Student Opportunities
Student Opportunities
Student Opportunities
Student Opportunities
The Program offers a range of opportunities for Harvard students. Exposed to some of the foremost challenges in the changing contemporary strategic environment, HLS PILAC research assistants gain valuable experience performing high-level international law and policy research and analysis.
Harvard students have contributed, and are currently contributing, to the work of HLS PILAC scholars and to the Program’s research projects. HLS PILAC has also developed an “on call” roster of research assistants for more discrete assignments.
HLS Library Connection
HLS PILAC researchers work closely with the Harvard Law School Library—which maintains a library research guide for the Program—to maximize our use of the university’s unparalleled information and library resources.
Current HLS Student Opportunities
Please note that, in general, HLS PILAC Research Assistant positions are limited to current HLS students. Some HLS PILAC Research Assistant positions may be open to individuals who are not current HLS students, though only where expressly indicated as such.
If there are any currently open HLS PILAC Research Assistant positions, those positions are announced below. If there is no such announcement, it is because there are currently no Research Assistant openings. Please check this webpage regularly, as new positions may arise at any time. HLS PILAC staff are not in a position to field Research Assistant inquiries outside of an active open call for applications.
Upcoming PILAC Activities
A workshop on two working papers — authored by Nikola Hajdin and by Chiara Redaelli — that seek to examine certain aspects of the crime of aggression under international law. Image credit: UN Photo/Milton Grant.
A workshop jointly convened by HLS PILAC and ANU CMSL at which scholars and practitioners will discuss certain international legal aspects concerning the resort to force by Australia and the United States in relation to six contexts/situations: Vietnam, Iraq 1991, Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003, ISIS, and Combined Maritime Forces.
Image credit: Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Nicholas Filca (2019).
In this informal discussion, Special Rapporteur Dr. Marja Lehto will discuss the impetus for the International Law Commission’s work on the topic “Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts,” outline its current status, highlight some of the key stakes, and raise issues for reflection and consideration. Image credit: UN Photo/John Isaac (“Burning oil-wells at Al Magwa with a destroyed Iraqi tank in the foreground. The Iraqi destruction has caused tremendous damage to the region’s environment.”) [image link].
Research Assistants
Research Assistants
HLS PILAC Research Assistants
Current
Lindsay Bailey is a third-year student at Harvard Law School and has been a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC since January of 2018. At HLS PILAC, Lindsay has contributed to a project examining acquiescence concerns and “Article 51 Reports,” as well as analysis concerning the relationships between international criminal law of war crimes and international humanitarian law.
Gloria Chang is MArch II and MDes (Master in Design Studies) candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, with a concentration in Risk and Resilience. At HLS PILAC, Gloria finds graphic representations and methods to communicate the Program’s research visually.
Hayley Evans is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and, as of fall 2017, a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC.
Thejasa Jayachandran is a first-year law student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).
Samantha Lint is a first-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant for the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).
As a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC, Paras Shah conducts research concerning “silence” and acquiescence in relation to international law pertaining to the use of force.
Former
Abhishek Banerjee-Shukla is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School; as a Research Assistant at PILAC, he contributes to the Goals of War and War's End team.
As of spring 2018, Emma Broches is a first-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School; as a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC, Emma currently supports the project on Self-Defense, States’ Silence, and the Security Council.
Elizabeth Carthy—an LL.M. student at Harvard Law School—has been a research assistant at PILAC since September 2014, working on the "Medical Assistance in Armed Conflict Project: IHL and State Responses to Terrorism."
Carson Cook is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. As a Research Assistant at PILAC, he supports the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project.
Lisa Daniels is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. As a research assistant at PILAC, Lisa supports the Goals of War and War’s End Project, developing a dataset of armed conflicts from 1945 through the present.
As a Research Assistant at PILAC, Claire DiMario supports the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project, conducting legal and policy research on the challenges of humanitarian protection in areas of armed conflict where listed armed groups control territory.
Mohammad is an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. As a research assistant at PILAC, Mohammad examines—in English and Arabic—state practice and international law for the Extraterritorial Use of Lethal Force Project.
Hasan Dindjer is an LL.M candidate at Harvard Law School where he is studying as a Fulbright Scholar. In the fall of 2014, he worked as a Research Assistant at PILAC on the Extraterritorial Use of Lethal Force project.
Molly Doggett is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC).
Federica du Pasquier is currently a Master’s student at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a Research Assistant at PILAC, where she supports the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project.
Merel Ekelhof, a Ph.D. researcher at the VU University Amsterdam, is a visiting researcher at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).
Jiawei He is a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict.
Jiahui Huang is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School, and worked as a research assistant for PILAC in Fall 2014.
Anika Khan is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. As a Research Assistant at the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC), she contributes to the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project.
Joshua Kestin is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. As a research assistant at PILAC, he works on the mapping exercise on accountability, autonomous (weapons) systems, and international law pertaining to armed conflict.
Katie King is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. She works as a Research Assistant for PILAC’s Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project.
Yi Seul Kim is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School. At PILAC, Kim conducts research on extraterritorial lethal-force operations, covering areas in East Asia and the Middle East.
Yang Liu is an LL.M. student at the Harvard Law School and, as of fall 2017, a Research Assistant at the HLS PILAC.
Chris Mirasola is in his first year of a joint JD/MPP program between the Harvard Law School and Kennedy School of Government. At PILAC, Chris is a Research Assistant for Professor Michael N. Schmitt, conducting research concerning targeting of war-sustaining capacities.
A second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School, Ariane Moss is also a Research Assistant at PILAC, she supports the Tallinn 2.0 Project, which focuses on the application of international law to cyber operations.
Alejandra Parra-Orlandoni is currently a third-year law student and is conducting research in support of PILAC’s Commanding Knowledge project.
Danae Paterson is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. She has been a research assistant at PILAC since December 2014, contributing to its case studies portfolio.
In the fall of 2014, Sasha Pippenger became a research assistant at PILAC, focusing on the Goals of War and War’s End Project.
Francesco Romani is a PILAC Research Assistant on the Goals of War and War’s End project.
Pallav Shukla is currently an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at PILAC, where he contributes to the Extraterritorial Use of Lethal Force Project.
An S.J.D. student at Harvard Law School, Svitlana Starosvit became a Research Assistant at PILAC in the fall of 2014. At PILAC, she researches operations in which state actors have engaged in various forms of extraterritorial lethal force in situations not rising to the level of armed conflict.
Elad Uzan, a Ph.D. candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University, is a Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).
Jitka Vrtelova is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at PILAC supporting the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project.