Arrian Ebrahimi

Arrian Ebrahimi is a 2L at the Georgetown University Law Center and a global law scholar. He analyzes international trade and the semiconductor industry through a small business he founded called Chip Capitols, under which moniker he has published in The Washington Post, The Diplomat, Institute for Progress, the Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri), ChinaTalk, among other outlets. He has also testified before the European Commission on Chinese overcapacity in the semiconductor industry.

Prior to law school, Arrian was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University in Beijing from 2022 to 2024, where he wrote and defended his master’s thesis in Mandarin. He got his B.A. at St. Edward’s University in Austin, where he was a full-tuition Moreau Scholar. He has worked at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in DC, and was a 1L summer associate at White & Case LLP’s DC office.

In his free time, Arrian is an oft-injured cross-country runner turned triathlete. He loves poems by Hafiz and Ferdowsi, novels by Stendhal and Yourcenar, colorful musings by Yu Hua, and anything written by the Inklings. He speaks Persian, French, and Mandarin Chinese.