Job Description
Your tasks will include
- Online legal research & inputs: find relevant news, commentaries, reports and court documents relating to lawsuits from around the world against companies over alleged human rights and environmental abuses, and legislative developments related to to the Resource Centre priority topics, such as technology and human rights; just transition litigation; and regulatory frameworks (mandatory human rights due diligence; UN Binding treaty on business and human rights); compose abstracts and titles; create and update information on the website, including broken links.
- Drafting & updating lawsuit profiles: summarise legal information about lawsuits brought against companies to redress human rights and environmental abuse and present them in a concise, accessible format.
- Support regular Programme’s outputs: draft and support the dissemination of the CLA Quarterly Update newsletter highlighting a specific timely topic as well as key developments in corporate legal accountability; select key news items for inclusion in the Resource Centre’s Weekly Update.
- Participate in (virtual) meetings, including fortnightly Global Team meetings with all staff and Regional Researchers.
- Additional Tasks: You may also be asked to assist the Resource Centre with general, non-legal work, such as supporting our company response mechanism; liaising with relevant organisations etc.
Please note that this internship is not academically oriented and does not involve extensive analysis or writing. Rather, it is a practical internship focused on bringing global attention to company conduct affecting people and communities, with the aim of promoting respect for human rights.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Legal studies. Currently enrolled in university, either studying law (LLB/LLM/JD or similar) or with a legal background.
- Research & analytical skills. Ability to carry out general research, including online and to summarise information clearly and succinctly. Demonstrated academic or professional experience carrying out research and analysing information.
- Legal analysis & research skills. Academic and/or work experience carrying out legal research.
- Commitment to human rights. Interest in and commitment to promoting human rights.
- Data input capacity. Ability and willingness to do large amount of routine data input on a daily basis.
- Language skills. Excellent English language skills (reading/writing/speaking). Fluency in French, Spanish, Arabic or Russian highly is desirable (but not essential). Good working knowledge of other languages is a plus.
- Initiative. Ability to use own initiative and to work independently. Motivated by achieving results and completing tasks.
Application deadline: 29 March 2025
