She is a scholar of U.S. foreign relations law and public international law. Her research focuses on the allocation of foreign affairs powers among U.S. governmental actors and, at the international level, on the structure and development of international legal regimes. She has published in leading general interest law journals and international law journals. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. After graduating law school, she served as a law clerk at the D.C. Circuit (for Judge Tatel) and the Supreme Court of the United States (for Justice Stevens). She has also served as an Associate Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (working for Judge Meron).