Madeline Babin

Madeline Babin is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. At Yale, Madeline is Student Director of the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic, Student Director and Herbert J. Hansell Fellow with the Center for Global Legal Challenges, and a Salzburg Cutler Fellow. She is also a Ludwig Fellow in Public Sector Leadership and a Chae Fellow in Private Sector Leadership through the Tsai Leadership Program. Madeline is an executive editor of the Yale Journal of International Law and previously served as an editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review and the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism.

She has held roles as co-president of the National Security Group, co-director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, and vice president of the Yale Society of International Law. She has also served as a research assistant for the Global Constitutionalism Seminar and in Intelligence Law. Madeline competed as a member of the 2025 Yale Law School team in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition. While in law school, she has interned with the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Special Procedures, and the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Before law school, Madeline worked at the Council on Foreign Relations.