Nikki Muggli - legal Intern

Nikki Muggli is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Maine School of Law (Class of 2027) in Portland, Maine, where she is active in student leadership, privacy, and public interest work. She serves as a staff editor and incoming managing editor for the Student Informational Privacy Journal and as a member of the Moot Court Competition Team. Her professional experience spans digital privacy, trade compliance, and human rights, including a legal externship at Geiger focused on privacy policy development, regulatory risk management, as well as a legal internship with the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) working on state privacy legislation, and policy comment drafting. During her first-year summer, she worked to advance asylum-based advocacy and immigration policy at the Alliance of Idaho, developing legal research and client-centered advocacy skills in support of immigrant communities. Before law school, Nikki earned a master’s degree in International Relations with an emphasis in global governance from IE Business School in Madrid, where her capstone examined strategies to improve digital literacy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Kyung Hee University in South Korea, completing an undergraduate thesis on reframing internet shutdowns through a human-centered security lens and studying abroad at EDHEC Business School in France, while interning with the U.S. Department of State on internet freedom and human rights policy and with the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee under Baek Buhm Suk.