Alison N. Smeallie is a 2017 Law and Public Policy Scholar at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Alison graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.A. in History and minors in Legal Studies and Political Science. Alison was a student at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen during the Fall of 2015 where she studied Justice and Human Rights with a focus in International Law.
While a Law and Public Policy Scholar, Alison is working as a legal intern for AEquitas, a non-profit that serves as a prosecutor’s resource on sexual violence and violence against women. Her policy interests are centered around the intersection between criminal justice reform and juvenile justice.
At Temple Law, Alison is a recipient of the Law Faculty Scholarship as well as a Student Public Interest Network grant. Alison serves as an oralist and brief writer for the International Criminal Court Moot Court Team, the treasurer of the International Law Society, a staff editor for the Political and Civil Rights Society, and the chair of the student week against mass incarceration for the National Lawyers Guild.