23463 | Judiciary 

Due to the volume of applications received, only successful applicants will be contacted by the Court.

Required Documents for this Application

Please note that you will need to have the following information ready in order to complete your application:

• A completed “Duties and Responsibilities Form” (refer to step 1 on your eRecruitment Profile page).
• Motivation letter (maximum of 400 words).
• One reference letter.
• Scanned copies of university degrees and/or diplomas (to be added at the essay upload box).

Remuneration

This position is funded through a grant made available by the European Commission (EC Grant), whereby the Court will provide the selected candidates with a monthly remuneration of €1,500 (with a mandatory deduction for emergency health insurance) as well as some financial help for travel purposes for candidates who are not based in the Netherlands at the time of the recruitment. Please note that (i) costs associated with Visas are the responsibility of the selected candidate, (ii) due to the nature of the assignment, visiting professionals cannot bring their families with them.

Contract Duration

The Visiting Professionals funded by the EC Grant are required to work full time for a period of six months (dates to be agreed before the placement begins). The duration of the stay at the Court as an intern may not exceed six months.

Background

The EC Grant aims to provide professional opportunities at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for legal representatives and/or other legal professionals from:

- Countries under investigation (situation countries) (currently: Afghanistan, Burundi, Bangladesh/Myanmar, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Darfur (Sudan), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Republic of the Philippines, State of Palestine, Uganda, Ukraine and Venezuela);

- Countries under preliminary examination (currently: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Venezuela); or

- States Parties to the Rome Statute that are on the list of developing regions of the United Nation’s Statistics Division, namely: Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Nauru, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, State of Palestine, Suriname, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela and Zambia.

Preference will be given to female candidates from non-represented or under-represented States. The list can be found here.

The Opportunity

The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individual charges with the gravest crimes of concerns to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crime of aggression. The Court is participating in the global fight to end impunity, and through the international criminal justice, the Court aims to hold those responsible accountable for their crimes and to help prevent the crimes from happening again. You can contribute to this cause by joining the ICC.

Organisational Context

Chambers, comprising three judicial divisions (Appeals Division, Trial Division and Pre-Trial Division), is responsible for judicial proceedings for crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court and is the organ within the Court in charge of the development and maintenance of the Case Law Database (CLD) Project.

Chambers is recruiting visiting professionals to support the CLD team. The CLD is an easily searchable database providing free access to the entire case-law of the ICC’s public decisions in English, including separate and dissenting opinions, and to a growing number of translations in French and Spanish. In addition to the full-text search within judicial decisions, the CLD provides substantive analysis by indicating when decisions contain “Legal Findings”, which are selected extracts from the Court’s case law with jurisprudential value that have been indexed with level of importance, keywords and related decisions. These features elevate the CLD’s value far above a mere word-searchable repository of judgments and decisions.

The selected candidate(s) will work within the CLD in Chambers, under the supervision of the CLD Coordinator, contributing to the head-noting process, development, and maintenance of the CLD.

Duties and Responsibilities

As part of the CLD team, the visiting professionals will have the following duties and responsibilities:

• Conduct in-depth legal analysis of the Court’s case law, in order to identify and extract key Legal Findings;

• Identify the Legal Findings’ relative level of jurisprudential importance;

• Identify the Legal Findings’ relevant legal keywords, based on statutory provisions;

• Identify relationships between related judgments, decisions and orders and between Legal Findings;

• Collect, organise, and collate other assorted metadata fields for Legal Findings;

• Participate in meetings and substantive discussions on issues arising in the CLD Project and the development of the Court's jurisprudence;

•  Cite-check and edit documents;

•  Assist in the development of other language versions of the CLD; and

•  Perform other tasks, as requested by the CLD Coordinator.

Required Qualifications 

Education:

Candidates must have a degree in law or a relevant legal qualification of a recognised university, demonstrating very good knowledge in international/national criminal law, comparative law and criminology, public international law, international humanitarian law or human rights. Candidates are expected to have a very good record of academic performance.

Experience:

Visiting professional placements focus on candidates who have extensive experience in their professional careers in relevant fields of work. Practical experience that is relevant to the work of the Court is considered an asset. Candidates for a Visiting Professional placement must have at least 3 (three) years of relevant professional experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven analytical skills;
• Able to adapt to multicultural and multilingual working environments;
• Possesses strong teamwork skills (listens, consults and communicates proactively);
• Very good oral communication and drafting skills;
• Demonstrated attention to detail; and
• Has acquired a good standard of computer skills (including Microsoft Office applications) and research skills (including the use of electronic databases).

Knowledge of Languages:

Proficiency in English is required.  Knowledge of French and/or Spanish is an asset.