Helena von Nagy

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Helena von Nagy (@hvonnagy), is a J.D. student at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Class of 2022, and Berkeley Human Rights Center Scholar. She is also a Submissions Editor for the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Co-Director of the Berkeley Law International Human Rights Workshop, and an intern in the International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC). She focuses on international human rights law, international criminal law, and transitional justice. She has worked on migrant rights, asylum litigation, and transitional justice in the U.S. and Latin America. She also holds an M.Phil in Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fulbright recipient. She co-authored the IHRLC working paper, “Human Rights Without Support of the Concerned State: A Comparative Analysis of Successive Human Rights Council Mechanisms Established for Burundi and Myanmar” (2020).