Jasmine D. Cameron is an international human rights lawyer and visiting scholar at American University’s Washington College of Law. She most recently served as Senior Legal Advisor for Europe and Eurasia with the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights, Justice Defenders Program. Previously, she worked overseas for many years, including as a staff attorney and legal advisor for the U.S. Department of Justice at the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where she helped implement complex anti-corruption and rule-of-law initiatives, and as a political officer for the U.S. Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she focused on the internal politics and elections portfolio. Her work centers on the rule of law, legal development in transitional democracies, and international human rights.

Fernanda G. Nicola is Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law, American University and Director of the Program on International Organizations Law and Development. Her research and teaching interests are in European Union Law, Constitutional Law, Comparative Law and Local Government Law. She is the author of numerous articles on transnational legal theory, European law and integration. In 2024 she co-authored, with Transparency International, the report, Protecting National Sovereignty: What is the Real Threat?, comparing the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act with Hungary’s National Protection of Sovereignty Law, which she also wrote about in Verfassung Blog. She is a member of the American Society of Comparative Law and served as the Chair of the EU Law and Comparative Law Sections of the Association of American Law Schools.

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