Five Pace Students Win Human Rights in Action 2006 Summer Internships at War Crimes Tribunals 

WHITE PLAINS -- Five Pace Law School students were awarded Human Rights in Action 2006 Summer Internships at War Crimes Tribunals. The students will travel overseas for three months this summer to intern in The Hague, Arusha, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone.

Ramona Walewangko, 2L, will be interning in the Appellate Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Sandra Brown and Marisa Coren will be interning at the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, in the Chambers and Registry sections respectively. Elizabeth Guinup, 4L, will be interning at the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), located in Arusha, Tanzania. Charles King, 1L, will be interning at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 

The students were chosen through a competitive process, wherein a special committee evaluated each application and interviewed each applicant, then sent the best of those to the tribunals. The applicants then had to pass an equally rigorous competition in the tribunal selection process itself.

Professor Gayl Westerman established the Human Rights in Action Program in 2005 to provide internship opportunities at War Crimes Tribunals for students entering law school with a deep interest in and commitment to the protection of human rights. Through the unique Pace Selection Committee process, one or two students are nominated for each tribunal.  Last year, two students were awarded prestigious internships at the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in Arusha, Tanzania , and at the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

The Pace Human Rights in Action Committee is composed of Irma Russell, Gayl Westerman, Tom McDonnell, Lisa Lancia, Amy Gewirtz, and Jade Corsetti.

Founded in 1976, Pace University School of Law has nearly 5,000 alumni/ae throughout the country. It offers full- and part-time day and evening JD programs on its White Plains, N.Y., campus. The School also offers the Master of Laws in Environmental Law and in Comparative Legal Studies. The School, which has one of the nation's top-rated environmental law programs, also offers the SJD program in that field. The School of Law is part of a comprehensive, independent and diversified University with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. www.law.pace.edu 

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