Sydney Hamilton is a second-year law student at Emory with a passion for human rights and international law. Hamilton currently serves as president of both the International Law Society and the International Refugee Assistance Project. During her 1L summer, she attended the Public International Law session of the Hague Academy of International Law and worked as a research assistant for Professor Laurie Blank exploring issues of international humanitarian law. 

Hamilton graduated from Southern Methodist University with B.A.s in Human Rights with a focus in Public Policy, Political Science, and International Studies with a Regional Specialization in the Middle East and Africa as well as minors in Arabic and Ethics.