Insight Intern RJ Parker selected to represent New England School of Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, July 2007

Insight Intern RJ Parker has been selected to represent New England School of Law (NESL) at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) this Fall.  The ICTR is a tribunal created by the United Nations Security Council in response to the violations of humanitarian law committed in Rwanda. The ICTR was created in November 1994. The ICTR was established for the prosecution of persons responsible for genocide and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in Rwanda and neighboring countries between January 1994 and December 1994.

The principal task of an intern is to assist the Judges of the Appeals Chamber in their judicial duties. The Appeals Chamber of the ICTR is extremely busy, and interns in the Chamber Support sub-unit are required to undertake a great deal of substantive legal work including, but not limited to, research in public international law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and international human rights law; drafting of memos to the Judges and/or legal officers; and participating in the drafting of orders, decisions, and judgments of the Appeals Chamber.

For more information on the ICTR visit:  http://www.ictr.org