here for application details.

The 2020 ASIL Annual Meeting: Call For Volunteers April 1 – 4, 2020, Washington, DC Work with the American Society of International Law at its 2020 Annual Meeting and take advantage of free access to more than 40 different substantive sessions on a wide variety of international law topics, as well as networking events and receptions. Find out more about the Annual Meeting sessions at www.asil.org/AM

The 2020 Session of the International Academy for Arbitration Law: Call for Applications Deadline: March 31, 2020 The Arbitration Academy is designed to provide advanced courses in arbitration law to students, government officials and practitioners who have already a general knowledge of arbitration law. The upcoming session of the Arbitration Academy will take place in

Paris from July 6th until July 24th 2020. The deadline for submitting your application is

March 31st, 2020. Please click here for application details.

The 2020-2021 Dean Acheson Legal Stage Program: Call for Applications Deadline: April 1, 2020 The United States Embassy in Luxembourg is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for the Dean Acheson Legal Stage (traineeship/internship) Program in Luxembourg at the Court of Justice of the European Union for 2020 2021. These stage opportunities for periods of not more than three months are offered to a limited number of students or recent graduates from select U.S. law schools. Please click here for application details.

American Society of International Law (ASIL) As an academic partner with the American Society of International Law (ASIL), interested students can become a member for a discounted price. For more information, go to the ASIL website. To sign up, go to http://www.asil.org/membership and click “JOIN ASIL” On the payment page, you will be able to ender the discount code: ASILACAD1920.

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