Aarushi Nargas

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Aarushi Nargas is an LL.M. student at Harvard Law School. As a research assistant at the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, she is currently analyzing the practice of the UN Security Council related to protection of civilians.

Aarushi obtained her first law degree from India, during which she participated in the Philip C Jessup Moot Court Competition and the International Criminal Court Moot. After graduation, she interned at the judicial chambers of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, which was supported by a financial award from the Sir Richard May Trust Fund. Subsequently, she clerked with Justice DY Chandrachud at the Supreme Court of India for two years. At Harvard, Aarushi is on the board of the Harvard International Law Journal and is a student attorney with HLS Advocates for Human Rights, where she is researching crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Biography last update: October 2022.