An exciting opportunity for law students…
The World Bank Legal Vice Presidency is offering highly-motivated law students an opportunity to be exposed to the mission and work of the World Bank and that of the Legal Vice Presidency.
The World Bank Legal Internship Program is offered thrice a year for a period of maximum three months at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and in certain selected country offices for currently enrolled law school students.
Can you be a intern in the Legal Vice Presidency?
Do you hold citizenship of any IBRD member state?
Are you enrolled in an LLB, JD, LLM, SJD, PhD, or equivalent legal academic program while you would be undertaking your internship with us? (e.g. if you apply for the Summer Cycle of LIP, you must be enrolled in an eligible legal academic program between June and August)
Do you have an excellent command of the English language?
If you have answered yes to all these questions, you are eligible to be an intern in the Legal Vice Presidency. Preference shall be given to candidates who possess a decent command of a second language, especially if that is one of the working languages of IBRD (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish).
Applications from eligible international as well as U.S.-based students are equally encouraged.
How can you apply?
Please submit the below documents through this link:
Résumé
Statement of Interest
Proof of enrollment in a law degree (LLB, JD, LLM, SJD, PhD, or equivalent) and academic transcript(s).
Short essay providing a response to a research question posed by the Legal Vice Presidency for the prevailing application period.
What would be your role?
Interns will likely be involved in a plethora of tasks, as they arise during the term of the Internship Program, such as:
Conducting a variety of legal assignments under the direction of the supervising lawyer(s).
Conducting research on assigned issues, using existing law files and alternative sources (e.g., computer-assisted searches using the internet, intranet and/or other databases), analyzing information, and summarizing findings.
Conducting comparative legal analyses on a range of issues in a given area, identifying legal and policy issues, researching relevant precedents, and proposing appropriate solutions.
Participating in task/project teams with the supervising lawyer(s).
Assisting in the preparation and organization of conferences and meetings.
Performing ad hoc assignments as requested by the supervising lawyer(s).
Please visit the following link for complete list of requirements, as well as to see other internship cycle schedules and deadlines in case you would want to submit your application some other time: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/careers/programs-and-internships/Legal-Internship-Program
Upcoming…
Small States Conference - Disaster, Disruption & Resilience
Conference Details:
Thursday, 14 November, 2024 | 9:30–18:00
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14 NOVEMBER, 2024 | LONDON
Join Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, the Institute of Small and Micro States (ISMS) and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) for a conference on disaster, disruption and resilience as they relate to small and micro states— RSVP
our mission.
The Institute provides an informed, independent interdisciplinary research platform for the small states community. It is the home for the analysis and debate about contemporary legal small states’ issues with an eye for practical solutions. The Institute is committed to facilitate law reform in and for small states and to assist with relevant training.
small states.
Small states make up the majority of United Nations member states. Small states are incredibly diverse, with greatly varying sizes, populations, economies, natural resources, and vulnerabilities. Within the Forum of Small States at the United Nations, the population of member states ranges from less than 10,000 to more than 10 million. The unofficial category of “small states” includes some of the most and least developed nations in the world, resource-rich and resource scarce countries, and both island and landlocked states. Given this, the priorities and perspectives of small states can be as diverse as their characteristics. However, they are united in facing the same challenges due to their size in comparison to large states. They face, for example, special security challenges, such as being particular targets for transnational crime, via trafficking in drugs, arms and people and are at risk of political instability and conflict due to being cut off from global trade and economic opportunity.
Within the small states cluster the group of micro states- countries with a population below 1.5 million are characterised by a small populations, limited human capital, and a confined land area .They especially share challenges associated with the size of their economies, remoteness, isolation, and often vulnerability to climate change.