Sasha Boutilier is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office. He joined the firm in 2021, and recently returned following a clerkship with the Hon. Justice Andromache Karakatsanis of the Supreme Court of Canada. Sasha’s practice spans multiple areas, including complex commercial litigation, class actions, and appellate litigation. He graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was an articles editor on the NYU Law Review and received the Maurice Goodman Graduation Prize for outstanding scholarship and academic achievement. While in law school, he was a research assistant for Professor Arthur Miller, working on Vol. 5A of Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice and Procedure treatise, and interned for a judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade. Prior to law school, he advised a Cabinet minister in the Government of Ontario on media relations, legislative affairs, and issues management. He has published on constitutional law, administrative law, transnational litigation, and class action litigation.
- New York University School Of Law
(J.D., magna cum laude, 2021)- Order of the Coif
- New York University Law Review:
- Articles Editor
- Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize
- Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholar
- University Of Toronto
(B.A., honors (High Distinction), Political Science, 2017)- Centre for Ethics Fellow
- Andrew Nigrini & Mary Keenan Awards
The State Bar of New York
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Andromache Karakatsanis:
- Supreme Court Of Canada, 2022-2023
- Simplistic Structure and History in Seila Law, 96 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1582 (2021).
- Identifying Ascertainability: A Historical and Comparative Perspective, 40 REV. LITIG. 275 (2021).
- Statutory Analogy and Liability of American Corporations Under the Alien Tort Statute, 14 N.Y.U. J. L. & LIBERTY 264 (2020).