In 2006, ASIL awarded Helton Fellowships to six outstanding students and young professionals out of a total of 28 applications from individuals throughout Africa, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. Helton Fellows for 2006 included:
Anna Kerner, JD candidate at the University of South Dakota School of Law. Anna will be sponsored by Amnesty International Australia (AIA) to work as a member of the Refugee Team helping onshore asylum seekers in Australia obtain information regarding the human rights situation in their country of origin with a specific focus on their claims.
David Kosar, PhD candidate at Masaryk University Brno in the Czech Republic. David applied to the fellowship to support his work on the Czech Asylum Case Law Site (CACLS). CACLS will collect selected decisions of the Czech courts on the website of OPU (Organization for Aid to Refugees) and provide users with a keyword index.
Scott Lyons, Legal Analyst at the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI). Scott graduated from American University, Washington College of Law in 2004. His project will be undertaken through coordination with the International Senior Lawyers Project and will focus on providing international pro bono legal support in order to improve the capacity of indigenous organizations to meet the needs of the population in South Africa and Tanzania.
Rebecca Miller, JD candidate at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Rebecca will spend the summer working with the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), an international public interest law organization in Budapest, Hungary. She will primarily be involved in working with the ERRC's legal department, which seeks to engage in impact litigation on behalf of the Romani before both domestic and international courts.
Margaret Murray, JD candidate at the University of Maryland School of Law. Margaret will spend the summer working with the Refugee and Asylum Project at The World Health Organization for Human Rights USA in Washington, DC. The Refugee and Asylum Project works to protect refugees in the US from deportation to situations of torture and persecution, particularly women and children facing gender-based abuses.
Elizabeth Stubbins, LL.M., Harvard Law School, 2005. Elizabeth will spend the summer working with the Mental Disability Advocacy Center. Her project will focus on monitoring the closure of the Dzhurkovo children's social care home in Bulgaria and the transfer of former Dzhurkovo residents to other social care homes.
For more information, please contact: Veronica Onorevole, ASIL Senior Programs Associate at fellowship@asil.org or + 1 202 939 6000.
