johnnyutah wrote:lidialavonna wrote:As strange as it may sound, I love talking about genocide and mass atrocities and going over possible solutions and institutions now in place to both help prevent and handle the aftermath of such events.
This doesn't sound strange at all. In fact, it is extremely common among law school applicants. Any top US program will be useful to you if you try to pursue this as a career, but you should be warned that 1) you will have to do a ton of other kind of law stuff that has nothing to do with international justice 2) most people get disenchanted with international/human rights law after taking a class and 3) jobs in the area you're interested in are almost impossible to come by, especially right out of law school, so you may have to do something else with your degree, at least for a while.
Thanks for the advice. I do realize that the type of work that I'm super interested in is... difficult to get into. I don't expect I'll ever be chief prosecutor for the ICC

. But I would like to pursue it anyway. Who knows, maybe once I get to law school I'll find corporate law riveting and change my focus immediately. Until then though, I know what sparks my interest. I'm actually looking at taking a Law Course here at Sandra Day next semester. The school I'm a part of offers a few seats in law courses to juniors and seniors, and one of the courses is on human rights law. Hopefully I find it as riveting in a Law School setting as I do in my Global Studies Courses. And if not, my soul will be crushed
before I spend a hundred thousand on Law School.
Out of curiosity, (I'm assuming you're either a law student or grad) which school did you or are you attending?