The Newark-based Rutgers Center for Transnational Law (CTL) is accepting applications for summer 2023 internship placements in human rights organizations throughout Latin America. Students interested in international law and traveling abroad but living like a local are encouraged to apply. This internship program allows students interested in human rights to put their burgeoning legal skills to work within leading non-governmental organizations throughout Latin America.

“Any good lawyer must be able to provide legal and policy responses to current social problems, whether you are based in the United States or somewhere else,” says Jorge Contesse, of Rutgers Law School and CTL Director. “What makes this experience so valuable is the exposure to other legal and social cultures. There’s no way you can experience something like this but to actually go and work in that culture, even if it’s only for a summer.”

Applications for Summer 2023 internships are due on March 1. Last year, one Rutgers Law student spent the summer in Colombia while another interned in Chile.

Zohar Hasson had already done a lot of work in support of the LGBTQ+ community. He was an intern at the Human Rights Campaign, a volunteer at the Newark LGBTQ Community Center, and a research assistant for one of his professors working on issues like discrimination, parenthood, Title VII, and more. When he discovered the opportunity to travel to Latin America and work on these same issues, he jumped at it.

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