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Kevin Jon Heller is a scholar of international law who is a Professor of International Law & Security at the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Military Studies. He has also taught at the University of Amsterdam, SOAS, University of London, and Melbourne Law School. [1]

He is a special adviser on war crimes for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court." [2]

He is co-editor-in-chief of the international-law blog Opinio Juris. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Professor Kevin Jon Heller". ANU College of Law. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  2. ↑ https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Bio-Kevin-Heller-eng.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "About". Opinio Juris. 2008-07-03. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  4. ↑ Aksenova, M. (2012). "Kevin Jon Heller and Markus D. Dubber (eds), The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law". Journal of International Criminal Justice. 10 (3): 709–711. doi:10.1093/jicj/mqs024.
  5. ↑ Chen, Siyuan (2011). "Review of The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law - The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law. Edited by Kevin J Heller & Markus D Dubber (Stanford, California: Stanford Law Books, 2011.) [660 pp. Hardcover: US$90]". Asian Journal of Comparative Law. 6: 1–5. doi:10.1017/S2194607800000508.
  6. ↑ Zaibert, Leo (2012). "Why Compare? Comments on Kevin Jon Heller and Markus D Dubber's The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law". University of Toronto Law Journal. 62 (2): 277–292. doi:10.3138/utlj.62.2.277.
  7. ↑ "Kevin Jon Heller and the Historical Legacy of the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT)". Opinio Juris. 31 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "The Legacy of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals in International Humantarian Law". Opinio Juris. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  9. ↑ "The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and Contemporary International Criminal Law". Opinio Juris. 2 November 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  10. ↑ Dapo Akande, Peggy McGuinness and (31 October 2011). "Book Discussion: Kevin Jon Heller, Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law". EJIL: Talk!.
  11. ↑ "The NMT Trial Program and The Emergence of a Jurisprudence of Atrocity". Opinio Juris. 17 November 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  12. ↑ "Book Review: The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law by Kevin Jon Heller". LSE Review of Books. 15 April 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  13. ↑ Phillips, R. L. (2012). "Kevin Jon Heller, The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law". Journal of International Criminal Justice. 10 (2): 492–495. doi:10.1093/jicj/mqs011.
  14. ↑ Palmer, Nicola (1 December 2012). "Book Review: The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law (Kevin Jon Heller), (Oxford University Press, 2011)". Social Science Research Network. SSRN   2635514.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. ↑ Kendall, Sara (2012). "The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law by Kevin Jon Heller; Beyond Victor's Justice - The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited Edited by Yuki Tanaka, Tim McCormack and Gerry Simpson". Melbourne Journal of International Law. 13: 349.
  16. ↑ "Book Reviews". International Journal of Legal Information. 40: 599. 2012.
  17. ↑ Pendas, Devin O. (2012). "The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law by Kevin Jon Heller [Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, 509 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-955431-7, £70.00 (h/bk)]". International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 61 (2): 551–553. doi:10.1017/S0020589312000139. S2CID   145450980.
  18. ↑ Keele, Benjamin J. (2012). "The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law. By Kevin Jon Heller. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 509. ISBN: 978-0-19-955431-7. US$135.00". International Journal of Legal Information. 40 (3): 599–600. doi:10.1017/S073112650001146X. S2CID   159428640.
  19. ↑ Burghardt, Boris; Schellhaas, Fabian (2013). "Kevin Jon Heller, The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0-19-955431-7, 536 pp". International Criminal Law Review. 13 (2): 493–503. doi:10.1163/15718123-01302005.
  20. ↑ Douglas, L. (2012). "The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law, Kevin Jon Heller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), xviii + 509 pp., hardback, $135.00". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 26 (2): 306–308. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcs040.
  21. ↑ Rose, C. (2012). "The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law. By KEVIN JON HELLER". British Yearbook of International Law. 82 (1): 528–530. doi:10.1093/bybil/brs037.
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