Samuel Sontag is a J.D. Candidate at Columbia Law School, and a 1L Advocate for the Human Rights Institute. Before law school, he worked as a journalist, covering food systems and culture, and as an immigration advocate and educator at the Tenement Museum. He has also written on the neuropsychology of creativity, with work published in the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology. Samuel’s work as Legal Assistant for the Commission includes comparative analysis of international human rights jurisprudence on the rule of law and issues of impunity.