Alyssa Yamamoto

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Alyssa T. Yamamoto is the Senior Legal and Policy Advisor at the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council, which focuses on prevention and accountability efforts for human rights violations and atrocity crimes. Alyssa previously served as Legal Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, working on human rights and gender mainstreaming in counterterrorism and national security. She also worked at an international law firm, where she specialized in public international law and international arbitration. Her representations involved litigation before the International Court of Justice and U.S. courts, including under the U.S. Alien Tort Statute, Torture Victim Protection Act, and International Organizations Immunities Act, and communications before the UN human rights treaty bodies and special procedures.

Alyssa received a J.D. from Yale Law School and A.B. from Harvard College. She was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Center at University of Minnesota Law School; the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She is also on LinkedIn.