Legal Fellow

Overview

UNHCR seeks post-graduate Legal Fellows to work full-time in the Protection and Solutions Unit in Washington, D.C. The fellowship aims to provide professional development opportunities while contributing to UNHCR's strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Support PSU’s overall protection and solutions strategy, with a focus on the United States and its engagement in the region.
• Provide comments on proposed legislation and regulations.
• Submit amicus briefs on select international legal issues.
• Share information on displacement trends.
• Focus on regional protection issues in the Americas.
• Conduct trainings and presentations on statelessness and nationality.
• Provide guidance on the potential stateless status of individuals.
• Gather information on the protection situation of forcibly displaced and stateless persons.
• Develop pragmatic policy and practice options for relevant authorities.
• Provide information on laws, policies, and procedures for seeking asylum in the United States.
• Areas of potential engagement include law and policy analysis, regional protection policy, monitoring of protection conditions, and individual case support.

Required Experience

• Preference for experience in U.S. asylum; refugee law; and/or other topics related to refugees, asylum-seekers, and statelessness.
• Experience with legal clinics in law school, or other forms of direct service experience with asylum-seekers or statelessness would be particularly helpful.

Qualifications

• Must be a 2027 degree candidate or recent graduate from a U.S. law school.
• Must have completed coursework in international law; refugee law; and/or human rights; additional coursework in U.S. immigration law preferable.

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