This is from my friend Luke Peterson of Investment Arbitration Reporter:
Freelance analyst wanted
Investment Arbitration Reporter is looking for one or more persons to join our team of freelance contributors.
Since 2008, our publication has offered specialized reporting on developments in the field of international investment law. We read and digest legal pleadings and decisions, and we also engage in more traditional investigative reporting work to identify and uncover developments that are otherwise confidential.
We are currently seeking contributors with international law backgrounds who can review and write about legal and policy materials at a high level of technical accuracy, and in the existing style of IAReporter. (Prior familiarity with our publication and its reports is a necessity.)
Your work with IAReporter would be on a remote consultant basis (i.e. you would work from wherever you are otherwise legally resident and authorized to work.) You will be remunerated for your work.
We value those contributors whose flexible work-life schedules permit them to take on last-minute assignments (at least some of the time), and to assist us in our efforts to be exceedingly timely in our coverage of the latest developments.
The ideal candidates will be persons who are engaged in long-term academic research (junior academics or doctoral students) or those who are taking leave from legal practice.
For conflict-of-interest purposes, we ask our contributors to not practice in the field of investor-state arbitration while they work with us.
Desired qualities include:
- Fluency in English and at least one other language.
- International work or study experience.
- An academic background in international law, or a related field.
- Demonstrated writing skills in English, preferably journalistic in nature.
Interested candidates must complete a trial assignment for IAReporter: a summary of the Metalclad v. Mexico arbitral award of August 30, 2000 in the style of IAReporter. The summary should include a review of the essential facts, key legal holdings, and a small amount of analysis that puts the award in light of later developments in the field of investment treaty arbitration. The assignment should be no longer than 2000 words and should take fewer than 10 hours to complete. The assignment, along with your CV and short cover letter (not more than 500 words), must be submitted to [email protected].
The Metalclad v. Mexico award can be found here.
The deadline for applications is December 10, 2016.