An insider's look at the International Court of Justice

Iñaki Navarrete, BCL/JD’16, Associate Legal Officer at the ICJ, shares insights about working at the international tribunal, pursuing an international law career, and the ICJ’s fellowship and legal clerkship programs.Could you tell us about the journey that led you to law school?I came to law school directly from CEGEP with no real idea of what it meant to be a lawyer, but with the notion that I wanted to use the law to do something useful. My parents arrived in Canada as refugees from Chile in the 1980s and their story and resilience inevitably shaped me. In law school, the drive I felt quickly found an outlet in international law. I felt that the subject connected with my aspirations and helped me to link threads in my family’s past.What were the highlights of your time at McGill?One of the highlights was participating in the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism’s International Human Rights Internship Program. After a summer field internship, students take a seminar course lea...