About the MJIL Editorial Board
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Editor in Chief
Katharine Wagner
Katharine Wagner hails from Williamstown, Mass., and Oxford, England. She received a B.A. from Haverford College, where she spent a semester studying abroad in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany. She then served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine, where she taught English and foreign language pedagogy in the port town of Yuzhny. Katharine then returned to Oxford to read for an M.Phil. in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College). At Oxford, she focused on the political and economic transition of Ukraine, with a special eye to the role of the judiciary and the judicialization of politics. She served as an election observer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution and for the 2006 parliamentary elections. Katharine is particularly interested in comparative constitutionalism, rule of law initiatives, transitional justice, international criminal law, and international court systems. In 2007, she interned at the European human rights legal aid center The AIRE Centre (London), and will be a summer associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. in summer 2008.
Managing Editor
Rachel R. Richards
Rachel Richards grew up in West Texas before moving to Austin where she studied French and Journalism at the University of Texas. In addition to studying abroad in Lyon, France, Rachel also spent time in Caen, France, as a participant in UT’s Normandy Scholar Program where she engaged in an in-depth study of World War II. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, she lived in Washington, DC, and in Boston, Massachusetts, while working for the federal government. Rachel is a rising 3L and was recently named as a recipient of the Dean’s Public Service Fellowship. Rachel is interested in constitutional law, legal history, and public international law, and she also enjoys learning Arabic. Following graduation, she plans to pursue a career in public service.
Executive Articles Editors
David A. Caragliano
David Caragliano is a dual degree student at U of M, pursuing an M.A. in China Studies in addition to the J.D. He is interested in the development of the rule of law in transitional economies, such as China, Russia and Vietnam. David’s fascination with Asian history and languages began with his decision to study Chinese as a freshman at Middlebury College. He has been traveling back and forth to Asia ever since. David has worked as a freelance translator and researcher for U.S. and Chinese NGOs, as a legal assistant for a U.S. law firm in Beijing, and as a consultant for a Chinese government affairs firm. David is Co-Founder and President (2007-08) of the Asia Law Society at the University of Michigan, which recently held its inaugural symposium entitled “Activist Lawyers and Muckraking Journalists: New Pressures for Legal Reform in China.” In 2007, David was an Honors Legal Intern at the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the General Counsel (International Affairs). He will split his time between the Hong Kong and New York offices of Linklaters LLP during summer 2008.
David C. Weiss
Dave Weiss received his A.B. from Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth he studied Geography at Charles University in Prague. From 2003-2006, Dave worked in Washington, D.C. as a Legislative Assistant in the Office of Congressman Michael Michaud. In that role he focused on federal budget, tax, environmental, energy, and telecommunications policy. He also worked on issues relating to international trade and the environment, including CAFTA and the Peru Free Trade Agreement. In addition to international legal aspects of trade, commerce, and the environment, Dave is particularly interested in sports law, environmental law, and constitutional law. At Michigan he is a Co-Chair of the Environmental Law Society’s Pro Bono Initiative and has traveled to Peru to study the regulation of transnational mining companies. In 2007 Dave was an intern in the Office of the General Counsel with the Oakland Raiders. In 2008 he is a summer associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom in New York. Dave grew up in Maine, the only U.S. state surrounded by an international sovereign on two sides.
Malak Hamwi
Malak Hamwi is a rising 3L from New York. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the George Washington University in 2006. While at GWU, Malak received a research fellowship to complete her honors thesis on the independent media in Syria. Prior to law school, she interned at the U.S. Department of State and Newsweek magazine. After 1L year, Malak interned with a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then worked for the American Bar Association in Amman, Jordan. She is working for Allen & Overy in Dubai and New York during the summer of 2008.
Note Editors
Matthew F. Sullivan
Matt Sullivan is a rising 3L from La Jolla, CA. He earned a B.A. from Georgetown University with a double major in Government and English Literature and a minor in Theology. While at Georgetown, he interned for the columnist George F. Will and was captain of the club water polo team. In Spring 2003, he studied English Language and Literature at the University College London. He remained in Washington, D.C. after graduation working for a law firm and coaching water polo. Last summer he was a law clerk in the felony trial section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. This summer he will be working at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in their New York office.
Jamie-Clare Flaherty
Jamie-Clare Flaherty is a 3L from Detroit, Michigan. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 2006. In winter 2005 she studied at the University of Granada, Spain where she focused on Spanish government, culture, and literature. She has worked in the United States House of Representatives for Hon. John Conyers, Jr. and has interned with the House Judiciary Committee. Since entering Michigan Law she has focused on the Constitution and civil rights, including an internship at the American Civil Liberties Union in Detroit, Michigan. During summer 2007 she worked at Baker Botts, LLP in Washington, D.C. concentrating on global projects and litigation.
Production Editor
Jaime Loda
Jaime Loda is a rising 3L. She received a BA in linguistics from NYU. After graduation, she moved to Ukraine with the Peace Corps, where she and Kate never met. In Ukraine, she taught English in a small Hungarian-speaking village on the Romanian border which informally refused to acknowledge Ukraine’s official timezone. When she returned to the US she worked as a paralegal at a law firm. She spent the summer of 2007 working for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and is spending her 2008 summer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York.
Article Editors
Stephanie S. Thibault
Stephanie Thibault received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where she majored in French and Political Science and minored in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. During her undergraduate studies, Stephanie spent a semester in Angers, France and also taught English in Southern China with the Maryknoll Missionaries. After graduation from Notre Dame, Stephanie taught English for a year in Orléans, France through a Fulbright teaching assistantship. She enjoys traveling, and thus far has lived or extensively traveled in Paraguay, India, Vietnam, Japan and throughout Eastern and Western Europe. For the summer of 2008, she will be working for Kirkland & Ellis LLP in their Chicago office.
Nicole S. Lonsway
Nicole grew up in Niamey, Niger, West Africa and attended a French Lycée for most of her elementary and middle school years. She then moved to Rockville, Maryland, and later attended the University of Michigan where she obtained an A.B. in English and French and played on the varsity field hockey team. Her academic interests include exploring the expansion of international foreign investments and corporate law, and the role of international tribunals in human rights development. Nicole interned at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania after her 1L year, and she will be working at White and Case in New York in summer 2008.
Roman Nurpeissov
Roman Nurpeissov is from Almaty, Kazakhstan. He holds an LL.M. from Vanderbilt University Law School and an LL.B. from Kazakh-American University. He spent his last summer interning for the Honorable Eugene E. Siler Jr., Senior U.S. Circuit Judge, (6th Cir.). Prior to coming to Michigan Roman was a tax consultant at Deloitte’s Almaty office and a summer intern for the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman Jr., Senior U.S. District Judge (Nashville, TN). His hobbies include acting (took part in the “Lo Spirito del Pianeta” festival in Bergamo, Italy), and literature (with M. Bulgakov, A. Chekhov, and T. Dreiser being the favorite writers). Roman is also a frequent guest to the local gym
(where he “deposes” weights and the punching bag).
Nathan R. Hilgendorf
Nathan Hilgendorf was born in Ganado, Arizona, in the heart of the Navajo Nation. Pursuing an interest in Asian languages, he studied Mandarin and Cantonese at the University of Oregon and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Re-enrolling as a graduate student, Nathan earned his M.B.A. and an M.A. in Art History and was hired as Asian Curator in the History of Art department at Michigan. From there he took the next logical step: applying to law school! Nathan maintains his art connections by serving as a GSI in History of Art. As for the abundant free time that remains, he spends it with his wife and 9-month-old twin boys. This summer he will be working in Governor Richardson’s legal department in Santa Fe, and with the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer on water rights adjudications.
Ishai Z. Mooreville
Ishai Mooreville is a 3L from Philadelphia, PA. He majored in International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and worked at the World Bank in Washington, DC before law school. Most importantly, he also attended the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Chelsea Warren
Chelsea Warren is a rising 3L from Corcoran, MN. She earned her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she specialized in Biological Anthropology, French, and English Composition. As part of her undergraduate studies, Chelsea spent a semester in Brisbane, Australia, researching aboriginal rights in the context of land claim cases and ongoing requests for repatriation of indigenous remains from museum collections. She is also interested in anything litigation-related, and is a member of Michigan’s National Trial Competition Team. Chelsea spent her first summer at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee, WI, and will be working for Jenner & Block in their Chicago office in summer of 2008.
Business and Development Editor
Simone Colgan Dunlap
Simone Colgan Dunlap is a 3L from sunny Arizona. An avid traveler, she has visited over 32 countries, including Japan, where she worked as a teacher before law school. Simone will spend her spring semester in Geneva, Switzerland working as an extern for the United States Mission to the United Nations.
Web Editor
Alyssa M. Worsham
Alyssa Worsham, a native of Charleston, SC, received an MA in Journalism from NYU in 2003. She then moved to Hanoi, Vietnam to work for the English-language daily, the Viet Nam News, as an editor and contributor, in addition to freelance writing for US-based publications, such as the Wall Street Journal. While in Hanoi, Alyssa also served as a volunteer researcher for The Asia Foundation and an editor at the Vietnam Investment Review. She spent all of her free time poking around Asia and writing about food and travel. During the summer of 2007 she worked as a communications specialist for USAID in Hanoi, focusing on economic and legal reform issues, and she will split summer 2008 between Baker & McKenzie offices in New York and Saigon.
Symposium Chair
Serena G. Liu
Serena Liu graduated cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005 with a B.A. in political science and sociology. At UCLA she studied abroad at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Prior to law school she worked at an intellectual property law firm in Washington D.C. She currently serves as the Fundraising Chair of Student Funded Fellowships (SFF), and is a student attorney for the Family Law Project. This summer, she will work for a law firm in San Francisco and Hong Kong.
About MJIL
The Michigan Journal of International Law (MICH. J. INT’L L.) is the student-run international law publication of the University of Michigan Law School. Through the dedication of its members, the Journal has established itself among the finest international law journals in the country. The Journal ranks among the top five student-run international and comparative law journals according to an International Lawyer article surveying academic reputation. See Gregory Scott Crespi, Ranking International and Comparative Law Journals: A Survey of Expert Opinion, 31 INT’L LAW. 869, 874-76 (1997). The Journal is the successor to the Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies, first published in 1979.
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