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Patrick Keenan is the Albert J. Harno Professor of Law and a Heidi Hurd Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois College of Law. His research focuses on international criminal law, counterterrorism law, and human rights. Keenan has published significant works on the U.S. drone program, conflict minerals, human trafficking, and the role of China in Africa. He has directed the Human Rights Law Clinic for 10 years, where students work directly on human rights issues in Africa and the Caribbean. Prior to his tenure at Illinois, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and has lectured at Chuo University School of Law in Tokyo. Before entering academia, he litigated death penalty cases in Georgia and Alabama with the Southern Center for Human Rights. Keenan graduated from Yale Law School and Tufts University, and has also served in the Peace Corps in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
University of Illinois College of Law • Champaign, IL
Teaching courses in law and focusing research on international law, human rights, and counterterrorism.
University of Chicago Law School • Chicago, IL
Engaged in teaching rotating courses on specific topics in law.
Southern Center for Human Rights • Georgia & Alabama
Litigated death penalty cases.
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