Aaron S.J. Zelinsky is a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney, an Assistant Special Counsel to Robert S. Mueller, III, and as Special Assistant to State Department Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh. He was a law clerk to Justices John Paul Stevens (Ret.) and Anthony Kennedy, and Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the D.C. Circuit. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore Law School.