Rule of Law Advisor - AMERICAN SYSTEMS - Alabama

American Systems is seeking Rule of Law Advisors for a critical Department of State program supporting the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Rule of law work typically aims at enhancing the administration of justice, inter alia by training of judges, prosecutors and lawyers, as well as police and correctional officers. It involves monitoring the functioning of the legal system and encouraging improvements in the administration of justice by suggesting systemic changes to the legal and judicial systems in the mission area as necessary and appropriate, and by undertaking legal reform and legislative review projects in order to bring domestic laws into line with OSCE commitments and other recognized international standards, including counter-terrorism conventions, standards, and practices.

About REACT and the OSCE:
In November 1999, the participating States (pS) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) endorsed Rapid Expert and Assistance Cooperation Teams (better known as REACT) as a tool to enable the OSCE to deploy civilian experts more rapidly to the field to undertake activities associated with conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) sponsors election monitoring missions in OSCE pS and Partner countries. The OSCE’s Partner States include: Japan, Republic of (South) Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, Afghanistan, and Australia (as Asian Partners for Cooperation), and Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia (as Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation).

Work Locations: Caucasus, Balkans , Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia