IILA’s team is comprised of international lawyers and other subject matter legal experts. IILA’s legal advisers have experience working in international law institutions as well as in providing legal advice and training to international lawyers from small and developing countries.

IILA is led by individuals from across all regions of the globe, and also works with law firms and universities who provide extra assistance on a pro bono basis.

 
 

board of directors

A group of highly experienced practitioners, and individuals drawn from international law, politics, philanthropy and the private sector, to provide oversight and advice on the direction and management of IILA


Anthony Gabriele, President
Senior Vice President, SoundCloud

Zara Hayes, Treasurer
Independent documentary director, producer, and screenwriter

Priya Mehta, Secretary
Assistant Dean, Strategy and External Relations, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health

EMERITUS MEMBERS

Adiya Dixon
General Counsel, Potbelly; Founder, Yubi Beauty

Erin Wiggins
General Counsel; TS Tech Americas, Inc. 

Viren Mascarenhas
Partner, King & Spalding LLP

 
 
 

advisory council

A globally diverse group of 30 of the world’s leading international law experts, covering a wide range of subjects of international law, providing substantive guidance on topics and issues our State partners seek support on

 

Professor E. Tendayi Achiume
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

Professor Emeritus Philip Allott
University of Cambridge; former Legal Adviser in the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office 

Professor José Enrique Alvarez
NYU School of Law, former Legal Adviser in the US Department of State

Professor Dan Bodansky
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; former Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State

Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
Geneva University School of Law, Matrix Chambers; former Senior Counsel to the World Bank

Professor Emeritus/Judge Lucius Caflisch
Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva; former Member of the International Law Commission; former Legal Advisor of Foreign Ministry of Switzerland; former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights

Professor Yacouba Cissé
University of Ottawa; Member of the International Law Commission

Professor Lori Damrosch
Columbia Law School, former Legal Adviser in the US Department of State

Professor Chiara Giorgetti
University of Richmond School of Law

Judge Abdul Koroma
Former Judge of the International Court of Justice; former Member of the International Law Commission

Professor Makane Moïse Mbengue
Geneva University School of Law

Ms. Kate MacKintosh
Executive Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law; Fmr. Deputy Registrar for the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia; former Head of Humanitarian Affairs and International Law, Médecins Sans Frontières

Mr. Vaclav Mikulka
Former Member of the International Law Commission; former Director of the Codification Division, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations

Associate Professor Fabio Morosini
School of Law, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Justice Sandile Ngcobo
Former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Dean/Professor André Nollkaemper
University of Amsterdam

Professor Obiora Okafor
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University; United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity; former Chairperson of the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee

Dr. Nilufer Oral
Istanbul Bilgi University; Member of the International Law Commission

Dean/Professor Mónica Pinto
University of Buenos Aires School of Law, Administrative tribunals of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, former Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, former Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Guatemala and Chad

Mr. Richard Rogers
Global Diligence; former Principal Defender at the United Nations Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; former Head of Legal Support for the Appeals Chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia

Professor Olivier de Schutter
Leuven University; United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights; former Member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Professor Yuval Shany
Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Member of the Human Rights Committee

Professor/Judge Tullio Treves
University of Milan, former International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Professor Frans Viljoen
University of Pretoria

Professor Jennifer Welsh
European University Institute; former Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect

Professor Andreas Zimmermann
University of Potsdam; Member of the Human Rights Committee

EMERITUS MEMBERS

Judge Kevin Riordan
Chief Judge of the Court Martial and Judge Advocate General; former Director-General of the Defence Legal Services, New Zealand Defence Force; Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington

Mr. Niall Meagher
Executive Director, Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL)

Judge Georg Nolte
Judge, International Court of Justice; Professor, Humboldt University; former Member of the International Law Commission

Judge Dire Tladi
Judge, International Court of Justice; Professor, Pretoria University; former Member of the International Law Commission; former Legal Advisor to the South Africa Department of International Relations

Judge Sarah Cleveland
Judge, International Court of Justice; Professor, Columbia Law School; former Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee; former Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State

 
 
 

Staff

Daniel Stewart, Founder and Executive Director
Daniel founded IILA in 2017, after many years working in international law at the United Nations. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia universities, Daniel has worked at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; the European Court of Human Rights; the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Supreme Court of Israel; and the International Court of Justice. He has regularly taught courses on various aspects of international law, at Columbia, Cardozo and St. John's law schools and at the New School.



FORMER STAFF MEMBERS

Elena Marchenko
Shirin Chua, Legal Director

Sohini Chatterjee, Legal Adviser

Sravya Movva, Legal Adviser

FELLOWS

Farah El Barnachawy (2023-2024)

Mahaliana Ravaloson (2023-2024)

Kaiqiang Zhang (2023)

Audrey Danthinne (2023)

Nax Hamouche (2022)

Ali Dawud (2022)
Sagnik Das (2022)

Julia Macedo (2022)

Julio Veiga-Berezza (2022)
Taher Benany (2021)

Janet Kim (2021)

Caroline Thomas (2021)

Lara Demirci (2020-2021)
Anusha Madhusudhan (2020-2021)

Sravya Movva (2019-2020)

Alisha Mathew (2019-2020)

Harout Ekmanian (2019)

Tamar Sarjveladze (2019)

Kevin Minofu (2018)

INTERNS

Max Hirschowitz ( Summer 2022, 2023 ); Indiana Maurer School of Law, JD 2024

Jonathan Gliboff ( Summer 2022 ); Columbia Law School, JD 2024

Caroline Martin ( Summer 2022 ); NYU School of Law, JD 2024

Daniele Durkin ( Spring 2022 ) ; NYU School of Law, JD 2023

Nax Hamouche ( Spring 2022 ) ; NYU School of Law, LLM 2022

Farida Hassan (Summer 2021); Columbia Law School, JD 2023

Sparsha Janardhan (Summer 2021), Columbia Law School, LL.M 2021

Ellisha Khairi (Summer 2021); Yale-NUS College & NUS Law School, BA & LLB 2025

Don Loke (Summer 2021); National University of Singapore, LLB 2024

Meredith Stonitsch (Summer 2021); NYU School of Law, JD 2023

Nic Runnels (Summer 2020); NYU School of Law, JD 2022

Harshil Bansal (Summer 2020); Columbia Law School, 2022

Elisia Tadros (Summer 2020); Seton Hall University School of Law, JD 2022

Anthony Honorowski (Summer 2020); Pace University School of Law, JD 2022

Itai Thaler (Summer 2020); NYU School of Law, JD 2022

Viktorija Karamane (Summer 2020); NYU School of Law, LLM 2020

Julia Brooks (Summer 2019); NYU School of Law, JD 2021

Thomas Chapman (Summer 2019); Cornell Law School, JD 2021

Anika Havaldar (Summer 2019); Columbia Law School, JD 2019

Yardenne Kagan (Spring 2019); Columbia Law School, LLM 2019