Assistant Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
218 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Phone: (607) 255-0479
Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: jdo43@cornell.edu
Jens Ohlin earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he also served as an associate-in-law for two years. His research and teaching interests are focused on criminal law theory, public international law, and international criminal law. He is the author, with George Fletcher, of Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why (Oxford University Press, 2008), which offers a new account of international self-defense through a comparative analysis of the rules of self-defense in criminal law. His scholarly work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice, and he has forthcoming chapters in books about the 15th anniversary of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and the 5-year anniversary of the International Criminal Court. He is a guest editor of a special issue on torture for the Journal of International Criminal Justice, a member of the editorial committee of the Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice, and a member of an international working group developing general rules and principles of international criminal procedure.
