Zaid A. Zaid
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Zaid A. Zaid
| Zaid is an associate at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr. He clerked on the First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. A Foreign Service Officer from 1999-2006, Zaid served with the Coalition Provisional Authority; the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; the U.S. Mission to the United Nations as the Special Assistant to Ambassador John Negroponte; the U.S. Embassy in Cairo as Special Assistant to Ambassador David Welch; and short assignments in the Legal Adviser’s Office, Amman, Tunis, and Damascus. Zaid has a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University; a M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University; and a J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, the Richard Paul Richman Fellow, and on the Editorial Board ofthe Columbia Law Review. He has published “Continually Creating Races: The Census in the United States and Brazil,” in the National Black Law Journal; “Do We Still Owe Iraq?,” in the Harvard Law & Policy Review; and "Executive Power & Domestic Surveillance," with the American Constitution Society. He is a member of the American Constitution Society and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. |
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January 2010
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