Michael J. Kelly

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Professor Kelly (@michaeljkelly.bsky.social) holds the Senator Allen A. Sekt Endowed Chair in Law and directs the Kaiman Center for International Criminal Justice & Holocaust Studies at Creighton University. As a Peace Fellow with the Public International Law & Policy Group, he trained Ukrainian prosecutors and Supreme Court judges to build environmental crimes cases against Russian perpetrators in 2024 and traveled to Lviv, Ukraine with the American Society of International Law for a bilateral summit with the Ukrainian Association of International Law on Human Rights Day 2023, where he presented a white paper on seizing frozen Russian private assets using arbitration mechanisms which will be published in volume 60 of the Texas Journal of International Law. Professor Kelly serves on the Boards of Directors for l’Association Internationale de Droit Pénal based in Paris, the Foundation for Natural Resources & Energy Law based in Denver, the International Scientific & Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice Programme based in Milan, and on the Advisory Board of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice & Human Rights based in Sicily. Annually, he leads Creighton’s Nuremberg to The Hague summer abroad program for German and American law students in partnership with the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, Friedrich Alexandre Universität, and the Institute for Holocaust Education. He is a regular contributor to the Lieber Institute’s Articles of War blog at West Point.