Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs
E-mail: kevinkelly@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)262-4041
Office: Room 5105, Law School
Education:
J.D. 1991, University of Wisconsin
B.S.F.S. 1987, Georgetown University
Teaching Areas:
International Law
Recently Taught Courses
854 Clinical Program: Law Externship
918 SP International Law: Law of Armed Conflict
Biography
Kevin M. Kelly has been on the Law School staff since 1998. He received
a B.S. with honors in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and his J.D. with honors from
the University of Wisconsin, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Law Review
. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Kelly served as a criminal
defense attorney and staff judge advocate in the U.S. Navy Judge
Advocate General's Corps, and was stationed in San Francisco and
Scotland. In addition to his Law School student and academic affairs duties, Mr.
Kelly, who is an officer in the Naval Reserve specializing in military
operational law and international law issues, teaches courses on the Law of Armed Conflict
and on the Just War tradition. In 2003, he was recalled to active duty,
serving as a NATO legal adviser to the Peace Stabilization Force (SFOR)
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as on the U.S. European Command headquarters staff during the Iraq War. In his current assignment
he is Commanding Officer of the US Naval War College International Law Department reserve unit in Newport, Rhode Island; his immediate previous assignment was to the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, International and Operational Law, Pentagon. Associate Dean Kelly represented the Law
School on the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners from 2000 to 2006.
