Judge Joseph A. Migliozzi Jr, a Norfolk General District Court from Virginia, USA is coming to Warwick to give a talk about current developments relating to the US Death Penalty on Wednesday 19th October at 5pm, Room S 2.12 (Law School).

This talk will be of interest to all students involved and looking to get involved in the Warwick Law School Death Penalty Project.

Please email Becky and Cara to find out more about the DPP project and related activities.

Joe will also be giving a talk on Law Careers in the US on Thursday 20th October at 2pm in room H3.55.

You can sign up to the careers event here.

We look forward to seeing Law and non-Law students at both events!

The Centre for Human Rights in Practice provides many opportunities for students to get involved in paid work with the Centre and volunteering placements with external organisations. We are currently advertising a number of opportunities, listed below. For further information about all of the opportunities listed below including deadlines, and application instructions, please visit the Student Activities section of our website.

Volunteer (unpaid) opportunities for which we are now recruiting are:

· Coventry Law Centre

CLC is a charity employing solicitors and advice workers providing free legal advice and representation to people whose rights have been breached in our area. Warwick students can get involved in:

• Volunteering with the Asylum and Immigration Team

• Volunteering with the Astraea and RIPPLE Projects (health and social care)

· Death Penalty Project - Attorney Support Programme

This project assists US attorneys and charities with their on-going work on capital cases in a number of different ways, from case summarisation, to research. The project is student run, and all the work is performed by our dedicated volunteers coordinated by group leaders.

Paid opportunities for which we are now recruiting are:

· Lacuna magazine

Lacuna is an online magazine published by the Centre that challenges indifference to suffering and promotes human rights. We are currently recruiting for two student roles:

• Social Media / Publicity assistant

• Online Content Management assistant (with some work in Social Media/Publicity)

· Equality, Human Rights and Public Spending Cuts Work

The project is seeking a research assistant to research issues related to the public spending cuts, the extension and development of our electronic database, and communicating with civil society organisations and public authorities who we are working with.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The Death Penalty Internship Programme is a unique opportunity for “hands-on” exposure of legal work involving the common law system of the United States of America, which also encompasses diverse areas of criminal justice, medical law and human rights. The duration of the internship is two months and the student can expect to work on: United States legal research, manage case files, contribute to the briefs filed in state and federal courts, interview witnesses and jurors in appeals cases and visit prisons, including death row. For more information on how to apply and deadlines, visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/chrp/projects/student/dpp/