Isaac Amon is a legal scholar and first-generation American with deep expertise in Jewish heritage. His paternal Sephardic ancestors trace back to 15th-century Spain, fleeing the 1492 Expulsion to the Ottoman Empire, where they served as chief rabbis, diplomats, and physicians to sultans. He is the grandson of Rene Isaac Amon (1923-2018), a polyglot engineer and professor born in Istanbul who immigrated to the US in 1957; great-grandson of Davit Amon (1881-1977), an Istanbul businessman; and descendant of earlier figures like Joseph Amon and Moses Amon, physicians to Ottoman sultans. His heritage also includes Ashkenazi roots from Ukraine and Mizrahi from Aleppo via Beirut. He holds a BA in Medieval History (summa cum laude, Highest Honors, focus on Iberian Inquisition) from Washington University in St. Louis (2012); JD, LLM in alternative dispute resolution (2015), and JSD (PhD in Law) in comparative law, criminal procedure, and legal history (2016) from Washington University School of Law; with additional studies at Utrecht University, Hebrew University, and the Sorbonne. His career includes serving as Lecturer in Law at Washington University School of Law (current; teaches on law and Holocaust, Inquisition, antisemitism); Academic Advisor and Director of Research & Project Development at the Jewish Heritage Alliance (current); Executive Director and Scholar-in-Chief at the Sinai Legal Association for Memory & Modernity (SLAMM); Legal Fellow at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), The Hague; NGO legal analyst on ISIS atrocities in Iraq and Syria; Legislative Director at the Missouri Department of Corrections and Legal Counsel at the Missouri Parole Board (death penalty cases); Research Assistant to the Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity at the International Criminal Court; Adjunct Professor of Law; Scholar-in-Residence at ISGAP-Oxford (2024); and Fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (2025). He is the author of 'Forced Worship Stinks in God's Nostrils': The Inquisition, Sepharad, and the American Experiment (Touro Law Review) and was awarded for outstanding legal writing by the Missouri Bar Association (2023). He lectures on the Inquisition, Holocaust, Sephardic history, religious freedom, and international criminal justice.