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Ariel Meyerstein
Year: Advanced to Candidacy (ABD) - JSP
Website: http://works.bepress.com/ariel_meyerstein/Education:B.A., Columbia University (cum laude) in English & Comparative Literature & Human Rights (2002)
J.D., Boalt Hall (University of California, Berkeley School of Law) (2006)
Private International Law (regulation of foreign direct investment, international arbitration)
Public International Law (international justice, international humanitarian law, human rights)
International Relations (global governance, theories of accountability)
Political Philosophy and Theory (sovereignty and rights)
Economic Sociology
Theories of Regulation
Mellon Discovery Fellow, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 2005-08
Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Writing Prize, 2006
Law & Society Association Graduate Student Writing Prize, 2006
American Jurisprudence Award, Social Justice Writing Seminar, 2005
American Jurisprudence Award, Law in Modern Social Thought, 2005
American Jurisprudence Award, Refugee Law, 2004
Dean�s Fellowships
Selected Conference Presentations:
�Rwanda�s Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality.� Law & Society Assoc, 2005
�Designing an Israeli-Palestinian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.� Paper presented at the Transitional Justice Experts Working Group, American Society of International Law Meeting, New England School of Law, November 8, 2002
�On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Truth Commissions.� Paper presented at the International Graduate Student Conference on Transitional Justice, Columbia University, September 26-27, 2002
Research:
Research Assistant - Prof. David Caron, Fall 2005 - Spring 2007
The Asia Foundation, San Francisco, CA, October 2006�May 2007
Other:
Student Liaison Committee for Faculty Hiring, Co-Chairman, 2004-05
Faculty Hiring Committee for JSP Political Theory Candidate, 2006
CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW, Publishing Editor, 2005-06
BERKELEY J. OF INT�L LAW, Assistant Editor (Submissions Committee), 2003-04
Legal Adviser - Hon. Charles Brower, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (present)
Law Clerk - Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, San Diego, CA, (2007-2008)
Legal Volunteer - Reprieve, London, UK (summer 2007)
Associate - Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP (summer 2005)
Judicial Intern - U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Tanzania (summer 2004)
My dissertation focuses on the intersection of public and private international law and international development. I am studying the compliance of private actors with private regimes of global governance, particularly the Equator Principles, which promote sustainable lending practices among private banks that finance major infrastructure projects.
Curriculum Vitae