J. Benton Heath

Ben Heath is an associate professor of law at Temple University School of Law, where he also serves as co-director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy. His research and teaching interests focus on international law, administrative law, international trade and investment law, national security, and global governance. He has written extensively on how hegemonic powers, smaller states, and social movements have used economic sanctions in their attempts to structure and regulate the global economy. His work also addresses the White House’s conduct of economic warfare against both foreign and domestic enemies.

Before joining Temple Law, Heath was an Acting Assistant Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, and he previously served as an attorney-adviser at the U.S. State Department, as a law clerk for the Hon. Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and as an associate at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in New York. He holds a J.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. His work has appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, and the Yale Law Journal, among others.