Jennifer Marcovitz is an Attorney-Adviser in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where she has served since 2013. She currently serves in the Office of Diplomatic Law and Litigation, where she focuses on issues including the privileges and immunities of heads of state and other foreign officials, overseas legal matters in the Middle East region, and privileges and immunities associated with the United Nations. Jennifer previously worked in the Office of Employment Law and the Office of United Nations Affairs, where she focused primarily on issues related to international criminal accountability, in particular U.S. policy towards the International Criminal Court. Prior to joining the State Department, Jennifer clerked on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and practiced as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, NY. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and her B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of Pennsylvania.
