Mr. Jaykumar Menon, B.A. (Brown), M.I.A. (Columbia), J.D. (Columbia), is a legal research fellow at the CISDL. He is also an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City.  He is exploring commercial law solutions to the sovereign debt crisis that may be of use in courts and other fora.  He was formerly with the New York boutique law firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, which specializes in the representation of developing country governments in U.S. courts, where he worked on matters on behalf of South Africa, Angola, Cuba, and other countries.  With the Center for Constitutional Rights, he has worked on a variety of cutting-edge transnational litigation matters, serving as co-counsel in a case against Royal Dutch Shell for environmental degradation and human rights violations in Nigeria, lead counsel and co-counsel for student leaders from Tiananmen Square in a human rights suit against the former Premier of China, and on a trial team that won a $4.5 billion judgment on behalf of victims of the Bosnian genocide.  He was a co-finalist for the 2000 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.  He has drafted a chapter on domestic, third-county litigation for a report commissioned by the U.S. Congress on legal options for addressing the Cambodian genocide.  He has served as a judicial clerk in New Orleans for the Honorable Helen G. Berrigan, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, working on both civil and common law cases.  He was a National Merit Scholar at Brown University, an International Fellow at Columbia University and twice a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School.