Recent Accomplishments by Our S.J.D.s

Publications and Honors

Sam Bookman

• “Semi-Radical Environmentalism: Nature’s Rights as Political Resources” is forthcoming in the Utah Law Review
• “Defensive Environmental Constitutionalism: American Possibilities” is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
• “Uncertainty and Tension in Constitutional Climate Adjudication” is forthcoming in the German Law Journal.
• “ Demystifying Environmental Constitutionalism” is forthcoming in Environmental Law (2024).
• “Intergenerational Justice in Climate Decision-making’ (co-written with Margaretha Wewerinke Singh) was published in the 2023 volume of the journal Themis.
• Catalytic Climate Litigation: Rights and Statutes 43 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 598 (2023).

Angel Gabriel Cabrera Silva S.J.D. ’24

• “Shared Responsibility: Building a Pathway to Justice for Missing Migrants and Their Families” was published in the Harvard International Law Journal (2023).

Sagnik Das

• “Human Rights after the Cold War: How International Courts Reshaped the Laws of War” won the Best Paper Presentation Award at the 17th Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference in Montreal, Canada (May 2024).

Sannoy Das S.J.D. ’24

• “Bretton Woods I” and “Bretton Woods II”, co-authored with David Singh Grewal, forthcoming in the Elgar Encyclopedia on International Economic Law
• “Liberalization as a Principle of IEL” forthcoming in the Elgar Encyclopedia on International Economic Law.
• “Giving Peace a Chance: Decolonization, Development, and the Foundations of the GATT” was published in the Yale Journal of International Law (2024).
• “Final Balance: Empire, Neoliberalism, and the Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Investment Law,” was published in the Journal of World Investment and Trade (2023).

Kabir Duggal

• The co-authored piece, “The Model Bilateral Investment Treaty for Bosnia and Herzegovina—A New Generation of Investment Protection Policies” is forthcoming in the ICSID Review.
• The co-authored piece, “Diversity and Inclusion (or Lack Thereof) in International Arbitration: Investor-State Arbitration in the Spotlight” is forthcoming in the American Review of International Arbitration.
• Kabir is the editor for two books to be published by Brill Publishing: “U.S. Supreme Court Precedents on Arbitration: Shaping the American Arbitration Law and Practice” and “England & Wales Court Judgments of Arbitration: Shaping English Arbitration Law and Practice.” 
• The co-authored book, “Commentary on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Rules and Regulations” will be published by Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
• “2023 Year in Review: Human Rights and ISDS–Same Play, Different Actors” was published by Kluwer Arbitration Blog
• “Is it Time to Call Last Orders” was published by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  
• Pro-Arbitration Revisited: A Tribute to Professor George Bermann from his Students over the Years (2023)
• International Investment Law and Arbitration in Central Asia (2023) 
• “Recent Trends in Investment Arbitration on the Right to Regulate, Environment, Health and Corporate Social Responsibility: Too Much or Too Little?,” co-authored with Crina Baltag & Riddhi Joshi, in the ICSID Review (forthcoming);
• “All’s Well That Ends Well? Looking at the Future of the Unified Arab Agreement in Light of the Al-Kharafi v Libya Decisions by the Egyptian Courts,” co-authored with Ibrahim Shehata and Ahmed Rasekh, in the ICSID Review (forthcoming).
• Kabir has been included in the European Union Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Panel of Arbitrators, and recently delivered the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Annual Roebuck Lecture (June 2023) and the keynote speech at the inaugural Cornell Law School International Arbitration Symposium (April 2023).

Brenda Dvoskin S.J.D. ’23

• “Expert Governance of Online Speech”  was published in the Harvard International Law Journal (2023)
• “Speaking Back to Sexual Privacy Invasions” was published in the Washington Law Review (2023).

Rabea Eghbariah

• The Ongoing Nakba has been published with The Nation and The NYU Review of Law and Social Change, after it had been solicited, edited, fact-checked, and ultimately denied publication by the Harvard Law Review.
• “An Unarmed Teen was Shot During a Cease-Fire. Israel was Never Held to Account” was published by the New York Times (2023).

Raffaele Felicetti

• “A Study on Central Banks and Social Responsibility: the Case of the ESCB” was published in the Journal of Financial Regulation (2024)

Iqra Saleem Khan

• “Unwilling Co-wives and the Law of Polygamy in Pakistan” was published in the UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law (2023).

Rama Kim

• “Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage in the Legal Periphery: Savigny, Nakagawa, and the Korean Marriage” (forthcoming 2024). The article was awarded the 2023 Colin B. Picker Graduate Prize by the American Society of Comparative Law.

Jacquelene Mwangi

• “Contesting Digital Colonialism Narratives in Africa & Their Framing Effects” is forthcoming. The article is part of a research sprint on the Ethics of Digitalization project hosted by the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development at the University of Johannesburg , the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, and the Berkman Klein Center.

Gilad Mills

• “A Contractual Approach to Social Media Governance,” is forthcoming in the Yale Law & Policy Review (2024).

Leeor Ofer

• “Granting Favors: Insider-Driven Corporate Philanthropy,” was awarded the 2024 Victor Brudney Prize.
• “Control Expropriation via Rights Offers,” was published in the American Business Law Journal (2023).

Nicolás Parra-Herrera

• “Law as Architecture: Mapping Contingency and Autonomy in Twentieth-Century Legal Historiography,” was co-authored with S.J.D. Dan Rohde and published in the Journal of Law and Political Economy (2023).
• “Three Approaches to Proportionality in American Legal Thought: A Genealogy” was published in the book Proportionality in Private Law, edited by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (2023).
• The book “Judicial Dispute Resolution: New Roles for Judges in Ensuring Justice” was co-authored with M.I.T. Professor, Lawrence Susskind and Canadian Justice (ret.) William Tilleman (2023).
• “A Road Not Taken in Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mary Parker Follett and the Emergence of Proto-ADR” is forthcoming in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution (2024-25).
• “Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching” from the Harvard Kennedy School (2024).
• Co-produced with S.J.D. alumni Jorge González-Jácome the first podcast in Spanish on Law, Film, and Humanities, El Derecho por fuera del Derecho (2020-2024).

Nitsan Plitman

• “Harnessing Religious Arguments for the Benefit of Trans Advocacy: A New Approach,” was published in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2023).

Daniel Rohde

• “Law as Architecture: Mapping Contingency and Autonomy in Twentieth-Century Legal Historiography, co-authored with fellow S.J.D. candidate Nicolás Parra-Herrera, was published in volume 3 of the Journal of Law and Political Economy (2023).
• “The Bank of the People, 1835-1840: Law and Money in Upper Canada” is forthcoming in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal.

Guy Rubinstein

• “The Prosecutor-Oriented Exclusionary Rule” was published in the Boston College Law Review (2024).
• “Minimalist Criminal Courts” is forthcoming in the Washington University Law Review (2024).
• Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow in Ethics at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (2024-2025).
• “The Influences of Proportionality in Private Law on Remedies in American Constitutional Criminal Procedure” in a book edited by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (2023).
• Guy has also contributed multiple posts to the Global Anticorruption Blog (edited by Professor Matthew Stephenson of Harvard Law School).

Eliel Sanchez Acevedo

• “Law and Policy in Post-Colorblind Mexico: Lessons from the United States’ Multicultural Experience” was published in the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs (2024).

Shani Shisha S.J.D. ’24

• “Infringement Episodes” is forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review (2024).
• “The Folklore of Copyright Procedure” was published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (2023).

Shelly Simana S.J.D. ’24

• “Malleable Morality: Re-Shaping Moral Intuitions in Health Policymaking,” is forthcoming in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.  
• “Genetic Property Governance” in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology (2023)

Roberto Tallarita S.J.D. ‘23

• “The Limits of Portfolio Primacy” was published in volume 76 of the Vanderbilt Law Review (2023)
• “Fiduciary Deadlock” was published in the University of Pennsylvania Review Online (2023).

Cem Tecimer

• Afterlives of Constitutions, co-authored with Jason Mazzone, will be published by Harvard University Press (forthcoming 2026).

Tom Zur

• “How do People Learn from Not Being Caught? An Experimental Investigation of an ‘Occurrence Bias’,” was awarded the Göran Skogh prize for the best paper written by a young scholar. The prize was presented by the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) for her LL.M. paper, which she wrote under the co-supervision of Professors Oren Bar-Gill and Kathryn Spier.

Teaching Appointments

Angel Cabrera Silva S.J.D. ‘24

• Angel has joined The University of Washington Tacoma as an acting assistant professor in the department of politics, philosophy and public affairs, division of School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences.

Sannoy Das S.J.D. ‘24

• Sannoy has joined Vanderbilt Law School as an assistant professor of law.

Kabir Duggal

• Kabir was a visiting professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá and University of São Paulo in Brazil teaching international arbitration in 2023. 

Iqra Khan

• Iqra has joined Northeastern University School of Law for Summer 2024 to teach an upper-level course on Sexuality, Gender and the Law.

Dan Rohde

• Dan has joined Windsor University Faculty of Law as an assistant professor of law.

Shani Shisha S.J.D. ‘24

• Shani has joined SMU Dedman School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

Shelly Simana S.J.D. ‘24

• Shelly has joined Boston College Law School as an assistant professor of law.

Roberto Tallarita S.J.D. ‘23

• Roberto has joined Harvard Law School as an assistant professor of law.

Zhong Xing Tan S.J.D. ‘23

• Zhong has joined the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law as an associate professor of law.

Guanchi Zhang S.J.D. ‘23

• Guanchi has joined Vermont Law and Graduate School as an assistant professor of law.