Nicholas Arons, 29, is a recent graduate of NYU School of Law. He is currently a Junior Fellow in NYU Law School's Institute for International Law and Justice, writing a legal dissertation on human rights and receiving a L.L.M. in international law. As a Hays Fellow at NYU he worked for two civil liberties organizations in New York. Before law school, Nicholas worked for an educational campaign on the impact of sanctions on Iraq. In this capacity, he traveled to Iraq several times in the late 1990s on humanitarian trips.

As a law student, he has also worked on death penalty cases in California and at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Nicholas spent a year living in Brazil as a Fulbright scholar, and his research on water politics was recently published as a book by the University of Arizona Press, called "Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil ." He will clerk for Judge Rosemary Pooler next year, who sits on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese. He received his Yale University where he studied Latin American and International Studies.