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Profiles of the J.S.M. Students
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Yonatan Arbel, a JSM candidate and a SPILS fellow at Stanford Law School, holds an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Summa Cum Laude, Salutatorian), with a joint degree focusing on Literature and Philosophy, via the elite Amirim honors program.
Prior to matriculating at Hebrew University, Yonatan spent four years serving as an officer in an elite reconnaissance unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. After finishing his service, he spent six memorable months backpacking through South America, leaving him with a lasting interest in Spanish literature and linguistics.
During his studies at Hebrew University, Yonatan was a teaching assistant for the courses of Criminal Law, Torts and Jurisprudence, where he instructed first and second year on those subjects. Yonatan also served for two years on the board of Mishpatim, Israel's foremost Law Journal and was an assistant editor of the Hebrew University's Public International Online Law Review.
Outside of his university studies, Yonatan conducted research for the Israeli Democracy Institute, ultimately publishing a book focusing on freedom of information legislation. Additionally, he worked for an Israeli NGO called the "Movement for Quality Government: and also for a special division in the Ministry of Interior, designed to fight corruption with executive, semi-judicial, tools. In his work there, Yonatan gave legal counsel and advice, and contributed to the Israeli effort to fight corruption.
Lately, Yonatan worked for a year as Chief Justice Aharon Barak's personal research assistant, during which he intensively explored comparative Constitutional Law. after that, Yonatan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ayala Proccacia, researching Fundamental Rights structuring, Property Law, Contract Law and Constitutional Law. In his thesis, Yonatan plans to explore the basic structure and governing principles of Private Law.
In his spare time, Yonatan enjoys reading classical literature, Continental philosophy (and occasionally some Western), a good debate, hiking and jogging.
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Mahdev Mohan from Singapore earned his LL.B from the National University of Singapore. At law school, Mahdev was the Deputy Chief Editor of the Singapore Law Review and was ranked as one of the top individual oralists at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Championships in Washington DC. Upon graduating, Mahdev clerked at the London offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer, where he assisted on commercial and human rights litigation before the English Courts. He returned to Singapore to serve as a military prosecutor with Singapore’s Ministry of Defence and later joined the litigation & dispute resolution department of Drew & Napier LLC, where he worked on a range of contentious and advisory matters. Last year, Mahdev was appointed as a regional partner by UC Berkeley’s War Crimes Studies Center. Based in Phnom Penh for 6 months, he was tasked with overseeing the Center’s legal outreach and victim participation projects in connection with the trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders accused of heinous crimes that have claimed more than 2 million lives in Cambodia. Mahdev has been accepted by the Cambodian Bar Association to represent victims before the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. As a SPILS Fellow, Mahdev plans to conduct research on the paradoxes inherent in humanitarianism and ways to grant victims of mass crimes access to the international criminal justice process. Mahdev is a Fulbright Scholar and a lecturer of law at the Singapore Management University.
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Demián Zayat, a JSM candidate at Stanford Law School, is from Argentina and received his law degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 2000. He completed an LL.M. in Human Rights and Constitutional Law at University of Palermo (Buenos Aires), where he is also a associated editor of the Palermo Law Review. He has a position as Constitutional Law professor at the same Law School since 2002. As a Fulbright Scholar, he spent one semester doing research on the Jury System in Southwestern Law School. In Buenos Aires, in 2000, Demián workedas legal advisor for the chief-member of the then majority party at the House of Representatives, and later, he worked also with the current Ministry of Defense of Argentina. His work was related to the Justice and Impeachment Committees of the National House. After that, he joined to the Center of Legal and Social Studies (CELS), one of the most prominent Human Rights NGO from Argentina, and he concentrated in the area of judicial reforms, from a human rights perspective. He wrote several articles regarding judicial independence, at the national and the provincial level., and he has testified at Argentine House of Representatives, in relation to different judicial reforms. Furthermore, he has researched at Yale Law School, on the ban to former dictatorship leaders of taking a public position in the new democracy. Also, with some colleagues, he founded Copadi (Collective for Diversity) a NGO focused on gender, equality and justice issues in Latin America. As a SPILS fellow, Demián plans to conduct research on the judicial control of police detentions for hawking or others minor infractions perpetrated by informal and poor workers.
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