Steve M. Swerdlow
Associate
San Francisco
Practice Areas Include: Consumer Protection, International and Human Rights, Personal Injury/Mass Torts, Product Liability
Bar Information
Admitted to practice in California, 2007;
U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California,
2007.
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt
Hall School of Law (J.D. 2006); Senior Notes & Comments Editor,
California Law Review; Boalt Hall Public Interest Fellowship (2004);
Chairman, Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights (BHCHR); Asylum Advocate,
California Asylum Representation Clinic; Boalt Hall Death Penalty Clinic;
Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (M.A.,
Human Rights and International Affairs, 2003); Harriman Institute Certificate
in Post-Soviet Studies (2003); University of California, Berkeley (B.A.
phi beta kappa 1999).
Prior Employment
Law Clerk to the Hon. Dean D. Pregerson,
U.S. District Court, Central District of California (2006-2007); Consultant
and Special Advisor on Refugee Programs, International Organization
of Migration (IOM) (Russia, 2004 and 2006); Researcher, European Centre
for Minority Issues (Georgia, 2005); Law Clerk, American Civil Liberties
Union of Southern California (2004); Human Rights Monitor, Union of
Councils for Jews in the former Soviet Union (Russia, 2000-2001).
Awards & Honors
U.S. Department of State Young Leaders
Fellowship for Public Service, Krasnodar, Russian Federation (2000-2001);
U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Area Studies Award
(2002-2003 & 2004-2005); Harvard Tuition Scholarship, Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute.
Publications
"The Third Migration: Meskhetian
Turks' Resettlement and Integration in the United States," Integration,
Repatriation or Resettlement?, Berlin: LIT Verlag (2007); "Understanding
Post-Soviet Ethnic Discrimination and the Effective Use of U.S. Refugee
Resettlement: The Case of the Meskhetian Turks of Krasnodar Krai," 94
Cal. L. Rev. 1827 (2006); National Public Radio's "The World" on "Ethnic
Discrimination in Russia" (Guest, Oct. 2007); The Meskhetian
Turks: An Introduction to their History, Culture and Resettlement
Experiences, Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied
Linguistics (2006); Voice of America Radio Interview, "Xenophobia
in the Caucasus" (Guest, March 2005); "Stalin's Deported
Peoples: Human Rights of Transnational Minorities," in Bulletin,
Moscow (2004); Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, "Russia's Expulsion
of Ethnic Minorities" (Panelist, 2002); "The Forgotten
Jews of Nagorno-Karabakh," Institute of War and Peace Reporting
(2001).
Languages
Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian.
Member
American Bar Association, Sections of International
and Refugee Law, Sub-Committee of International Human Rights and Refugee
Law; Bar Association of San Francisco.
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