Academy students have the possibility to perform a professional internship during their studies and validate such internship for academic credits. Students can choose between internships performed with the Academy, ones with different partners of the Academy or self-secured internships with international organizations. Among the different internships offered at the Academy there is the RULAC project. Moreover, the Academy has a large variety of partners among them one could find: Geneva Call, End Human Trafficking organization, TRIAL and the ICTY Association of Defence Counsels. Other internships may be secured by the students themselves and be recognized and validated as well, after close scrutiny and approval by the LLM Director (among these possibilities one may find the different missions to the UN organs in Geneva).
Past participants in the internship programme have recommended the participation in such activity. Among the feedbacks received from different past students one could find:
“With this internship, I aimed at optimizing my year in Geneva by being a student at the Academy on the one hand and an intern at the United Nations OHCHR on the other. Now, I have a six-month work experience and I already feel that it could be decisive to launch my career.” (Marion Mathurin, interned for 6 months at the OHCHR).
“The mix of applying academic knowledge in the field of international criminal law and at the same time not finding myself in an academic atmosphere was the best way” (Almaz Teffera, interned at TRIAL)
Thus the Academy encourages its students to apply and intern in those different organizations in order to gain knowledge, practical experience, specialization in different subjects and acquaintance with the different professional players in the international community.
