Low Memorial Library, Columbia University. Photograph: Marco Almbauer, 4 August 2017; public domain (CC0). Contextual campus photograph. Resized and slightly cropped for display. Source and licence.
The Columbia year
Advanced legal study
Parth studied at Columbia from August 2024 to May 2025 and completed the Master of Laws in 2025. His academic interests connect business and corporate law with administrative law, transactions, taxation and human rights.
The LL.M. year brought these fields into the same academic setting as journal editing, research assistance and clinical work.
Staff editor · 2024–2025
In 2024–2025, Parth served as a staff editor on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. HRLR publishes human-rights scholarship; JLM provides legal information for people in prison and their supporters.
The editorial work was one strand of the LL.M. year, alongside advanced study, academic research and participation in the Human Rights Clinic.
Butler Library lobby · Columbia Admissions · CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and cropped; adaptation under the same licence. Photo source.
Human-rights research
From October 2024 to May 2025, Parth undertook an academic-credit research assistantship with Luna Borges Pereira Santos, Lecturer in Law and Supervising Staff Attorney, through Columbia’s Human Rights Institute. The work included assistance with academic publications and research on reproductive justice and human rights.
Kent and Hamilton Halls, Columbia University · King of Hearts, 2016 · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped; adaptation under the same licence. Photo source.
Clinic and Amnesty collaboration
During his LL.M., Parth contributed through the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic to research with Amnesty International. The academic-credit collaboration examined fossil-fuel infrastructure, human rights and critical ecosystems.
The institutional research covered Guanabara Bay in Brazil and Wet’suwet’en territory in Canada. Its public output, Extraction Extinction, was released in November 2025.
Guanabara Bay and Santos Dumont Airport · ASSY · CC0. Resized and cropped. Photo source.
From Columbia to New York
After completing the LL.M., Parth joined Ramseyer & Associates in August 2025 as a Foreign Attorney Associate. His work in New York includes research, drafting and cross-border coordination under New York-admitted counsel.
The transition followed a year of academic study, editing and collaborative human-rights research at Columbia.
Lower Manhattan from Liberty Island · Percival Kestreltail, 2021 · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and cropped; adaptation under the same licence. Photo source.
Read the academic record
Explore the connected chapters on academic life, editorial work and institute research. The research archive also includes the two Cambridge journal articles on sentencing and the right to remain silent.
Sources: Columbia’s Fall 2025 class notes; the 2024–2025 HRLR and JLM mastheads; Columbia Human Rights Institute’s account of the Amnesty collaboration.