Zoe Salzman joined the firm in 2010. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Salzman clerked for the Hon. Sterling Johnson, Jr. in the Eastern District of New York and worked with the International Human Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law.

Ms. Salzman graduated magna cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2007. She received her LL.M. from NYU School of Law in 2008. In law school, she was a Senior Notes Editor for the Journal of International Law & Politics. She spent her law school summers with the New York Legal Assistance Group, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Education
New York University, LL.M., 2008; IILJ Fellow, Jerome Lipper Prize

New York University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2007; Order of the Coif

Concordia University, B.A., with great distinction, 2003

Admissions
U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; New York

Publications

Report, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Rights Within Reach: Securing Human Rights and Equality in Nepal’s New Constitution (New York: NYU School of Law, 2010).

Armed Groups in Peace Processes: Who Gets a Seat at the Negotiating Table?, IILJ Emerging Scholars Paper 10(2008), available at http://www.iilj.org/publications/documents/Salzman.ESP10-08.pdf .

“The Tangled Web”: The Right of Self-Defense against Non-State Actors in the Armed Activities Case, 40 N.Y.U. J. INT’L L. & POL. 53 (2008).

Note, Private Military Contractors and the Taint of a Mercenary Reputation, 40 N.Y.U. J. INT’L L. & POL. 853 (2008).