Samantha Bertschi

Staff Editor, Volume 102

Samantha Bertschi is a second-year law student from Atlanta, Georgia. She attended the University of Chicago, where she competed on the varsity swimming and diving team and graduated magna cum laude in 2025 with a B.A. in Economics and Psychology with Departmental Honors. At Notre Dame, Samantha serves as a teaching assistant for Professor Julian Velasco’s Contracts class, a research assistant for Professor Avishalom Tor, a Student Fellow in the Program on Law and Economics, and Vice President of the Business Law Forum. During her 1L summer, she worked as a research assistant for Professor Tor and as a summer associate at Ropes & Gray in Chicago, where she will return next summer. After graduation, Samantha will clerk for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then for the Honorable Paul B. Matey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.