Michelle Akim is a recent McGill University Faculty of Law graduate currently completing a judicial clerkship at the Federal Court of Canada. During law school, she was widely involved in organizations advocating for Ukrainian newcomers in Canada following the war in Ukraine, from which she developed a passion for immigration and administrative law, and access to justice. Michelle also has previous experience working in the commercial litigation group of a corporate law firm.

Jessica Angel is a Yale Fellow at NATO’s Office of Legal Affairs. She graduated from the joint JD/MPP program at Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School, focusing on war crimes accountability, transitional justice, and national security law. She has worked with The Reckoning Project on war crime accountability efforts related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has interned at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Human Rights and Special Prosecutions, the U.S. Department of State, and the European Court of Human Rights. She is the founder of an award-winning nonprofit providing free mentorship to students applying to college and graduate school. She will clerk this fall on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

Boris Botchev attends the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and previously majored in Geology and Archaeology at Cornell University. Prior to law school, Boris was a wildland firefighter and helicopter crewmember for the National Park Service, where he saw the challenges of balancing resource preservation, visitor use, and long-term sustainability in public lands. Boris is passionate about exploring environmental challenges through a legal lens, especially at the international scale. At Penn Carey Law, he leads the Environmental Law Project, helps plan events for the American Constitution Society, and volunteers with pro-bono organizations advocating for human rights and on behalf of individuals in the criminal justice system.

Victor Castagno graduated from the United States Military Academy in 2020 and commissioned as an Air Defense Artillery Officer. He was stationed at Fort Sill, OK from 2020-2024; where he served as a platoon leader, executive officer, an assistant operations officer, and deployed to the United Arab Emirates for 10 months. In 2023, Victor was selected for the Army’s Funded Legal Education Program (FLEP), he is now a Captain attending Vanderbilt Law School and will join the Judge Advocate General’s Corp (JAGC) upon graduation.

Garrett Hofmann is a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School with a strong commitment to public service and an interest in national security law. As the child of an Air Force family, he brings a lifelong connection to military communities to his legal work. Garrett has experience in veterans advocacy, administrative law, and international legal issues, including work in Israel on behalf of American victims of terrorism. He has led major academic initiatives supporting veterans and plans a career in government service at the intersection of law, ethics, and national security.

Joelle Jarjoura is a third-year J.D. candidate at Duke University School of Law, where she served as a Notes Editor for the Duke Law Journal and represented clients through the Immigrant Rights Clinic. She graduated as valedictorian from the University of Tennessee, where she received the Bank of America Undergraduate Leadership Award. During law school, Joelle interned with the U.S. Department of State, Williams & Connolly LLP, and the U.S. Court of International Trade. After graduation, she looks forward to building a career focused on the intersection of government litigation, immigration, and international law.

Jacob Kirschenbaum is an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. He received his B.A. in physics and philosophy from Brown University in 2017 and his J.D. from NYU School of Law in 2023. Before law school, he worked at a global hedge fund in New York City and a nonpartisan public policy research organization in Providence, Rhode Island. During law school, he was a senior editor for the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law and the treasurer for the NYU Art Law Society. After law school, he worked at Quinn Emanuel for one year before clerking for the Honorable James O. Browning in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, after which he returned to Quinn Emanuel. 

Lavinia Liang is a writer and attorney. Her writing has been published in TIME, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She graduated from Princeton University, where she received the Henry R. Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement. She earned her JD from Harvard Law School, where she also served as a Teaching Fellow in the English and Government Departments at Harvard College. Her academic work at the intersection of law and the humanities has been published in the Duke Law Journal and presented at the Law, Culture, and Humanities conference. After law school, she had the honor of clerking for the Honorable William F. Kuntz, II, of the Eastern District of New York. Though she has called many places home, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Youri Pluis is a senior associate in the regulatory practice at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, one of the Netherlands' leading law firms. His practice focuses on energy and environmental law, market regulation, European law, and enforcement matters. A graduate of Utrecht University, Youri has a background in constitutional and administrative law with particular expertise in energy market regulation and nature protection legislation. He also contributes to De Brauw's Pro Bono practice, working on projects related to the rule of law and democratic institutions.

Carolyn Powers is an Assistant District Attorney who handles felony cases involving intimate partner violence and sexual violence in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Special Victims Division. Carolyn has been working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence since she was 21 years old in different contexts, including through non-profit organizations and in the criminal legal system on both sides of the aisle. Carolyn was a 2024 Pro Bono Scholar who graduated cum laude from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University with a concentration in Criminal Law and Procedure.

Eva Quinones is a junior associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in New York, focusing on complex commercial litigation and antitrust while maintaining an active pro bono practice in immigration and election law. She graduated from New York University School of Law in 2024, where she was Senior Articles Editor at the NYU Law Review and co-President of the Latinx Law Students Association, and also holds graduate degrees from Yale University. In law school, she won the American Constitution Society's Constance Baker Motley writing competition for her scholarship on racial disparities in polling places, and was awarded the Vanderbilt Medal for community contributions at NYU Law and a Dean's Emerging Scholars Award at Yale.

Eran Shmueli earned his LL.B. from the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and will begin serving as a legal trainee at Israel’s Ministry of Justice. He completed J.D. exchange studies at Cornell Law School and later attended the Summer Courses in Public International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law as a recipient of the Shabtai Rosenne Scholarship for Israeli Students of Public International Law.

Foti Vito is a litigation associate at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto, where his practice focuses on international disputes, commercial litigation, and public law. He earned his Juris Doctor with Distinction from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he received the Ludwik & Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize. Foti has interned at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague and is a Director of the Albanian Canadian Lawyers Association. He previously served as a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and will clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada.