Ian Samson is a 2011 graduate, cum laude, of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was a Senior Supervising Editor for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly and authored Boumediene as a Constitutional Mandate: Bivens Actions at Guantánamo Bay, 38 Hastings Const. L.Q. 439 (2011). He was also the recipient of the Best Brief Award in his moot court class and Witkin award in his Civil Procedure II, Effective Representation in Mediation, and Sale and Lease of Goods courses. Ian received his undergraduate degree in history and international studies: comparative religion, magna cum laude, from the University of Washington in 2007. Mr. Samson was a fall 2010 extern for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. He is admitted to the California Bar.