California International Law Center
UC Human Rights Fellowship
CILC is pleased to host the UC Human Rights Fellowship competition among UC Davis registered students. The fellowship enables each student recipient to carry out clearly defined fieldwork, domestically or internationally, with human rights organizations related to the student's area of study. The purpose of the fellowship is to provide students with an opportunity to contribute to the work of human rights organizations while also gaining practical experience that may influence the students' areas of research or academic focus. The fellowship program welcomes multi-disciplinary approaches to human rights fieldwork. Students are encouraged to publish the results of their fieldwork. Preference is given to graduate students and returning students. Deadline for applications for summer 2013 is March 1, 2013 at 4 PM.
2013 UC Human Rights Fellowship Application
John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship
The University of California, Davis, School of Law is pleased to announce the 2013 John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship! The awards will be made in partnership with the John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship Foundation, established by former law clerks of Justice Stevens. Two fellowships are available to support students' work in public interest law, either within the United States or abroad, during the summer of 2012. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $5,000. The Stevens Fellowships will recognize chosen students' commitment to public service and their potential for excellence throughout their legal careers. Deadline for applications for summer 2013 is March 1, 2013 at 4 PM.
2013 UC Human Rights Fellowship Application
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Past Fellows
2012 UC Human Rights Fellowship Winners
Monica Crooms
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Monica Crooms ’13 worked to secure immigration benefits for victims of human trafficking, torture, and domestic abuse at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
2012 John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellow
Nienke Schouten
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Nienke Schouten worked with the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant to provide legal support to asylum seekers.
Miles Prince
ACLU Foundation of Southern California
Miles Prince ’14 spent his summer working on the Seth Walsh Student Rights Project with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.
2011 UC Human Rights Fellowship Winners
Joanna Cuevas Ingram, King Hall '12
Litigating Accountability: Human Rights Law in U.S. and International Forums
The Center for Constitutional Rights - New York, NY
Partnering with the Center for Constitutional Rights, this project analyzes how CCR’s litigation, education, and outreach strategies work together to enforce international and domestic rights protections—while maintaining accountability to diverse clients and community-based human rights movements. Legal work will be conducted in several of the following areas: international investigations into war crimes and acts of torture; global efforts to close the Guantánamo detention center; litigation in domestic courts to hold corporations accountable for international wrongs under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS); and investigations into racial profiling practices in immigration and national security policies and programs.
Jihan A. Kahssay, King Hall '12
Resettlement of Eritrean Refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
In partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees field office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this project will assist the Eritrean refugee community in Ethiopia by identifying and assisting qualifying Eritrean refugees to resettle in third countries.
UC Human Rights Fellow Jihan Kahssay, who spent a summer with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Resettlement Unit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
2011 John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship Winners
Miles Hogan, King Hall '12
Climate Recovery Agenda litigation
Sierra Club - San Francisco, CA
2010 UC Human Rights Fellowship Winners
Elica Vafaie, King Hall '11
International Human Rights & Guantánamo Project
Center for Constitutional Rights - New York, NY
This project partners with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to assist with their International Human Rights and Guantánamo docket. Legal work will be conducted in the following areas: litigation to hold corporations accountable for their international wrong-doing in domestic courts; utilization of the Alien Torts Statute to ban private military contractors; efforts to close the Guantánamo detention center. The project also entails the production of educational materials for use by CCR's Education and Outreach Department on their 'Ban the Use of Private Military Contractor' and 'Guantánamo Global Justice' campaigns.
Daniel Marsh, King Hall '12
Equal Access: Providing Free Justice Services to Individuals in Sierra Leone
Timap for Justice - Sierra Leone
Daniel will work in a rural paralegal office in Sierra Leone to promote access to justice services by serving individual clients and addressing community-level problems. The formal justice system in Sierra Leone is effectively inaccessible to large portions of the population, especially to those in the rural com munities. As a result, most individuals in rural areas rely on customary law, comprised of ethnic customary norms, for dispute resolution. Daniel will assist the development of rule of law, promoting internalization of legal concepts within customary law, through training paralegals in formal concepts of the law, and overseeing mediation between disputing parties.
