Luke Aneke is a Fellow for the Human Rights Institute.
Office: Jerome Greene 503
Phone: 212-854-0079
Khiara Bridges ’02 is a Fellow at Columbia Law School’s Center for Reproductive Rights. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is currently conducting research for her dissertation, tentatively titled, " Reproducing Race: An Anthropological Study of Race as a Process. Originally from Miami, Florida, she is a professional ballerina. Her credits include the Morgan Scott Ballet, Ballet Deviare, SeroS Contemporary Dance, Arch Dance Company, Lydia Johnson Dance, ASEID, and the Hartford City Ballet.
Office: Jerome Greene 811/3
Phone: 212-854-9073
Hannah Chang is a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar and Fellow for the Center for Law & Climate Change
Office: Jerome Greene 500/10
Phone: 212-854-7440
Rosa Comella, SJD, Harvard Law School (2004); LLM, Harvard Law School (1996), Doctora en Derecho, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain (1995) specializes in European Union law and governance, comparative administrative law (European Union and USA), regulatory policy analysis, and democratic theory. She is currently working on new governance, transnationalization of administrative law, and experimentalist democracy. She is also part of the EU-wide environmental law think-tank OPAM (Observatorio de Políticas Ambientales). She has taught administrative law at Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Rosa Comella will teach “Current issues in European Union Law” at Columbia Law School in the academic year 2009-2010.
Office: Jerome Greene 813
Phone: 212-854-0096
Kaitlin Cordes is a Leebron Fellow for the Human Rights Institute.
Office: Jerome Greene 811/1
Phone: 212-854-0096
Brett Dakin is the Charles E. Gerber Transactional Studies and Kauffman Legal Research Fellow at Columbia Law School. Prior to joining Columbia, Brett worked as an associate at the international law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where his practice involved international business transactions, with a particular focus on deals that involve intellectual property rights, products and technology. Brett received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Brett has worked as a staff attorney at Lawyers Alliance for New York and as a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. He is also the author of Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos (Asia Books, fourth edition, 2008), based on his experiences working for the government of Laos.
Office: Jerome Greene 519
Phone: 212-854-3600
M. Katherine Baird Darmer (Columbia J.D. 1989), professor of law, Chapman University, is a Senior Fellow in the Gender and Sexuality Law Program and a Scholar-in-Residence. She is a founding board member and legal chair of the Orange County Equality Coalition ("OCEC"), a grassroots organization that formed in the wake of the passage of Proposition 8. She is co-editor, among other books, of MORALITY, JUSTICE and THE LAW and the author of several articles dealing with marriage equality and LGBT rights. She was also a lead co-author of an amicus brief filed before the California Supreme Court in the Prop 8 litigation and recently served as co-counsel in a case against the Newport Mesa Unified School District in a case alleging the failure of the district adequately to protect female and LGBT students. A former Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York where she handled racketeering, narcotics and public corruption cases, Darmer's other scholarship has focused on national security and civil liberties post-9/11.
Erin Delaney is an Academic Fellow at the law school. Her research interests include federalism, comparative constitutionalism, citizenship, and the institutional design of legal systems. She received an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.Phil./Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation, Promoting Federation: The Role of a Constitutional Court in Federalist States, received the 2004 Walter Bagehot Prize from the United Kingdom Political Studies Association for the best dissertation in government and political administration. She graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2007, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Law Review. After law school, Erin clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the Second Circuit and for Justice David H. Souter at the Supreme Court.
Office: Jerome Greene Hall 544
Phone: 212-854-2305
Abbe Gluck comes to the Columbia Academic Fellows program from senior staff positions in the Administrations of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. From 2004-2006, she served as Senior Counsel to the NYC Corporation counsel, Deputy Counsel to the NYC Charter Revision Commission, and Chief of Staff and Counsel to the NYC Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services. In 2007, she was appointed by Governor Corzine to serve as the Senior Advisor and Special Counsel to the Attorney General, where she supervised the Divisions of Elections, Consumer Affairs, Charities and Affirmative Litigation, as well as internet policy and multistate amicus and Supreme Court practice. Prior to her government work, Gluck clerked for then-Chief Judge Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She also worked as a litigation associate at Paul Weiss, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brooklyn Law School. Gluck’s research interests include legislation and statutory interpretation, federalism, state legal actors in the federal system, and the role of state and federal government in health matters, particularly as related to the end of life . She received both her B.A. and J.D. from Yale.
Office: Jerome Greene 543
Phone: 212-854-0679
Email: agluck@law.columbia.edu
Lital Helman is a Fellow for the Kernochan Center for Law, Media & the Arts.
Office: Jerome Greene 811/6
Phone: 212-854-5189
Jason James is a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar and Fellow for the Center for Law and Climate Change.
Office: Jerome Greene 528
Lise Johnson is a Fellow for the Careers in Law Teaching program.
Office: Jerome Greene 811/5
Phone: 212-854-2603
Sosanya M. Jones will receive her Ed. D. from Teachers College in May 2009. This year she is a Research Staff Associate for the Law
School's Center for Institutional & Social Change. Her research centers on higher education public policy and affirmative action. She has written about racism in higher education.
Office: Little Warren Hall 303
Phone: 212-854-5689
Susan Maples ’07 is Revenue Watch Fellow with Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute this academic year. She has spearheaded several projects to improve transparency in oil, gas and mining contracts by nations throughout the world.
Office: Jerome Greene 811/7
Phone: 212-854-5689
Bradford McCormick is a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar and Fellow for the Center for Law and Climate Change.
Office: Jerome Greene 528
Phone: 212-854-2372
Saira Mohamed ’05, is a James Milligan Fellow at the law school. She previously served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and Attorney-Adviser for human rights and refugees in the U.S. Department of State. Her research interests are in the area of public international law, international criminal law, and post-conflict justice and reconstruction. At Columbia, Mohamed was Executive Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review, a James Kent Scholar, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and recipient of the David Berger Memorial Prize for academic excellence in international law. She also received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Prior to joining the State Department, Mohamed clerked for the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earned her B.A. in history and international studies, cum laude and with distinction, from Yale College.
Office: Jerome Greene 811/4
Phone: 212-854-1704
Email: saira.mohamed@law.columbia.edu
Aliki Nicolaides is a post doctoral Research Fellow for the Center for Institutional & Social Change She received her Ph.D. at Teachers College. Previously, she founded not- for-profit enterprises in Singapore to build the capacity of women in leadership positions in government, non-profit and civil society sectors. She continues her work with emerging civic leaders in the United States and in the Middle East, working with practitioners and scholars in a variety of contexts.
Office: Little Warren Hall 303
Phone: 212-854-2937
Bertrall Ross is a Kellis Parker Academic Fellow at the law school. His research interests are in the areas of Law of Democracy, Statutory Interpretation, and Sentencing, in which he broadly focuses on identifying the meaning and importance of democratic participation, inclusion, and input in various governing institutions. Bertrall received his B.A., summa cum laude from the University of Colorado in 1998. He then studied for two years as a Marshall Scholar at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics, receiving his M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy in 2001. After his two years in London, he obtained an M.P.A. in Economics and Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 2003, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2006. Prior to law school, Bertrall worked at the African Studies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., the European Commission, and the United States Agency for International Development in Manila, Philippines. During law school he worked as a summer intern at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and a summer associate at Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin, and Demain. Most recently, he clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Myron Thompson of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Bertrall’s prior publications include Regulations Confronting Trade in Services, in REGIONALISM, MULTILATERALISM AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: THE RECENT EXPERIENCE (2003), Reconciling the Booker Conflict: A Substantive Sixth Amendment in a Real Offense Sentencing System, 4 CARDOZO PUB. L. POL’Y & ETHICS J. 725 (2006), as well as contributions to the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CAMPAIGNS, ELECTIONS, AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR and the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
Office: Jerome Greene 542
Phone: 212-854-8388
Email: bross@law.columbia.edu
Naureen Shah is a Fellow for the Human Rights Institute.
Office: Jerome Greene 503
Phone: 212-854-2795 Eva E. Subotnik '03 is an Intellectual Property Fellow with the Kernochan Center for Law, Media & the Arts, focusing on issues relating to authors' rights and copyright. Before joining the Kernochan Center, she was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where she represented entertainment and telecommunications industry clients, and a law clerk to the Hon. Bruce M. Selya of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the Hon. Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York. Eva is a graduate of Columbia College, where she majored in philosophy, and of Columbia Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review, a James Kent Scholar, and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Office: Jerome Greene 811/2
Phone: 212-854-9796
JoAnn Kamuf Ward is a Fellow for the Human Rights Institute.
Office: Jerome Greene 503
Phone: 212-854-0009
Chuck Whitehead is a Fellow for the Transactional Studies Program.
Mark Wu Mark Wu is an Academic Fellow at the law school. His research interests include international trade, international law, intellectual property, and Chinese law. Most recently, he clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Previously, he served as the Director of Intellectual Property for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the White House, where he was the lead U.S. trade negotiator on intellectual property for several trade agreements. He has also worked as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Co. and as an economist for the World Bank in China and for the United Nations Development Programme in Namibia. Mark received his J.D. from Yale Law School. In addition, he holds a M.Sc. from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship; an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College; and a Diploma from Kyoto University, where he studied on a Monbusho Scholarship.
Office: JGH545
Phone: 212-854-8545
Email: mwu@law.columbia.edu
