Alka Pradhan is Counsel for The Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment. Alka joined The Constitution Project after working in private practice with the law firms of White and Case and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy on international litigation and arbitration. Alka received her undergraduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University in International Relations, a Master's degree in International Law and South Asia Studies at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a law degree from Columbia University Law School, and a Master's degree in International Human Rights Law from the London School of Economics. During law school, Alka was a member of the team that won the world championship and the prize for top writing in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

In connection with her graduate and law studies, Alka worked for the United Nations in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General in New York and assisted the Secretariat of the Human Rights Committee in Geneva. She has done pro bono work in the field of asylum law and international human rights.

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