Visiting Professional - Chambers/Case Law Database

Overview

Visiting professionals are recruited to support the Chambers Working Group (CWG) in relation to the Case Law Database (CLD) Project, which aims to create a database of the Court’s jurisprudence by extracting legal findings and metadata from decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth legal analysis of judgments, decisions and orders to identify and extract key legal findings and their jurisprudential importance.
• Identify relevant legal keywords for legal findings.
• Identify relationships between related judgments, decisions and orders.
• Collect, organise, and collate other assorted metadata fields for legal findings.
• Participate in meetings and substantive discussions on issues arising in the CLD Project.
• Cite-check and edit documents.
• Assist in the development of other language versions of the CLD.
• Perform other tasks, as requested by the CWG Coordinator.

Required Experience

Visiting professional placements focus on candidates who have extensive experience in their professional careers in relevant fields of work. Practical experience that is relevant to the work of the Court is considered an asset. Candidates for a Visiting Professional placement must have at least 3 (three) years of relevant professional experience.

Qualifications

Candidates must have a degree in law or a relevant legal qualification of a recognised university, demonstrating very good knowledge in international/national criminal law, comparative law and criminology, public international law, international humanitarian law or human rights. Candidates are expected to have a very good record of academic performance.

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