The application deadline is September 10th at 5 PM EDT
At the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC), we study contemporary challenges concerning armed conflict through the lens of international law. We seek research assistants to help support our research during fall 2024. We are looking for students who can demonstrate relevant experience in one or more of the following areas: the use of AI in armed conflict; the UN Security Council; protection of the environment; protection of cultural heritage; the conduct of hostilities; relations between the jus ad bellum and jus in bello; "double standards" and international law; and humanitarian action. Students must have already taken at least public international law or international humanitarian law to be eligible.
Tracks
This fall, HLS PILAC seeks to hire eligible students only via the “experienced track.” This track is for students who can demonstrate extensive relevant experience — for example, through having completed academic coursework, authored salient publications, or worked as a legal adviser — in one or more relevant areas (as set out below). The program anticipates seeking to hire students via the “novice track” (for students who do not have extensive relevant experience) in the winter or spring 2025.
Eligibility
Only current HLS 2Ls, 3Ls, LL.M. candidates, and S.J.D. candidates — as well as visiting upper-level students — are eligible to apply. Students must have already taken at least public international law or international humanitarian law to be considered. We aim to notify selected applicants by September 14th. As in previous years, we anticipate receiving more applications than there are available positions.
Research assistants are remunerated at the HLS hourly RA rate.
Page last updated: September 2024.
Deadline
Eligible students may submit an application through the following form by September 10th at 5 PM EDT.
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