Angie Liao is a third-year student at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, graduating in May 2017. She concentrates in Human Rights Law & Human Rights Expression with a particular interest in human rights on the continent of Asia. She participates actively in NYU Law's U.S.-Asia Law Institute and studies independently with its Director and NYU Law Professor Jerome Cohen. She previously worked at the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York. In Summer 2014, she was named a Gallatin Global Human Rights Fellow and received a research grant to spend three months at Zhicheng Public Interest Law, China's largest public interest legal NGO located in Beijing. While in Beijing, she researched China, human rights, and international law. At the same time, she also conducted an independent research project with an attorney supervisor on civil and political rights in China.