HUMAN RIGHTS FELLOWSHIP
Use your legal skills where they're most needed.
The Human Rights Fellowship places law graduates, junior lawyers, and experienced legal professionals alongside Lavender Common's Legal Research Hub — working on real ECHR cases, not hypotheticals.
We'd suggest one to two days a week for around three months, but we're flexible around your existing commitments.
Fully remote. Lavender Common is pan-European and distributed — we work across time zones as a matter of course.
Penultimate and final-year law students, graduates, trainee solicitors or barristers, and practising lawyers with time to give.
What you'll work on
Fellows are embedded in Lavender Common's Legal Research Hub and contribute directly to live casework. This is substantive legal work — not admin, not filing. You'll be working on matters that reach courts and shape precedent.
- Legal research on Articles 8, 10, 11, and 14 cases across Council of Europe jurisdictions
- Drafting case summaries, strategic memos, and third-party intervention submissions
- Analysing HUDOC precedent and national court jurisprudence
- Advising partner NGOs on the viability and framing of potential cases
- Supporting pro bono coordination with our law firm partners
What we're looking for
Legal training is essential — the work requires it. Beyond that, we value people who are self-directed, comfortable working across jurisdictions, and motivated by the cause rather than the credential. Knowledge of ECHR procedure is an advantage but not a condition; we'll bring you up to speed on how we work.
We actively welcome applications from lawyers based outside the UK, and from those who don't have a conventional path into human rights law. Lavender Common exists precisely because the movement needs more legal capacity, not a narrower version of it.
INTERESTED?
Tell us about yourself.
Fill in the expression of interest form and select "Human Rights Fellowship" — we'll follow up with full details and next steps.
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