Emma Svoboda

Emma Svoboda, HLS PILAC Research Assistant

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Emma Svoboda is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and has been a Research Assistant for the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC) since January 2021. Emma currently drafts the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Weekly Update.

Emma is an editor on the Harvard Law Review, a clinical student at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, and a contributor to Lawfare. She is also on the board of HLS Advocates for Human Rights. During the summer of 2021, Emma was in Armenia documenting war crimes pertaining to armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020. Prior to law school, she worked as a teacher in French Guiana, Kyrgyzstan, Macao, and Turkey. Emma is an alumna of the Fulbright program and speaks French and Russian. She received her B.A. from Northwestern University in 2016, where she studied History and French.

Webpage last updated in September 2021.