Notes on Contributors

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Christopher A. Beus is a third-year law student at the University of Utah SJ

Quinney College of Law where he has focused his studies on public and private

international law as well as immigration. He received his bachelor’s degree in

International Law from Brigham Young University and has spent signicant

time abroad in both the Middle East and Latin America acting in a variety

of capacities. He currently works as a legal intern for SHIM LAW, a local

immigration rm.

eresa Anne Bodwin is an Associate Editor of M S U

C  L J  A  N R L and

Treasurer of the Environmental Law Society. Currently, she is in her third year

at Michigan State University College of Law. She received her Bachelor’s Degree

in Political Science with a minor in Environmental Science from the University

of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Sophie Clavier, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of International Relations at

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA and is the Chair of the

Department. Professor Clavier teaches several international law courses at

the undergraduate and graduate levels: International Law, Contemporary

International Legal Issues, International Organizations, and International

Criminal Law. Some of her recent articles include Objection Overruled: e

Binding Nature of the International Norm Prohibiting Discrimination Against

Homosexual and Transgendered Individuals (2012); and Marketing War Policies:

e Role of the Media in Constructing Legitimacy (with Laurent El Ghaoui) (2010)

She is also currently involved in a multi disciplinary project using algorithms in

media analysis.

Leah Fiddler received her Master of Social Sciences from the University of

Chicago, and previously studied at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques—Paris, and the

University of Southern California. She served as a research assistant to Dr. Tom

Ginsburg for the Comparative Constitution Project, identifying substantive

and technical changes in various constitutional texts. She currently works in

Washington, D.C.

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International Human

Rights, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Global Studies and

the Balsillie School of International Aairs at Wilfrid Laurier University in