Summer School on Sexual Orientation Law

From 8 July to 5 August 2008 a Summer School on Sexual Orientation and the Law will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This Summer School is being organised by Whittier Law School in California, now for the third time. So far, most participants in this Summer School have been American law students. However, the organisers would like to make it increasingly international, by inviting a number of non-US students to take part for free.

Special offer
Dr Kees Waaldijk of Universiteit Leiden has been asked to propose a few students with a keen interest in sexual orientation law (ideally people who are or have recently been a law student at undergraduate or postgraduate level). Normally a fee would be required for participation in the Summer School, but he can propose some people (who are not a citizen or a resident of the USA) to take part without paying that fee. The course materials would be for free, too. However, students would have to pay their own travel, housing and other costs.

The programme
The School's courses are taught by law professors and by eminent lawyers working for non-governmental organisations on LGBT issues. More information about the programme. 

Interested?
Should you be interested and truly qualified, please send an email to Kees Waaldijk before 13 May 2008, attaching a CV and full contact details, plus a few lines about your interest in attending the Summer School, and a few lines about what expertise on the legal LGBT situation in your part of the world you could offer to fellow-students. And please do get one of your professors, or an expert on sexual orientation law, to simultaneously email to Kees Waaldijk with a recommendation explaning why it would make sense to give you this opportunity. All this in English, please.

Selection
After 12 May 2008 Kees Waaldijk will make a selection of the best applicants (normally one per country at most) and forward the emails of these selected applicants (plus any recommendations received for them) to Professor John Heilman of Whittier Law School, who is the director of this summer programme, and who will then decide who should be invited to take part for free. Professor Heilman will then inform the invited applicants.

If you want more information about the programme you should write to professor Heilman, because the role of Kees Waaldijk in this programme is limited to giving a guest lecture.
24/4/2008