“As a part of the Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program’s project for the District Court of Sofia I had the opportunity to go to Bulgaria during spring break. The project aims to help the court develop and implement a quality control system for its mediation program. During the trip I met with the different stakeholders. Together with clinical fellow Stephan Sonnenberg I also held on-site workshops where we tried to help the stakeholders to develop a shared view of quality in mediation and come up with suggestions for quality control mechanisms that would fit the Sofia mediation program.”
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Hakim Lakhdar, Program Manager, Program on the Legal Profession
“In September, I was asked to speak with HLS students, faculty and staff about the American Bar Association and its Rule of Law Initiative. In 1990, the ABA established the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI), which in 2007 grew into the consolidated Rule of Law Initiative (ROLI), to aid in the legal reform efforts in newly independent republics and emerging democracies. I used the example of my own work in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to explain the various projects and approaches ABA ROLI implements and adopts while also addressing and highlighting the many challenges and obstacles they have faced since their inception. Programs, activities and strategies can be modified from year to year and country to country but those of us working in international development must always remember that ever-changing global relationships and countries’ national interests will always play a large role in the success we have in establishing a legitimate rule of law culture in emerging economies.”
David Palko (JD ’12), spending the summer working with the Constitutional Court of Kosovo as a 2010 Chayes Fellow
“I participated in a two-day retreat during which the Judges and legal advisors … debated and created the final draft of the new Rules of Procedure. My work has consisted of usual clerkship duties — legal research on cases and drafting opinions — which is an incredible opportunity to have after 1L year.”
Teel Lidow (JD ’12), spending the summer with the World Food Programme in Italy as a 2010 Chayes Fellow
“The World Food Programme’s legal staff are giving me substantial projects in areas ranging from drafting contracts and agreements with governments to interpreting treaties to advising web developers on how to be in compliance with US FTC and FCC regulations. The work here is very applied and many of my projects have discernibly contributed to getting WFP programs started and food delivered.”