Kirsten Kovats proudly serves as the Editor in Chief of the Law Review. Her career began in New York local news, where she pursued her interest in media and politics and developed an interest in law. After graduation, Kovats will pursue corporate law as an associate at the New York City office of Goodwin Procter LLP. Privately, she enjoys going on road trips with friends and spending time at the Jersey Shore with her family.

Daniel DePasquale proudly serves as Managing Editor of the Law Review. He is also President of the Health Law Society at NYLS, a research assistant and teaching assistant to Professor Richard Marsico, a NYLS student ambassador, and is an affiliate with the Center for Business and Financial Law. Additionally, DePasquale participates in the Securities Arbitration Clinic. DePasquale enjoys playing golf, hanging out with friends, and spending time with family; after graduation, he looks forward to pursuing a career in corporate law.

Alexis Bello serves as an Executive Editor of the Law Review. She is also a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council. Bello is a Constitutional Law teaching assistant for Professor Doni Gewirtzman and a Contracts Law teaching assistant for Professor Tamara Belinfanti. After her first year, Bello spent the summer interning in the United States District Court of South Carolina. She is a former Torts Law teaching assistant for Professor Richard Sherwin and served as a Teaching Fellow for the Academic Success Program. Bello was also the Academic and Professional Development chair for the Black Law Students Association and participated in the Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic at NYLS. Upon graduation, Bello will join Weil, Gotshal & Manges as an associate.

Harini Maragh serves as an Executive Editor of the Law Review. She is also a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council and participated in NYLS’s Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic in the spring of 2021. During the day, Maragh works as an Auditor for the Office of the MTA Inspector General, analyzing policies and procedures in the various MTA agencies and meeting with personnel to suggest methods to improve the ways in which the agencies operate. Since starting law school, Maragh has interned for the Brooklyn Family Court as well as the Eastern District of New York for the Sonia & Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program. Maragh holds a B.S. in Fraud Examination and Financial Forensics from John Jay College. Upon graduating from NYLS, she will join Weil, Gotshal & Manges as an associate.

Jake Vallen serves as an Executive Editor of the Law Review. He is also a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council and serves as an intellectual property litigation law clerk for McDermott Will & Emery. Prior to attending NYLS, Vallen studied Integrative Neuroscience at Binghamton University. During law school, he has served as a member of the PTO Patent Clinic and as a teaching assistant for the Success in Civil Procedure program. He spent the summer of 2020 as a judicial intern for the Supreme Court of New York, and the summer of 2021 as a summer associate for McDermott Will & Emery. Upon graduating, Vallen will return to McDermott in Washington, D.C., as an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Daniel Voronin serves as an Executive Editor of the Law Review. He is also President of the NYLS Trial Competition Team and is a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council. He was previously a Teaching Fellow for the Academic Success Program. After his first year of law school, Voronin interned for the Mental Health Litigation Division of Massachusetts’s Committee for Public Counsel Services; he later worked for the New York City Law Department during his second year through NYLS’s Tort Defense Clinic. He currently works part-time for Barry McTiernan & Moore after spending summer 2021 as a summer associate with the firm, and looks forward to editing his Case Comment for publication in Volume 66.

In addition to serving as the Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review, Hayley Jones is a Constitutional Law Teaching Assistant for Professor Doni Gewirtzman. She is originally from the Bay Area, California and holds a B.A. from University of California, Irvine in Political Science with a minor in African American Studies. Prior to attending law school, she spent five years working for multiple California firms and especially loved her paralegal work at a civil rights firm which encouraged her to finally go to law school. She is planning on taking both the New York and California bars.

Carley Perine serves as Citation and Substance Editor of the Law Review. She is also a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council and affiliated with the Center for Real Estate Studies. This fall, Perine is working at Duval & Stachenfeld LLP as a Commercial Real Estate Extern. A passionate ally for the LGBTQ+ community, she also serves as a Student Volunteer for the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. In addition to real estate law, Perine is interested in cannabis law and spent summer 2021 researching developments surrounding the legalization of marijuana.

Steve Smith serves as a Citation and Substance Editor of the Law Review. He is also a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council. Smith participated in the Mediation Clinic in fall 2020 and was invited back as a teaching assistant for the 2021–22 school year; he is also a teaching assistant for Professor Lynn Su’s Evidence class. After serving as Treasurer of the newly-founded organization, Smith will serve as the 2021–22 President of the Employment and Labor Law Student Association. He spent summer 2021 working in the Labor and Employment Law Division of the New York City Law Department.

Louie Ayash serves as the Associate Managing Editor of the Law Review. He is also a member of the Center of Business and Financial Law and an oralist for the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team at NYLS. Ayash spent the summer of 2021 interning for a federal judge at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and will intern for the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court this fall.

John Paul Dominguez is a Legal Scholarship Editor for the Law Review and teaches the evening division section of the Legal Scholarship class. He is also a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council and works as a teaching assistant for Professor Richard Marsico. As an Evening Division student, Dominguez worked at a boutique litigation firm during the day; he is also a former teaching assistant to Professor Penelope Andrews. After graduation, he looks forward to joining Blank Rome as an associate.

Emily Smith is a Legal Scholarship Editor for the Law Review and teaches the Day Division section of the Legal Scholarship class. Smith is also a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council. Smith previously served as the Vice President of Academic Achievement for First Generation Professionals and as a teaching assistant for Professor Brandt Goldstein’s Civil Procedure class. Smith also previously interned for Advocates for Children of New York and hopes to continue to work as a public interest attorney after graduation.

Shukra Sabnis currently serves as the Executive Development Editor of the Law Review. She is originally from South Brunswick, New Jersey and attended Boston College, double majoring in Communications and Applied Psychology & Human Development. During her time at NYLS, she has served as a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council, the Chair of Member Engagement, Alumni Relations and Diversity Initiatives for the Trial Competition Team, Research Assistant to Professor Edward A. Purcell, Teaching Assistant to Professor Brandt Goldstein, Research Assistant to Professor Nadine Strossen, and Student Ambassador. After graduation, she looks forward to joining Davis Polk & Wardwell as an associate.

In addition to his role as Digital Reference Editor of the Law Review, Scott Matsuda is a Contracts teaching assistant for Professor Leonard and the Academic Chair for the Asian American Law Student Association at NYLS. Prior to law school, Matsuda studied international business at Oregon State University and worked in the financial services industry. A longtime observer of the political scene, he is externing at the New York Census and Redistricting Institute at NYLS; he previously interned at the New York State Senate with Senator Brian P. Kavanagh and at the Eastern District of New York with Hon. LaShann DeArcy Hall.

Stephanie Chazen serves as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review. Additionally, this year, Chazen will participate in the Criminal Prosecution Clinic at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and serve on the Executive Board of the Criminal Law Society at NYLS. She is also a former Fellow for the Impact Center for Public Interest Law, a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council, and a student ambassador at NYLS.

Jared Goldstein serves as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review. He also serves as a teaching assistant to Professor Doni Gewirtzman. Prior to attending law school, he crunched numbers as a financial analyst. Goldstein also worked at a personal injury firm during law school. In his spare time, Goldstein likes to produce indie music, read science fiction, and eat great food.

Tania Houwayek serves as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review. She holds a B.A. in Economics and International Political Economy from Fordham University. Houwayek is a student attorney in the Securities Arbitration Clinic and a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council. She has also served as a research assistant for the Legal Practice department, as an intern at Ernst & Young and as an adviser at the United Nations. Upon graduation, Houwayek looks forward to joining Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson as an associate.

Jonathan Lerch serves as a Notes and Comments Editor for the Law Review. He has also served as a Teaching Fellow for the Academic Success Program and as a Teaching Assistant for Tort Law. Lerch will be an extern at the New York City Law Department in the Tort Defense division for both the fall and spring semesters.

Jessie Merone serves as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review. She is also a member of the Dean's Leadership Council. During her time at NYLS, Merone has worked for Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse in their Sales and Trading Compliance departments during the day. Merone has a B.B.A. in Finance from Villanova University. She spent Summer 2021 as a Summer Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and upon graduation, Merone will join as an associate in the corporate department.

In addition to serving as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review, Jonathan Richman works as a Constitutional Law teaching assistant for Professor Penelope Andrews and as a research assistant for Professor Kirk Burkhalter. He also served as a Teaching Fellow for the Academic Success Program. Richman received his undergraduate degree in Ancient Greek and Latin from SUNY Binghamton.

In addition to her role as a Notes and Comments Editor for the Law Review, Chloe Van Bourgondien is the Research Assistant to Professor David Schoenbrod. During her time at NYLS, she has served as a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant for Professor Richard Marsico, and a student attorney for the PTO Patent Clinic. Van Bourgondien previously interned for Hon. Joel H. Slomsky at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 2020 and was a summer associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in 2021. Upon graduation, she will join Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as a first-year associate in their patent litigation practice group.

In addition to serving as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Law Review, Emma Wiegand is a member of the Executive Board for NYLS’s Moot Court Association. In 2020, she won NYLS’s 44th Annual Charles W. Froessel Moot Court Competition. She is also a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council and a NYLS student ambassador. Wiegand spent the spring and summer of 2021 interning for a federal magistrate judge at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She will be a Constitutional Law teaching assistant for Professor Penelope Andrews this fall. In spring 2022, Wiegand will spend her final semester as a Pro Bono Scholar at Sanctuary for Families.