The International Court of Justice in The Hague has selected Cambridge LLM student Miriam Boxberg (Newnham College) to participate in its 2014-2015 University Traineeship Programme. This traineeship offers a Cambridge student the rare opportunity to work at one of the world’s most important legal institutions. Trainees assist ICJ judges in tasks such as drafting opinions, orders, and other court documents, preparing case files and researching international law. Traineeships last ten months, starting in September 2014 and ending in June 2015.
The Cambridge Law Faculty nominated Miriam Boxberg in February to the ICJ. Cambridge is among a select group of leading law schools, including Oxford, Harvard, NYU, Columbia, Yale, Michigan and Geneva, eligible to nominate students to the ICJ. In parallel to the highly competitive selection process at the ICJ, Miriam successfully applied to the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs for funding. The fellowship will fund both her stay at the ICJ as well as further posting for a research project in New York at the Office of Legal Affairs (Codification Divison) at the United Nations Headquaters from July 2015 onwards.
Miriam, a dual Dutch-German national, obtained her first law degree at The Hague University in the Netherlands in June 2013, ranked first in her class. During her undergraduate studies, Miriam worked as an intern at the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the British Embassy in The Hague. In her LLM studies at Cambridge, she focuses on public international law. She also rows for Newnham College, is an Editor for the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, and is the Graduate Representative to the Faculty Board of Law.