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        "Work cited by academics, courts, and legislators, and covered by media in more than 30 countries and 20 languages.",
        "LL.M. and J.S.D., Yale Law School; LL.B., Tel Aviv University.",
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        "Author, with Abdi Aidid, of The Legal Singularity (University of Toronto Press, 2023), winner of the AAP PROSE Award and shortlisted for the Donner Prize.",
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        "LL.M., Yale Law School; clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justice Louise Arbour."
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