Mischa Gureghian Hall

Mischa Gureghian Hall is a third-year Global Studies major pursuing an honors thesis under the guidance and mentorship of Professor Kal Raustiala of UCLA School of Law. He is undertaking an honors thesis studying proposed judicial models for prosecuting the crime of aggression against Ukraine and how such mechanisms would interface with jurisdictional immunities under international law. He hopes this research will serve as a pertinent contribution to the rapidly developing academic literature and public discourse surrounding efforts to hold perpetrators of international crimes in the Russo-Ukraine War accountable and the future of international justice in the face of a deteriorating rules-based world order. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Undergraduate Law Journal and the Peer-Research and Writing Specialist for the Modern Political Violence Cluster course. He also works as a Research Fellow at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law, where he participates in investigative and human rights fact-finding operations with the University Network for Human Rights. Mischa is actively involved with the Center for Truth and Justice, an independent civil society group gathering evidence of atrocity crimes committed in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He hopes to work at the intersection of the study and practice of international criminal law.