Jobs: Research Assistants
Research assistants are sought for an international, multi-disciplinary project regarding right to health litigation. The project is based at the University of Bergen (Norway) and involves researchers from Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica, Norway, South Africa, and the United States. Three Harvard Law School academics will be overseeing part of this research.
Research assistants will be responsible for researching and writing up the results of their research on the following topics:
- Leading and substantial cases on the right to health (including access to treatment) in specified countries in LAC, Africa and Asia
- Annotated guide to organizations and institutions involved in right to health litigation (donors, law firms, universities, NGOs etc.)
- Annotated bibliography of relevant literature on litigation involving the right to health and other economic and social rights
- Key words health rights litigation, Human right to health, rights based health reform, etc. justiciability/enforceability of economic and social rights
- Create, in end note, a file of all references (with annotations) including case material saved in a format for collaborative use
- Create a google-library of literature/case material (.pdf files)
We expect to hire two researchers, preferably law students (JD, LLM, SJD) although other graduate students may apply. Spanish and/or Portuguese reading fluency is necessary for at least one of these positions. It is estimated that the research should take about 80 hours of time and the work should be completed before the end of the calendar year; assistants will be paid the prevailing hourly rate. Please send a cover note and CV to Mindy Roseman at mroseman@law.harvard.edu.