Alden Fletcher is a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He previously worked as an associate at Covington & Burling LLP. Alden graduated magna cum laude from both the Georgetown University Law Center in 2020, where he served as an Executive Articles Editor on the Georgetown Law Journal, and from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service in 2017. His writing has been published in the Georgetown Law Journal, The Journal of National Security Law and Policy, and the Lawfare blog.