Associate

Alexandra (Allie) Nickerson

Alexandra (Allie) Nickerson Photo

Education & Honors

  • Columbia Law School, J.D., 2022; Hamilton Fellow; Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize; James Kent Scholar; E.B. Convers Prize; Samuel I. Rosenman Prize; Columbia Law Review, Notes Editor
  • Vanderbilt University, B.S., 2018; summa cum laude; Peabody Scholar

Bar & Court Admissions

  • New York and District of Columbia
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 

Clerkships

  • Law Clerk, Judge Beryl A. Howell, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2024-2025
  • Law Clerk, Judge Michelle T. Friedland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2022-2023

Government Service

  • Legal Intern, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, 2021
  • Legal Intern, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, U.S. Attorney's Office, 2020

Publications

  • Alexandra Nickerson & Kellen Funk, When Judges Were Enjoined: Text and Tradition in the Federal Review of State Judicial Action, 111 CALIF. L. REV. 1763 (2023).
  • Alexandra Nickerson, Ultra-APA Ultra Vires Review: Implied Equitable Actions for Statutory Violations by Federal Officials, 121 COLUM. L. REV. 2521 (2021).
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