This is a great opportunity for young folks in the field of international investment law:
Investment Arbitration Reporter is looking for one or more persons to join our team of freelance contributors
IAReporter offers 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 legally resident and authorized to work.) You will be paid an hourly rate for your work as a contributor.
We value those contributors with flexible work-life schedules, as assignments may arise at any time. Ideally, you will be able to take on multiple assignments per month, and spend an average of 20-25 hours per month on IAReporter work.
Ideal candidates include 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. Thus, if you aim to be working with a law firm or clerking for an arbitrator within the next 2-3 years, we politely discourage you from applying.
(If you are currently working with a firm or arbitrator or in some full-time employment, please explain in your application letter whether and when you are leaving this employment.)
Desired qualities include:
- Fluency in English and preferably 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: a summary of the Siemens v. Argentina arbitral award in the style of IAReporter. Your draft should offer a brief account of the essential facts, a description of key legal holdings and tribunal reasoning, and a small amount of analysis that puts the award in light of other developments in the field of investment treaty arbitration and Argentine cases at ICSID. (You do not need to read and summarize the separate 2004 jurisdiction decision.)
The draft contribution should be less than 2500 words and take less than 10 hours to complete. The assignment, along with the your cv and short cover letter (less than 500 words please) can be submitted to [email protected].
The deadline for applications is December 20, 2019.
We will contact you in mid-January 2020 if your application has been shortlisted.
