Jake Hirsch-Allen
***************@*****.*** * Pembroke St., Unit 1
www.jakehirschallen.com Toronto ON, M5A 2N6
Education
McGill University, Faculty of Law
Montreal, QC Bachelor of Civil Law and Bachelor of Laws (B.C.L./L.L.B.)
2006-2010 Exchange: University of Amsterdam, 2009 Called to the Ontario Bar: 2011
University of Toronto, University College (UofT)
Toronto, ON Honours Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction GPA 3.9
2001-2005 Double major in International Relations (I.R.) and Archetypal Mythology
Awards
E. Leo Kolber Entrance Scholarship
McGill
Drummond Prize for Best I.R. major, Canadian Institute of International Affairs Prize
UofT 2002, 2004, 2005
University College s A. McLarty and R.W. Leonard Scholarships for Academic Achievement
UofT 2002, 2003
Publications
Selected commentaries, Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals, Andr
Author
Klip and Goran Sluiter, eds., volumes XXVII and XXV (Antwerp: intersentia, 2010-11).
Amicus Curiae Brief on Joint Criminal Enterprise, Co-Prosecutor s Appeal, Closing Order
Co-Author
against Kaing Guek Eav Duch 8 August 2008, (2009) 20 Criminal Law Forum 331-351.
Researcher MacMillan, Margaret. Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World, Random House, 2007.
Business Development, Intellectual Property & Public International Law
Multiplicity Accelerator, Cobalt Business Counsel and Various Startups
Consultant, Director of
Business Development and Facilitate the growth of early-stage technology businesses and develop new legal clients.
Founder Undertake business development for startups including as Director of Business
Toronto & Montreal, 2011- Development for Functional Imperative, OODA Technologies and Wall Street Survivor,
and as a founder of Hacking Health and #MTLStartupTalent.
Incentives for Global Health - the non-pro t behind the Health Impact Fund -
Senior Project Manager
Toronto, 2011- Consult on government relations, social media and other outreach.
Gilbert s LLP - Intellectual Property Litigation Boutique -
Summer & Articling Student
Toronto, 2009, 2010-2011 Business development, government relations and patent, trademark, commercial and
copyright litigation for corporate clients in the pharma, high-tech, and music industries.
Supreme Court of Israel
International Law Clerk
Jerusalem, 2010 Clerked for Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch and drafted legal memos for several other justices.
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Jake Hirsch-Allen
International Criminal Law & Foreign Policy
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Legal Intern
Amsterdam, 2009-2010 Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
Phnom Penh, 2010
Assisted in the defense of Radovan Karadzic before the Tribunal and Ieng Thirith before
the Extraordinary Chambers.
- Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) -
Executive Director
Legal Clinic for the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Montreal, 2008-2009
Managed a team responding to research requests from the Court s Trial Chambers.
Human Rights Watch - International Justice Program -
Legal Intern
New York City, 2008 Research and government relations in support of the International Criminal Court.
Foreign Affairs Canada
Resident Law Student,
Acting Desk Of cer & Managed les related to international criminal law, Guantanamo and Afghan detainee rights
as well as human rights in Sudan. Prepared the brie ng material for the Minister of Foreign
Special Projects - Ottawa,
Affairs and for other Members of Parliaments visits to Southeast Asia.
summers 2002-2004, 2007
International Affairs & Archival Research
McGill University - Center for Intellectual Property Policy -
Researcher
Montreal, 2008-2009 Researched changing models of US in uence on intl. intellectual property enforcement.
- Dr. Margaret MacMillan, Dr. Paul Litt, Dr. John English -
Archival Researcher
Washington, D.C U.S. National Archives and Record Administration
2005-2006 Researched the details of Nixon s trip to China for a book on the visit. Researched
American views on John Turner and Pierre Elliot Trudeau for their of cial biographers.
Munk Centre for International Studies - Dr. Sylvia Ostry -
Project Manager
Toronto, 2003-2005 Managed a team s research into a) 5300 NGOs within the anti-globalization network and
b) enhancing non-state actors participation in Sub-Saharan African trade policy making.
Website & Graphic Design & Information Technology
Graphic design for the Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide at McGill s
Montreal, 2007-2008
CHRLP and for Foreign Affairs Canada s International Women s Security Division. Website
Kiev, 2006
design for one of the International Organization for Migration s programs against human
Ottawa, 2004-2005
traf cking and for the Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Peace, Women and Security.
Washington, DC, Toronto Technical Services Representative for the Canadian Embassy; Ethernet Administrator for
2000-2006 University College Residences, UofT; and IT consultant for Dr Hirsz and Buchaman, GPs.
Languages: A native English speaker, uent in French, having studied in both languages.
Interests: Photography, rock climbing and ultimate frisbee.
t, trademark, commercial and
copyright litigation for corporate clients in the pharma, high-tech