LLM student to be ICJ Judicial Fellow

The Lauterpacht Centre is delighted to announce that LLM student Catalina Fernández Carter has been selected by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a Judicial Fellow for 2019-2020. Catalina will be supported by the Lauterpacht Centre and the Whewell Scholarship in International Law.

The ICJ Judicial Fellows Programme was established in 1999 to enable recent law graduates to gain experience working at the ICJ. It aims to improve participants’ understanding of international law and of the Court’s procedures by actively involving them in the work of the Court and allowing them to build on their experience under the supervision of a judge. Catalina will be assigned to H.E Judge Antonio A. Cançado Trindade.

Catalina said: I am absolutely delighted and honoured to be joining this programme which I will take up in The Hague in September. It is a fantastic opportunity to gain further understanding of different areas of international law and will give me invaluable experience of how the court works.

It is a fantastic opportunity to gain further understanding of different areas of international law and will give me invaluable experience of how the court works.

Catalina is a Chilean lawyer. She has a Bachelor Degree in Legal and Social Sciences (LLB equivalent), summa cum laude from Universidad de Chile, and is a LLM Candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her areas of interest are international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law, and litigation.