Our 2021-2022 Team
Meet the students leading HLSBFI’s programming, community, and flagship annual conference, and the industry leaders who tirelessly support, advise, and mentor them.
HLSBFI is a student-run community at Harvard Law School focused on the legal, economic, and policy frontiers of blockchain and financial innovation. Our board organizes the Annual Conference, lunch panels, and networking programming throughout the academic year.
HLSBFI 2021-2022
Samantha Altschuler
Samantha is a third-year student at Harvard Law School from New Jersey. She served as a Legal Intern for Uniswap Labs during her 2L year and spent her 2L summer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she will be returning after graduation. She spent her 1L summer as a Legal Intern for the rideshare software company, Via. She is currently an advisor for the Blockchain Chain for Social Impact Coalition. She is passionate about the intersection of law and technology, and participated in the Cyberlaw Clinic as well as the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project. She has been a Research Assistant for the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Samantha graduated from Brown University where she majored in Political Science. After graduating, she worked for a machine learning insurtech start-up in Tel Aviv before starting law school.
Maude Wilson
Maude is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. She is from Southampton, New York and graduated from Hamilton College in 2017. She spent her 2L summer at Davis Polk & Wardwell. She spent her 1L summer in the Civil Division of the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. She is currently an advisor for the Blockchain Chain for Social Impact Coalition.
Gadi Winter
Gadi is an LL.M. student at Harvard Law School. He graduated from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) with an M.A. in Law and is admitted to the bar in Switzerland. Prior to attendingHLS, Gadi worked as an associate with a leading Swiss law firm where he primarily advised clients in the FinTech & Blockchain space.
Jacek Czarnecki
Jacek is an LLM student at Harvard Law School. He graduated from the University of Oxford (MSc in Law and Finance) and University of Warsaw (Master of Law). Jacek has spent his professional career in the fintech and blockchain space, most recently as Global Legal Counsel at the Maker Foundation, a key entity behind a large Decentralized Finance (DeFi) project MakerDAO. He has been involved in many other business and academic projects and industry organizations around the globe and spoke at multiple crypto and blockchain conferences and events.
Christian Lansang
Christian is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School from Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Science, Technology, and Society. Christian has worked as an operator at a variety of apparel and fintech startups, and during the pandemic, founded a clothing brand that donates a portion of its proceeds to organizations dedicated to stopping violence towards Asian Americans. He worked at Cooley’s Santa Monica office during his 2L summer, and he spent his 1L summer at Morgan Stanley in New York.
HK Yuh
HK is a JD/PhD candidate at Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is from Scarsdale, NY and graduated from Princeton University in 2014. HK spent her 1L summer at the International Finance Corporation and split her 2L summer between the New York and London offices of Kirkland & Ellis.
Madeleine Matsui
Madeleine is a second-year student at Harvard Law School from Hong Kong. She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in International Relations and Urban Studies. She spent her 1L summer at the New York University Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
HLSBFI 2020–2021
Professor Howell Jackson | James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Howell Jackson is the James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His research interests include financial regulation, consumer protection, international finance, and federal budget policy. Professor Jackson has served as a consultant to the United States Treasury Department, the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He also frequently consults with government agencies and congressional committees on issues related to financial regulation. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Professor received his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University in 1982 and a B.A. from Brown University in 1976.
Professor Jose M. Martinez-Sierra | Jean Monnet ad personam Professor for the Study of European Union Law and Government
Jose M. Martinez-Sierra is Jean Monnet ad personam Professor for the Study of European Union Law and Government. Since 2012, he develops a number of teaching, research and administrative roles at Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Harvard Law School. He is a Faculty Affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Faculty Associate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Martinez-Sierra has served in a number of roles in international and national executive boards and advisory positions in education, research and innovation. He was an advisor to several Ministers responsible for Education and Universities. He served as General Director for International Relations in the Spanish Ministry of Education and General Director of the Agency for the Internationalization of Spanish Universities. He is a former President of the European Union High Level Group on Education and Training Policies and the EU Education Committee, a member of the OCDE Education Policy Committee and former president of the Bologna Follow-up Group. He was representative for Higher Education at UNESCO and senior member of the Fulbright Commission.