Robert J. Heberle is an Adjunct Professor of Law and teaches on constitutional issues in corruption and election crime enforcement. Professor Heberle served as Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section (PIN) at the United States Department of Justice, and as Director of PIN’s Election Crimes Branch. At PIN, Professor Heberle led the investigation, prosecution, trial, and appeal of complex corruption, fraud, and election crime matters throughout the United States. Professor Heberle also oversaw the Justice Department’s national election crimes program and served as the Department’s principal subject matter expert on campaign finance offenses, corruption offenses involving campaign contributions, voting fraud, patronage offenses, fraudulent election-related fundraising, and certain voting rights offenses. Professor Heberle has trained hundreds of federal prosecutors and agents nationwide in law, policy, and practice related to corruption, fraud, and election crimes. He has received a number of awards, including the Justice Department’s highest award for attorney trial performance.

Prior to working at PIN, Professor Heberle served as a prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Fraud Section, and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Professor Heberle clerked for the Honorable Steven M. Colloton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He graduated in 2010 from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated in 2007 from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in Government and History.