Board: Board Alumni

Sahng-Ah Yoo was an ACS Student Board Member, is a former student chapter president at NYU School of Law and ACS Next Generation Leader.

Yoo is currently at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP working on complex litigation and antitrust matters. Her prior legal experience includes amicus brief writing, direct client representations, and appellate review in areas of constitutional, federal employment, immigration, family, and criminal law. Yoo is an alumna of the Sonia and Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program and the American Bar Association’s Judicial Internship Opportunity Program.

Prior to law school, Yoo earned an M.S in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford, where she wrote her thesis on the personal and institutional psychology of police brutality. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University, producing a thesis that studied the effects of social relations on cognition, memory, and automatic processing.

Yoo debuted at Carnegie Hall on piano at age 9 and violin at age 11.

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Neil Siegel is the David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Duke University School of Law and Director of the school’s D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy. Siegel is a member of the ACS Board of Academic Advisors.

Siegel has been active with ACS for more than a decade, including as a speaker at its National Convention and chapter events. He serves on the organization’s Board of Academic Advisors and as the faculty Advisor for its Student Chapter at Duke University School of Law.

Siegel researches and teaches in the areas of U.S. constitutional law, constitutional politics, and constitutional theory, and has published work in law reviews and journals across the country. Additionally, he served as special counsel to U.S. Senator Christopher Coons during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Justice Brett Kavanaugh and advised the Senator during Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing the prior year.

Siegel clerked for both Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and was a Bristow Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice, under Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Duke University and holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.