Alyssa Resar is a second-year student at Yale Law School. She is interested in public international and national security law and in particular how governments can apply international legal tools to manage disputes. At Yale, she is a student chair of the Paul Tsai China Center, an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and a vice president of the National Security Group. She has worked on legal and international security issues at the Department of Justice’s National Security Division (Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism), in the Intelligence Community, and at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Before law school, Resar graduated with a degree in East Asian Studies and Government from Harvard College, where she was the Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Proficient in Mandarin Chinese, she was also a Huayu Enrichment Scholar at National Taiwan University.