Editor-In-Chief

Yuvraj Tuli is a senior at Cornell University, majoring in Government with minors in Law and Society and European Studies. He is writing his honors thesis on comparative constitutional law, supervised by Professors Joseph Margulies and Sabrina Karim.

During the 2023-2024 academic year, Yuvraj was a visiting student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he served on the Editorial Board of the LSE Law Review as a Liaisons Officer and as a Speakers Officer for the LSE Law Summit, the UK's largest student-led legal conference.

At Cornell, Yuvraj is the President of the Cornell Undergraduate International Law Review. He also serves as an Associate Editor, and is the past Vice President of Public Relations of the Cornell Undergraduate Law and Society Review. He is also an editor for the Cornell Diplomat, Vice Chair of the Cornell Student Assembly's Office of Ethics and a member of the Senior Convocation Committee.

Additionally, he serves as the Policy Director for the Mayor. He previously served as Chief of Staff for a Congressional campaign, was on the City Council’s Advisory Panel, and was an intern to Congressman Ted Deutch. He can be reached at yt369@cornell.edu

Co-Managing Editor

Quintin Cerione is in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, majoring in Government with minors in International Relations and Law & Society. He is currently constructing an honors thesis on atomic diplomacy under the supervision of Professor Peter Katzenstein.

Cerione spent the prior semester as a visiting student at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies, where he additionally interned at the United States Embassy in London, United Kingdom as an International Trade Assistant.

At Cornell, he is currently serving as an editor for the Cornell Diplomat and is a member of the Cornell Brooks Institute of Politics and Global Affairs' Undergraduate Scholars program. Cerione has previously served as a research assistant for Associate Professor Christopher Way and as a Security Assistance Monitor intern for the Center for International Policy.  

Co-Managing Editor

Jimmy Cawley is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, studying government and information science. Cawley is currently writing an honors thesis within the Department of Government, studying the effect of COVID-19 relief legislation on the success of students in rural New York schools, under the supervision of Professor Douglas Kriner.

Cawley spent the 2023-2024 academic year as a visiting student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he engaged in coursework related to political science, economics, and international affairs. While studying at LSE, Cawley served as an intern with the US Commercial Service at the US Embassy, London.

He serves as an editor of the Cornell Diplomat, is a former member of the editorial board of the Cornell Daily Sun, and is a part of the Cornell Brooks Institute of Politics and Global Affairs' Undergraduate Scholars program. Other involvement on campus include Arts & Sciences Ambassadors and campus tour guiding.

Cawley has previous experience interning with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, former Congressman Kurt Schrader, and Cassidy & Associates. He can be reached at jdc354@cornell.edu

Editor-In-Chief Elect (2025-2026)

Associate Editor (2024-Present)

Allison Wong is a sophomore at Cornell University, majoring in Government with minors in Law & Society and Inequality Studies. In addition to serving as Editor in Chief Elect of the Cornell Undergraduate International Law Review, she is a managing editor for the Cornell International Affairs Review and staff writer for the Cornell Undergraduate Law and Society Review. 

On campus, Allison serves as a legal advocate for the Cornell Parole Initiative, researcher for the Spero Justice Center, and intake volunteer for the Tenants Advocacy Program. She is currently interning for the American Bar Association and has previously interned for Onondaga County District Attorney William J. Fitzpatrick, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, and The Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York. She can be reached at aw764@cornell.edu.

DEI Chair

Nicholas Varela is a senior at Cornell University, double majoring in Computer Science and Government. He is interested in emerging technologies, cloud computing, government technology, and technology policy.

Varela spent part of his 2023-2024 academic year at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He focused on UK Politics, Scottish Studies, and Political Data Analysis. He was also part of the Summer 2022 cohort of Cornell in Washington.

At Cornell, he serves as President of Perfect Match @ Cornell; a Machine Learning incubator for connecting students. He was previously part of the Technology Policy Lab under Professor Sarah Kreps. Other involvement on campus includes Arts & Sciences Ambassadors, Cornell Rowing Club, and Cloud Supercomputing Research under Professor Giulia Guidi.

Varela has interned with Amazon for three summers. First, in technical consulting and more recently in software development. He will be joining Amazon full-time upon graduation in 2025.

As the grandson of Dominican, Spanish, and Mexican immigrants, Varela understands the transformational nature of education and opportunity. As DEI Chair, he looks forward to implementing policies to bring more diverse voices to the Undergraduate Law Review. He can be reached at njv27@cornell.edu

Advisor to the Editorial Board, and Alumni Relations Advisor

Jiwook Jung completed a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, where he minored in Business. He is currently a Juris Doctor candidate at Cornell Law School and a member of the Corporate Connect and Korea Law and Culture Society.

During his undergraduate years, he gained significant experience as City Editor for The Cornell Daily Sun, worked as a PE Instructor for Outdoor Education, and held leadership roles as VP of Finance for the ILR Global Affairs Club. He also served as a research assistant to Professor Nathan Yang and participated in global research projects, including working with the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research on judiciary research in Zambia. Additionally, he was involved with the Vietnam Ton Duc Thang University Student Researcher program and played on the IM soccer team, which won the 2021 Fall Championship.

In the legal field, he interned at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where he worked as a law clerk, drafting case briefs and original research reports. He also interned at Proskauer Rose LLP, where he assisted in labor and employment research and negotiations, and at Shin & Kim LLC in Seoul, South Korea, contributing to M&A and international arbitration work.

This summer, Jiwook will be interning at Miller Shah LLP as a Summer Associate.

Jiwook is fluent in Korean and has a wide range of interests, including distance running, mountain biking, golfing, basketball, and Taekwondo. He can be reached at jj468@cornell.edu

Faculty Advisor

Oumar Ba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. His primary areas of research focus on law, violence, race, humanity, and world order(s) in global politics. He is the author of States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge, 2020). His writings have appeared in Human Rights Quarterly, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, PS: Political Science & Politics, Journal of Narrative Politics, African Studies Review , Africa Today, Foreign Affairs, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, among others. His opinions have been featured in a number of media outlets including Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, and BBC. 

Oumar Ba is currently working on two major projects. The first one, titled Crimes, Against Humanity: Governing Global Justice is a genealogy of the international criminal justice system within the liberal order, highlighting its racialized hierarchy of humanity and explaining its current crisis. It also proposes a decentering of The Hague, through an exploration of worldmaking projects and visions for and alternatives to the current international order, from Global South perspectives.