Yared Getachew is director of public service at the School of Law. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1994 with a B.A. in foreign affairs and a minor in French language and literature. He earned his law degree at the University of Virginia in 1998, where he served on the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. Before he returned to the Law School in the fall of 2006, his legal experience included work as a judicial law clerk in Delaware and Philadelphia, a prosecutor in New Jersey, and a legal advisor on international humanitarian affairs in Washington, D.C., and in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has extensive courtroom experience in criminal and immigration courts, and has also appeared before an international claims tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.