Jacob Zenn
Legal Advisor - General
Washington, D.C. (ICNL Headquarters)
Jacob Zenn graduated from Georgetown Law as a Global Law Scholar, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Nanjing Center for Chinese-American Studies in Nanjing, China, and Emory University with a B.A. in International Studies and Mandarin Chinese in 2005. At Georgetown Law Jacob spent one semester as a visiting student at Korea University College of Law in Seoul, interned with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, worked for an international law firm in Bangkok, Thailand, and conducted a fellowship sponsored by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and Chadbourne & Parke LLP's Middle-East North Africa Team in Yemen during which time he also went to Hargeisa, Somaliland to observe elections. His writing, panels, and co-authored works have included issues ranging from "Association and Assembly in the Digital Age" (The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2011); "Lessons from Turkish Civil Society for the Arab Spring" (SETA Foundation at Washington D.C., November 2011); and the “International Migrants Bill of Rights” (Geo. Immigr. L.J. 395-506, 2009-2010). He also writes regularly for the Jamestown Foundation and has contributed international affairs articles for Asia Times, Hürriyet, Yemen Times, and the CTC Sentinel.