Aviel Menter is an associate in the Litigation group. Before joining Irell, he clerked for the Hon. Holly A. Thomas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Avi earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar. He was also awarded the Charles Bathgate Beck Prize in property law and Paul R. Hays Prize in civil procedure. He served as submissions editor of the Columbia Science & Technology Law Review and worked as a judicial extern for the Hon. David O. Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Avi received his B.S., summa cum laude, in Computer Science with a specialization in intelligent systems and a minor in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.
News
Publications
- “Multiple Choice: How Instant Runoff Voting Improves Redistricting Under the Voting Rights Act,” Touro Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2022)
- “Calculated Discrimination: Exposing Racial Gerrymandering Using Computational Methods,” Columbia Science & Technology Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
- “Mail Voting Litigation in 2020, Part I: Application and Eligibility to Vote By Mail,” Lawfare (2020)
Practice Areas
Education
Columbia Law School (J.D., 2021); Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar; James Kent Scholar; Julius Silver Prize; Charles Bathgate Beck Prize; Paul R. Hays Prize; Submissions editor, Columbia Science & Technology Law Review
University of California, Irvine (B.S., Computer Science; Minor, Political Science, 2018), summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
- California
Clerkships
- Hon. Holly A. Thomas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Hon. Denise L. Cote, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
