Laurence R. Helfer is an expert in the areas of international law and institutions,
international adjudication and dispute settlement, human rights (including
LGBT rights), and international intellectual property law and policy. He is
co-director of Duke Law's Center for International and Comparative Law
and a Senior Fellow with Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics. He also serves
as a Permanent Visiting Professor at the iCourts: Center of Excellence for
International Courts at the University of Copenhagen, which awarded him an
honorary doctorate in 2014. Helfer currently serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief
of the American Journal of International Law. Prior to joining the Duke Law
faculty in 2009, Helfer was a professor of law and director of the International
Legal Studies Program at Vanderbilt University Law School. He has also
taught at Harvard Law School, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, Princeton
University, the University of Chicago Law School, and the University of
Toronto Faculty of Law. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American
Journal of International Law and the Journal of World Intellectual Property.
Helfer has authored more than 70 publications and has lectured widely on his
diverse research interests. Helfer holds a J.D. from New York University.