Kristen Nelson

Kristen Nelson is a litigator with extensive experience in domestic and international business litigation and atrocities and asset recovery.

Prior to joining Hecht Partners, Kristen was the Project Manager and Lead Researcher on a multi-year Holocaust real property restitution study commissioned by the Prague-based European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI), which was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 as Searching for Justice after the Holocaust: Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution.

She was also of counsel to a California concierge litigation practice and was Assistant Managing Editor of the European Court of Human Rights module for Oxford Reports on International Law.

Kristen is the author of a number of legal articles and book chapters relating to post-atrocity property restitution.

Kristen has a Master of Laws in Human Rights from the University of Hong Kong, with distinction, a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law and B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in International Studies.