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Biography
Justin Cole is an Associate in the Consumer and Antitrust groups at the Firm’s Philadelphia office. Justin graduated from Yale Law School in 2023. While at Yale, Justin was an editor-in-chief for the Yale Journal of International Law and a research assistant for several professors on issues including civil rights, health policy, and immigration law, including Professor Robert Post in his capacity as the Co-Reporter of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy. He was also a teaching assistant for a 1L civil procedure course and has had articles published in the New York University Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the William & Mary Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Policy, Law and Ethics. He competed in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court during his final year of law school; Yale finished in the top sixteen worldwide and Justin was selected as a top-ten individual oralist at the international rounds out of more than five hundred participants.
During each of his law school summers, he did two internships, splitting his time with different components of the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice. Before joining the Firm, Justin clerked for the Honorable Thomas M. Hardiman in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Honorable Diane S. Sykes in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Prior to law school, Justin worked as an investment management paralegal at a large law firm in Boston for two years.
Professional Leadership
- Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law; Rule of Law Clinic, Yale Law School
Publications
- Justin Cole, Alaa Hachem & Oona A. Hathaway, Recognition Rules: The Case for a New International Law of Government Recognition, 100 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 785 (2025)
- Alaa Hachem, Oona A. Hathaway & Justin Cole, A New Tool for Enforcing Human Rights: Erga Omnes Partes Standing, 62 J. Transnat’l L. 259 (2024)
- Nina Kohn, Adrianna Duggan, Justin Cole & Nada Aljassar, Using What We Have: How Existing Legal Authorities Can Fix America’s Nursing Home Crisis, 65 William & Mary L. Rev. 127 (2023)
- Justin Cole & Gregory Curfman, Back to Bakke: Affirmative Action in the Medical School Context, 22 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 60 (2023)
- Justin Cole & Frank Baumgartner, Why Does the Death Penalty Cost So Much?, in Frank R. Baumgartner et al., Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty 289, 289–305 (2018)
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