Jack Taylor

Louisiana Capital Assistance Center | New Orleans, LA

Jack Taylor hails from Sydney, Australia and has a passion for law, foreign policy, and human rights. As a junior at Harvard College, Jack studies History and Literature with a focus in French studies. He is the current Co-President of the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review, where he co-manages the publication of the journal and chairs discussion forums with lawyers and law professors. He has written a number of articles and conducted interviews with practitioners in the field of human rights and criminal law for the Harvard Political Review and the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review, which have included the President of the International Criminal Court Chile Eboe-Osuji, the International Court of Justice Judge James Crawford, and Alexei Navalny’s lawyer Ivan Pavlov. He has also conducted interviews with victims of human rights violations, including the Turkish activist Osman Kavala who President Recep Erdogan wrongly imprisoned and a Singaporean publisher who was jailed by former President Lee Kuan Yew.

Over the past year, Jack has assisted part-time in the chambers of Boston Judge Mark Wolf and the NGO he chairs, Integrity Initiatives International, which advocates for domestic and international measures to combat grand corruption, including the establishment of an International Anti-Corrupt Court. For his work for Judge Wolf, Jack was named an Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellow by Yale Law School. This summer, Jack hopes to improve access to justice as an intern at the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans.