Tessa Chew

Tessa earned her undergraduate degree from Belmont University, where she majored in Music Business with an emphasis in legal studies. She went on to attend the University of San Diego School of Law, where she was awarded the Law Merit Scholarship and the Law Achievement Scholarship. During law school, Tessa served as Senior Editor of the San Diego International Law Journal, which published her comment, “How International Copyright Approaches to Generative AI May Influence the Development of U.S. Copyright Laws for AI,” in Volume 27, Issue 2 (2026). Tessa also served as Vice President of the Employment and Labor Law Society and Vice President of Client Counseling for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team. While in law school, she clerked at various employment law firms, the California Attorney General’s Office, Employment Law Section, and the University of San Diego School of Law’s Entrepreneurship Clinic.