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Laura is an educator, attorney, and former Human Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School, where she got her Juris Doctor and LLM. She is affiliated with Stanford's Handa Center for Human Rights. She created and has taught the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Legal Studies courses for the last 12 years, to over 700 academically talented high school students from all over the world.

Cosovanu is a member of the State Bar of New York. As an attorney, she practiced tax-exempt organizations law at Holland & Knight. In New York, Laura also conducted legal and policy research for Human Rights Watch, International Center for Transitional Justice, and the American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court. At Stanford, she engaged in research for Courts, Politics and Human Rights, an interdisciplinary project awarded a three-year grant from the Stanford Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies in 2008. Laura was the manager of the Program on Human Rights during its inception, and the manager of the Draper Hills Summer Fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law during 2006-2007. At the Law School, she provided career advising to Stanford students interested in international public interest opportunities.