Milli Lake is Assistant Professor at the International Relations Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses on human rights, violence and state-building in weak, developing and post-conflict states. With over a decade of experience working on human rights and the rule of law in sub-Saharan Africa, she has worked or consulted in varying capacities for organisations including the International Bar Association, USAID, the World Bank, Save the Children, the Human Rights Center at Berkeley School of Law; and the International Law and Policy Institute. Her research appears in International Organization, Law and Society Review, International Studies Quarterly, and a number of other academic journals. She was the recipient of the American Political Science Association Comparative Democratization Section's 2014 'Best Fieldwork' award, and the 2014 University of Washington's Dean's Medal for the Social Sciences.