Linda M. Keller
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., Yale Law School;
B.A., University of Richmond,
summa cum laude
Telephone: 619.374.6937
Email: lkeller@tjsl.edu
Professor Keller joined the Thomas Jefferson faculty in the fall of 2003. After graduating from law school, where she was notes editor for the Yale Law Journal, she served as a clerk and supervisor in the Legal Research Office of the Connecticut Judicial Department. She then taught international human rights law and legal writing for four years at the University of Miami School of Law, where she also served as Fellow of the Center for the Study of Human Rights. She has published on international law and human rights in journals including the American University International Law Review.
Recent Scholarship
Achieving Peace with Justice: The International Criminal Court and Ugandan Alternative Justice Mechanisms, __ Conn. J. Int'l L. __ (forthcoming 2008)
Alternatives to Miranda: Preventing Coerced Confessions via the Convention Against Torture, __ Chapman L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2007).
Seeking Justice at the International Criminal Court: Victims' Reparations, 29 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 189 (2007). Download a PDF version of the article.
Using International Human Rights Law in U.S. Courts: Lessons from the Campaign against the Juvenile Death Penalty in Competing Paradigms: Children, Religion, and Human Rights (Martha Fineman & Karen Worthington, eds.) (forthcoming 2007)
Is Truth Serum Torture?, 20 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 521 (2005) Click here to read Professor Keller's article online.
The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: Evolution and (Non)Implementation Worldwide, 27 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 35 (2005)
The American Rejection of Economic Rights as Human Rights and the Declaration of Independence: Does the Pursuit of Happiness Require Basic Economic Rights?, 19 N.Y.L. Sch. J. Hum. Rts. 557 (2003)
The Indivisibility of Economic and Political Rights, reviewing Amartya Sen, Development As Freedom (Knopf, 1999), 1 Hum. Rts. & Hum. Welfare: An Int'l Rev. Books & Other Publications 9 (2001) (published online, http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/volumes/2001/1-3/keller-sen.pdf)
Belgian Jury to Decide Case Concerning Rwandan Genocide, ASIL Insights (May 2001), at http://www.asil.org/insights/insigh72.htm
Shorter Works
Download a PDF list of Professor Keller's shorter works.
Subjects include:
Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, Legal Writing, International Issues in U.S. Death Penalty Law.
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