Isaac Amon

Dr. Isaac Amon is a Lecturer in Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, and Director of Academic Research at Jewish Heritage Alliance, an educational organization dedicated to promoting the legacy of Sepharad, or Iberian Jewry.

He was a Legal Fellow at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Legislative Director at the Missouri Department of Corrections, and an ISIS war crimes investigator.

In Summer 2024, he was a scholar in-residence at Oxford University through the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).

The grandson of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish immigrants to the United States in the 20th century, he often speaks on the law, international criminal justice, and Jewish memory, including antisemitism, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust