Debevoise & PlimptonAssociate
Oct. 2020 - May. 2024New York, United StatesPractice focus in international disputes, primarily international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and international criminal law, as well as affirmative and defensive asylum cases and civil rights litigation. - Led Public International Law group's internet shutdown as a weapon of war working group.
- Developed expertise in addressing human rights violations during armed conflict and use of litigation as strategy for peace through representation of sovereign clients.
- Drafted court-facing submissions and oral arguments for international courts on behalf of sovereign clients. - Developed evidence for legal claims in international courts. - Drafted fact and research memoranda for sovereign clients.
- Successfully represented asylum applicants from Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, and Afghanistan. - Successfully represented transgender student athletes in challenge to participation ban.