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Position: We are looking for Research-scholars in the field of ‘Public International Maritime Law’, who would work full-time out of the NMF’s premises in New Delhi.

Primary Job Description:

• The individual(s) selected will be required to undertake serious and intensive long-term research-studies and analyses of policy-relevant facets of Public International Maritime Law that present the Indian polity with opportunities and challenges that would promote and protect India’s maritime interests.

• Specific focus will be required to be paid to the historical and contemporary legal-jurisprudence underpinning contemporary national and international legislation concerning maritime issues, such as the UN Charter, the 1982 UNCLOS, the IMO Convention and its associated conventions, the SUA Convention (and its attendant protocols), International Humanitarian Law, the Law of Naval Warfare, the Law of Neutrality at Sea, and the ongoing contribution of the provisions of the ‘San Remo Manual’ pertaining to the maritime domain; as also legal aspects of surface-, subsurface-, and space-based maritime domain awareness.

• In addition, we would expect research in a number of allied legal themes and subjects including (but not limited-to) climate change and the maritime environment; maritime crime including piracy, armed robbery, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, etc.; legalities concerning the regulation of private maritime security companies, floating armouries, and privately contracted armed security personnel; as also unmanned-, minimally-manned, and autonomous surface-, underwater- and airborne vehicles

Requirements/Qualifications:

(a)      Are an Indian national (supporting documents would be a self-attested scanned copy of either an “AADHAAR Card” OR an in-date valid “Indian Passport”).

(b)      Have excellent skills in written and spoken English.

Please note that this is a ‘make-or-break’ criterion, so please be prepared to be intensively tested in this area.

(c)      Are interested-in and enthusiastic-about maritime issues.

(d)      Enjoy serious academic research.

(e)      Have a PhD degree in International Public/Private Maritime Law from a recognised university in India or abroad

OR

Are a PhD student of law AND have already submitted your PhD thesis on a topic relevant to International Public/Private Maritime Law, but are waiting to defend it.

OR

Have an MPhil degree in International Public/Private Maritime Law from a recognised university in India or abroad, are not intending to try for a PhD degree.

OR

Have an LLM degree in International Public/Private Maritime Law from a recognised university in India or abroad OR have meaningful work-experience relevant to International Public/Private Maritime Law.

OR

Have an LLB degree in law from a recognised university in India or abroad AND have meaningful work-experience relevant to International Public/Private Maritime Law.

OR

Hold an MPhil or PhD degree, from a recognised university in India or abroad, in the in the physical-sciences, life-sciences, social-sciences, or humanities,

but have strong and genuine interest-in and inclination-towards sustained research in the field of Public International Maritime Law.

(f)       Have demonstrable competence in ‘MS Office 2016’ (or later versions, including ‘Office 365’), particularly in ‘Word’ and ‘PowerPoint’.

(g)      Are willing to learn other computer programmes/suites.

(h)      Enjoy making presentations, meeting people, working in a team (as also leading one), and undertaking advocacy on maritime issues.  (Selected scholars must be up-to-date with contemporary maritime developments and be ready to present, before their colleagues, the legal ramifications of such developments).

(i)       Are liberal-minded and open to fresh ideas, processes and procedures.

Compensation: Compensation will be by way of an all-told Professional Fee payable on a monthly basis and will be commensurate with prevailing standards in respect of think-tanks in the National Capital Region.  The lower end of the compensation-band is Rs 30,000/- per month for a fresh LLB, which would be adjusted upwards depending upon qualifications and experience.

Application Process:

Please complete the CV-form provided in the Appendix to this advertisement and send it, along with the documents indicated therein, by an email addressed to nmfjobs@gmail.com with ‘cc’ to maritimeindia@gmail.com, execdir.nmf@gmail.com, nmf.deputydirector@gmail.com and directorgeneral.nmfindia@gmail.com).

The subject to this email should read-

“Job Application – Public International Maritime Law [Name of Applicant]”

SUMMARY OF ATTACHMENTS REQUIRED

(1)      The completed CV-Form in PDF format.

(2)      A scanned and self-attested copy of the document (AADHAAR Card or valid Indian Passport) that proves that you are an Indian national.

(3)      Scanned copies of your Graduation, Post-Graduation, MPhil, and PhD Degrees and the marksheets relevant thereto.

(4)      Scanned copies of ‘Experience Certificates’ relevant to each segment of your work-experience (if applicable).

(5)      A sample of your own (original) writing-skills, by way of an unedited and unpublished analysis of between 800 and 1500 words, on any of the ITLOS rulings of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) other than the one concerning the Philippines, China and the South China Sea.