Helena Placentino is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School from Belgium and has been conducted research for HLS PILAC since September 2022.
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Research Assistants
Jillian Quigley is a third-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 March 2021.
Ricardo Cruzat Reyes is a graduate of Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2020) and a Research Assistant with the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC) for the Summer of 2020.
Francesco Romani is a PILAC Research Assistant on the Goals of War and War’s End project.
As a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC, Ariel Sarandinaki conducts research concerning partnered warfare as well as the War Algorithms 2.0 Project.
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.
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.
Chloé Sweeney is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC.
April Xiaoyi Xu is a rising third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).
As a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC, Aizhan Tilenbaeva conducts research concerning protection of the environment in relation to matters of international peace and security.
As a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC, Shayna Toh conducts research concerning certain legal aspects pertaining to military measures in outer space, artificial intelligence, and cyber operations.
Natassia Velez is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant for the HLS 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.
Juan Felipe Wills is a Colombian LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School. As a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC, he contributes to a research initiative on “War Lawyering.”
Cindy Wu is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).
María Elisa Zavala Achurra is a graduate of Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2020) and a Research Assistant with the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC) for Summer 2020.
Sabrina Zhang is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and has been a Research Assistant for the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC) since September 2023.