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 PILAC scholars—including Professor Gabriella Blum, Professor of Practice Naz K. Modirzadeh, Senior Researcher Dustin Lewis, as well as HLS PILAC visiting researchers, affiliates, and fellows—and to all of the Program’s research projects. 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—including librarian Jennifer Allison, who maintains a library research guide for the Program—to maximize our use of the university’s unparalleled information and library resources.
Current Student Opportunities
Upcoming PILAC Activities
Research Assistants
Research Assistants
PILAC Research Assistants
Current
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jitka Vrtelova is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at PILAC supporting the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project.