Law Student Representative to the Board, 2024-2025
Brett S. VanBuren is a third-year law student in the Syracuse University College of Law and is receiving a Certificate of Advanced Study in National Security and Counterterrorism Law in addition to his Juris Doctor. At the College of Law, he is a member of the Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society and won the 2024 Entertainment and Sports Law Arbitration Competition held at SUCOL. He also serves as a procedural advisor for undergraduate students during conduct investigations and was elected as President of the College of Law's Corporate Law Society. Additionally, VanBuren is the Business Editor of the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce. VanBuren spent the Summer of 2023 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, with the United States Army as a Judge Advocate General's Corp (JAG) Intern; he is serving again as a JAG Intern during the Summer of 2024 with the Southern European Task Force - Africa, located in Vicenza, Italy. During the 2022-2023 academic year, he served as Class President for the Student Bar Association. Prior to coming to Syracuse, VanBuren had a three-year career in the advertising industry with a focus in finance. His undergraduate degree is in History from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Linton serves as the law student representative for the 2023-24 academic year. He participates, ex officio, on the Board Academic Affairs, and Enrollment and the Student Experience Committees and reports to the Board at Executive Committee and full Board meetings.