New Staff Member to Join Faculty in 2009

Melbourne Law School is delighted to announce that Kevin Jon Heller will be joining the Faculty as a senior lecturer in the New Year.

Kevin Jon Heller is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law, where he teaches International Criminal Law in the LLB and LLM programs and Law & Society. He will teach core Criminal Law classes and elective subjects in related fields, including International Criminal Law, at Melbourne. He has a JD with distinction from Stanford Law School, an MA with honours from Duke University (Literature), and an MA and BA, both with honours, from the New School for Social Research (Sociology). He has been involved in the International Criminal Court’s negotiations over the crime of aggression and served as Human Rights Watch’s external legal advisor on the trial of Saddam Hussein (whose lawyers cited his academic work in their appeals). He has also consulted with a number of defendants, most recently Radovan Karadzic, at the ICTY and ICTR. He is currently writing a book entitled The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010.