Congratulations to Hanna Karimipour, member of the Georgia Law Class of 2020, who has just been elected to serve during her 3L year as a worldwide Student Director of the International Law Students Association.

Devotion to international law has been a hallmark of Hanna’s career here at the University of Georgia School of Law. In spring 2018, the law school’s Dean Rusk International Law Center awarded her a Louis B. Sohn Professional Development Fellowship to volunteer at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington, D.C.; that summer, she took part in our Global Governance Summer School and externed at the nongovernmental organization No Peace Without Justice in Brussels, Belgium. During the academic year, she competed on Georgia Law’s Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court team, was a student in a special minicourse on Executive Branch Lawyering, and served as President of the International Law Society, Georgia Law’s ILSA chapter. She soon will begin a position as a Summer Associate at a law firm in Tallahassee, Florida.

Hanna’s election to this position follows a long-standing Georgia Law tradition. Previous worldwide ILSA student officers have included Chanel Chauvet (JD’18), who this fall will begin LLM studies in International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Switzerland; Kaitlin Ball (JD’14), who this year earned her PhD in the Department of Politics & International Studies at the University of Cambridge, England; Stephany Sherriff (JD’15), Legal Advisor and Agency Policy Chairwoman at Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency in Atlanta; and another Atlanta attorney, Richard Alembik (JD’91).