Jackie Schaeffer

Jackie Schaeffer is an associate at Crowell & Moring LLP’s New York office. Her practice focuses on providing strategic advice and counseling on sanctions, export controls, and anti-money laundering compliance, as well as other international trade and national security matters.

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Jackie worked with the International Organizations and Human Rights Bureau at the Estonian Foreign Ministry and served as a Research Assistant to Commissioner Pablo De Greiff in his capacity as Commissioner on the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine. In both positions, she worked on various legal and diplomatic efforts to ensure Russian accountability for its crimes in Ukraine. In 2021, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Rwanda.

Jackie enjoys providing pro bono legal services to support refugees and asylum seekers. Additionally, she is passionate about anti-corruption work, international development, foreign affairs, and efforts to seek accountability and justice for Ukraine.

She earned her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School with highest pro bono distinction, and earned an LLM in European Union and International Business Law at the University of Vienna Law School. Before law school, she served as a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in San Francisco.