The International Law Committee is coordinated by the following Executive Members for the 2007-2008 term.
Pouyan Afshar, Chair
Pouyan is a lawyer at Allens Arthur Robinson. Prior to this he worked as tipstaff to the Hon Justice W H Nicholas of the New South Wales Supreme Court. He has been an unrelenting supporter, and strong critic of various areas of international law. He is a politics/law major with an unbounded interest in everything historical and political.
He also relishes in gathering, and sometimes making bad puns (not specifically related to international law!).
Mila Cerecina, Deputy Chair
Mila is a recent law graduate who is working as a researcher to the Hon J J Spigelman AC, Chief Justice of New South Wales. She enjoys international careers research, bad international law puns and long walks on the beach daydreaming about Cross-Border Insolvency.
Robert Dunworth, Public International Law Co-ordinator
Robert is a lawyer at Colin Biggers & Paisley.
Svetlana German, Private International Law Co-ordinator
Svetlana is a lawyer at Allens Arthur Robinson.
Sophie Ryan, Bulletin Editor
Sophie is a graduate lawyer at Allens Arthur Robinson, where she works in the Corporate practice group. She has a strong interest in international law and human rights. Sophie recently returned from Vienna where she was working as an Assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. She has also worked at the UN headquarters in Vienna in the departments of Criminal Justice Reform and Human Trafficking.
Sophie originally hails from Canberra (the city of roundabouts!) and completed her degrees in Arts and Law (Hons) at the Australian National University.
Natasha Simonsen, International Humanitarian Law Co-ordinator
Natasha is a final year law student at the University of Sydney and works at Allens Arthur Robinson. She is an Affiliate of the Sydney Centre for International and Global Law, is currently writing a thesis on expropriation under international law, and has a longstanding interest in international humanitarian law.
She and her teammates recently enjoyed the distinction of winning the World Championships of the Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot in Washington DC in April 2007.
Yu Zhang, International Trade Law Co-ordinator
Yu studied at the University of Sydney and is currently tipstaff to the Hon Justice D H Hodgson on the New South Wales Court of Appeal. He is interested in both public and private international law with a focus on the work of the World Trade Organization.
Shan-Ree Tan, Blog Editor
Shan-Ree is a lawyer at Gilbert + Tobin. Prior to this he worked as tipstaff to the Hon Justice R I Barrett of the New South Wales Supreme Court. He has a longstanding interest in the development and history of public international law, international advocacy, and space law. No, seriously.
Shan-Ree holds a degree in Arts from Columbia University and completed his law degree at the University of New South Wales.
