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International Affairs Fellow, 2005-2006
Thomas J. Bollyky is an Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York, where his practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. Most recently, he represented Mexico before the International Court of Justice in Avena and other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of America) and José Ernesto Medellín before the United States Supreme Court inMedellin v. Dretke. From 2001 to 2002, Bollyky was a Fulbright Scholar to South Africa, where he worked as a staff attorney at the AIDS Law Project on treatment access issues related to HIV/AIDS. He is a former law clerk to Chief Judge Edward R. Korman, E.D.N.Y., an Eesti and Eurasian Public Service Fellow at the Estonian Ministry of Education, and a health policy analyst, through the Outstanding Scholar Program, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He has also worked at the White House, the Department of Justice, and the New York City Department of Health. Mr. Bollyky received his B.A. in Biology and History at Columbia University and his J.D. at Stanford Law School, where he was the President of the Stanford Law & Policy Review. He is the author of several academic articles, and a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar and the American Society of International Law.
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