Isaac Amon

Amon previously served as a Legal Fellow at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague and later interned with the Missouri State Public Defender System. He subsequently served as Legislative Director for the Missouri Department of Corrections and as Legal Counsel to the Missouri Parole Board, including work on two death penalty cases. He later worked as an NGO legal analyst supporting investigations into ISIS atrocities in Iraq and Syria. In summer 2025, he was appointed a Fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. These experiences shape his interdisciplinary approach, which integrates legal analysis, historical context, and questions of justice, accountability, and collective memory.

The grandson of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews from Istanbul and Aleppo via Beirut, and of Ashkenazi Jews from Ukraine and pre–World War I America, Amon brings a multigenerational perspective to the study of law and the global Jewish experience.

He lectures widely at universities, law schools, Holocaust museums, and international conferences on subjects ranging from the Inquisition and the Constitution to antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the legacy of the Nuremberg Trials.

Amon also serves as Executive Director and Scholar-in-Chief of the Sinai Legal Association for Memory & Modernity (SLAMM), an institute dedicated to examining the intersections of law, history, and memory.