Events
THE 6th MEDIA LAW ADVOCATES TRAINING PROGRAMME
To be held at the University of Oxford, from 1 - 14 July 2007, at St Peter's College.
The course is designed for lawyers (or media advocates) from any country who are interested in deepening their understanding of the various regional and international human rights systems, focusing on the protection and promotion of the exercise of the rights to freedom of expression and information. Participants are granted automatic membership of the International Media Lawyers Association (IMLA).
The aim of this programme is to add value and to capacitate those who are trying to handle such issues day-to-day and whose work could benefit from additional skills and knowledge. Applicants should have a strong commitment to human rights, especially to media freedom.
Applicants should therefore:
* be early to mid-career (ie not students or very recent graduates)
* have demonstrated some commitment to promoting and protecting media freedom in their work (if they are in academia they need to demonstrate that they are also engaged in activism/advocacy)
* have a law degree and be working as "advocates" in either the narrower or wider sense, so litigating in the courts or hands-on engagement in law reform (eg legal drafting) and campaigning on freedom of expression and information issues. Graduates in other disciplines will be considered on a case by case basis if they are working in advocacy, e.g. law reform or campaigning on freedom of expression and information.
Criteria for selection will include the relevant experience of the applicant, and the applicant's potential to contribute to the development of media defence litigation and legislative drafting, which could include involvement with a human rights or media freedom NGO or work directly with media enterprises and journalists.
The fee for the programme is 2,100 GBP. This fee includes tuition, written materials and accommodation in
The Open Society Justice Initiative, the Shell Fund at PCMLP (established by Shell International at PCMLP, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford) and The Guardian Newspaper will be supporting a limited number of Fellows (N.B. fellowships cover tuition, accommodation and travel).
Other applicants are encouraged to contact organisations in their own country to enquire about funding opportunities to attend this programme, as well as apply for funding for professional development at their own workplace (law firms, companies or organisations of which they are employees). Applicants are encouraged to apply to these institutions as early as possible.
To apply, please download and complete the application form below, and send it by e-mail to louise.scott@csls.ox.ac.uk before the closing date of 20 April 2007.
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