Editorial Staff
Editor-in-Chief
Rachel Wilson
Rachel is a 2L at William & Mary Law School, originally from Wilton, Connecticut. She graduated with distinction from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, in 2023, where she studied political science and minored in economics and communications. At William & Mary, she is a member of the International Competition Team and the Business Law Review, serves as Social Media Chair for the Women’s Law Society, and is a board member of the Public Service Fund. During her 1L summer, Rachel worked at the CEELI Institute in Prague, Czech Republic, where she supported international rule-of-law programming and worked with judges, lawyers, and legal professionals from across Europe and beyond. Before law school, she worked as a business analyst for a technology consulting company. Rachel is particularly interested in international business and transactional law. In her free time, she enjoys reading, cooking, and traveling.
Managing Editor
Anderson Tao
Anderson is a 2L at William and Mary Law School. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a major in Business Administration and Economics, with concentrations in Investment Management and Multinational Finance. Before starting law school, Anderson helped found the UNC Impact Investing Fund, a student-run investment fund based on an ESG investment thesis. He is interested in studying international law, in particular international trade law.
Executive Editors
Jaanvi Kaur
Jaanvi is a 2L at William & Mary Law School, originally from Long Island, New York. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in Legal Studies and double minored in Human Rights and Public Policy. She is currently a vice chair for the 1L advisory board for the George-Wythe Society and a member of the International Competition Team. Prior the starting law school, she worked as a legal assistant at a criminal defense firm based in San Francisco. Additionally, she spent her summer in India teaching disabled children math and English. Jaanvi is pursuing a career in international human rights law.
Abby Leonard
Abby is a 3L at William & Mary Law School and is originally from Leesburg, Virginia. She attended the University of Virginia for her undergraduate degree where she majored in Foreign Affairs and History. Abby is currently an involved in the Comparative Jurist, the Public Service Fund, Women’s Law Society, and the Bill of Rights Journal at William & Mary. In her 1L summer she worked at Legal Services of Northern Virginia which offers legal assistance to those in the local community who could not afford representation otherwise.
Gwyneth Smith
Gwyneth is a 3L at William & Mary Law School from Atlanta, Georgia. She also attended Wiliam & Mary as an undergraduate where she majored in International Relations with a minor in History. She worked as a research assistant at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute for three years, where she studied Chinese development aid and finance as part of the AidData research lab. Gwyneth has studied Chinese, Japanese, and French and spent a winter studying abroad in Kyoto, Japan. She is interested in studying international law, particularly international humanitarian law. Outside of school, she enjoys fencing. For her 1L summer, Gwyneth interned with Machik, a non-profit in Washington, D.C., dedicated to charting new pathways for the global Tibetan community.