Below you will find a snapshot of Harvard Law School LL.M. program alumni who are or have been working in the public interest field across a variety of practice settings. This table may include graduates of the LL.M. program who started in the public sector, but have since moved on to the private sector. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list.
Courts and Tribunals
NAME | GRADUATION YEAR | POSITION AND/OR ORGANIZATION | LOCATION |
Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta | 1983 | Lawyer, Constitutional Court of Spain | Madrid, Spain |
Maria Mattioli | 1994 | Federal Judge, Tribunal Regional do Trabalho | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Georgina Mensah-Dalsa | 2005 | Judicial Service of Ghana | Ghana |
Jasper Pauw | 2009 | Co-Counsel, United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT) | Cambodia |
Kate Vigneswaran | 2009 | Legal Officer, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia | The Hague, The Netherlands |
Government
NAME | GRADUATION YEAR | POSITION AND/OR ORGANIZATION | LOCATION |
Francisco Aguilar-Urbina | 1987 | Embassy of the Netherlands in Costa Rica | San Jose, Costa Rica |
Tamara Biolo Soares | 2009 | Head of the Department of Human Rights and Citizenship at Rio Grande do Sul State Government | Porto Alegre, Brazil |
Todd Huntley | 2009 | U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps | Washington, D.C. |
Marc Bentinck | 1981 | Foreign Service Officer, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs | The Hague Area, The Netherlands |
Erik Karlsson Bjork | 2010 | Desk Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Stockholm, Sweden |
International Governmental Organizations (IGOs)
NAME | GRADUATION YEAR | POSITION AND/OR ORGANIZATION | LOCATION |
Mr. Radu Ascinte | 2005 | Counsel, European Investment Bank | Luxembourg |
Solange Alliali | 1988 | Senior Counsel, World Bank | Washington, D.C. |
Sheila Braka-Musiime | 2001 | Senior Counsel, World Bank | Washington, D.C. |
El Cid Butuyan | 2004 | Senior Litigator, World Bank | Washington, D.C. |
Manuela Cuvi | 2003 | Legal Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Rome, Italy |
Alison Davidian | 2010 | Transitional Justice Consultant, United Nations Women Uganda | Kampala, Uganda |
Damien Eastman | 2001 | Senior Counsel, International Monetary Fund | Washington, D.C. |
Martin Goyette | 2001 | Legal Affairs Officer, World Trade Organization | Geneva, Switzerland |
Gabriela Grinsteins | 2012 | Legal Intern, World Bank | Washington, D.C. |
Warda Henning | 2004 | Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Department of Political Affairs | New York, NY |
Enga Kameni | 2010 | Manager, Legal Services, the African Export-Import Bank | Cairo, Egypt |
Richelieu Lomax | 2008 | Integrity Officer, The World Bank | Washington, D.C. |
Stefan Maier | 2007 | Senior Policy Officer, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Belgium, Brussels |
Danielle Malek Roosa | 2005 | Senior Legal Counsel, World Bank | Washington, D.C. |
David Marshall | 2002 | Rule of Law Advisor, The United Nations; Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | New York, NY |
Lorena Sander | 2004 | Policy Consultant, United Nations Development Programme | New York, NY |
Bernardo Weaver | 2010 | Secretary to the Sanctions Committee, Inter-American Development Bank | Washington, D.C. |
Internationally Based Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
NAME | GRADUATION YEAR | POSITION AND/OR ORGANIZATION | LOCATION |
Maria Anzorreguy | 2003 | Legal Adviser, International Organisation of Employers | Geneva, Switzerland |
John Paul Carmona | 2006 | Legal Officer, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Malaria & Tuberculosis | Geneva, Switzerland |
Anna Crowe | 2012 | Henigson Fellow, International Crisis Group (headquarters in Brussels, Belgium) | Bogota, Colombia |
Peter Dunne | 2011 | Legal Advisor, Transgender Equality Network Ireland | Dublin, Ireland |
Emma Fenelon | 2011 | Legal Project Manager, The AIRE Centre | London, England |
Idi Gaparayi | 2006 | Legal Officer, African Capacity Building Foundation | Hararee, Zimbabwe |
Ma Krizna Gomez | 2013 | Satter Fellow, Justice Base (headquarters in London) | Yangon, Burma |
Daphne Lariba Nabila | 2008 | Executive Director, Legal Resources Center (headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa) | Ghana |
Charlotte Leslie | 2012 | Kaufman Fellow, Interights | London, England |
Jennifer MacLeod | 2010 | Co-Director/Co-Founder and Human Rights Lawyer, Lawyers Against Abuse | Johannesburg, South Africa |
Tawanda Mutasah | 2008 | Senior Director for Law & Policy, Amnesty International | London, England |
Ruchi Parekh | 2012 | Kaufman Fellow, Interights | London, England |
Naureen Shameem | 2012 | Kaufman Fellow, Women Living Under Muslim Laws | London, England |
Ishaani Shrivastava | 2012 | Kaufman Fellow, The AIRE Centre | London, England |
Lara Talsma | 2011 | Henigson Fellow, Amnesty International | Mexico City, Mexico |
U.S.-Based Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
NAME | GRADUATION YEAR | POSITION AND/OR ORGANIZATION | LOCATION |
Daniel Auron | 2012 | Program Officer, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU Law School | New York, NY |
Monica Arango | 2010 | Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Center for Reproductive Rights (headquarters in New York, NY) | Bogota, Colombia |
Juan Botero | 1998 | Executive Director, World Justice Project | Washington, D.C. |
Celina Beatriz Melinda de Almeida | 2010 | Kaufman Fellow, Human Rights Watch | New York, NY |
Paul Boyce | 2012 | Legal Consultant, National Center for State Courts | Arlington, VA |
Katja Bratschovsky | 2011 | Sheldon Fellow, Environmental Law Institute | Washington, D.C. |
Alejandra Cárdenas | 2009 | Legal Advisor, Center for Reproductive Rights (headquarters in New York, NY) | Bogota, Colombia |
Alison Cole | 2004 | Legal Officer, Open Society Justice Initiative | New York, NY |
Joanna Erdman | 2006 | Fellow, Information Society Project’s Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, Yale Law School | New Haven, CT |
Amelia Evans | 2011 | Human Rights Lawyer/Board Member, Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity | Cambridge, MA |
Christopher Fomunyoh | 1989 | Senior Associate & Regional Director for Central and West Africa, National Democratic Institute | Washington, D.C. |
Daniela Martinez | 2012 | Legal Advisor, Natural Resources Defense Council, Chile Energy Efficiency Project | Washington, D.C. |
Gabriele Mazzinni | 2011 | Associate Counsel, Millennium Promise | New York, NY |
Julien Savoye | 2012 | Program Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management | Cambridge, MA |
Agata Skora | 2012 | Satter Fellow, International Center for Transitional Justice (headquarters in New York, NY) | Cambodia |
Yana Welinder | 2012 | Legal Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation | San Francisco, CA |