Kevin Jon Heller

Kevin Jon Heller (born 1967 ) is a legal scholar specializing in international criminal law .

Life

Kevin Jon Heller studied sociology at the New School for Social Research (BA; MA) and literature at Duke University (MA). He received a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD from Leiden University . He was Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law from 2004 to 2006 and then went to the University of Auckland as a Senior Lecturer , where he specialized in international criminal law. He was Associate Professor and Reader at the University of Melbourne Law School and Project Leader for International Criminal Law at the Asia Pacific Center for Military Law. Heller has been teaching criminal law at the School of Oriental and African Studies since 2015 and as an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam since 2017 .

Heller worked for Human Rights Watch as a trial observer at the International Criminal Court in the trial of Saddam Hussein and from 2008 to 2011 in the trial of Radovan Karadzic . He advised the United Nations Support Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), NGOs and was a trainer for “Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance & Protection” (PHAP). He is a regular contributor to the Opinio Juris blog and writes reviews for the New Criminal Law Review .

The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-19-955431-7
with Markus Dubber (Ed.): The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law . Stanford University Press, 2011
with Gerry Simpson (Ed.): The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials . OUP, 2014

Kevin Jon Heller , at Melbourne University

Kevin Jon Heller , at opinio juris