I am a doctoral candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. While conducting my research I am working as a Legal Adviser to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal for the Hon. Charles Brower. My professional and scholarly background is in public international law, including the law of armed conflict, transitional justice, human rights and development, and in private international law, mainly in international arbitration and project finance. My dissertation focuses on the Equator Principles, a voluntary private regulatory regime established by financial institutions to promote sustainable project finance lending to large-scale infrastructure projects. The study will present qualitative and quantitative research on the implementation of the Equator Principles by the signatory institutions, providing a case study of transnational "new governance."
Administrative Law
Law and Society
The Law and Lawyers as Enemy Combatants, University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy (2007)
Public International Law
The Specific Costs of Arbitrary Detention and Torture: A Response to Eugene Kontorovich, Opinio Juris (2007)
Between Law and Culture: Rwanda's Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality, Law and Social Inquiry (2007)
Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Israel/Palestine: Assessing the Applicability of the Truth Commission Paradigm, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (2007)
Returning the Harmonization of EU Asylum Law: Exploring the Need for an EU Asylum Appellate Court, California Law Review (2005)
Case Study: The Israeli Strike Against Hamas Leader Salah Shehadeh, Crimes of War Magazine (2003)
Applies the "proprotionality" analysis of international humanitarian law to the Israeli "targeted assassination" of Hamas...