Dawn Yamane Hewett is an Associate at Arnold & Porter, LLP working in litigation and international arbitration, with an emphasis on sovereign representation.  Dawn is a recent graduate from Yale Law School, where she founded and directed the Yale Legal Project Assisting the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge Trials), was Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, and was co-Director of the Lowenstein Human Rights Project.  Before law school, Dawn was the Project Manager at the Princeton Project on National Security and Research Assistant for the State Security and Transnational Threats working group. She also has a Master's in Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and with a Mitchell Scholarship, Dawn obtained an MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. While in Ireland, she worked at Front Line, a human rights INGO and an Irish Senate campaign. Dawn graduated in 2000 from the University of Washington with degrees in Political Science and International Studies, a minor in Latin American Studies, and a Certificate of Trans-Atlantic Studies. She was Student Body President at UW and an Americorps National Service Volunteer. In addition to her work on human rights and transitional justice, Dawn conducted field research in rural and urban areas of Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico and in Salvador-da-Bahia, Brazil. Dawn also conducted research on transitional justice in Kinshasa and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, presenting recommendations to the U.S. and Congolese governments and the U.N., and worked with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone.  Dawn speaks Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese.