Assistant Dean for Transnational Programs
Adjunct Professor of Law
B.A. Tulane University
M.S.Sc. Syracuse University
J.D. Georgetown University Law Center
LL.M. Harvard Law School
Jeffrey K. Walker joins St. John’s as Assistant Dean for
Transnational Programs and Adjunct Professor of Law. Prior to
coming to St. John’s, he served for eight years as founding and
managing partner of BlueLaw International LLP, an international law
and development firm. His international development practice
spanned civil society, human rights, rule of law, security sector
reform, and anticorruption projects in over 35 countries, including
serving for one year in Baghdad as chief of party for the largest
rule of law project ever funded by the U.S. Government.
Professor Walker is also a retired Air Force officer, navigator,
and judge advocate who worked most of his career in the areas of
criminal law and public international law. His practice included
air and space law, foreign criminal and civil litigation,
international agreements, law of war, peacekeeping operations,
cyber law, and anti-terrorism. During his military career, he flew
over 1,200 hours as a navigator/bombardier on B-52 bombers, served
as legal advisor to NATO’s air operations center for the Balkans,
deployed to Bosnia after the Dayton Accords in 1995, practiced as a
US Government lawyer in Italy, and served as chief prosecutor and a
Special Assistant US Attorney for the federal district of
Wyoming.
Professor Walker has served on the Executive Council and Executive
Board of the American Society of International Law and on the
editorial board of International Legal Materials. He has
published extensively on international, comparative, and legal
historical topics and has taught European legal history and
international criminal law at Georgetown and law and ethics of war
at William & Mary. He has been married to Kathy Ann Keppler for
29 years; they have three children.
Selected Publications:
Law of War Experts Brief (w/ Amb. David Scheffer),
amicus curiae in the case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla,
542 U.S. 426 (2004).
Fiction versus Function: The Persistence of ‘Representative
Character’ in the Law of Diplomatic Immunity in Langholtz
& Stout, eds., The Psychology of Diplomacy
(2004).
A poisen in ye Commonwealthe: Seditious Libel in Hanoverian
London, 26 Anglo-American Law Review 341-366 (1997).
A Comparative Discussion of the Privilege against
Self-Incrimination, 14 New York Law School Journal of
International and Comparative Law 1-37 (1993).