Nadia Alhadi is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the Firm’s Litigation and International Arbitration Practice Groups.

Nadia specializes in matters of public international law and international criminal law. Prior to joining the Firm, she served as the judicial clerk to the Honorable Judge Nawaf Salam of the International Court of Justice as well as to the Honorable Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut of the International Criminal Court. At each clerkship, Nadia performed the majority of her duties in French.

She received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in December 2018 where she was the recipient of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award and served as Managing Articles Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law. She also actively participated in Michigan Law’s clinical programs, working extensively with the Workers’ Rights Clinic and the Human Trafficking Clinic, and additionally interned in the Trial Division of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In 2015, she received her Bachelors of Arts in Law, Letters & Society and in Romance Languages & Literature from the University of Chicago. In addition to French, Nadia has a professional working knowledge of Spanish and has volunteered as a Spanish-English interpreter in numerous immigration cases. She maintains an active pro bono practice advising clients on issues of public international law, international human rights, international criminal law, as well as civil rights and U.S. constitutional law.

Nadia is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Publications

•  Increasing Case Traffic: Expanding the International Criminal Court’s Focus on Human Trafficking Cases, 41 Mich. J. Int’l L. 541 (2020).