Blue Law International

Prime
10/08 - present
Worldwide
Human Rights and Disability Inclusive Development

The Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD) works to promote the human rights of persons with disabilities worldwide. BlueLaw is supporting HPOD in implementing disability rights education programming, including coordinating the development of two participatory disability rights education and advocacy handbooks and toolkits for disability rights practitioners, and sponsoring fellow to undertake disability rights fieldwork in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

Stimson Center
United States Institute of Peace
6/2010 – 6/ 2011
Iran and USA
Human Rights and Inclusive Development

BlueLaw is supporting the Stimson Center’s "Iran and America: A Dialogue about Disability" program. BLI is providing disability law and policy expertise as well as assistance for overall program design, planning and execution, assisting with the selection of Iranian counterpart program participants, making presentations, and supporting the framing and publication of a final project paper.

University of Maryland School of Law
USA
Human Rights and Inclusive Development

BlueLaw is researching and drafting a study on case law concerning discrimination based upon real or perceived HIV status in the context of hiring, retaining, or deploying national military personnel and UN peacekeepers. Activities include a publication inclusive of a case compilation, case summaries, and legal analysis with policy recommendations.

Subcontractor
USAID
4/2006 to 3/2011
Egypt
Security and Justice

The AOCJ Project works closely with the Egyptian Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) to improve the administration of criminal justice through automation, expanding the public defense system, and increasing prosecutors’ knowledge of human rights. BLI is developing a continuing education and professional entry program for the PGO, rolling out public information help desks at 20 courthouses, and providing subject matter expert support for seminars, case studies, and other related activities.

Subcontractor
USAID
5/10 – 5/2014
Indonesia
Security and Justice

C4J assists the government of Indonesia to improve the performance of the justice sector by providing technical assistance to the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office. BLI is leading the reform and capacity building efforts for the Attorney General's office. Activities include strengthening awareness and training on ethics, continuing education, and course design in areas such as money laundering and international fraud.

Subcontractor
USAID
5/2007 – 5/2012
Egypt
Security and Justice

BLI is helping to oversee a series of targeted grants supporting innovations in juvenile justice in Egypt. The project’s goal is to increase the capacity of the National Council for Women (NCW) and the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) to advocate for policies that protect women and children and to enhance the national response to violence against women and children.

Prime
Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)
1/2010 – 1/2012
Worldwide
Security and Justice

BLI operates INL’s program support unit, which leads a number of initiatives to augment and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of INL programming worldwide. BLI provides assistance in three primary areas: assistance with public outreach efforts; expert staff and training to support ongoing efforts to improve program performance monitoring; and advice and technical subject-matter experts to support INL efforts to codify best practices and develop practical field tools.

Prime
12/2008 – 04/2011
USA
Acquisition and Government Procurement

BLI experts provide legal advice services in the areas of environmental compliance, foreign ownership and technology transfer issues, related Arms Export Control Act compliance, and federal procurement law compliance. Much of BLI's effort is centered on compliance issues surrounding basic research versus applied research and the security concerns of each realm.

Subcontractor
USAID
9/2008 – 8/2011
Security and Justice

In response to a variety of maritime-related policy and practical problems, BlueLaw worked closely with USAID and the Department of State Bureau for Political and Military Affairs (PM) to develop unique and flexible tool, the Maritime Security Sector Matrix, that can be used for program design, capacity assessments, and in-depth sector analyses. Development of the Matrix involved working closely with USAID, Coast Guard, Naval, and State Department experts to organize voluminous substantive input and participate in interagency roundtables and exercises. The Matrix has been favorably briefed to the OECD and the Intergovernmental Working Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, and is currently being reviewed by five U.S. government agencies.

Subcontractor
Department of State, Bureau for African Affairs
7/2010 – 7/2011
Security and Justice

The U.S. Department of State is assisting in the transformation of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) from a largely guerrilla force to a regular military. BLI is designing a military justice system and advising the SPLA and Defense Ministry on military issues such as justice and discipline.

Subcontractor
U.S. Army
4/2010 – 9/2015
Security and Justice

BlueLaw is providing subject matter experts to the U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization. BLI subject matter experts are training and assisting the US Army in the areas of international law; security assistance and security sector reform; tactical, operational and strategic level training of security forces; and organizational and accounting controls.