Aaron Fellmeth
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Phone: 480-727-8575
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MC 9520 111 E Taylor St Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Aaron Fellmeth is the Dennis S. Karjala Professor of Law, Science, and Technology at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Professor Fellmeth is a leading expert in public international law, international business transactions, and intellectual property law. He has published extensively on legal theory, the history of international law, public international law, the international law of armed conflict, international trade law, human rights, and intellectual property law. He teaches Public International Law, International Business Transactions, International Law of Armed Conflict, and International Human Rights Law.
Professor Fellmeth's work has been cited several times by federal courts and in testimony before Congress. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the International Law Association's American Branch (ABILA) and is the chair of its International Human Rights Committee. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law's (ASIL) Executive Committee of the Law of Armed Conflict / International Humanitarian Law Interest Group and past Co-Chair of the Human Rights Interest Group. He has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA.
Before coming to ASU, Professor Fellmeth clerked for the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. International Trade Commission and at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. He then spent seven years at international law firms practicing international business law, public international law, and intellectual property law.
- J.D. Yale University School of Law 1997
- M.A. International Relations, Yale University 1997
- A.B. University of California-Berkeley 1993
Legal Theory
Public International Law
International Human Rights Law
GUIDE TO LATIN IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2d ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2021) (with Maurice Horwitz)
INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW (2d ed., Edward Eglar Pub. 2024)
PARADIGMS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016)
Command Responsibility in the Brereton Report: Fissures in the Understanding and Interpretation of the 'Knowledge' Element in Australian Law, 23 Melbourne J. Int'l L. 164 (2022) (with Emily Crawford)
"Reason to Know" in the International Law of Command Responsibility, 104 Int'l Rev. of the Red Cross 1223 (2022) (with Emily Crawford)
International Human Rights Law and the Concept of Good Governance, 44 Hum. Rts. Q. 1 (2022) (with Siobhán McInerney-Lankford)
International Human Rights Law, Normative Hierarchy, and Development Policy, 54 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 311 (f2022) (with Siobhán McInerney-Lankford)
The Human Right to Suicide under International Law, 21 Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 641 (2021) (with Nourin Abourahma)
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 709 | International Human Rights |
LAW 615 | Public International Law |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 768 | Intl Business Transactions |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 709 | International Human Rights |
LAW 615 | Public International Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2023 Spring
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 768 | Intl Business Transactions |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 709 | International Human Rights |
LAW 615 | Public International Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 768 | Intl Business Transactions |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 709 | International Human Rights |
LAW 615 | Public International Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Summer
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2021 Spring
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 768 | Intl Business Transactions |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 709 | International Human Rights |
LAW 615 | Public International Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Summer
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2020 Spring
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 768 | Intl Business Transactions |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 709 | International Human Rights |
LAW 615 | Public International Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2005 Harold D. Lasswell Prize for Best Policy Sciences Paper (for Secrecy, Monopoly, and Access to Pharmaceuticals in International Trade Law), Society for Policy Sciences
2002 Next Generation Leader in Science & Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Law Association - Human Rights in Times of Emergency Committee
International Law Association, American Branch (ABILA) - Board of Directors
ABILA International Human Rights Committee - Co-Chair
ASIL Law of Armed Conflict / International Humanitarian Law Interest Group - Executive Committee
American Society of International Law (ASIL) Human Rights Interest Group - Former Co-Chair
Amnesty International USA - Board of Directors
Lead author, Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Seeking a Determination on the Discriminatory Policy of Suspending Immigration of Certain Muslims by the United States of America, Inter-Am. Comm’n on Hum. Rts., Dec. 3, 2018
Lead author, Brief of Legal Scholars and Nongovernmental Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support Appellees, Flores v. Barr, Case No. 19-56326, decided sub nom. Flores v. Garland, Case No. 20-55951, 3 F.4th 1145 (9th Cir. 2021)
Lead author, Brief of Amnesty International USA and the Gun Violence & Human Rights Initiative of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n Inc. v. Bruen, Case No. 20-843, __ S.Ct. __ (cert. granted Apr. 26, 2021)
Lead author, Brief of International Law Scholars & Nongovernmental Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Trump v. Hawaii, Case No. 17-965, 585 U.S. __, 138 S.Ct. 2392 (2018) (also, amicus briefs in parallel cases before the D. Haw., W.D. Wash., 4th Cir. & 9th Cir.)
Lead author, Brief of International Law Scholars & Nongovernmental Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs, Darweesh v. Trump, Case No. 1:17 Civ. 480 (E.D.N.Y. 2017)
Sole author, Brief of GeneDX and Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 U.S.576 (2013)