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While at The Door this summer, I advised and represented immigrant youth in their Special Immigrant Juvenile Status cases. Rodrigo Ricxu Bacus ’16: I interned at The Door, which, among other things, pushes for the recognition of the fundamental need for a humanitarian form of immigration reform that will facilitate and enable the justifiable movement of people between countries. Hearing them, and seeing them given the opportunity to achieve some kind of justice through the reparations decided by the Court, was the most powerful experience I have ever had. In the first two cases, victims and family members of victims of grave human rights abuses were able to tell their story in a legal, international and public forum. My very first week the Court was in session, and I was able to attend public hearings for two different cases, against Guatemala and Colombia, respectively, and another hearing regarding a consulting opinion about clarifying the definition of juridical/legal personhood as it is used in the American Convention on Human Rights. I worked primarily with an attorney who works directly for the seven judges on the Court, and the work included everything from speechwriting to legal research and article writing. Hannah Ahern ’17: This summer I interned at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica. Thirty 2L and 3L Stein Scholars discuss their summer internships: what they learned, why they decided to work where they did, and how it fits into future career goals.

Lebovits gerald bills of particular new york