Kerstin Carlson

Kerstin has been teaching at The American University of Paris since 2011; today she teaches part-time, giving a summer course every year, and is otherwise Associate Professor at Roskilde University in Denmark, where her work focuses on the development of international law and legal institutions in the practice of transitional justice. She is co-director of AUP's Justice Lab. She is also affiliated with the Centre for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and the empirical courts research center iCourts at University of Copenhagen. She received her BA from The Johns Hopkins University, and her JD and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. 

Kerstin is the author of the books Model(ing) Justice: Perfecting the Promise of International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018); The Justice Laboratory: Reconceptualizing International Law in Africa  (Chatham House/Brookings Institute, 2021); and co-editor of The President on Trial: Prosecuting Hissène Habré (Oxford University Press, 2020). She also regularly writes for “The Conversation” on topics related to international criminal law and human rights.