Jessica Featherston
Law Clerk* Chicago
I graduated from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs with a B.A., cum laude, in Communication (Media Studies) and an M.A. in Communication. I received my J.D. from the Florida State University College of Law. I am a law clerk on the Mass Torts team.
Favorite Sport
Skiing
Favorite Animal
Dog
How I Get To Work
Walk
Legal Hero
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Curriculum Vitae
JESSICA FEATHERSTON is a law clerk at Edelson PC, where her work focuses on Mass Torts.
Jessica earned her J.D. from Florida State University College of Law, where she served as President of the Public Interest Law Students Association and Staff Editor of the Journal of Transnational Law and Policy. Before law school, she earned an M.A. in Communication and a B.A. in Communication (Media Studies) from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
During law school, Jessica served as a Research Assistant for the International Human Rights Advocacy Clinic at Florida State University College of Law and spent a summer with the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute in London, where she monitored humanitarian crises, including the Sudanese Civil War and global enforced disappearances. She also first participated in and later helped lead FSU Law’s Alternative Spring Break program, working with migrant farmworkers in rural Florida, and assisted in planning the law school’s International Human Rights and the Death Penalty Symposium and annual D’Alemberte & Palmer Lecture in International Human Rights.
*Application to Illinois Bar pending; not licensed to practice in any state.
- The 2025-2026 Leader Award presented by the Public Interest Law Center at Florida State University College of Law (August 2025- April 2026)
- Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award presented by Florida State University College of Law (August 2023 – May 2026)
- “Woman, Life, Freedom”: Rojava’s Path to Autonomy Through the Right to Self-Determination, National Lawyers Guild Review, 2026
- “Response to Call for Inputs: The Death Penalty from the Perspective of the Prohibition Against Torture and Other Forms of Ill-Treatment and the Protection of Human Dignity,” International Human Rights Advocacy Clinic, Florida State University College of Law (Co-author), March 2026
- “Progress or Pretense: Examining the Syrian Transitional Government’s Human Rights Record Seven Months After the Fall of Assad,” International Bar Association Intern Newsletter, September 2025.