CULS Workshop: 'A Career in Human Rights Law: Panel Event'

Are you interested in finding out about a career in Human Rights law? Come along to our CULS panel event where the panellists will discuss their journey to working in the human rights sector and the different organisations they work for. Joining us on the panel:

1. Jennifer Castello (Head of Law at Minority Rights Group International) Jennifer Castello is Minority rights group’s Head of Law and is based in MRG’s London office. She joined the legal department in September 2017 as a Legal Officer challenging slavery in Mauritania through strategic litigation, capacity building and international advocacy and has become Head of Law in January 2019, leading a team working on litigation and legal capacity building as well as advocacy. She is a qualified French lawyer and has worked extensively on immigration and asylum law in France and in the UK. Jennifer has been involved in international tribunals working for the international criminal court in The Hague and for the United Nations assistance to the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia.

2. Ellen Lefley (Lawyer at JUSTICE) Ellen originally studied English literature at the University of Cambridge. Whilst studying for the bar she was awarded the Hubert Monroe Award, the Baron Dr Ver Heyden de Lancey prize and the Certificate of Honour from Middle Temple and was called in 2014. She completed pupillage and thereafter practised as a tenant on the North Eastern Circuit, where her practice was predominantly in family law but also included civil, administrative and criminal law. Between practising as a barrister and joining JUSTICE, Ellen graduated top of her class in Transnational Legal Studies LLM at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, during which time she also worked as a research assistant to the university’s Transnational Law department. Her thesis was on the EU’s Operation Sophia and its support of the Libyan Coast Guard, analysing the legal accountability mechanisms available to challenge the EU for human rights violations suffered by migrants in the Mediterranean. Ellen has been published by the EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy blog and previously worked as an associate lecturer at Northumbria University.

3. Charlie Loudon (International Legal Advisor at Redress) Charlie represents REDRESS and its clients in cases before international courts and tribunals, including the African human rights bodies, UN treaty bodies and UK domestic courts. He leads REDRESS’s legal work on seeking the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and co-ordinates REDRESS’s work on prosecuting the perpetrators of torture using universal jurisdiction. Charlie is a UK-qualified solicitor advocate. He practised for six years at an international law firm, where he acted in disputes against foreign States. He previously spent time at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Ghana Center for Democratic Development. Charlie studied Law at Oxford (BA) and International Law and African Politics at the London School of Oriental and African Studies (MA).

4. Charmaine Clubb (BPTC Student at BPP & Caseworker at Advocate) Charmaine read Law at the University of Cambridge, having recently graduated in 2018. Given her particular interest in family law, public law and human rights, she chose to write her final-year dissertation on the effectiveness of domestic forced marriage and honour-based violence legislation. Charmaine is currently studying the Bar Professional Training Course whilst working part-time at the Bar’s pro bono charity, Advocate. She is an Inner Temple Exhibition and Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholar and a BPP Advocacy and Pro Bono Scholar, and she is due to commence pupillage at 42 Bedford Row this coming autumn. Charmaine currently volunteers at Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre, advising clients on their family law rights. Previously, she has volunteered as a Human Rights Advocate in legal clinics in rural Panama. She has also conducted casework for the Centre for Criminal Appeals, which fights miscarriages of justice by seeking to overturn wrongful convictions.

The event will be a fantastic opportunity to discover more about a rewarding career, with the opportunity to ask questions of our panellists in a Q&A session and the chance to socialise and network after the talk.

The event is open to all.

For more information and to sign up, see the Facebook event.