Our Executive Board

Chapter Officers

2024-2025

  • Adelena Nini

    PRESIDENT

    Welcome to our chapter! I am a 2L and the current president. I am originally from Clarkston, Michigan, and I graduated from Boston College in 2021, majoring in philosophy and biology. I stayed at Boston College to earn a master’s degree in philosophy before attending law school.

    This past summer, I interned for Justice Viviano at the Michigan Supreme Court. I also worked as a research assistant for Professor John Witte Jr.. This year, I am a senior editor for our newsletter, the Appellate Digest. Please reach out to me if you have any questions about FedSoc!

  • Chris Nyberg

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    As Executive Vice President of the Emory Federalist Society, I manage budgets, fundraising, and alumni relations, and assist the president in all matters.

    I grew up in Tyler, Texas, and studied Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech, where I was President of the American Association of Drilling Engineers and actively involved in the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. After graduating, I worked as a civil engineer in Austin, Texas, for five years and passed the patent bar exam.

    I chose to attend Emory Law for its strong reputation in commercial litigation and opportunities for practical experience in IP matters. I had the privilege of interning for Federal District Court Judge Marcia A. Crone in the Eastern District of Texas, which formed the backbone of my advocacy skills.

  • Alex Chiang

    VICE PRESIDENT OF SPEAKERS

    Hi everyone, my name is Alex Chiang, and I am your current VP of Speakers! I am currently a 3L. I am originally from Long Island, NY, and went to undergrad at New York University. My favorite 1L classes were Constitutional and Criminal Law. Along with organizing our speaker events, I am the Senior Editor for our Federalist Perspective.

  • Ariel Paz Yitzchaki

    VICE PRESIDENT OF MEMBERSHIP

    Hi everyone! My name is Ariel Paz Yitzchaki, and I’m currently a 2L at Emory Law and serving as the Vice President of Membership. In this role, I mainly work with the 1L, transfer, and LLM students to get them involved in our chapter. I am from Alpharetta, Georgia, but I have also lived in Augusta, GA, and Macon, GA.

    Outside of the Federalist Society, I am also a part of several student organizations including JLSA, SBA, and Moot Court. Please reach out to me if you're are new to our organization- welcome!

  • Kayla Winters

    VICE PRESIDENT OF SOCIAL EVENTS

    Hi, my name is Kayla Winters, and I am currently a 2L. I am from Alpharetta, Georgia, and I graduated from American University. This year, I am the Vice President of Speakers, and I plan and supervise the Society's social events!

    Outside of the Federalist Society, I am a Staff Member of the Emory Law Journal and the SBA Treasurer. Next summer, I will be a Summer Associate at Alston & Bird. Please reach out if you have any questions!

  • Nicole Boutsikaris

    VICE PRESIDENT OF ALUMNI & FACULTY

    Hi everyone, I’m Nicole - FedSoc’s current VP of Alumni and Faculty and a 2L at Emory Law. In this role, I am in charge of helping students with clerkships, internships, and externships [especially Judicially related]. I also am the main contact point for communicating with alumni/faculty.

    I am from Westfield, New Jersey. Outside of the Society, I am a Staff Member for the Emory Law Journal, an Extern for Judge Boulee for the Northern District of GA, and finally, TA for the Bar Prep Course. Please feel free to reach out with any questions!

  • Veronica DeGennaro

    VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

    Hello! Welcome to Fed Soc! My name is Veronica and I am currently a 2L at Emory Law. I serve Emory's Federalist Society as the VP of Communications this year. In this role, I notify our members of upcoming events by updating our website and social media.

    I am from Rockland, New York. I attended Fordham Univerity at Lincoln Center and studied Behavioral Economics. Outside of Fed Soc, I am a part of the e-boards for the National Security and Military Law Society, the International Legal Society, and the Disabled Law Students Association. Also, I am a Staff Member of Emory's International Law Review. Please contact me if you have any questions!

  • Joseph Park

    VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS

    Hi! My name is Joseph Park, and I am the VP of Programs for the Federalist Society. I am from LA and South Korea. I went to undergrad at Wheaton College. I am currently a 3L. In this role, I assist in the day-of operations to put on our events.

    Outside of Fed Soc, I am involved in Emory's International Law Review, the Christian Legal Society, and the National Security and Military Law Society. Welcome to Fed Soc!

  • Simon Zhang

    TREASURER

    Hi- I'm the Treasurer for Fed Soc this year. I am from Shijiazhuang, China, and studied at Beijing Foreign Studies University. As the treasurer, I support the Society by drafting and presenting the Society’s budget to the Student Bar Association, ordering catering for events, and overseeing reimbursements from the National Federalist Society.

  • Alex Jacobs

    SECRETARY

    Hello, my name is Alex, and I am the current Secretary for Fed Soc this year. In this role, I keep the minutes of our meetings and track attendance for our events. I am from Short Hills, NJ, and I attended Northwestern University for my BA and MBA.

  • Richard Chen

    EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE

    Hello, my name is Richard, and I am the editor-in-chief of the Fed Soc Journal- The Federalist Perspective. The primary focus of the Emory Federalist Perspective Journal is to publish pieces that offer new perspectives on constitutional law, public policy, and statutory interpretation. Each year, we select a topic and put on a corresponding banquet that reflects a current issue within the legal profession.

    Alittle bit about me- I am from Morristown, New Jersey and I went to Michigan State University for undergrad. Reach out to me if you are interested in The Federalist Perspective!

  • Trey Jackson

    EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE APPELLATE DIGEST

    Hi, my name is Trey, and I am the editor-in-chief of the Newsletter. In the Appellate Digest, we summarize the oral arguments before SCOTUS in an unbiased and concise manner and publish them for the public (mainly Emory Law professors) to view so that they can get a quick understanding of the cases. The Appellate Digest is for you if you are interested in SCOTUS, want extra writing and research experience, or if you want to boost your resume.

    I am from Tallahassee, Florida. Outside of Fed Soc, I am a Staff Editor for the Emory Law Journal. Reach out to me if you are interested in the Appellate Digest!

  • Emma Silverman

    1L REPRESENTATIVE

    Hello, my name is Emma. I graduated from Pomona College with a BA in English. After Pomona, I attended the Iowa Playwrights Workshop where I received an MFA in Playwriting.

  • Jack Mckee

    1L REPRESENTATIVE

    Hi, I am Jack. I am from Ocean Springs, MS. I attended the University of Alabama, where I majored in International Studies and minored in Chinese and Cyber-Criminology.

    Prior to law school, I worked as a research analyst and partnership manager in the cryptocurrency and startup spaces.

  • Samuel Mulaparthi

    1L REPRESENTATIVE

    My name is Samuel Mulaparthi. I am from Lakeland, Florida, which is the headquarters of Publix. I graduated from the University of Florida in May 2024. I studied Business Administration and saw the intersection of Government and Free Commerce.

    I joined the Federalist Society because I believe in preserving this country's fundamental rights and liberties on a personal and economic level to ensure the prosperity of the United States. I plan to go back to Lakeland, Florida, and practice in the Central Florida region as a Family Lawyer.

  • Maahi Sethi

    UNDERGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE

    Hello, my name is Maahi, and I am an undergraduate at Emory University. I study Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, and Law. I am on the Pre-Law track, focusing on Civil Rights and Disability Law.

    Outside of Fed Soc, I was a Virtual Intern with the Special Advisor on International
    Disability Rights at U.S. Department of State, I am a member of the Emory Undergraduate Student Government, and I have contributed to the Emory Law's Supreme Court Advocacy Program's Sunday Splits Blog. Please reach out to me if you are an undergraduate student looking to get involved!

Advisory Committee

Alexander Volokh

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW

Alexander "Sasha" Volokh is an associate professor of law and joined the Emory Law faculty in the fall of 2009.

Volokh earned his BS from UCLA and his JD and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit and Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Samuel Alito. Before coming to Emory, he was a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

His interests include law and economics, administrative law and the regulatory process, antitrust, privatization, corrections, and legal history.

Jonathan R. Nash

ROBERT HOWELL HALL PROFESSOR OF LAW

Jonathan Nash is Robert Howell Hall Professor and co-director of Emory Law’s Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance. Nash specializes in federal courts and jurisdiction, the study of courts and judges, and environmental law (both domestic and international). Before coming to Emory Law, Nash was the Robert C. Cudd Professor of Environmental Law at Tulane University. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Hofstra University School of Law and as a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Nash is a prolific scholar, publishing in the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Michigan Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among other leading journals. His scholarship has been cited by the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Federal Circuits, among others.

Before teaching, Nash was a law clerk to the Honorable Donald Stuart Russell of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Honorable Nina Gershon, then Chief Magistrate Judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Nash also worked as an attorney in New York. Professor Nash received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York, his JD magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, his LLM from Harvard Law School, and his Ph.D. in political science from Emory University.

Matthew P. Cavedon

ROBERT POOL FELLOW IN LAW AND RELIGION

SENIOR LECTURER IN LAW, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND RELIGION

Matthew P. Cavedon is the Robert Pool Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. A native of Connecticut, Cavedon first came to CSLR after graduating from Harvard College. He received his JD/MTS from Emory in 2015, serving as Executive Articles Editor of the Emory International Law Review. While at CSLR, he served on the team that won an international law and religion moot court competition in Venice, Italy. Following graduation, he worked as a Constitutional Fellow at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia. He assisted with constitutional litigation, especially in cases involving civil forfeiture. He then clerked for the Hon. Lisa Godbey Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Brunswick, Georgia. Following this, Cavedon served as an assistant public defender in Gainesville and Dawsonville, Georgia. He worked as a trial, appellate, and juvenile attorney on cases ranging from truancy to murder. Immediately before returning to CSLR, Cavedon clerked for the Hon. Nels S. D. Peterson of the Supreme Court of Georgia. His research interests include Spanish scholasticism, Georgia law, and criminal jurisprudence.

Shlomo C. Pill

LECTURER

PAUL AND MARION KUNTZ FELLOW IN LAW AND RELIGION

Shlomo Pill serves as Lecturer in Law and as the Paul and Marion Kuntz Scholar in Law and Religion in Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Pill's research focuses on constitutional interpretation and jurisprudence; religion in American constitutional law; Jewish and Islamic law as tools for understanding and reassessing issues in American jurisprudence; and law and public policy as foundations for interreligious engagement between different faith communities in pluralistic societies. His current projects include studies on traditional Jewish and Islamic religious law perspectives on religious freedom and the relationship between religious norms and state law, as well as a book exploring some of the ways that similar Jewish and Islamic law perspectives on legal disagreement and uncertainty may offer a helpful perspective on a range of issues in American law and legal culture. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Pill directs the Center for the Study of Law and Religion's Study on Law and Ministry in the United States, a multiyear imitative funded by the Lilly Endowment that is mapping the ways that Christian clergy and religious organizations interact with state and federal laws as a precursor to a larger project developing legal training resources for Christian ministry professionals.

An ordained rabbi with academic training in Islamic jurisprudence, Pill previously served as Visiting Assistant Professor of American Law and Religion at Emory's Candler School of Theology, and has taught courses at Emory College's TAM Institute for Jewish Studies and the Department for Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. Pill consults regularly on matters pertaining to religious liberty and the law of religious organizations, and is a frequent lecturer to academic and popular audiences on issues of law, religion, and interfaith engagement.

Pill's articles have been published in the Buffalo Law Review, Mississippi Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Racial and Ethnic Justice, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Journal, Touro Law Review, and other academic and popular outlets. His recent book, Setting the Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein's Arukh Hashulhan (with Michael J. Broyde), was published by Academic Studies Press in January 2021.

Mark Storslee

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW

Mark Storslee is an associate professor at Emory University School of Law. He teaches courses on constitutional law, the federal courts, and the First Amendment. Before joining the faculty at Emory, Storslee served as an assistant professor at Penn State Law and as executive director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School.

Storslee’s research explores topics in constitutional law. Among other subjects, his work has focused especially on the meaning of the Constitution’s provisions dealing with religion and related questions concerning free speech. Storslee has published in the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Review of Politics, the Journal of Law & Religion, and other periodicals.  He is also a co-editor of Comparative Religious Ethics: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies (Routledge 2014). 

In 2020, Storslee received the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship from the Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Storslee’s work is also frequently cited in legal briefs, including before the United States Supreme Court, and has also been cited in judicial opinions. Storslee has received student-initiated teaching awards and is a frequent speaker at conferences and law schools. Among other venues, Storslee has presented his research to audiences at Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, Georgetown Law, Pepperdine Law, George Washington Law School, and Notre Dame Law School.

Storslee holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. He also holds master’s degrees from Duke University and the University of Edinburgh and a BA from Furman University. After law school, Storslee clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals, and later for Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch on the United States Supreme Court. In addition to his academic appointments, Storslee worked as an appellate litigator at Williams & Connolly, LLP, before joining the Emory faculty.

Thomas C. Arthur

EMORY SCHOOL OF LAW DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR

Thomas C. Arthur holds degrees from Yale Law School and Duke University, where he was an Angier B. Duke Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Before coming to Emory, he practiced law for eleven years with the Washington, DC, office of Kirkland & Ellis. 1982 he left his law firm partnership to join the Emory Law faculty.

Arthur teaches antitrust, civil procedure, and administrative law, and he has been active on the executive committee of the Antitrust Section of the Association of American Law Schools. His articles in the California and Tulane law reviews have been credited with founding a new, "statutory" school of antitrust analysis. His 1991 Emory Law Journal article (co-authored with Professor Richard D. Freer) provoked a nationally noted debate over an important new statute governing the jurisdiction of federal courts. A major antitrust article, "The Costly Quest for Perfect Competition: Kodak and Nonstructural Market Power," was published in the New York University Law Review (vol. 69, April 1994).