Professional Bio

Amanda Wetzel is a litigation associate at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC in Philadelphia, where she focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration as well as white-collar criminal defense, with particular expertise in matters involving transatlantic elements. She has practiced at law firms in New York and Paris, handling commercial and criminal cases in both U.S. and French courts, and has litigated before the European Court of Human Rights and other international human rights forums. Wetzel clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, served as a Dean Acheson Legal Stage at the European Court of Justice, and worked as a legal fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. She earned an LL.M. in human rights law from Queen’s University of Belfast (2003), a JD from Columbia Law School (2008), and dual master’s degrees in French and international commercial law from Université Paris I (2008).