Hannah Cowden

Hannah Cowden is Director of Networking, editor, and a contributor for Arbitror. She grew up in Evergreen, Colorado, and in 2016 she graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs. Hannah served as a legal assistant at a law firm in downtown Portland and recently graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, with a Juris Doctor and Certificate in International Law.

In fall 2015, Hannah spent a semester living and traveling in India for her first experience outside of the U.S., where she studied a variety of subjects. For her undergraduate senior thesis project, she did research on reasons for the occurrence of rapid and drastic shifts in economic policy. She focused specifically on the wave of developing countries that liberalized their economies and joined the global market during the 1980s, using India’s decision to liberalize its economy in 1991 as a case study. Her law school Capstone focuses on Blockchain as a disruptive emerging technology, and presents an argument for why public international law may be useful as a tool for addressing the challenges that future disruptive technologies will present to our globalized world.

Hannah’s academic passions lie in studying the nature of global order, international relations theory, globalization, and international systems development in the post-digital revolution era. In her spare time she likes to write, travel, spin fire-poi, spend time camping, surfing, and exploring nature in the pacific northwest.

You can find more of Hannah’s work on LinkedIn, occasional photos and videos of her life events on Instagram, or on Twitter: @HannahLuzadder.

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