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From a report earlier this year:

Asked if Rosenstein had recommended Zelinsky to Mueller or played any role in his assignment, a Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment and referred questions about the special counsel team to that office. A spokesperson for the special counsel team also declined to comment. The New Haven Independent first reported Zelinsky’s new position.

Former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh, for whom Zelinsky previously worked, said in an email to BuzzFeed News that Rosenstein had “sung his praises.”

Note the appearance of Koh, another pro-Clinton gusano.

Article is a few years old. Gives some background on Mr. Zelinsky.

Introducing Guest Blogger Aaron Zelinsky

I am thrilled to introduce my colleague Professor Aaron Zelinsky who, lucky for us at Maryland, is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Professor Zelinsky will be guest blogging with us this month.

In fall 2012, he was an adjunct professor at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. Prior to teaching, Aaron clerked for Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the D.C. Circuit. From 2010-2011 he served as special assistant to State Department Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh.

In summer 2009 he was a foreign law clerk for Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch of the Israeli Supreme Court.

Aaron holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an Associate Head Writer of the Yale Law Revue, and a B.A. in economics from Yale College. He has taught constitutional law, civil procedure, and foreign relations and national security law.

His recent publications include:

Misunderstanding the Anti-Federalist Papers: The Dangers of Availability, 65 Ala. L. Rev. 1067 (2012).

The Supreme Court (of Baseball), 121 Yale L.J. Online 126 (2011).

The Justice as Commissioner: Benching the Judge-Umpire Analogy, 113 Yale L.J. Online 113 (2010).

Practicing Law in the Obama Administration, 35 Yale J. Int’l L. Online 4 (2009) (co-authored with Harold Hongju Koh).

Terrorist Groups as Business Firms: A New Typological Framework, 21 Terrorism & Political Violence 327 (2009) (co-authored with Martin Shubik, peer-reviewed).