VISITING ACADEMIC SUPERVISOR IN REFUGEE LAW — SUMMER 2012 – SAN FRANCISCO

ORAM – Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration is a leading international NGO advocating on behalf of refugees fleeing persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Based in San Francisco, USA, ORAM conducts research, education, direct client advocacy, representation and assisted resettlement. Among its activities, ORAM runs a robust summer program featuring law and other university students from across the US and around the world conducting cutting-edge research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) refugees and asylum seekers. http://www.oraminternational.org/en/publications.

Works currently underway include research on protection gaps facing LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa, Uganda and Mexico, legally-directed COI packets for key countries of origin, an international attitudinal survey and a legal treatise on LGBTI refugee protection. ORAM seeks an exceptionally well-qualified legal scholar with wonderful research, writing and pedagogic skills and an agreeable personality to help run our San Francisco summer internship program and assist with our publications work. All work will take place at ORAM Headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Period of employment: May 21 (or soon thereafter) through August 17, 2012. Compensation commensurate with experience and skill. Please send (1) a short cover e-mail, (2) CV including publications list and (3) brief original legal writing sample to grungrasn@oraminternational.org. All applications will be handled in strict confidence.

KJ