Jill Monnin '05 is currently pursuing her law degree at the University of Washington, and while she was too modest to provide all the details by email, I found the following on UW's website:
"The UW School of Law proudly announces the 2006 recipients of the William Sampson Fellow in Comparative Public Interest Law: Elisabeth Ahlquist, Jill Monnin, Rebecca Huffman, Cecelia Boudreau, and Patrice Kent. The 2006 Fellowship recipients were announced at a lunch attended by Andy Pike, Consul for Northern Ireland to the U.S. March 30, 2006 in Gates Hall.
The Sampson Fellow program, arranged by the law school's European Law Initiative (ELI), provides an externship opportunity for one UW law student to spend up to four months working in Europe at a human rights non-profit or NGO. Traditionally, Sampson Fellow's have worked with the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC) in Dublin, Ireland."
You can read the whole thing here.
Jill tells me that she'll be interning at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway, doing legal research on UN peace treaties, and post-conflict codes to be implemented in Eastern Europe.
Galway, Ireland, in summer. Poor alum.
Congrats, Jill!
Any alum tips for places to see and things to do in Ireland? Being the political scientist I have taken and highly recommend the taxi tour of "The Troubles" up north...
