Recent J.S.D. Alumni

Doreen Lustig J.S.D. '12: Lecturer at Tel Aviv University Law School

Mu-Te Yu J.S.D. '07

Christine Bateup
Australia

Ms. Bateup specializes in comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory, with a particular interest in theories of constitutional dialogue. Her doctoral dissertation explored how a clearly defined form of constitutional dialogue between courts, the political branches of government and the people might be institutionalized if a Bill of Rights is incorporated into Australian law, building on existing forms of institutional interaction that exist in the Australian setting.

Ms. Bateup completed her B.A./LL.B. degrees at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1997, graduating with first class honors in Law. She subsequently was employed as a legal clerk at the Federal Court of Australia in Melbourne. In 2001, she graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, receiving an LL.M. degree with Distinction.

Noa Ben-Asher
Israel

Ms. Ben-Asher is a recent graduate of the J.S.D. program at NYU School of Law (2005). She holds an LL.M. degree from NYU School of Law (2000), where she was named a Dean's Merit Fellow, and an LL.B. degree from Bar-Ilan University, Israel (1998).

Her J.S.D. dissertation, entitled Paradoxes of Rights and Science: the Regulation of Sex and Gender in Early Childhood, was a study of forms of regulation of sex, gender and sexuality of young children in the U.S. Ms. Ben-Asher's current research interests include law and science, law and technology, legal queer theory and family law.

Among her recent publication are:

"The Necessity of Sex Change: A Struggle for Intersex and Transsex Liberties," Harvard J.L & Gender (January 2005)

"Paradoxes of Health and Equality: When a Boy Becomes a Girl," 16 Yale J.L & Feminism 275 (2004)

"Screening Historical Sexualities: A Roundtable on Sodomy, South Africa, and Proteus," GLQ: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, 11:3 (2004) (with Bruce Brassel, Daniel Garrett, John Greyson, Jack Lewis and Susan Newton-King)

Márcia Nina Bernardes
Brazil

Ms. Bernardes is a J.S.D. graduate whose academic interests include international law of human rights, democratic theory and issues on democratization. Her doctoral dissertation explored the implications of the consolidation of transnational public spheres to relationship between civil society and the Brazilian state. As an illustration of her argument, she examined the dynamics of the resort to the Inter-American System of Rights Protection by Brazilian civil society organizations, after the country's transition from military rule in the 1980s.

Ms. Bernardes completed her undergraduate law degree at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2000 she completed a masters degree in law at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, ranking first in her class. Ms. Bernardes was a Hauser Global Scholar and received an LL.M. at NYU School of Law in 2001.  She is the academic coordinator of the Human Rights Center at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses.

Mr. Chang is a recent J.S.D. graduate from New York University School of Law, he is also a Lederman/Milbank Law and Economics Fellow and Furman Center Doctoral Candidate Research Associate. Mr. Chang received an LL.M. degree at the NYU in 2006, where he was a Law and Economics Fellow. His current academic interests are in the fields of property law, land use regulation, constitutional law, and administrative law. He uses economic analysis of law as his major academic approach.

Before coming to NYU, Mr. Chang has earned LL.B. and LL.M. degrees at National Taiwan University and has passed the bar. In the span of seven years of legal studies, he has published a dozen articles in leading academic journals, covering a wide range of legal fields, such as property law, constitutional law, administrative law, contract, torts, insurance law, medical law, copyright law, criminal law, and international trade law. Due to his academic performance, Mr. Chang received the Presidential Awards (1997 and 1998); he was also chosen as Outstanding College Youth (2003). His master's thesis, dealing with food and drug regulations in Taiwan, was awarded the Best Master's Thesis in 2003 by Ministry of Health.

Mr. Chang has had some experiences with prestigious law firms in Taiwan and served as a law assistant at the International Trade Commission. In addition, Mr. Chang was a co-scriptwriter and co-lyricist of a popular musical Butterfly Lovers, staged at the National Theater Hall in 2003. He was also a pro bono legal consultant for several musicians and performing arts groups.

Mr. Chang's scholarship appears, or will appear, in Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, among others. Since 2009, Yun-chien is an assistant research professor at Institutum Iurisprudentia, Academia Sinica. More information is available online.

Ruth Beltzer Dagan
Israel

Ms. Beltzer Dagan's J.S.D. research focused on market-based instruments for pollution control and particularly, on emissions trading systems and elements of their practical design. She is an attorney with ten years of practical experience in corporate practice and commercial litigation in Israel and in New York. She first became interested in environmental law while working on a major environmental litigation in Israel and decided to pursue a graduate degree in the field in the United States. After completing an M.S. degree in Environmental Management at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, she joined the LL.M. program at the Law School, concentrating her studies in environmental law and policy. Within the program, she has researched such topics as environmental risk management of financial institutions and economic instruments for the control of pollution from transportation. She then joined the Law School's J.S.D. program.

The focus of Ms. Beltzer Dagan's dissertation was the design and practical implementation of an emissions trading system for air pollution control in Israel. In addition to theories of trading systems design, her research draws upon domestic cases in which practical experience was gained from implementation of trading mechanisms. The goal of the dissertation was to determine, based upon global experience in emissions trading, the feasibility of emissions trading in Israel. She currently resides in Israel. She is an adjunct lecturer at Tel-Aviv University School of Law and teaches a course on Business Aspects of Environmental Law.

Olivia Dixon
Australia

Olivia Dixon is a J.S.D. student from Australia, specializing in corporate finance law. Olivia graduated first in her law class from the University of Technology, Sydney, in 2002. In addition, she received a B.Com in Finance and Economics from Bond University in 1997 and an LL.M. (International Legal Studies) from NYU School of Law in 2005. Olivia has extensive experience in corporate finance and securities law, most recently as a corporate finance attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York. Before becoming an attorney in 2003, Olivia worked as an analyst for Ernst & Young Corporate Finance and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Australia's SEC equivalent). She is currently writing her dissertation on the impact of hedge fund activism on corporate governance under the supervision of Professor Stephen Choi.

Robert Dufresne
Canada

Mr. Dufresne is a J.S.D. graduate from Canada, specializing in international law. His academic interests include public international law, international law of human rights, the law of the use of force, history and theory of international law, and globalization. His dissertation focuses on the involvement of foreign corporations in commercial transactions embedded in internal or transboundary conflicts and examines the forms of responsibility under international law entailed thereby. It deals for instance with the extractive industry's exploitation of resources located in regions under guerrilla control (e.g. as has occurred in Liberia or the Democratic Republic of the Congo) or in close collaboration with state authorities of an oppressive regime. He studies under the supervision of Professor Benedict Kingsbury.

Mr. Dufresne holds an LL.B/B.C.L. (Distinction) from McGill University in Montreal. After having clerked with Justice André Brossard of the Quebec Court of Appeal, he graduated on top of NYU School of Law's LL.M (International Legal Studies) program in 2000. In 2000-2001, he served as a law clerk with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands. Mr. Dufresne has also worked as a research assistant for Professor Alain Pellet during the 2001 session of the International Law Commission. He has recently published articles on international IP rights regimes and distributive justice, as well as on the difficulty to attach international legal responsibility to oil corporations more or less directly involved in patterns of organized violence instrumental to their activities.  

Adi Gillat
Israel

Ms. Gillat is a J.S.D. graduate from New York University School of Law. Her main area of academic interest is intellectual property law and innovation policy. Her dissertation focused on international intellectual property law, and specifically examined the possibility and desirability of global regulatory competition in the intellectual property field, proposing a critique of the modern trend towards global substantive harmonization of international intellectual property laws from the perspective of regulatory competition theory.

Ms. Gillat received her LL.M. from NYU School of Law in 2002, and is the recipient of the Flora S. and Jacob L. Newman Award for Distinction in the Trade Regulation Program. Her Paper "Compulsory Licensing to Regulated Licensing: Effects on the Conflict Between Innovation and Access in the Pharmaceutical Industry," presented originally at the New York University Colloquium on Innovation Policy, won the 2002 Fox-Kiser Annual Writing Competition in Law, Science & Medicine. Ms. Gillat also holds an LL.B. (1993) from Tel-Aviv University Law School, where she served as a member on the editorial board Iyunai-Mishapt, the Tel-Aviv University Law Review.

Ms. Gillat has extensive experience in private practice, serving as an associate with prominent Israeli and United States law-firms, most recently with Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in Washington D.C., United States, and Fischer Behar Chen & Co., of Tel-Aviv, Israel. Focusing her practice on intellectual property and trade regulation, Ms. Gillat represented and counseled major Israeli and United States companies in a wide range of intellectual property litigation matters as well as diverse corporate work with an emphasis on licensing and collaboration transactions. After graduating from Tel-Aviv University Law School, Ms. Gillat also clerked for Justice Bilha Gilo'or who, at present, is the Chief Justice of the Haifa Circuit Court of Appeals, Israel.

Juan Gonzalez
Argentina

Mr. Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu specializes in constitutional theory and judicial politics. He received his first law degree from Universidad Nacional de La Plata School of Law, Argentina (1999), and completed his LL.M. degree at NYU School of Law (2003).

He completed his J.S.D. degree at NYU in 2012. His doctoral dissertation focused on constitutional adjudication in Latin America. It combined normative and institutional theory with an empirical study of high courts in Argentina and Colombia, employing both quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Since 2004 to August 2007, Mr. Gonzalez-Bertomeu worked for the Asociacion por los Derechos Civiles (ADC), a leading NGO based in Buenos Aires. He directed therein a program devoted to justice reform, which monitored the federal Supreme Court, as well as some local Supreme Courts.

Mr. Gonzalez-Bertomeu has lectured on constitutional law and legal philosophy at various Argentine schools, including the Universidad de Palermo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and Universidad de Buenos Aires, and is now lecturing at Universidad de San Andrés. He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Universidad de Palermo’s Law Journal.

Kirsty Gover
New Zealand

Kirsty Gover is a recent graduate of the J.S.D. Program, where she was an IILJ Graduate Scholar and New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Fellow. Her dissertation is entitled: “Constitutionalizing Tribalism: States, Tribes and Membership Governance in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.” Kirsty received her B.A./LL.B., with honors, from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and her LL.M. from Columbia University, United States. She was a Columbia University School of Law Human Rights Fellow and James Kent Scholar, and was the first full-time Institute Fellow at NYU Law School's Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ). Kirsty was a Senior Advisor and then consultant to the New Zealand government on international and domestic policy on indigenous peoples, and taught in this field at the University of Canterbury Law School. Her research and publications address the law, policy and political theory of indigenous self-governance and self-constitution.  In 2009, she became a senior lecturer in law at the University of Melbourne Law School.

Colin Grey
Canada

Colin Grey received his LL.B. in 2003 from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, graduating with the silver medal and the Dean's Key for excellence in extracurricular activities of an academic nature. Since graduation, he has worked at a major business law firm in Toronto and clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He completed his LL.M. in General Studies at the NYU School of Law.

Mr. Grey's teaching interests are in administrative law and immigration and refugee law. His J.S.D. thesis explored the requirements of distributive justice in the immigration law domain.

Omer Kimhi
Israel

Mr. Kimhi received an LL.B magna cum laude from the Tel-Aviv University in 1998. In addition, he has a B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, and an M.B.A. majoring in finance and accounting, magna cum laude, both from Tel-Aviv University. He completed an LL.M. in Corporation Law from New York University School of Law. Mr. Kimhi wrote a doctoral dissertation on the legal aspects of municipal insolvency.

Eran Lempert
Israel

Mr. Lempert's research focused on the taxation of cross-border transactions and on domestic and international tax policy issues. In 2003, Mr. Lempert joined the faculty of NYU School of Law as an acting assistant professor where he taught mainly in the areas of corporate taxation and tax policy. Currently, he is practicing tax law with Skadden, Arps.

Doreen Lustig
Israel

Doreen Lustig joined the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law in the fall of 2012.

She earned her J.S.D. and LL.M. from NYU Law School and LL.B. and BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Tel-Aviv University. Lustig teaches and researches in the fields of international law, legal history and political theory. She is a recipient of a Hauser
scholarship. During the summer of 2006 she served as an IILJ intern at the UN International Law Commission in Geneva. During her J.S.D studies she worked as a teaching assistant for the Advanced International Law Course taught by professor Benedict Kingsbury. Prior
to her graduate studies Lustig served as a law clerk to Justice E. Rivlin of the Israeli Supreme Court.

Ms. Lustig is the author of The Nature of the Nazi State and the Question of International Criminal Responsibility of Corporate Officials at Nuremberg: Franz Neumann's Behemoth at the Industrialist Trials 43 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 965 (2011) and co-author of Displacement and Relocation from Protected Areas: International Law Perspectives on Rights, Risks and Resistance', Conservation and Society 4 (2006), 404-418 (with Benedict Kingsbury). Her research areas are the history and theory of international law, and more broadly political and legal theory. Her dissertation, The Business of International Law:1870 -1954, traces the history and theory of international legal attitudes to business enterprises

Sagit Mor
Israel

Ms. Mor is a J.S.D. graduate from NYU School of Law and an Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertaion explored the role of the differentiated structure of disability benefits in the scheme of ableism in Israeli society. Her areas of academic interst include disability legal studies, disability critique of Israeli society, law and social change, and social welfare law. Her article "Between Charity, Welfare, and Warfare: Privileges and Neglect in the Politics of Disability Policy, A Disabilities Legal Studies Analysis" was published in Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (winter 2006).

Ms. Mor holds an LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University and an LL.M. from NYU School of Law. She is also admitted to the Israeli bar. She clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, Prof. Aharon Barak, worked as an attorney in Bizchut, a disability rights organization, and was also involved in various human rights activities in Israel and New York.

Arianne Renan Barzilay is a J.S.D. graduate from NYU School of Law. Her scholarly interests include: law and society, feminist legal theory, regulation of labor and the family, and constitutional and administrative law. Her dissertation focused on the role of women reformers in the rise of the American regulatory state, and in particular in the regulation and administration of women in the marketplace and in the family.

Prior to receiving an LL.M. from NYU School of Law, she graduated magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University (LL.B.), clerked for Israel's Supreme Court Justice, T. Or, and worked as a litigation associate at a prominent Israeli law firm. She has been a research and teaching assistant both at Tel Aviv University and at NYU School of Law. She is fluent in Hebrew, English, French and Romanian.

Arie Rosen
Israel

Arie Rosen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Jean Monnet Center at New York University and the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I.CON). Arie completed his J.S.D. at New York University School of Law in summer 2012. His dissertation deals with relations of legal authority within the modern state, and the way such relations have shaped controversies in legal theory and practice.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Arie completed an LL.M. at NYU as an Arthur T. Vanderbilt scholar, and received undergraduate degrees in law and in philosophy from Tel Aviv University.
 
arie.rosen@law.nyu.edu

Yair Sagy
Israel

Yair Sagy, a former Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU School of Law, specializes in legal history, American and comparative administrative law, and legal theory, in particular critical theory. His doctoral dissertation explored various models of administrative regulation that have been offered in the past 150 years in the United States with a view to legitimizing agencies' encroachments on civil rights. Specifically, the dissertation critically analyses the pivotal "model of expertise," which had its heyday during the Progressive Era, although its dominance is still felt today in administrative law jurisprudence.

Mr. Sagy completed his LL.B. degree at the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1996. He practiced law for three years, participating in the presentation of landmark petitions to the Supreme Court of Israel. In 2002, he graduate from Tel Aviv University School of History, receiving an M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, summa cum laude. He subsequently completed his LL.M. degree at NYU School of Law.

Roy Schoendorf
Israel

Mr. Schoendorf came to the J.S.D. program of NYU Law School from Tel-Aviv, Israel. He wrote his dissertation – "A Theory of International Criminal Law" - under the supervision of Professor Theodor Meron. His academic interests focus on public international law, in particular international criminal law, history and theory of international law and international humanitarian law. In the course of his studies at NYU, Mr. Schoendorf was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship, the Hauser Scholarship and various scholarships of New York University. He published an article entitled "Armed Conflicts between States and Non-State Actors: Is There A Need for A New Legal Regime?" in the New York University Journal of Law and Politics. In addition, a commentary he authored on a number of ICTR decisions will soon be published in the Series Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals.

Mr. Schoendorf graduated first from his law class from Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in 1995. He also received a bachelor's degree in economics summa cum laude in the same year. In 1999, he received a master's degree in law and economics from Tel-Aviv University, magna cum laude. He then served for more than six years as senior legal advisor in the international law department of the Israeli Defense Forces Military Advocate General Unit, where he earned officer course honors and an award for excellence. He took an active part in the Middle East peace negotiations, representing the Israeli government in various peace negotiations with Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. Mr. Schoendorf was a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Preparatory Commission on the establishment of the International Criminal Court. He also interned with Judge Eric Moese, the current President of the ICTR; participated in the summer colloquium in International Criminal Law of the Hague Academy of International Law; and authored a report for the Israeli Government on the Israeli-Palestinian permanent status water negotiations. Finally, he spent the summer of 2004 working on international law cases, as a summer associate for Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.

In January 2010, Mr. Schoendorf was appointed Director of the Department of Special International Affairs at the Israeli Ministry of Justice, with responsibility within the State Attorney's Office for public international law and litigation, including matters involving international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

Eran Shamir-Borer
Israel

Mr. Shamir-Borer received his LL.B. degree, cum laude, in 1998 from Tel Aviv University, Israel, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Israel Journal of Criminal Justice ('Plilim'). In 2004 he received his LL.M. degree, cum laude, from the same institution. He also holds an LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law.

From 1998 to 2004 Mr. Shamir-Borer served as an officer (presently at the rank of a Major) in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General Corps in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In this capacity, he provided legal counseling to IDF headquarters and government offices on matters relating to international law and participated in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. In his last position, Mr. Shamir-Borer was Head of Foreign Relations and Special Projects Section, in which capacity he negotiated agreements with foreign militaries and was in charge of the legal liaison between IDF and international organizations. In 2003 Mr. Shamir-Borer was a delegate to the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and a member of the Drafting Committee.

Mr. Shamir-Borer is the recipient of several awards and scholarships, among them the Tel Aviv University Outstanding Students Scholarship, the E. David Fischman Scholarship, the Henri Glassberg Award for Volunteering Students, and the IDF Military Advocate General's Award for Excellence.

Mr. Shamir-Borer obtained the degree of J.S.D. at NYU School of Law. His research addressed administrative legal aspects of international law, a topic which he developed in his International Law Thesis for LL.M. in International Legal Studies at NYU, entitled "Taming of the Military Decision-Maker?: Administrative Legal Norms in the Laws of Armed Conflict."

Ming-Hsi Sung
Taiwan

Mr. Sung was a Taiwanese government-sponsored student doing research on criminal law enforcement. He is a member of the Goldstock Criminal Lunch Seminar and the Hoffinger Criminal Law Colloquium at NYU. He is interested in comparative law, law and culture, East Asian law, indigenous law, and international law and politics.

Mr. Sung graduated from the Department of Law at National Taiwan University with an LL.B in 1992, and the National Cheng-Chi University Graduate Institute of Law with an LL.M. in 1994. From 1994 to 1996, he served his mandatory enlistment, with the rank of Second Lieutenant, as a Clerk in the Court Martial of Army, Central Regiment in Taichung, Taiwan. Before joining NYU in 2000, he served at Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunication in Taipei, Taiwan.

Arun Thiruvengadam
India

Mr. Thiruvengadam completed B.A., LL.B (Hons.) and LL.M degrees from the National Law School of India, Bangalore in 1995 and 2001 respectively. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Ahmadi at the Supreme Court of India, and practiced before the courts in Delhi for two years. In 2002, he completed an LL.M. in Public Service Law from NYU School of Law, and is a J.S.D. graduate. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore, where he taught a course on Public Law.

Mr. Thiruvengadam's research interests are in the fields of constitutional theory, comparative constitutional law, Indian public law, law and development and legal education. In his doctoral dissertation, he focused on the phenomenon of the citation and use of foreign judicial decisions in domestic constitutional adjudication. By studying this practice in six common law jurisdictions, he seeks to explore differences in underlying conceptions of constitutionalism and constitutional interpretation in these jurisdictions. Based on this analysis, he posits that there are two dominant models of constitutionalism which exist in the contemporary common law world, and explains how understanding the differences between and among these models leads to a fuller appreciation of the dynamics of constitutional adjudication, and poses new research questions for constitutional theorists.

Jean Thomas
Canada

Jean is a graduate of the J.S.D. program. Her main academic interest is in the area of legal philosophy, and in rights theory in particular. Her doctoral dissertation explored the possibility of human rights enforcement in private litigation, and the relationship between human rights and private obligations. She is being supervised by Professor Jeremy Waldron. Jean completed her LL.M. at NYU, where she was awarded the John Bruce Moore Award in Law and Philosophy.

Jean received her J.D. at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto, where she received the Blake's Scholars Award and the Tibor Prince Integrity Award. She was also awarded the Tory Fellowship from the Faculty of Law Review. Jean served as a research assistant for Professor Denise Reaume, working in the area of the duty to accommodate under the human rights codes. She also assisted Professor Sophia Moreau, working on a project concerning the theory of discrimination. While in Toronto, Jean also gained experience working in a full-service law firm. Jean was a student in the Faculty of Law's Capstone Academic Program, through which she completed an independent research project in the area of equality rights and tort theory. As part of that project, Jean assisted the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). She was also a member of a LEAF subcommittee in its preparation to make arguments before the Supreme Court of Canada in a case concerning retroactive child support. She recently presented the paper she wrote as a Capstone scholar, "Relations of Dependency: Tort Law and Social Inequality," as part of the Critical Tort Panel at the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' annual conference.

Prior to law school, Jean received a Master of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Toronto, where she was awarded the Mara Roebuck Memorial Graduate Prize in English. Jean received an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree, awarded with distinction, from the University of Toronto. She completed a specialist program in English literature, and was awarded the Regents' Scholarship.

Mu-Te Yu
Taiwan

Mr. Yu holds an LL.B. degree from National Taiwan University, graduating first in his class, and an LL.M. degree from New York University School of Law. At National Taiwan University, he was awarded the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence every semester, the Lin Hsiung-chen Memorial Scholarship (the most competitive general scholarship for Taiwanese undergraduates) and was elected an honorary member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society. He then served as a quartermaster in the Taiwanese army where he received several commendations. Thereafter, he worked as an associate at a premier law firm in Taipei, where his major responsibilities were litigation and arbitration.

Since his undergraduate years, he has won many awards in legal writing competitions and has published articles on issues such as constitutional law, commercial law, inheritance law, and legal services market. Interested in an academic career, he came to NYU for graduate studies as a Hauser Global Scholar. During his LL.M. studies, he focused on corporate law and constitutional law and was awarded the George Colin Award for Distinction in the LL.M. Corporation Law program. He also served as a graduate editor of NYU School of Law's Journal of International Law and Politics for two years. His doctoral research focused on the theory and political practice of absolute entrenchment of the constitution, which may be explicitly stipulated in the constitution or judicially recognized by the courts. He is a member of the New York Bar.