2025 Law Fellows
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James C Chung is a student at Georgetown Law. He moved from Hong Kong to Seattle, WA at 16 and graduated from UW Seattle with a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in French in 2020. After graduation, he worked for a plaintiff litigation firm and assisted in many cases representing low-income clients against corporations and governments. He then volunteered as a wildfire firefighter with AmeriCorps for a year in the Southern U.S. before law school. James is fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin and proficient in French.

Cristiana Farnsworth grew up in Mesa, Arizona, and attended Brigham Young University, where she double majored in Russian and European Studies. Afterwards, she worked in news media and government. Now, Cristiana is a second-year student at Duke Law, earning a dual JD and Master’s of International Law. This has included an internship researching the laws of armed conflict at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. She is excited to spend her upcoming summer interning for the U.S. Department of State.

Sunshine Johnson is a second-year law student at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, pursuing a Transactional Business Law Certificate. A first-generation college student and a proud Native American, she is dedicated to serving underrepresented communities through business and tax law. Her legal experiences have sharpened her analytical, research, and drafting skills, and she has taken on leadership roles that reflect her commitment to collaboration and advocacy. She aspires to provide innovative and impactful legal solutions in business and transactional law.

Maartje Leijser is a senior associate at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She studied Law at Utrecht University (BA) and Cambridge University (Christ's College), and obtained a master's degree in Corporate Law at VU Amsterdam. She practiced her first years as a junior associate at the Litigation and Finance & Restructuring departments of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, and now focuses on corporate litigation and restructuring-related disputes.

Josh Lerner is a judicial law clerk at the Federal Court of Canada. He has a JD from the Peter A. Allard School of Law, where he worked as a research assistant for several professors studying commercial contracts, administrative law, and insolvency law. During law school, Josh also externed at the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and was a 2023 recipient of the Insolvency Institute of Canada's Prize in Insolvency Studies.

Nicholas J. Lopez is a J.D. candidate at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to attending Georgetown, Nicholas earned his B.S. in Economics from Florida State University, where he was awarded the Bright Futures Scholarship—a full-tuition scholarship recognizing academic achievement and commitment to community service. Throughout law school, Nicholas has spent three summers at Kirkland & Ellis LLP—two in New York City and one in Miami—focusing primarily on M&A and investment fund matters. Following graduation, Nicholas will return to Kirkland as a corporate associate in the firm's Miami office.

Isabell Meyer studied law at the University of Cologne in Germany, where she also received her doctorate. She completed her legal clerkship in Cologne, Hamburg and Dubai. Isabell works as a lawyer in Munich and advises in tax law and estate law.

Colleen O'Gorman is completing a clerkship in the Southern District of New York and will soon serve as a law clerk on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She previously worked as a litigation associate at Arnold & Porter, where she maintained an active pro bono practice focused on civil rights. Colleen received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served on the Board of Student Advisers, and her B.A. summa cum laude from Princeton University, where she studied politics, gender and sexuality studies, and moral philosophy.

Joe Ort is a 2L student at Harvard Law School. He is passionate about gun violence prevention and immigrant justice. Joe has interned at the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, the Bronx Defenders, and the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and for two years after college he worked as a project analyst at Mintz. In law school, Joe is a student attorney in the Wage and Hour Practice of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

Jonathan D. Parker is a student at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he serves on the board of the Journal of Business Law and as President of the Real Estate Club. At Penn, he interned at the Delaware Court of Chancery and earned a Management certificate from The Wharton School. Before law school, Jonathan studied finance, real estate, and history at Drexel University and worked in the luxury and affordable sectors of the real estate industry. After graduation, Jonathan will join a law firm in New York as an associate.

Allison Rabkin Golden is an associate at Wachtell Lipton. Allison received her B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University and began her career as a Fulbright Scholar. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal, Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review, and Chief Speechwriter for the Dean of Yale Law School. Prior to law school, Allison worked at Kleiner Perkins and Morgan Stanley. After law school, she worked at the White House and on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court.

Benjamin Sevart is a third-year law student at the University of Wisconsin, where he is a Senior Managing Editor on the Wisconsin Law Review and a research assistant for Professor Heinz Klug. During law school, he has interned at the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the United States House of Representatives, the United States Department of Justice, and the Administrative Conference of the United States. After graduation in May, he will clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and hopes to work as an appellate litigator.

Maggie Wang is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. A recipient of the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy’s 2023-24 Emerging Scholar Fellowship, they are interested in administrative law, law and sociology, and the non-human. Beyond the law, they enjoy long-distance running, modernist and postmodern literature, and the operas of George Frideric Handel. After graduating from law school in May 2025, they will begin their career as a legislative drafter in the United States Congress. They hold a BA in history and economics from the University of Oxford.

Shawn Young is a third-year J.D. candidate at the New York University School of Law, where he was awarded the Arthur Garfield Hays Fellowship in Civil Liberties and served as Senior Online Editor of the New York University Law Review. He is a four-time research assistant to NYU Law's faculty and centers—studying public law, legal history, and theory—as well as a participant in the law school's Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic and Criminal Appellate Defender Clinic. Prior to law school, Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and worked for the City and County of San Francisco to eliminate excessive government fines and fees. Following graduation, he will clerk for Judge Alvin W. Thompson on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.