Katie King

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Katie King is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. She works as a Research Assistant for PILAC, including on the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project and the Medical Care in Armed Conflict: IHL and State Responses to Terrorism Project, as well as the mapping exercise concerning autonomous (weapons) systems. As an undergraduate at Miami University, she majored in Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs and Latin American Studies.

During law school, Katie has interned with Equal Education Law Centre, a South African human rights NGO, and the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State; participated in the International Human Rights Clinic; conducted anticorruption research; and served on the executive board of the Law & International Development Society.

Publication

Katie King with Naz K. Modirzadeh and Dustin A. Lewis, “Understanding Humanitarian Exemptions: U.N. Security Council Practice and Principled Humanitarian Action,” Working Group Briefing Memorandum, Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project, April 2016.  

[Biography last updated: April 2016]