<span class="vcard">Justin Cole</span>

Justin Cole

Managing Student Editor

Justin Cole (LinkedInX) holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a Hansel Fellow at the law school’s Center for Global Legal Challenges and a Student Fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018 with a double major in economics and peace, war, and defense, graduating as a member of Phi Beta Kappa with highest distinction and highest honors. Prior to law school, Justin worked for two years in Boston as an Investment Management Paralegal at Ropes & Gray. He spent his summers at the U.S. Department of Justice (Civil Appellate, Commercial Litigation) and the U.S. Department of Defense (Office of the General Counsel, Office of the Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions). He is currently in the middle of his second federal clerkship.

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A woman takes a selfie as people wave independence-era Syrian flags during a demonstration
An interior shot of the Peace Palace, the seat of the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial body of the United Nations.
The U.S. Supreme Court building lit by sunlight against a blue sky.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: Red paint splattered by abortion rights activists is seen on the sidewalk in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health overturned the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erased a federal right to an abortion. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
A woman (R) walks past pigeons flying near a tree along a footpath in Yangon on January 27, 2022. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
Legal blind justice Themis metal statue with scales on chains
Mo Brooks talks at a podium with the sign “Save America” and gestures into the air. American flags stand on either side of him.
Beji Caid Essebsi Tunisian President; Alpha Conde President of the Republic of Guinea, Faure Gnassingbe President of the Republic of Togo; Paul Kagame President of the Republic of Rwanda; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz; Abdelfattah al-Sisi Egyptian President; Alassane Ouattara Ivory Coast president; Macky Sall President of the Republic of Senegal; Patrice Talon President of the Republic of Benin and President of the African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina; Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz; Abiy Ahmed Ali Ethiopian Prime Minister; International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde; Nana Akufo-Addo President of the Republic of Ghana; Cyril Ramaphosa South African President; World Bank President Jim Yong Kim; African Union (AU) Commission representative Moussa Faki Mahamat and Morocco's Finance Minister Mohamed Benchaaboun pose for a picture during the "Compact with Africa" conference on trade, aid and diplomacy on October 30, 2018 at the Chancellery in Berlin.

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