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SECURING A CAREER IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: KEYNOTE AND PANEL

Clockwise from top left: Ben Juvelier is our keynote speaker; Nicole Cortés is the co-director and an attorney at the M.I.C.A. Project; Ashley Hammett is an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; Morton Holbrook III is a former foreign service officer; and Kristin Smith is the Director of the Atrocity Crimes Initiative.

Our Panelists

By I.L.S. EXECUTIVE BOARD Following Mr. Juvelier’s keynote presentation, we will hear from a panel of experienced professionals to discuss opportunities in the vast field of international law. In alphabetical order, our first panelist is Nicole Cortés. Ms. Cortés is the co-director and an attorney at the Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project here in St. Louis. In 2012, she obtained both her J.D. and her M.S.W. from Washington University. Our next panelist is Ashley Hammett. In 2 0 1 4 , s h e o b t a i n e d h e r L . L . M . i n International and U.S. Law from WashULaw, and two years later, she graduated with her J.D. Today, Ms. Hammett works as an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in London. Before her current position, Ms. Hammett worked at Shearman & Sterling, where, among other things, she represented plaintiffs in a lawsuit holding the Syrian government accountable for the extrajudicial killing of a war correspondent. Our third panelist is Morton Holbrook III. After graduating from University of Chicago Law School in 1972, Mr. Holbrook landed a position on the legal staff of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. After a career that also included postings in New York, Manila, Paris, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., Mr. Holbrook is now a professor of international law and U.S. foreign policy at Brescia University in Western Kentucky. Our final panelist is Kristin Smith. In 2014, Ms. Smith graduated from WashULaw where she, too, was a member of International Law Society. She now works as the director of the Atrocity Crimes Initiative at the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section. The Atrocity Crimes Initiative is a group of projects focused on atrocity prevention, response, and accountability. It includes the I.C.C. Project, the I.C.J. Standards Project and the Atrocity Prevention and Response Project, as well as other short-term research initiatives on atrocity crimes.

By I.L.S. EXECUTIVE BOARD

Our keynote speaker will be Ben Juvelier. In 2017, Mr. Juvelier graduated summa cum laude from American University Washington College of Law. After obtaining his J.D., he worked as a law fellow for the Public International Law & Policy Group where he supported their projects in

Our Keynote SpeakerBangladesh, Myanmar and Tanzania. Currently, Mr. J u v e l i e r w o r k s f o r t h e A m e r i c a n S o c i e t y o f I n t e r n a t i o n a l L a w i n Washington, D.C. where he e n g a g e s i n e x t e n s i v e programmatic development, including series and single events on all topics of law, featuring senior professionals and experts from around the world.

About I.L.S.By I.L.S. EXECUTIVE

BOARD The International Law Society at WashULaw is an organization dedicated to the pursuit of academic and professional opportunities in p r i v a t e a n d p u b l i c international law. Our goals include connecting students with peers and professionals in the community with

international legal experience a n d p r o m o t i n g t h e proliferation of international legal knowledge through s e m i n a r s a n d a c a d e m i c panels. To the latter end, we work closely with the brilliant minds at the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. We hope to bring global perspectives to our small corner of St. Louis.

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RACE IS FINALLY CALLED AFTER RECORD TURNOUT;CHAOTIC TERM ENDS WITH RARE INCUMBENT LOSS

Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris were declared the victors on Saturday after they widened their unofficial margin in Pennsylvania.ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Harris Will Become the Country’sFirst Female Vice President

Thirty-three years ago, he wasthe fast-talking junior senatorfrom Delaware with a chip on hisshoulder, desperate to prove hisgravitas during a brief, ill-fatedpresidential run.

The next time around, in 2008,he was the seasoned foreign pol-icy hand and veteran lawmakerwho strained to capture the imagi-nation of Democratic presidentialprimary voters.

As he weighed a third attemptat the presidency last year, manyDemocrats feared he was too late.Too old, too moderate, too me-andering to excite ascendantvoices in his party, too rooted inthe more civil politics of the past tonimbly handle Donald Trump.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. rananyway. He ran as a grieving fa-ther who connected with a coun-try in pain. As a relative centristwho emphasized character, stabil-ity and belief in bipartisanshipover the particulars of a policyagenda. As a flawed, uneven cam-

paigner whose vulnerabilitieswere ultimately drowned out byhis opponent’s outsize weak-nesses, and eclipsed by the seis-mic issues at stake, as the nationconfronted the ravages of a deadlypandemic.

In many ways, he ran as the po-litician he has always been. Andfor one extraordinary election,that was enough.

“They’re not so much saying,‘I’m investing in Joe Biden be-cause of his philosophy,’” said for-mer Senator William S. Cohen, Re-publican of Maine, who served

A Politician Shaped by TragedyAnd Decades of Bipartisanship

By KATIE GLUECKand THOMAS KAPLAN

THE PRESIDENT-ELECT

Mr. Biden entered the Senateduring the Nixon presidency.

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From the earliest days of herchildhood, Kamala Harris wastaught that the road to racial jus-tice was long.

She spoke often on the cam-paign trail of those who had comebefore her, of her parents, immi-grants drawn to the civil rightsstruggle in the United States —and of the ancestors who hadpaved the way.

As she took the stage in Texasshortly before the election, Ms.Harris spoke of being singular inher role but not solitary.

“Yes, sister, sometimes we maybe the only one that looks like uswalking in that room,” she told alargely Black audience in FortWorth. “But the thing we all knowis we never walk in those roomsalone — we are all in that room to-gether.”

With her ascension to the vicepresidency, Ms. Harris will be-come the first woman and firstwoman of color to hold that office,a milestone for a nation in upheav-

al, grappling with a damaging his-tory of racial injustice exposed,yet again, in a divisive election.Ms. Harris, 56, embodies the fu-ture of a country that is growingmore racially diverse, even if theperson voters picked for the top ofthe ticket is a 77-year-old whiteman.

That she has risen higher in thecountry’s leadership than anywoman ever has underscores theextraordinary arc of her politicalcareer. A former San Franciscodistrict attorney, she was electedas the first Black woman to serve

Historic Milestone for WomanSteeped in Civil Rights Battles

By LISA LERERand SYDNEY EMBER

THE VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT

Ms. Harris won election to theSenate in 2016.

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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th pres-ident of the United States on Saturday, promising to re-store political normalcy and a spirit of national unity toconfront raging health and economic crises, and makingDonald J. Trump a one-term president after four years oftumult in the White House.

Mr. Biden’s victory amounted to a repudiation of Mr.Trump by millions of voters exhausted with his divisiveconduct and chaotic administration, and was deliveredby an unlikely alliance of women, people of color, old andyoung voters and a sliver of disaffected Republicans. Mr.Trump is only the third elected president since WorldWar II to lose re-election, and the first in more than aquarter-century.

The result also provided a history-making momentfor Mr. Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris ofCalifornia, who will become the first woman to serve asvice president.

With his triumph, Mr. Biden, who turns 78 later this

month, fulfilled his decades-long ambition in his third bidfor the White House, becoming the oldest person electedpresident. A pillar of Washington who was first electedamid the Watergate scandal, and who prefers politicalconsensus over combat, Mr. Biden will lead a nation and aDemocratic Party that have become far more ideologicalsince his arrival in the capital in 1973.

He offered a mainstream Democratic agenda, yet itwas less his policy platform than his biography to whichmany voters gravitated. Seeking the nation’s highest of-fice a half-century after his first campaign, Mr. Biden — acandidate in the late autumn of his career — presentedhis life of setback and recovery to voters as a parable for awounded country.

In a brief statement, Mr. Biden called for healing andunity. “With the campaign over, it’s time to put the angerand the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as anation,” he said. “It’s time for America to unite. And toheal. We are the United States of America. And there’snothing we can’t do, if we do it together.”

In his own statement, Mr. Trump insisted “this elec-tion is far from over” and vowed that his campaign would“start prosecuting our case in court” but offered no de-tails.

The race, which concluded after four tense days ofvote-counting in a handful of battlegrounds, was a singu-lar referendum on Mr. Trump in a way no president’s re-election has been in modern times. He coveted the atten-tion, and voters who either adored him or loathed him

By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS

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Joseph R. Biden Jr., distin-guished backslapper and inveter-ate deal-seeker, has spent mostof his last 50 years in the middleof things.

As a presidential candidate, heurged moderation, suggestingthat the country was not as pro-gressive as some Democraticrivals insisted.

As vice president, he was theWhite House emissary dis-patched to negotiate with un-bending Republicans in Con-gress, at times with too littlesuccess and too willing capitu-lation in the eyes of liberals.

And across his decades in theSenate, Mr. Biden tended to findhis way to the center of the fray— civil rights debates, judicialhearings, the crime bill, the Iraqwar — priding himself on a repu-tation as the lawmaker mostlikely to befriend Ted Kennedyand Strom Thurmond in thesame lifetime.

“For the man who will see,time heals,” Mr. Biden said in a

generous 2003 eulogy for Mr.Thurmond, the avowed SouthCarolina segregationist whom hesaluted for moving to “the goodside” eventually. “Time changes.”

Now, as Mr. Biden prepares toassume the presidency in a di-vided Washington, he will con-front the ultimate test of howmuch times have changed, andhow much he has. While Demo-crats have retained hope thattwo runoff elections in Georgiamight deliver them narrow con-trol of the Senate after all, Bidenallies have begun preparing for

Dealmaker From Old SchoolInherits Fractured Washington

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER

NEWS ANALYSIS

Mr. Biden says he’ll work withSenator Mitch McConnell.

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