The ASIL Law Fellows program gives recent graduates the opportunity to gain up to a year of pro bono professional experience working with the development and implementation of ASIL research, education, and outreach programs.
ASIL is pleased to welcome its 2009-2010 International Law Fellows:
Benjamin Brockman-Hawe, a 2008 graduate of Boston University Law School, who has spent the past year working for the British Institute for International and Comparative Law in London and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in Kosovo, will act as Education and Professional Development Fellow. Ben will be principally responsible for developing and implementing ASIL’s Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program and related outreach or educational programs, including web-based education. He will also provide support for finalization of the 2009 Career Guide and the development of ASIL’s online career resources.
Preeti Kundra Deshmukh, a 2008 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, who was recently an associate in the Charlotte, NC, office of Dewey & Lebeouf, will act as ASIL’s Publications Fellow. She will be principally responsible for the publication of the upcoming ASIL Annual Meeting Proceedings and International Humanitarian Law Dialogs and will provide research and editorial support for other ASIL publications.
Diana Goff joined the Society in March as the new ASIL Education and Professional Development Fellow. Diana has taken over responsibility for making possible ASIL’s continuing legal education (CLE) program and related outreach or educational programs, including web-based education. Goff, a graduate of Vanderbilt Law, has previously worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and at Shearman & Sterling LLP.
As an ASIL International Law Fellow, Alison Plenge works in ASIL's Washington, D.C., headquarters on its judicial educational outreach program. This program seeks to provide judges with an understanding of the interaction between international and national law through seminars, workshops, and published resources. Alison supports the development of educational curricula and teaching materials, including assisting Professor Diane Marie Amann of UC Davis School of Law with a new benchbook on international law for U.S. judges. She also works on strengthening ASIL ties to the mainstream judicial education sector.
Alison earned her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2003 and her J.D. from the UC Davis School of Law in 2009. She is currently licensed to practice in Maryland. She has previously worked as a judicial extern for Justice Richard Sims of the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, and as a legal intern in the worldwide legal operations department at Cisco Systems, Inc.
