The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice is accepting applications from UT law and graduate students to become members of the editorial committee for the Rapoport Center Human Rights Working Paper Series (WPS). Editorial committee members will be in charge of reviewing and selecting submissions, lightly editing accepted papers, and writing or coordinating reaction pieces to submitted papers. We are currently looking for 4-5 new members for our editorial committee.
What is the Rapoport Center Human Rights Working Paper Series?
The Working Paper Series is dedicated to interdisciplinary and critical dialogue about international human rights law and discourse, with the aim of exposing students, professors, and advocates to the latest human rights scholarship. Submitted papers are reviewed by an inter-disciplinary editorial committee and, if accepted, are published on our
website. The committee is also in charge of producing comments and reactions to the papers as a means to spur debate, in our blog-format website.
In 2011, the series also began working with
Sur: International Journal of Human Rights, a journal based in São Paulo, Brazil. We work directly with the human rights organization
Conectas to proofread translated manuscripts and stay informed of scholarly production in the Americas and elsewhere.
Editorial Committee Member Applications:
If you are interested in becoming a member of the editorial board, please submit a copy of your resume, a writing sample (roughly 10 pages), and a cover letter by Tuesday, March 27, 2012. The writing sample may be about any academic topic and does not have to specifically address human rights. The cover letter should include the following information: (1) graduate department and anticipated graduation date, (2) experience with and interest in international human rights, and (3) any editing and/or publishing experience. Please send your application to
RCWPS@law.utexas.edu. Committee members are expected to attend regular monthly meetings and to engage in discussions about papers submitted to the WPS. To learn more about the Rapoport Center and its projects and events please visit
http://www.rapoportcenter.org.
