Prof. Kevin Jon Heller

Kevin Jon Heller is currently a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, where he teaches criminal law, comparative criminal law, and international criminal law.  His work has appeared in, among others, the European Journal of International Law, the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the Michigan Law Review and the Leiden Journal of International Law.  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.   Prof. Heller has also been involved in the International Criminal Court's negotiations over the crime of aggression, served as Human Rights Watch's external legal advisor on the trial of Saddam Hussein, and consulted with the defense in a number of cases at the ICTY and ICTR. He is currently serving as one of Radovan Karadzic's Registry-appointed legal associates.