Helen Keller

Helen Keller (born 1 June 1964 in Winterthur) is a Swiss lawyer and international judge. She is a professor of law at the University of Zurich.

During her time as senior assistant at the University of Zurich (1996–2002) she wrote her habilitation thesis (“Reception of International Law”) and was the project manager of a multi-volume commentary on the Environmental Protection Act. After a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, she was appointed to the University of Lucerne in 2002, where she is permanent visiting professor. Two years later, she was offered the full chair for public law, European and international law in Zurich.

In 2005 Helen Keller was elected by the UN General Assembly to succeed Walter Kälin on the United Nations Human Rights Committee (re-elected in 2010).

In 2020 Helen Keller took a position as international judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She is a board member of the Swiss section of the International Commission of Jurists.

Helen Keller is married and has two sons. She speaks English, French, German, Italian, and Polish.