Mathias Buch Mathias Buch is an attorney with experience working for the Danish Embassy in Lusaka, the Local Government Association of Zambia, and the Zambia Initiative. He holds an LL.B and an LL.M from Arhus University School of Law, and has received additional training in Development and International Relations at Aalborg University, and in Legislative Drafting at Boston University School of Law. Mathias  is working with ICLAD to develop an Agricultural Law Initiative.

Amie Filipchuk Amie received her B.A. from Vassar College in Political Science with a minor in Economics. Immediately following graduation, Amie enrolled at the Boston University School of Law, where she earned her JD. While at Boston University, Amie focused on legislation and local government law. She participated in the Legislative Drafting Clinic as a drafter, editor and Editor-in-Chief. Amie has worked at the Massachusetts State House in the Senate Counsel's Office, and is now Legal Counsel to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Revenue.

Sara Johnson-Steffey

While completing her M.A. in Sustainable International Development at Brandeis University, Sara Johnson-Steffey studied legislative drafting at Boston University.  She worked on a drafting workshop focusing on land reform in Indonesia, led a workshop in Brazil, and conducted an evaluation of the Boston University Program for Legislative Drafting.  She has assisted with the development of ICLAD, serving on the Board of Directors and leading the Capacity Building and Project Development programs.  She has worked internationally with a number of nonprofit organizations, and most recently on the National Democratic Institute’s Constitutional Support Program in Iraq.

Liz Lambert Liz Lambert holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law and an M.S. from Simmons.  She has served as a drafter, editor, and editor-in-chief in the Legislative Services Program at Boston University. She clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York. Immediately upon graduation, she was tapped by professors Ann and Bob Seidman to serve as an editor for the Legislative Drafting Distance Course, a position she has held since that time.  She also works at Harvard Law School as a Reference Librarian.

Laura Lucas After completing B.A. degrees in History and World Literatures, Laura Lucas earned an M.A. in political science from the University of Kansas. She finished advanced studies in social science methods, econometrics, and formal modeling at Washington University in St. Louis and is currently completing her Ph.D. at Boston University in comparative institutional effects on political behavior.  During her graduate career, she has conducted field research and co-authored (with Dr. George Frederickson) a book on the effects of relationships between local officials, civil-society groups, and journalists on capacity building and participation. She has also taught, carried out interview research funded by the National Science Foundation, and worked with the Center for Russian and East European Studies to analyze electoral system effects on political behavior and corruption. She has presented recent papers to the American Political Science Association.

Joyce Richard An attorney with background in both health care and law, Joyce has both a JD from Northeastern University and a Masters in Public Health and Nursing from Boston University. Her legal experience includes work as a consultant in environmental law to major institutional investors and experience teaching health care law at Bentley College. Joyce Directs ICLAD’s Health Law Initiative.

Mahmoud Sabra

Mahmoud Sabra earned B.A. degrees in Oriental languages and English language at Ein Shams University, subsequently studying legislative drafting at Boston University and English commercial law at the University of London. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, the International Republican Institute, the International Finance Corporation, EUROMATECH, and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.  In addition to speaking internationally on legislative drafting, he has conducted numerous courses on drafting and legal translation.  He has supervised translation projects for international organizations.  His publications include six books on legislative and contract drafting and contract translation.

Christina Salib Christina received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and her M.A. in International Relations from the joint degree program. At Boston University, Christina took Bob & Ann Seidman's Law and Development course, and focused her paper on access to water in South Africa. Her Law and Development paper served as the basis for a paper she gave at Stanford Law's International Law Symposium. Her master's thesis focused on the European Union's effects on development in Central and Eastern Europe. She has been working in private practice serving a variety of public and private clients. Before law school, Christina did development work in Latin America researching labor law reform in Guatemala, developing a community-based public health project in Paraguay, and serving as part of an international huma! n rights observer team for Guatemala's first human rights trial. She has also spent time in Egypt, where she has family.