Executive Board

Allison Wong

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Allison Wong is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University, majoring in Government and American Studies with minors in Law & Society and Inequality Studies. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of UILRC.
On campus, Allison is a managing editor for the Cornell International Affairs Review (CIAR), associate editor and staff writer for the Cornell Undergraduate Law & Society Review (CULSR), and legal advocate for the Cornell University Parole Initiative (CUPI). She is completing an Honors Thesis under the Department of Government, co-advised by Professor Joseph Margulies and Professor Talbot Andrews. Her research focuses on violent crime during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on criminal justice reform and symbolic political messaging.
Outside of Cornell, Allison is an IssueVoter intern, Spero Justice Center researcher, and American Bar Association committee member. Previously, she has interned for Onondaga County District Attorney William J. Fitzpatrick, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, Hiscock Legal Aid Society, and Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York.
Allison is looking forward to working with the UILRC team for another year of academic discourse, scholarship, and publication. She can be reached at aw764@cornell.edu.
Agustina Garcia

CO-MANAGING EDITOR
Agustina Garcia is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University, majoring in Government and American Studies, with minors in Law & Society and Latino Studies. She currently serves as Co-Managing Editor of UILRC.
On campus, Agustina is a fellow at [POLIS] Pi Lambda Sigma Pre-Professional Government Society, co-president of Asociación de Sudamericanos Unidos (ASaU), Secretary at Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity, Vice President of The Swift Club at Cornell, member of the Cornell Latinx Association of Pre-Laws (CLAP), Student Intern for the Latino Studies Program, and Research Assistant for the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. She is in the Cornell in Washington program and plans to study and intern in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 2026, and is on track to write an honors thesis during her senior year for her Government major and as part of the Humanities Scholars Program.
Outside of Cornell, Agustina loves to spend time with her friends and family, and travel. Previously, she interned for Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer at the Long Island Regional Office.
Agustina is looking forward to working with the UILRC team for another year of academic discourse, scholarship, and publication. She can be reached aag264@cornell.edu.
Beth Ebrahimpour

MANAGING EDITOR
Beth Ebrahimpour is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University, majoring in Economics and Classics with a minor in Near Eastern Studies. She currently serves as Co-Managing Editor of the Undergraduate International Law Review at Cornell.
On campus, Beth is a course assistant for introductory microeconomics and is pursuing research in political economics and game theory in the economics department. She is interested in international politics and is a member of the Cornell Political Union, where she enjoys debating others on issues of policy and governance. Outside of Cornell, she has gained experience in the legal system, serving as a judicial intern for Hon. Michael Kitsis in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, where she studied criminal procedure law and published findings of fact for gun trafficking and criminal firearm possession cases.
In her free time, she enjoys all things athletic. This fall, she is taking advantage of the beautiful Ithaca scenery by hiking and finding new trails to jog. She is also a lifelong swimmer and an avid weightlifter.
Beth is looking forward to another wonderful year of working with the UILRC team to advance academic discourse, scholarship, and publication of international law. She can be reached at bne5@cornell.edu.
Professor Oumar Ba

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, TheWashington 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.