Assistant General Counsel, United States Department of Justice

I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1999 and in 2000, I received a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan's Rackham Graduate School, having specialised in world politics.

Following a year in which I worked at the headquarters of an American presidential campaign and participated in the historic vote recount in Florida during the 2000 presidential election, I enrolled in the University of Michigan Law School where I graduated with a Juris Doctor in 2003.

While there, I was a law clerk in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague where I served on trial teams prosecuting former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and former Serbian politician Vojislav Seselj.

In 2005, I received a Master's degree in Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the University of Vienna, which I completed while as a Fulbright Scholar in Austria.

I am barred in the State of New York and since 2009, I have been a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court.

From 2004-2007, I lived in Europe, having been the recipient of a number of fellowships to permit me to work as a lawyer and policy advisor for European governments, intergovernmental organisations, and the United Nations.

I was a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow at the German Federal Foreign Office where I advised on public international law issues. I was a Fulbright Scholar both to Austria, where I worked at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, and to UNESCO in Paris, where I supported legal initiatives for the restitution of cultural property displaced during World War II and the strengthening of legal protections for cultural heritage.

I was also an attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague where I served on trial teams prosecuting rebel leaders from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

From 2008 to 2012, I was an Assistant General Counsel at the US Department of Defense where I represented the Department in a number of national-security law matters, including litigating a number of the Guantanamo Bay habeas corpus cases in federal court and managing Department of Defense trial teams.

Earlier this year, I joined the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation where I currently advise on national-security policy and legislative matters.

I have participated in conferences in the United States and Europe and have given presentations and trainings on U.S. and public international law and policy issues. I have given numerous career development talks to students and young professionals.

Recently, I helped produce a news story for a US television affiliate that reported on how Europe and the US are responding differently to the worldwide debt crisis. I speak German and French and outside of the law, I enjoy travelling, history and movies.

Research Interests

• US foreign relations law
• Public international law
• National security law
• Humanitarian law and cultural property protection issues
• The law and lawyers in American entertainment