Professor Boon brings a scholarly focus on international law, which she teaches at Seton Hall Law. She has served as a legal officer for the Canada Department of Foreign Affairs Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Section; as clerk to Supreme Court of Canada Justice Ian Binnie; as litigation associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York; and as legal officer (UNV) for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and a Human Rights officer for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York.

She has authored and co-authored articles on such topics as legislative reform in post-conflict zones, international criminal courts, and federalism and the challenges of aboriginal self-government.

Professor Boon is a J.S.D. candidate at Columbia University. She earned her LL.M. from Columbia in 2005, and J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2000; her M.A. in Political Science from McGill University in 1996; and her B.A., with honors, in Political Science and History from McGill University in 1994.

During her studies at New York University, she served as staff editor for the NYU JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLITICS, was a NYU Junior Fellow in International Law, and the recipient of an American Association of University Women International Fellowship.

Kristen Boon is a member of the bar of New York (2002) and the Law Society of Upper Canada (2003).

Valerie Oosterveld is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), where she teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law. She has degrees from Columbia University (J.S.D. and LL.M.), the University of Toronto (LL.B.) and the University of Ottawa (B.Soc.Sc.). Before joining the faculty in 2005, Valerie served as a legal officer in the United Nations, Human Rights and Economic Law Division of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. In this role, she provided legal advice on international criminal accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes and served on the Canadian delegation to the International Criminal Court negotiations. Her research and writing focus on gender issues within international criminal justice.

Philip Moremen, an expert in international law, joined the Whitehead School of Diplomacy in the spring of 2000. He teaches public international law, peacemaking and peacekeeping, and international environmental policy.

Professor Moremen's recent research focuses on the costs and benefits of allowing private individuals or groups to bring claims against governments to enforce international law. He is interested generally in legal and policy issues relating to the design and operation of international institutions, and has also written on customary international law.

Professor Moremen is faculty advisor to the student-run Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Law Association, American Branch.

Professor Moremen received a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law and a Ph.D. at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Jenia Iontcheva Turner, BA (Intenational Relations with Honors), 1999, Goucher College; Caplan Scholar, Cambridge University, 1997-98; J.D., 2002 Yale Law School.  At Yale Law School, Professor Turner was a Coker Fellow and articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. In 2000, she was a summer clerk at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the following summer, she worked at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Houston and the New York and Paris offices of Debevoise & Plimpton. From 2002 to 2004, Professor Turner served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught Legal Research and Writing and Comparative Criminal Procedure. Her teaching and scholarship interests include criminal law and procedure and comparative and international public law.