Tatiana Sainati joined IJRC as a Law Fellow in 2014. Tatiana holds a joint J.D. and LL.M. in international and comparative law from Duke University School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif and served on the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal. She also holds a master’s degree in English from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree in English from Northwestern University.
Prior to joining IJRC, Tatiana served as a Legal Adviser to Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. In this capacity, she researched and analyzed legal questions involving treaty interpretation, conflict of laws and public international law and international arbitration to assist the Judge in adjudicating disputes between Iran and the U.S. arising out of the 1979 hostage crisis.
While at Duke, Tatiana spent a summer working as a legal associate with the Documentation Center of Cambodia. Her work for the organization included authoring a report clarifying the scope of the duty to investigate international crimes through a comparative analysis of the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. She also worked as a certified law student with the Duke AIDS Legal Project, representing multiple clients in standby guardianship, discrimination and disability proceedings. She continued working in HIV and AIDS law and policy with the Duke AIDS Policy Project, where she provided education and outreach to advocates and health care providers about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and researched and analyzed the impact of the ACA on vulnerable and at-risk populations.
Tatiana is the author of Human Rights Class Actions: Rule 23 and the Pilot Judgment Procedure at the European Court of Human Rights, which is forthcoming in the Winter 2014 volume of the Harvard International Law Journal, as well as a Note, Towards a Comparative Approach to the Crime of Genocide, which was published in the Duke Law Journal.