Brian is currently pursuing a JD at Yale Law School.  As a member of Yale’s National Security and Civil Liberties law clinic, Brian has worked on legal issue arising from the United States’ war on terror, including accountability for torture, indefinite military detention, the use of private military contractors in combat, and the liability of government officials for civil rights violations.   Brian has also investigated war time atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina while working for that country’s Prosecutor for War Crimes.  He serves as an editor for the Yale Journal of International Law.  Prior to attending law school, Brian earned a doctorate in archaeology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.  He has conducted extensive ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork in post-conflict regions, particularly in Peru, where he located and documented the graves of individuals disappeared during the country’s civil war.  While an undergraduate at Cornell University, Brian worked as a firefighter and EMT for the Ithaca Fire Department.