Charlie Trumbull, Class of 2006
Attorney, U.S. State Department
After graduation: Clerk, Judge Blane Michael, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, and Clerk, Judge Philippe Kirsch, President, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands
Hometown: Morgantown, West Virginia
Undergraduate: Dartmouth College
Charlie Trumbull joined the U.S. State Department after clerking for Judge Blane Michael on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and for Judge Philippe Kirsch, president of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
Charlie's first law review journal article, ‘Giving Amnesties a Second Chance,’ was published in the Fall 2006 Berkeley Journal of International Law, soon after he graduated. "The article argues that we should reconsider the benefits that amnesties for serious violations of international law provide," he explains. "I propose a balancing test for weighing the costs and benefits of amnesties and apply this test to the recent amnesties enacted in Colombia and Algeria.”
Charlie, who served as editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review his 3L year, was appointed to the Order of the Coif after graduation. He credits the "excellent legal education" he received to the simple fact that "The professors are extremely committed to teaching.”
