Alissa Mickels is an attorney and member of the California State Bar. Ms. Mickels' practice primarily includes consulting green businesses, corporate social responsibility, and international environmental law. She received her J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of the Law and an LL.M. in European Private Law from the University of Paris II-Assas. Before attending law school, she attended U.C. Berkeley where she double majored in Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies. During law school, she was supervising editor for the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review (HICLR) and has received numerous awards and scholarships including an honorable mention for the Best Moot Court oral argument, Thomas J. Scotto Award, and Hastings International Internship Scholarship. Alissa was also a member of the 2007 Stetson International Environmental Law Moot Court Team and was appointed President of Hastings International and Comparative Law Society. In 2007, Alissa worked as an extern at Hastings International Human Rights Clinic and as a summer associate for Savin Martinet Associés, a French law firm, where she provided assistance to French lawyers in preparing briefs and drafting legal memoranda in such areas as contract law, M&A, business law and environmental law.  In 2008, Alissa worked in New York as a legal intern for Fourth Sector Network in collaboration with Perlman & Perlman LLP where she provided extensive research non-profit law, business governance issues, and new corporate forms. In 2008, she completed ten months of research and in-depth analysis of the legal obligations of hybrid corporations in America and Europe, which was later published as a law journal article. Alissa is currently practicing international environmental law at an American law firm in Paris.