Chinaza Asiegbu is a law clerk in the Litigation Department.
Ms. Asiegbu joined Debevoise in 2025. Ms. Asiegbu received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2025, where she was the submissions editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and a Human Rights Program Fellow. She was a student attorney in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, International Human Rights Clinic, Ghana Clinic, and Harvard Dispute Systems Design Clinic. Previously, Ms. Asiegbu served as a special assistant to a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for People of African Descent. She has worked at UNESCO, as well as Integrity Initiatives International under the Honorable Judge Mark L. Wolf of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She received her A.B. from Harvard College in 2022.
Ms. Asiegbu is the author of “Political Will, Implementation, and Institutional Reform in the African Transitional Justice Pursuit” in the Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution (2025), “ECOWAS Must Get Serious About Corruption—or the Coups Will Continue” in the Global Anticorruption Blog (2024), and “Overcoming the Extravagant Woman Phenomenon: The Evolving Political Role of Nigerian First Ladies and the Influence of the African Union, 1960–1998” in the Journal of African Union Studies (2021). She is proficient in French.