The Santa Clara Journal of International Law is proud to announce its Board of Editors for Volume 5. Their talent and experience will continue to move the Journal forward as it implements a unique peer-review system where professors will provide feedback to authors who are being published in print:
Alicia Adornato, Editor in Chief, brings to the position her diverse academic background. After graduating from Gonzaga University magna cum laude with a degree in criminal justice, she spent a year working in Seattle, Washington for a workers compensation company. After her first year of law school, Alicia studied in Singapore at the National University of Singapore before interning in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with the Cambodian Center for Human Rights in the non-profit group’s Human Rights Monitoring and Investigation Department. Alicia also participated in the El Salvador Immersion Program with Santa Clara University this past January. This summer she will work as a summer associate for Reed Smith LLP.
Charlene Powell, Managing Editor, graduated magna cum laude from George Washington University with majors in International Relations and Religion and a minor in Spanish. While at George Washington University, she was a disc jockey for a radio show on WRGW and was occasionally published in the school’s literary magazine, Wooden Teeth. Prior to coming to law school, Charlene worked in London and traveled extensively. She spent last summer interning with the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and plans to continue with international human rights work in the future.
Esther Smith, Senior Articles Editor, joins the Journal of International Law with a broad range of experience. From 2002 to 2003, Esther studied abroad in Florence, Italy, through the Gonzaga-in-Florence Program. She also interned on Capital Hill in 2003. Esther worked as a law clerk for Robinson & Wood, Inc. in San Jose, CA in 2005, and last summer she studied abroad at Oxford University. She holds a B.A. in Political Science, History and a minor in Music from Gonzaga University, were she graduated cum laude.
Michael Percy, Senior Technical Editor, graduated cum laude from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Environmental Design. He has a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from San Jose State University. His work as a city planner has been recognized with several California Chapter awards from the American Planning Association and the American Planning Association National Outstanding Planning Award for 2002. He chaired the Santa Clara Student Bar Association Legislative Committee in 2003-2004, during which the Association’s Constitution was rewritten. Michael’s interest in international law grew out of study in Comparative Property Law at Oxford University in 2005.
Minal Belani, Senior Comments Editor, graduated from Scripps College with a B.A. in economics where she won the Freeman Asian Political Economy award for her economics thesis on foreign direct investment growth in China and India. Last summer, she clerked at a law firm in Singapore and currently interns part-time at Sun Microsystems in the Global Sales Law group. In January, Minal participated in the School of Law’s El Salvador immersion trip. She is also the internal vice president for the International Law Student Association.
Comments Editors: Kazue Sato*, Pami Vyas*†, Karen Hall
Technical Editors: Phi Mai, Frank Nuara, Marc Theriault‡, Ian Babbitt
Symposium Director: Pami Vyas*
Business Editor: Kazue Sato*
* These board members hold dual positions.
†Pami was a member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team that placed second overall (out of 14 schools) in the Pacific regional rounds that were held recently at Chapman University School of Law.
‡ Marc has been selected as the law student who is invited to join the State Bar of California’s Litigation Section for “A Week in Legal London” and the “Oxford University Summer Program” in July of 2006.
