Marina Angelopoulos is a J.D. student at Georgetown Law. Marina graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Union College in 2021. At Union, Marina majored in Political Science and Chinese language, with a minor in Visual Art.

In the fall of 2019, Marina was awarded a Gilman Scholarship and a Freeman-ASIA award to study abroad at Donghua University in Shanghai, China where her interest in Chinese politics deepend. Upon returning to campus, Marina began to focus her research on how countries leverage economic policy and regulatory bodies to advance their structural goals. Her research culminated in a senior thesis entitled, “Telecommunications, Cryptocurrency, and Satellites: China’s Increasing Structural Power in an Interdependent World,” which focused on China’s use of networked technologies to increase its centrality in the global economy. 

After graduation, Marina worked as an Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions Paralegal at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York City. At Paul, Weiss, Marina enjoyed working on deals with large multinational corporations and navigating the complexities of intellectual property law. At Georgetown, she is excited to study international trade law, international development, sovereign debt, and financial technology and regulation.