Gerhard Mueller, international law expert, dies at 82
Archived article from May 8, 2006
By Carla Capizzi
Newark Professor Emeritus Gerhard O.W. Mueller, a pioneer in the discipline of criminal justice, has died at 82. Mueller was an expert on international and comparative criminal justice, the ethnology of criminal justice and international criminal law, and maritime crime and its prevention.
He served as chief of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch from 1974 to 1982, a post in which he was responsible for U.N. programs dealing with problems of crime and justice worldwide.
He also was executive secretary to U.N. Congresses for the Prevention of Crime
and Treatment of Offenders in 1975 and 1980, and served in the U.N.’s social development and social affairs divisions.
Prior to his retirement from the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice in 2005, he taught courses in law and criminal justice, constitutional issues and the criminal justice system, criminal justice procedures, comparative criminal justice systems, and maritime crime and its prevention. His most recent research, in collaboration with his wife, Freda Adler, focused on maritime and international crime and terrorism.
A native of Germany, Mueller had studied law in both Switzerland and Germany. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago and his LL.M. from Columbia University in criminal justice. Mueller came to Rutgers-Newark as a visiting professor in 1974 after teaching at West Virginia University law school, New York University School of Law and the University of Washington. He also held visiting professor appointments at higher educational institutions in the United States, Europe and Brazil.
A memorial service will take place June 4 at the Church Center for the United Nations.
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