Safia K. Southey is a JD/LLM candidate at Columbia Law School and the University of Amsterdam, where her LLM focuses on international criminal law. She serves as a researcher to the UN Special Rapporteur on Transitional Justice and the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, with a focus on international law and policy in the Middle East. Her scholarship spans third-party countermeasures, transitional justice and reparations, and Palestinian refugee organizing under authoritarianism; she has written for Lawfare, Opinio Juris, Verfassungsblog, and the UN Chronicle.