Madeline Babin

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Madeline Babin is a second-year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. At Yale Law School, Madeline is a Herbert J. Hansell Student Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges. She also serves as the Co-President of the National Security Group, Co-Director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, and Vice President of the Yale Society of International Law. She is an editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, the Yale Law and Policy Review, and the Journal of Law & Feminism. She is also a Chae Fellow of the Tsai Leadership Program and a research assistant with the Global Constitutionalism Seminar. Madeline is a student attorney with the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, where she works with the United Nations Special Procedures, and a member of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team.

Madeline spent her 1L summer in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice supporting the Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism in advocating for the rights of U.S. citizen victims of terrorist attacks in foreign legal systems. Before law school, Madeline worked as a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in legal and policy analysis related to global criminal justice, human rights, and climate change. She graduated magna cum laude from the Boston College Honors Program with a degree in International Studies and Political Science.