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Mobilization, Interaction, Contention:

Relations Between NGOs/Civil Society and States in Times of Covid-19

An Interdisciplinary Workshop (conducted in three meetings)

 

Conference abstract:

The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions, the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness, and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) at University of Haifa, are pleased to announce a three-day online workshop on Mobilization, Interaction, Contention: Relations Between NGOs/Civil Society and States in Times of Covid-19. This interdisciplinary event will examine if and how the unique challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis have influenced relations between states and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society actors.

We welcome submissions from scholars who wish to develop publishable papers based on empirical research and theoretical analysis. Our aim is to include a diverse yet comparable set of geopolitical contexts, drawing from disciplines such as Law, Geography, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Media, Medical Humanities, Social Work, Criminology, and Business Management. We also encourage applications from NGO/state/civil society professionals, activists, artists, and journalists – abstracts should clearly indicate whether the perspective submitted is research and/or experience based, and can offer insightful analysis.

(For possible paper themes/questions, see below).

Dates:

Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Monday, 28 June 2021
Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Place:

Online platform (Zoom or otherwise)

Workshop format

  • Each of the three days will include two sessions: a roundtable or keynote presentation, and a workshop panel, in addition to short opening and closing remarks.
  • The roundtable/keynote presentation will be 45 minutes long with a 30-minute Q&A, followed by a 20-minute break, and workshop panels will be 2-2.5 hours long (with a 15-30 minute break).
  • Workshop panels will include 4-5 presentations, 15 minutes each, with a discussant responding to the papers, and if time allows - an open discussion to conclude.
  • The workshop panels will be open strictly to participants (in the panel itself and in other workshops); roundtable/keynotes will be public (with pre-registration).
  • Participants will be asked to send their papers to discussants and other panel participants no later than June 10, 2021.
  • We aim to publish an edited volume (as book, journal special issue, or research report) based on papers presented in the workshop.
  • All workshop events will be in English.

Keynotes and roundtable participants:

Suggestions welcome!

Submission guidelines:

  • Deadline for submissions: Monday, 01 March 2021. Decisions expected by 01 April, 2021.
  • Submissions will be accepted in either Word or PDF documents.

Please include the following details in the document submitted (and not in the e-mail):

  • Full name and e-mail
  • Affiliation(s)
  • The time zone/country in which you will tentatively be in each day of the workshop.
  • If two or more authors, please include all of the above details for each author.
  • Paper title
  • 500-1000 word extended abstract. Abstracts should clearly convey the methodologies used for the empirical research, geopolitical context(s), and main claim(s)/research questions/analytical framework/theoretical innovation.
  • Note that inclusion of references in the abstract is encouraged but optional – citations and bibliographic details should not be considered in the word count.
  • Indication (yes/no) whether you would like to be considered for the workshop-based special issue to be edited by the organizers.

Please submit all abstracts by the deadline via e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

With the following e-mail subject-line: NGOs/Civil Society and States in Times of Covid-19 + your name(s)

 

Questions and inquiries should be sent to the conference organizers:

Katharina Konarek - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Omri Grinberg - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Possible paper themes and questions:

Structural outlines and applied scholarship insights

  • Identifying models of cooperation (or lack thereof) and other types of interaction and relations between states and NGOs/Civil Society;
  • Differentiation between the roles played by local and transnational NGOs; and, how local and transnational NGOs cooperated and/or competed with each other and vis-à-vis states;
  • Degrees and orientation of influences: does the state yield particular power over NGOs/Civil Society during COVID-19? Or, perhaps, do NGOs/Civil Society have more leeway?
  • Can state and NGOs/Civil Society cooperate in emergency preparation, and if so – what are the most useful mechanisms and arenas for facilitating such interactions?
  • What conclusions can be drawn about the prospective roles of NGOs/Civil Society in other types of crises or emergency?
  • How did NGOs/Civil Society contend with economic hardships, decline in donations?
  • To what degree was non-state actors’ relevance dependent on their own self-mobilization? Can NGO activities during the pandemic be characterized as self-mobilized, mobilized by the State, or a collaborative venture of NGO and government?
  • Identifying positive/negative correlation of success/failure in dealing with COVID-19 with the actions of NGOs/Civil Society and the infrastructure available for cooperation (or lack thereof) with the state and other sectors.
  • Which state extensions and agents tended to cooperate more or less with NGOs/Civil Society – municipalities, medical institutions, social welfare, government offices?

New and Emerging Issues following COVID-19

  • How did COVID-19 influence activism, Civil Society engagement, and willingness to volunteer?
  • What role did religious communities, leaders, and institutions play, and how do they relate to existing categories as Civil SocietyNGOs//state agents?
  • Was there a demise of certain NGOs? What new modes of non-governmental work/Civil Society activism emerged during COVID-19?
  • Did COVID-19 influence the frequency and character of state communication with non-state actors?
  • Did COVID-19 change non-state actors’ influence on state bureaucracy or political policies?

Navigating mandates and expertise

  • NGOs/Civil Society contention with COVID-19 state policies that threaten/ed human and civil rights, democracy and liberalism.
  • How did NGOs adapt their mandates and work-plans to contend with emerging issues? Is there a typology of such adaptations between different kinds of organizations (human rights, humanitarianism, development, etc.)?
  • Vacuum: where and when did NGOs/Civil Society step-in for the state? In which geopolitical and economic contexts were NGOs/Civil Society less effective, or absent? Are there patterns of transnational/local NGO effectivity?
  • Who were the actors that facilitated either cooperation or managed tensions between the state and NGOs?
  • What other forms of expertise, beyond medicine, emerged as significant for NGOs/Civil Society?

Geopolitical and historical comparison

  • The role of NGOs/Civil Society in response to COVID-19 in states who experienced SARS or MERS, with or without comparison to cases in which there was no such prior experience.
  • When, where and how did states directly rely on NGOs/Civil Society – was it in contexts directly related to governing the virus, or perhaps oriented more in relation to economic repercussions?
  • How did prior state-NGO/Civil Society relations (pre-pandemic) influence COVID-19 dynamics – issues of confidence, suspicion, cautious respect and more.
  • Outlining the similarities and differences in state-NGO/Civil Society interactions between different political systems and contexts of political rhetoric and challenges of sovereignty: within the EU and between EU and other states; in nations where populist government intimidates NGOs/Civil Society and limits their impact; in nation-states where NGOs are already heavily relied upon; in areas where foreign aid is dominant

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Fall semester seminar program

Seminar talks are held on Wednesdays between 14:15-15:45 (Israel time). Most events will be held at the Law Faculty seminar room, located on the 3rd level of the Terrace building (Hamadrega - see map). Some meetings will be in Cyber Space - links to zoom will be updated here.

Most talks are streamlined and available on YouTube 


October 27, 2021
International webinar: COVID-19 Impacts and Takeaways for Policy and Planning (with the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness)

November 10, 2021
Avichai Levit: Legislative Deliberative Democracy: Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of Speech During War.

November 24, 2021
Bernard S. Black - Coronavirus: Science, Uncertainty, and Policy

December 1st, 2021
Ziv Bohrer:The Defense of Justification for Obeying an Illegal Order in the Israeli Law (in Hebrew)
הגנת הצידוק עקב ציות לפקודה בלתי חוקית: הדין המצוי והראוי במשפט הישראלי

December 15, 2021
Haim Abraham: Tort Liability in War

December 28, 2021 at 12:15
Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine: Event for Dr. Hedi Viterbo's new book

December 29, 2021
Joel Slawotsky: The Impacts of National Crisis on Contractual Obligations

January 12, 2022
Rawia Aburabia: Trapped Across Borders: Palestinian Women from the West Bank and Gaza in Polygamous Marriage in Israel

Upcoming workshops 

January 17-19, 2022
International Workshops: “Hate Speech – an interdisciplinary approach”

2022, TBD
International Research Workgroup on Rightlessness in Comparative and International Law

Spring semester seminar program

March 2, 2022

Omri Grinberg

March 23, 2022
Assaf Mond

April 6, 2022
Gil Rothschild Elyassi 

May 18, 2022
Talia Diskin

May 25, 2022
Klaas Eller: Infrastructural perspectives on global commerce under Covid-19: Towards a resilient governance of supply chains

June 1st, 2022
Yagil Levi and Ofra Ben Ishai: Armed with Legitimacy (in Hebrew)
חמושים בלגיטימציה

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2021-2022 Calendar

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

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Past Seminar Talks:

2021:

June 16
Amnon Alkalai, retired Chief of Staff, Operations and Policing Division, Israel police: Policing in Corona times (in Hebrew)

June 2, 2021
Ina Kubbe and Rosa da Costa: The Role of Corruption and Human Rights Violations in Migratory Flows: Impact and Perceptions

May 19, 2021
Shelly Aviv Yeini: Promoting Peace in International Law: Bringing States to the Mediation Table

May 5, 2021
Gad Barzilai and Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins: The Intersection of International Law and Domestic Law in Counterterrorism: A Prologue

April 28, 2021
Dr. Sharon Gordon: Democratic Deadlock and Leadership - Germany and Austria and the Rise of Nazism/Fascism

April 7, 2021
Event for the publication of Dr. Dana Schmalz's book: "Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State"

March 4, 2021
Prof. Jeff Staton: "Psychic Numbing and Mixed Appeals in Immigration Advocay". (With the Haifa Center for German and European Studies - HCGES)

January 6, 2021
Oren Shlomo: From Contested Sovereignty to Urban Politics: Palestinian Rights-Claiming and 'Accessing the State' in post-Oslo East Jerusalem

 

2020

December 23, 2020
Antal Berkes: Compliance by tribunals of armed opposition groups with international law

December 2, 2020
Michael Birnhack: Constitutional Engineering and Privacy Engineering

November 11, 2020
Robert Neufeld and Eli Salzberger: Management of Emergencies in Israel: Towards a Comprehensive Doctrine and Legislative-Regulative Framework (in Hebrew)
ניהול מצבי חירום בישראל: לקראת דוקטורינה ישראלית ומסגרת רגולטורית כוללתקישור להקלטה כאן

October 28, 2020 at 14:15
Eli Salzberger: Introduction to the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions (in Hebrew). Link to recording 

September 9, 2020
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov: Covid-19 Meets Politics: The Novel Coronavirus as a Novel Challenge for Legislatures. Link to recording

June 18, 2020
Prof. Dr. Jan Soeffner: A state of Exception Beyond Carl Schmitt: Corona in Germany. (with the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES). See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube. 

June 18, 2020
Dr. Orly Stern: International Humanitarian Law's Principle of Distinction and Women in Armed Groups. (With Forum Dvora and ALMA). See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

June 3 at 14:15
Stavros Pantazopoulos: Wartime Environmental Damage Before International Courts and Tribunals:Strengthening the Environmental Rule of LawSee here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

May 24, 2020
Webinar: Democracy in the Time of Corona (With Law Faculty and The Center for Cyber Law & Policy University of Haifa, Hebrew)

May 20, 2020
Ori Sharon: State Extinction through Climate Change (in Hebrew). See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

May 19, 2020
Amnon Reichman: Israeli Emergency Law. See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

May 4, 2020
Stefan Voigt, Christian Bjørnskov and Nir Kosti: Declarations of state of emergency and government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

April 30, 2020
Itay Epshtain: Normative Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic Humanitarian Response and Human Rights Protection. see here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

April 26, 2020
Amnon Reichman: Judicial Review and the Coronavirus. See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

April 22, 2020
Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins: From a state of exception to hyper-legality: Israeli counter-terrorism law in the post-two-state era. See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

April 19, 2020
Gad Barzilai: Democracies amid Legal Emergencies: Why models are limited, but some are useful. See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

April 16, 2020
Itamar Mann:Disentangling Displacements: Historical Justice for Mizrahis and Palestinians in Israel. See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

April 13, 2020
Yoav Mehozai: Israel almost stoped using Emergency Regulations. Until the Corona. (in Hebrew) See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

January 29, 2020 at 14:15 - 15:45
Margit Cohn : Fuzziness in Emergency Law. See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

January 1, 2020 at 14:15 - 15:45
Yaniv Roznai: Who will Save the Redheads? Towards an Anti-Bully Theory of Judicial Review and the Protection of Democracy See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

2019

December 11, 2019 at 10:15 - 11:45
Jonathan Kolieb: Don’t Forget the Geneva Conventions: Achieving Responsible business Conduct in conflict zones Through Adherence to International Humanitarian Law.  See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

December 11, 2019 at 14:15 - 15:45
Shelly Aviv-Yeini: Frontier Incidents as Armed Attacks. See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

November 27, 2019:
Tamar Megiddo: Online Activism, Digital Domination, and the Rule of Trolls: Mapping and Theorizing Technological Oppression by Governments. 
See here for more details and here for recording on YouTube

November 20, 2019:
Prof. Eli Salzberger: The Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions - Some Conceptual Insights
Link to recording on YouTube

June 12, 2019: 
Prof. Robert Howse with Adv. Amin Yacoub (NYU): Should States be Liable under Investment Agreements for Failure to Prevent Non-state Actor Violence in Conflict Zones? A Skeptical View: The Case of Ampal v. Egypt
Link to recording on YouTube

May 29, 2019:
Dr. Ronnen Ben Arie: City at war: the state of emergency as a constituent moment
Link to recording on YouTube

May 15, 2019:
Dr. Yahli Shershevsky: The Internal Logic of Jus ad Bellum Arguments
Link to recording on YouTube

May 1, 2019: 
Dr. Itamar Mann: Hangman's Perspective: Three Genres of Critique following Eichmann
Link to recording on YouTube

April 10, 2019: 
Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler, School of Law, University of Reading: Uncertain futures: EU citizenship rights in the shadow of Brexit
Link to recording on YouTube

April 10, 2019:
Dr. Denard Veshi, PhD fellow at the European Doctorate in Law & Economics and the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions: Refugee Flow: a Law and Economics Approach
Link to recording on YouTube

27.3.2019:
Dr. Nadav Dagan: Five Points for Legality: On Law, Exigencies and Emergency Powers (Hebrew)
בזכות החוקיות: מצבי חירום ושלטון החוק
Link to streamline on YouTube (Heb)

13.3.2019: 
Dr. Elena Cirkovic: Space, Ice and the Final Frontiers of International Law
Link to streamline on YouTube

27.2 2019:
Prof. Antoni Abat i Ninet:  The Messianic Thought of the Rule of Law
Link to streamline on YouTube

2.1.2019
Professor Gad Barzilai, Faculty of Law, Vice Provost University of Haifa: Why Do Courts Incline to Prefer National Security Arguments Over (other) Human Rights?
Link to streamline on YouTube

2018

19.12.2018
Tom Gal: Armed groups - objects or subjects of international law?
Link to streamline on YouTube

5.12.2018
Prof. Gideon Aran, The Smile of the Human Bomb: New Perspectives on Suicide Terrorism
Link to streamline on YouTube

21.11.2018
Adv. Efrat Bergman-Sapir - The Public Committee against Torture in Israel: With Authority and Permission: Torture in ISA (Israel Security Agency) Interrogations (Hebrew)

עו"ד אפרת ברגמן-ספיר-מנהלת המחלקה המשפטית בוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל: ברשות ובסמכות: עינויים בחקירות שב"כ

31.10.2018: Seminar talk
Prof. Eli Salzberger: Introduction for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions

2017-18

30.5. 2018 at 14:30
David Vitale - The Homelessness State of Emergency
Link to streamline in YouTube

23.5.2018 
Hassan Jabareen: Can the Court Normalize the Exception? On Territoriality Cases of Palestinians Citizens of Israel
Link to atreamline in YouTube

9.4.2018
Deborah Housen-Couriel - Cybersecurity Regulation: A Case Study
Link to streamline in YouTube

25.3.2018
Nadav Dagan - Reasonableness and the Legal Control of Administrative Discretion
Link to streamline in YouTube

14.3.2018
Nuri McBride : The Application of International Refugee Law in Thailand and Kenya
Link to stremline in YouTube

28.2.2018
Barbara Korte: Legal definitions of terrorism: criminalizing a contested concept or criminalizing contestation itself?
Link to streamline on YouTube

17.1.2018
Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska: Weather-related Disasters and Violent Conflicts

Link to streamline on YouTube

3.1.2018 
Dr. Daphne Richemond-Barak: Underground Warfare
Link to streamline on YouTube 

2017

27.12.2017 
Dr. Maya Mark: The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance as a case Study for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
Link to streamline on YouTube 

15.11.2017
Prof. Amichai Cohen: Emergencies in Israel 
Link to streamline on YouTube

1.11.2017 
Prof. Eli Salzberger: Theoretical Introduction to the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions

14.06.2017: Deborah Housen-Couriel: The Rule of Law in an Extreme Environment: The Growing Challenges to the Rule of Law in Outer Space

07.06.2017: Osnat Broshi-Chen: Creativity and Innovation in Managing Security-induced Tourism Crises: A Strategic Perspective of an Israeli Tourism Case

24.05.2017: Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov: Judicial Review of Temporary Legislation Regulating  Emergencies. Link to Video here

10.05.2017: Adi Hercowitz-Amir: When the state is “under attack” by unwanted migratory flows:The disputed legality of Israeli asylum policy and the role of the courts. See here for more details

26.04.2017: Moran Zaga: Between the political borders and the socio-political conflicts in the Arab world (Hebrew), see here for more details

19.04.2017: Hadas Fischer-Rosenberg Colonial Rule and Colonial Law in a Time of War: Palestine Emergency Legislation, 1939-1945 (Hebrew), see here for more details. Link to video here

05.04.2017: Eyal Ben Ari: International Humanitarian Law, Armed Violence  and Military Restraint: Israeli Ground Level Commanders in the Occupied Territories (see abstract here)

08.03.2017: Natalie Davidson: The Changing Definition of Torture: A Socio-Legal Inquiry

2016 Semester A seminar talks

09.11.2016: Eli Salzberger: The Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions – Theoretical Perspectives

23.11.2016: Amnon Reichman: The Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions – Overview of Israeli Law and Institution

07.12.2016: Maria Varaki: Rule of Law challenges in Greece and Turkey. Different crisis, similar issues?

21.12.2016: Itamar Man: Three Genres of International Criminal Justice
(משפט בינלאומי פלילי ועקרון החוקיות)

11.01.2017: Ester Herlin-Karnell: The Constitutional Structure of Europe’s Area of “Freedom, Security and Justice” and the Right to Justification

18.01.2017: Yael Berda:Expanding Emergency: from Colonial Emergency Laws to Anti-Terror Laws in Israel and India (ניהול "אוכלוסיות מסוכנות": מפרקטיקות חירום קולוניאליות לחוקי המאבק בטרור בהודו ובישראל)

2015-2016 Seminar lectures

25.5.2016: Tobias Ackermann, Research associate at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum: “The Effects of Armed Conflicts on Bilateral Investment Treaties

18.5.2016: Dr. Yaniv Roznai, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Center: Emergency Unamendability

18.5.2016 : Should the cyber profession be licensed?  (Hebrew -Cyber forum event)

15.5.2016: ICON-S Israel, Annual conference of the International Society of Public Law; session on constitutional Law in times of crisis with post-doctoral fellows of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions.

13.4.2016: Dr. Suha Jubran Ballan: Economic Crises and Foreign Investors: Between Necessity and Reparation

6.4.2016: Dr. Denard Veshi: The European management of the refugee flow: an economic and legal comparative approach

6.4.2016: Abhishek Mishra: Extrajudicial Killings: Normative study to determine the impact on State and Democracy in changing World Order

30.3.2016: Dr. Rivka Brot: Law and Order at the Space of Exception: Administration of Law in Jewish Refugee Camps in the American Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949.  

6.3. 2016: Ehud Segal : Evaluating Israel’s Regulatory Framework for Earthquake Preparedness, Response and Recovery.

9.3. 2016: Dr. Myriam Feinberg Who should regulate Cyber-terrorism – France and Israel as a case study of a multilevel regime and the protection of the rule of law.

20.1. 2016:   Prof. Kenneth A. Bamberger: Privacy on the Ground . (Cyber forum event - See here  for more details)

06.01. 2016: Alyssa-Nurit McBride:Refugee Law in the Developing World: The Implications of Protracted Refugee Situations on the Efficacy of Refugee Law.

30.12.2015: Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Dr. Alexandre Kedar, Dr. Ornit Shani: Twentieth-Century Partitions: An Interim Report. See abstract

25.11.2015 : Dr. Suha Jubran - Ballan: How Institutions Matter: on the Judicial Reasoning of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards. 

11.11.2015: Federica Maiorana (Guest at the Minerva Center)The phenomenon of Foreign Fighters: a new challenge for the world between effective protection and legal safeguards. See Abstract 

4.11.2015: Prof. Leslie E. Gerwin, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University: Law and (Dis)Order of Public Health Emergency Response. 

15.7.2015: Stephan Michel (with Prof. Stefan Voigt, Hamburg University): The organization of intelligence. 

8.7.2015: Prof. Moti Mironi: The Rule of Law and State of Emergency Caused by Strikes of Essential Employees. 

24.6.2015: Dr. Karin Loevy  (NYU School of Law) Who Decides on the Emergency? Comparing Institutional Response Capacities in the US Executive and the UK Parliament Post 9/11.  (abstract)

10.6.2015 :Suha Jubran Ballan: Investment Treaty Arbitration and Economic Crises: between Necessity and Reparation.

13.5.2015: Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Kedar: Expanding Legal Geographies: A Call for a Critical Comparative Approach.  (see paper)

15.4.2015: Natalie Davidson: Alien Tort Statute Litigation and Transitional Justice: Bringing the Marcos Case back to the Philippines.

25.3.2015:  Prof. Menachem Hofnung, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Price of Counterterrorism Information Gathering: Intelligence Informers in the Israeli Courts - (see draft of paper submitted for evaluation to Mishpat UMimshal (Hebrew)

 11.3.2015: Prof. Michael Gross, School of Political Science, The University of Haifa: The Ethics of Insurgency- What's Wrong with Human Shields?-  (See Prof. Gross's blog on the subject)

 28.1.2015: Klaas Rick,  University of Hamburg: Terrorism as a Crime under International Law - 

 21.1.2015:Dr. Yaniv Roznai , The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition: Revolutionary lawyering -  (See paper (Hebrew))

 14.1.2015: Dr. Michal Saliternik, The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions: Procedural justice in peace negotiations

See more: 2014 Seminar Lectures

 

Legal Aspects of Relief Operations

A Round Tables Workshop

May, 26 – 27, 2019,

University of Haifa

List of Participants (alphabetical order)

 

Rebecca Barber

Ms. Rebecca Barber is an associate lecturer with Deakin University’s Centre for Humanitarian Leadership.  She has over 15 years’ experience in humanitarian assistance, in roles that have focused primarily on protection, rule of law and human rights, and humanitarian policy and advocacy.  She has spent most of her career working with international NGOs, in both conflict and natural disaster contexts across Africa, Asia and the Pacific.  She has masters degrees in international development and international law, and has published on a wide range of issues across humanitarian assistance and international humanitarian and human rights law including the protection of civilians, humanitarian access, human rights in disasters, the responsibility to protect, and the role of the UN Security Council and General Assembly in responding to humanitarian crises.

Michal Ben Gal

Dr. Michal Ben Gal is a researcher and the Academic coordinator of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and the Israeli National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness at the University of Haifa. Michal received her PhD from the University of Haifa (2004). She is a planner (Master of City and Regional Planning, from the Technion, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, 1998) and member in the Israel Planners Association, as well as a lawyer (LL.B. from the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law (2009), and admitted to the Israeli bar in December 2010). Her PhD thesis focused on the Potential of Framing Analysis for Environmental Conflict Management. Her main research interests include regulatory frameworks for emergency situations, and mitigation and facilitation of public and environmental conflicts.

Odeda Benin Goren

Dr. Odeda Benin-Goren is a Registered Nurse Certified in Emergency Nursing (CEN) with PhD. She has broad experience as a clinical nurse in the fields of Internal Medicine, Public Health, and Emergency Medicine. Odeda was among the pioneers that established the national Emergency Nursing Course for nurses to become CEN. As a CEN, she specializes in all types of Emergencies, including Mass Casualty Incidents (MCIs).

During the last decade, she specialized in the area of Disaster and Humanitarian response and works with government ministries and agencies worldwide.

Odeda is a United Nation Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) member under the UN-Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affair (OCHA). She is also a consultant of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Department of International Cooperation (MASHAV) at the Israeli Ministry of Froing Affair (MFA), in the areas of Emergency Medicine/nursing, Trauma, Intensive Care, Disaster Preparedness, and Risk Assessment.

Recently she was elected as the Chair of the Nursing Special Interesting Group (SIG) in the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM).

Ziv Bohrer

Dr. Ziv Bohrer is an assistant professor at Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law. His main areas of interest are International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law. He is, currently, researching the long (forgotten) pre-WWII history of International Criminal Law

Larry Bottinick

Mr. Larry Bottinick serves as the Senior Protection Officer for UNHCR Israel.  Prior duty stations include Indonesia, Guantanamo Bay, Czech Republic, Turkey, and several posts in Geneva, including conducting inspections and investigations.  I also served one year as an Ethics Officer for the UN Secretariat in NY.  I’m a U.S. educated lawyer (Georgetown Law, University of Michigan), raised in Washington D.C.   

Michal Bruck

Ms. Michal Bruck serves as the CEO of the NALA, an NGO that operates community health programs aiming to prevent neglected tropical diseases, including bilharzia, trachoma and intestinal parasites.

She has extensive humanitarian experience, both as NGO surge capacity and as part of the United Nations Logistics Cluster. Michal worked for 6 years at the World Food Programme, and has managed its Logistics Service Provision Project, aiming to provide services to the humanitarian community, as well as the FMIP, a joint United Nations/Government of Ethiopia program to improve the in-country humanitarian supply chain. She also served in multiple disaster response operations, from the Kosovo Crisis in 1998 to the West Africa Ebola Crisis in 2014. Michal provides consultancy services to international organizations such as UNICEF, UNHCR, and IFRC, WFP including the formulation of the Logistics Cluster Strategy.

She holds an MBA from the University of Geneva specializing on management in international organization, and an LLB from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Stephanie

Dr. Stéphanie Cartier is a Legal Officer with the UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA). Prior to joining OLA, she taught at Fordham University and collaborated with the Brandeis Institute for International Judges and the Project on International Courts and Tribunals. She also worked with human rights NGOs, the ILO and the WTO Appellate Body. Stephanie earned a B.C.L. and LL.B. from McGill, a Master’s from the GIISD, Geneva, and a Ph.D. from Maastricht University.

Sita Cacioppe

Dr. Sita Cacioppe has been working as a Medical team leader and Project team lead with a Medical INGO, after eight years experience,she is currently doing her MBA in Healthcare Innovation, so as to further utilities innovation tools within the humanitarian context.

Kevin Chang 1 Mr. Kevin Chang has almost two decades of professional experience serving as an advisor in international human rights law, justice sector reform and conflict mediation, majority of the time based in conflict and post-conflict settings. He has served the United Nations under peacekeeping, development and humanitarian mandates, most recently as a senior rule of law advisor to the UN in Myanmar, Ethiopia, Timor-Leste and South Sudan, the latter two as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. He has previously served the UN in Nepal, Pakistan and at Geneva Headquarters. Kevin has also worked for the Australian Government on numerous occasions, most recently as Director of Human Rights Policy in the Federal Attorney-General’s Department. Kevin holds degrees from the University of Sydney (JD, MA, GradDipIntLaw), the Australian National University (LLM, GradDipLegPrac) and Monash University (BSc). He is a Visiting Scholar in Peace and Conflict at the University of Sydney and a Lawyer of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
 Rosa da Costa

Ms. Rosa da Costa is a Human Rights lawyer with expertise and publications in a range of human rights areas. These include refugee law and internal displacement, women's rights, administration of justice, integration, humanitarian law and children's rights. She has worked with several UN agencies including UNHCR, OHCHR and Office of the Representative of Children in Armed Conflict, as well as with NGOs and the Canadian Government. During her career, Rosa has lived in several countries and participated in emergency operations and field missions to conflict and post-conflict settings such as Iraq, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Cote d’Ivoire and Kenya.

Dafna Dror Shpoliansky

Ms. Dafna Dror-Shpoliansky is a legal counsel at the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, International Law Division, Human Rights Department (MOJ, Israel). Her practice focuses on advising on international human rights law aspects regarding legislative procedures and Supreme Court proceedings, as well as reporting to the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies.

Prior to joining the MOJ, Ms. Dror-Shpoliansky was a legal research extern at the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA), New York. During her legal studies, Ms. Dror clerked at the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (UNICTR) in the Chambers Support Section.

Eyal Dror

Ltc. (Res.) Eyal Dror Served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces for the past 24 years in a variety of positions in the frontline as a coordination and liaison officer in the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and in the previous 3 years,  founded and served as the commander of the "Good Neighbor" unit – the Israeli aid to Syrian civilians in the Syria-Israel border area, which conducted over 700 humanitarian aid missions, and collaborated with more than 20 Israeli, Christians and Muslims NGO'S. 

Eyal is married +3, lives in Kibbutz Sde Nehemia.

Christie Edwards

Ms. Christie Edwards is an internationally recognized and published expert with over nineteen years of experience working on international humanitarian and human rights law, gender, international policy and advocacy, and international community development.

Currently, Christie serves as the Deputy Head of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department of the OSCE Office of Democracy and Human Rights, addressing issues of racism, xenophobia, religious discrimination, and hate crimes.

Previously, as the Director of International Humanitarian Law at the American Red Cross, Christie lead the organization’s legal education, public, and youth outreach efforts on IHL, directly reaching over 60,000 people per year with a social reach of over 24 million. Finally, Christie serves as the Vice Chair of the International Organizations Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL).

She has published law review articles on forced contraception as a form of torture, the cultural context of sex trafficking in China, the use of gender budget analysis to achieve educational parity for women and girls, legal advocacy strategies for women's rights in Morocco, and ISIL’s use of forced contraception as a form of torture. She also speaks regularly for local and international conferences on international human rights and humanitarian law issues.

Itay Epshtain

Mr. Itay Epshtain is a Senior Humanitarian Law and Policy Consultant, a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician, and Disaster Management Officer with Magen David Adom (MDA) National Disaster Response Team. 

Epshtain is a member of the European Society of International Law, and a member of the International Bar Association War Crimes Committee. Epshtain is a graduate of Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; M.A. International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid; holds diplomas in International Environmental Law, International Humanitarian Law; and advanced qualifications in the Law of Armed Conflict, International Disaster Relief Law, and in Human Rights and Forced Displacement. 

Yoni Eshpar

Mr. Yoni Eshpar has worked since 2014 as a Political Affairs Officer at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO). Previously he was the director of the public department of the Israeli human rights organization Gisha, and a senior project director at the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), dealing with humanitarian, economic and political issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During 2006-2010 he worked for the UK-based company Exclusive Analysis as a regional consultant and political risk analyst for Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Yoni has published dozens of articles and op-eds in leading newspapers and professional journals.

Ronit Gidron Zemach

Ms. Ronit Gidron Zemach is an attorney. She is the CEO of The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists for more than a decade. The Association works, mainly, to fight anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial – promoting human rights and protection against racism, xenophobia, and other related issues of international law. Previously, Ms. Gidron Zemach worked in one of the top three law firms in Israel (Goldfarb, Seligman) as a commercial litigator in the Department of Communications and Media and in the Litigation Department. Her work included negotiating with the Council for Cable and Satellite Broadcasting, etc., providing counseling to customers and companies from various sectors regarding contents, information databases, and copyrights.  She holds a LL.B. from the School of Law, The College of Management Academic Studies, and a LL.M. from Fordham University and is a certified mediator.

Emanuela Chiara Gillard

Ms. Emanuela-Chiara Gillard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC).  From 2007 to 2013 she was the Chief of the Protection of Civilians Section in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).  Prior to that Emanuela spent seven years at the International Committee of the Red Cross as a legal adviser.  She holds BA and LLM degrees from the University of Cambridge.  

Her research interests include international humanitarian law, with a particular focus on the protection of civilians and mechanisms for promoting compliance; the role of the Security Council in enhancing the protection of civilians; and principled humanitarian action.

Adi Hercowitz Amir

Dr. Adi Hercowitz-Amir is a sociologist focusing her research on the topics of public policy and public sentiments as regards to international migration. In the academic year 2018-2019 she is a post-doctoral scholar at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) at the University of Haifa. She completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa in the summer of 2017. Her dissertation focused on host states’ reception of asylum seekers and refugees, at both citizen and state levels and is entitled: “Hostile hosting? The Construction of Public opinion and public policy towards asylum seekers and refugees: the cases of Israel and Denmark”.

Danny Kahn

Mr. Danny Kahn has chaired NATAN-International Humanitarian Aid since 2015, a role to which he applied his International relations, International development and educational experience. Former senior officer at the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, he served for twenty years in international relations and was posted in Africa, Asia and Europe. He later served as Director of the International Development at the World ORT Geneva’ office. Danny Kahn comes from the world of informal education in Israel and France and was directly involved in the rescue of the Jewish communities in Muslim countries.

Ina Kubbe

Dr. Ina Kubbe is a Post-Doctoral Fellow working at the School of Political Science, Government and International Relations at Tel Aviv University, where she is mainly researching and teaching on the causes and consequences of corruption. Ina is also working as an international consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Education for Justice (E4J), where she develops university modules on anti-corruption, in particular in the field of “Corruption and Comparative Politics”, “Corruption and Gender”, “Corruption and Good Governance” and “Corruption and Human Rights”. 

Einav Levy

Mr. Einav Levy is the Founding Director of The Israeli School of Humanitarian Action and Lucien Research center for Humanitarian Action. He is a manager and entrepreneur with a profound experience in the interface between the Non-Profit sector and the business, governmental, social and academic sectors, and expertise in Humanitarian Action. Previously a COO of an organization, which promote development in Africa, a CEO of NGO dealing with International Humanitarian Action, and board member in few organizations including SID-Israel and NALA Foundation. Einav is a consultant of few Israeli Ministries on topics of managing people in emergencies,  systems on crisis and community resilience .

Expected to finish his Ph.D in Behavioral Medicine in the Liberal University of Brussels. His main academic work is focused on health and behavior among population at risk, Migrants and Minorities.

Jerry Locula

Mr. Jerry Locula is a Liberian and a Human Rights Activist. He is Former Human Rights Officer of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) where he worked for nearly six years monitoring, investigating and reporting on the human rights situations in the country, at the same time advocating with the government for the protection and promotion of human rights. He was instrumental in documenting human rights and international humanitarian law violations in the civil war in South Sudan. Through his technical expertise, Jerry Locula assisted the State's Assembly in formulating and enacting "Girl Child Education Art" in Central Equatoria which consequently guaranteed the rights to girls to education. Prior, he worked with the Independent National Commission on Human Rights of the Republic of Liberia and the Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Programme of the Lutheran Church in Liberia as Human Rights Monitor and Director for Human Rights and Governance respectively. Currently, Jerry is Founder and CEO of the Locula Foundation; a nonprofit organization that is promoting social justice, human rights and empowering communities in Liberia. Jerry holds Master's in International Law and Human Rights from the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica. 

Itamar Mann

Dr. Itamar Mann is a law professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. His research is in international law and political theory. He teaches  international law and a number of related courses, including an elective on law and terrorism, environmental law, and a clinical seminar on law and politics in the Mediterranean region.

Before moving to Haifa, Itamar was the national security law fellow and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center, Washington DC. He holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University, and LLM and JSD degrees from Yale Law School.

Alongside teaching and research, Itamar provide pro-bono consultancy to several human rights organizations, and is a member of the legal action committee at GLAN (Global Legal Action Network). He has previously provided services to Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Justice Initiative on issues related to refugee and migration law in Europe.

Melissa Martins Casagrande

Prof. Dr. Melissa Martins Casagrande holds a joint appointment in the Schools of Law and International Relations at Universidade Positivo in Curitiba, Brazil where she currently leads a research project on Human Mobility. Melissa holds a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Law from Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil) and a Doctor of Civil Law degree from McGill University (Canada). Melissa also works as a legal advisor to public agencies and third sector organizations on International Refugee Law and International Humanitarian Law. 

Tanyah Murkes

Ms. Tanyah Murkes is the Director of Forum Dvorah - a non-partisan, non-profit NGO with an active network of professional women in an array of fields relating to Israel’s national security and foreign policy. 

Aninia Nadig

Ms. Aninia Nadig joined Sphere in 2008. She is Sphere’s Policy and Practice Manager. For the past two years, she was heavily involved in the revision of the Sphere Handbook 2018, overseeing the process during much of the second year. Prior to joining Sphere, Aninia was Country Analyst at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) where she was responsible for the Horn of Africa. Before that she worked in the Netherlands, focusing on Dutch and EU refugee and asylum policy issues with Dutch non-profit organisations. Prior to that, she did refugee status determination for the Swiss Federal Office for Refugees.
Aninia holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Lausanne and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Ophelie Namiech

Ms. Ophelie Namiech has been working and studying in the fields of international law, diplomacy, human rights, international development and humanitarian assistance for the past 13 years. Her main area of interest and expertise is institutional development in conflict and post-conflict settings in security sector reform and gender, with a regional focus on Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. 

Ophelie holds a Master in International Law (LLM) from the University of Amsterdam as well as a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University. She has 4+ years of experience at several United Nations Headquarters in the Hague, Geneva and New York combined with 8+ years of field experience in Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa – including 5+ years in South Sudan, Ophelie’s second home.

Magda Pacholska

Dr. Magda Pacholska is a Scientific Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. She earned her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her doctoral work concerning the United Nations’ responsibility for aiding and assisting human rights and IHL violations in the context of peacekeeping was conducted as part of the Human Rights under Pressure interdisciplinary research training group in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin. She is an Expert Rapporteur with Oxford Reports on International Law, particularly on issues related to peace operations, international responsibility of international organizations, and international criminal law.

Frances Raday

Prof. Frances Raday is the Director of the Concord Center for International Human Rights Law at COLMAN, Professor Emerita Lieberman Chair for Labour Law, Hebrew University; Honorary Professor, University College London; and Doctor Honoris, University of Copenhagen.

Raday was appointed, between 2000 and 2018, as a UN independent human rights expert, first on the CEDAW Committee and subsequently as a Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights Council. She has litigated cutting-edge human rights cases, including on issues of women’s right to equality in political, economic and religious contexts; TU freedoms; migrant and Palestinian workers’ rights. She has submitted expert opinions to courts in the UK and Brazil, regarding the right to abortion, and, in the US, regarding inventor’s patent rights.

Ido Rosenzweig

Mr. Ido Rosenzweig is Director of International Organizstions at the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ). He also serves as the Director of Research (Terrorism, Belligerencies and Cyber) at the Minerva Center for the Study of Law under Extreme Conditions.

Ido is an international lawyer with expertise in international humanitarian law (laws of armed conflict) and international human rights law. He is a co-founder and chairman of ALMA - Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law since 2010. 

Eli M. Salzberger

Prof. Eli M. Salzberger was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the President of the European Association for Law and Economics.  He is the director of the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, the director of the Minerva Center for the Study of the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and he is the co-director of the International Academy for Judges at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law.

Shadia Sbait

Ms. Shadia Sbait is Humanity Crew’s strategy and development advisor. With a Master degree in information management, Bachelor degree in economics, business, and resource development, Shadia has been active for the last 20 years in social-political activism and human rights. In Humanity Crew, her job is to overlook the strategy development of the organization, advise on long-term plans and projects, and support the team in applying to them. Through communicating directly with funders and philanthropists, Shadia is able to share Humanity Crew's vision and mission with relevant stakeholders around the world.

Pnina Sharvit Baruch

Col (ret.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch is a senior research fellow and the head of the program on law and national security at the Israel Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). She retired from the Israel Defense Forces in 2009 at the rank of Colonel after twenty years in the International Law Department, heading the Department from 2003. In this capacity she was responsible for advising the IDF and the GOI on issues relating to international law, including on the laws of armed conflict and counter-terrorism. She also served as a member of Israel's delegations to the negotiations with the Palestinians and with Syria. After 2009 she taught courses on public international law and on the legal aspects of the Israel – Arab conflict in the law faculty of the Tel-Aviv University.

Deborah F. Shmueli

Prof. Deborah F. Shmueli is a faculty member in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa, Head of the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness (awarded in 2018), and a co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the Minerva Center for Law and Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa (awarded in 2013).  

   

 

Twenty Five Years since Oslo: Contemporary Forms of Governance, Control and Resistance
in Israel and Palestine

International Webinar

July, 2020

University of Haifa

List of Participants (alphabetical order)

 

 Samer Abdelrazzak Sinijlawi 1 Samer Abdelrazzak is the Chairman of the Jerusalem Development Fund. Head of the Diplomatic and International relations for the Fateh Shadow Leadership and Reform Stream. He was the President of the Palestinian Council of Young Political Leaders 2000-2006,and Head of Israeli and International File for Fateh Supreme committee 1994-2000. He was detained by the Israeli authorities at the age of 15 for 4 years Durring the first Intifada 1988-1992.
 Shaul arieli Colonel Res., Dr. Sharul Arieli is an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Previously, he served as a brigade commander in Gaza Strip and as the director of peace negotiations in the Prime Minister's Office. Today, he is an outside lecturer at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center and the Hebrew University. Has published numerous articles, various studies and 6 books on the conflict, and this year two new books are about to be published.
 Gad Barzilai Prof. Gad Barzilai is a Full Professor of law, political science and international studies, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, Dean Emeritus of University of Haifa Law Faculty and Vice Provost and Head of the International School, University of Haifa. His academic degrees and training are from Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Yale, and University of Michigan Ann Harbor. He has published extensively 17 books and about 165 articles and essays in academic top journals and publishing houses on issues of law, society and politics. Several of his books are award winning books. Thus, for example, in his Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities [University of Michigan Press, 2003, 2005] he paved the way for a new understating of the role of communities in shaping practices in law and towards it. This book was awarded the Best Book Prize by the AIS and was selected to a special conference panel in the Law and Society conference in Chicago (2004). In his Law and Religion [Ashgate, International Series on Law and Society, 2007] he has edited some of the classics on law and religion and made a meaningful contribution to our understanding of this topic. In his Wars, Internal Conflicts and Political Order [SUNY 1996], he has suggested a new way for understanding the construction of political-legal order and disorder in times of national security emergencies. The Hebrew manuscript of this book was awarded the Best Book Award in National Security by the Ben Gurion Foundation. Among others he has published on politics of rights, comparative law, law and political power, law and violence, communities and law, group rights, liberal jurisprudence, national security, democracies and law, and issues concerning Middle East and Israeli politics and law. In his research he is often combining knowledge in law, the social sciences, mainly political science and political sociology, with political theory, theories of jurisprudence, comparative politics and comparative law. He has been trained to use both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Barzilai was the President of the Association for Israel Studies (2011-2013) and the Founding First Director of the Dan David Prize (1999-2002). He is a Board member of editorial boards in several world leading professional journals. 
 Sari Bashi Adv. Sari Bashi is a human rights lawyer and expert in international humanitarian law. She writes and lectures on Israeli policy toward the occupied Palestinian territory and is currently working on a book about the occupation of Palestine. Sari co-founded Gisha, the leading Israeli human rights group promoting the right to freedom of movement for Palestinians in Gaza, and served as Gisha's executive director for nine years. She also served as Israel/Palestine country director at Human Rights Watch. Sari has taught international humanitarian law at Tel Aviv University and at Yale Law School, where she also served as the Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow.
 yael Berda Dr. Yael Berda is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Hebrew University. She was an Academy Scholar, the Harvard Academy for International & Regional Studies, WCFIA from 2014-2017. Berda received her PhD from Princeton University; MA from Tel Aviv University and LLB from Hebrew University faculty of Law. Berda was a practicing Human Rights lawyer, representing in military, district and Supreme courts in Israel. Her most recent book is Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the West Bank (Stanford University Press, 2017 ). Berda's is currently working on a book manuscript entitled: "The File and the Checkpoint: the Administrative Memory of the British Empire". Her other research projects are about the construction of loyalty of civil servants in Israel and India, the use of emergency laws to shape political economy of colonial states, and colonial legacies of law and administration that shape contemporary homeland security practices in postcolonial states. Berda publishes, teaches and speaks on the intersections of sociology of law, bureaucracy and the state, race and racism and sociology of empires.
During the 2019-20 academic year Dr. Berda will teach an undergraduate lecture course on Law and Society; an undergraduate junior tutorial on Race and Bureaucracy; and a graduate seminar on Transnational Historical Sociology.
 Asad Ghanem Prof. As'ad Ghanem is a senior lecturer at the School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa. Ghanem's theoretical work has explored the legal, institutional and political conditions in ethnic states. He has covered issues such as Palestinian political orientations, the establishment and political structure of the Palestinian Authority, and majority-minority politics in a comparative perspective. His books include Palestinian Politics after Arafat: A Failed National Movement (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies). Ghanem has initiated several empowerment programs for Palestinians in Israel.

Efraim Inbar
Prof. Efraim Inbar is the President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. Educated at the Hebrew University (B.A. in Political Science and English Literature) and at the University of Chicago (M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science), he served as the founding director of its Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. He was visiting professor at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Boston universities, and visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Boston University (2015). Prof. Inbar was a visiting Fellow at the (London) International Institute for Strategic Studies (2000). His area of specialization is Middle Eastern strategic issues. He has written over 80 articles in professional journals. He has authored five books and has edited twelve collections of articles. Prof. Inbar also served the President of the Israel Association for International Studies.
 sandy Kedar Professor Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar teaches at the Law School at the University of Haifa. He holds a Doctorate in Law (S.J.D) from Harvard Law School. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School as well as a Grotius International Law Visiting Scholar there and a visiting associate professor at the Frankel Institute for Judaic studies in the University of Michigan. His research focuses on legal geography, legal history, law and society and land regimes in settler societies and in Israel. He served as the President of the Israeli Law and Society Association, is the co-coordinator of the Legal Geography CRN of the Law and Society Association and a member of its international committee. He is the co-founder (in 2003) and director of the Association for Distributive Justice, an Israeli NGO addressing these issues.
 Khamaisi Rassem Prof. Rassem Khamaisi is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. He was elected at 2007 as President of the Israeli Geographical Association. Dr. Khamaisi received his PhD in Geography (1993) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, MSc (1985) from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a BA in Geography from the Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva (1981). He is a member of various professional international and local associations and NGO’s involved in public and environmental policy issues, planning and development. He has recently managed a planning project funded by the Israeli Home Office, the Israeli Land Administration Office and the Prime-Minster Office. In addition, he is a senior researcher at Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem and at the International Peace and Cooperation Center, Jerusalem. He is the manager of a private company (Center for Planning and Studies), which engages in urban, and Strategy planning and Management. A strong focus of his efforts is aimed towards geography, urbanization and planning among the Arabs in Israel and the Palestinians in the Palestinians territory and Jerusalem, besides concentration on public administration, public participation and urban management.
 NuritKliot Prof. Nurit Kliot is Professor Emerita at the Dept. of Geography and Environment Studies university of Haifa. Her research areas are: Political Geography Water Resources Management Climate change  and Social Geography.

Nurit  holds BA from the Hebrew university of Jerusalem and the University Of Haifa, MA in Geography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and PH.D in Geography from Clark University Worcester Ma USA.  So far, she authored  five books, edited seven Books, and published four monographs and 76 articles and chapters in books.

Itamar Mann

Dr. Itamar Mann is a law professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. His research is in international law and political theory. He teaches  international law and a number of related courses, including an elective on law and terrorism, environmental law, and a clinical seminar on law and politics in the Mediterranean region.

Before moving to Haifa, Itamar was the national security law fellow and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center, Washington DC. He holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University, and LLM and JSD degrees from Yale Law School.

Alongside teaching and research, Itamar provide pro-bono consultancy to several human rights organizations, and is a member of the legal action committee at GLAN (Global Legal Action Network). He has previously provided services to Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Justice Initiative on issues related to refugee and migration law in Europe.

  Dr. Rami Nasrallah
 Rottem Rosenberg Rubins Dr. Rottem Rosenberg Rubins is a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. She specializes in criminal law, particularly in crimmigration and the interrelations between criminal law and citizenship. Her research at the Minerva Center will focus on Israel’s new counterterrorism legislation and the manner in which it reflects the changing relationship between Israel and the occupied territories. The research will examine the new balance struck in the legislation between emergency powers and measures of conventional criminal law, and its effect on the civic status of the Palestinian residents of the occupied terrorists, as well as the Israeli citizenship regime in general.
Rottem holds an LLB (magna cum laude), an LLM (summa cum laude) and a PhD from the Tel Aviv University faculty of law. During the previous academic year, she was a Cheshin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University faculty of law. She additionally serves as the coordinator of the public committee for preventing and amending wrongful conditions, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Prof. Yoram Danziger, and for the last three years has taught a course on the amendment of wrongful convictions at the Tel Aviv University faculty of law. Her articles on the subject of wrongful convictions in Israel have been quoted in verdicts of the Supreme Court, and an article based on her PhD has been recently published in the New Criminal Law Review.
Eli M. Salzberger

Prof. Eli M. Salzberger was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the President of the European Association for Law and Economics. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (1st in class). He clerked for Chief Justices Aharon Barak and Dorit Beinish. He wrote his doctorate at Oxford University on the economic analysis of the doctrine of separation of powers. His research and teaching areas are legal theory and philosophy, economic analysis of law, legal ethics, cyberspace and the Israeli Supreme Court. He has published more than 40 scientific articles. His latest book (co-authored with Niva Elkin-Koren) is The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: The Limits of Analysis (Routledge 2012), preceded by Law, Economic and Cyberspace (Edward Elgar 2004). He was a member of the board of directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, of the public council of the Israeli Democracy Institute and of a State commission for reform in performers’ rights in Israel. He was awarded various grants and fellowships, among them Rothschild, Minerva, GIF, ISF, Fulbright, ORS and British Council. Salzberger was a visiting professor at various universities including Princeton, University of Hamburg, Humboldt University, University of Torino, Miami Law School, University of St. Galen and UCLA. Currently he is the director of the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, the director of the Minerva Center for the Study of the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and he is the co-director of the International Academy for Judges at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law.

 Oren Shlomo 1 Dr. Oren Shlomo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. His research focuses on the political geography and ecology of cities and metropolitan areas, particularly through the lens of the politics and governance of infrastructure and services and planning and development policy. His PhD research on the governmentalities of East Jerusalem's infrastructure and services in the post-Oslo era (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2016) was awarded Best PhD Dissertation by the Israel Political Science Association. After completing his PhD research Oren was awarded a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship to continue his research on Jerusalem at the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University. In the last two years he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Sustainability at IDC Herzliya where he worked on the environmental policy and infrastructure governance in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. He is the coeditor of Cities of Tomorrow – Planning Justice and Sustainability Today (2014, Hebrew), and his work has been published in leading academic journals.
Deborah F. Shmueli

Prof. Deborah F. Shmueli is a faculty member in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa, Head of the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness (awarded in 2018), and a co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the Minerva Center for Law and Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa (awarded in 2013).  

 Amal Zuabi Amal Zuabi is an Architect & Urbanist. She holds B.Arch from Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem and Masters in Rehabilitation of Buildings with Historical Value, from Erasmus combined Spain and Italy.
Amal worked previously in private offices, and since 2003 she is working at Bimkom, as a planner, directly with communities.
Since 2 months she is the coordinator of the west bank department.
Amal is a mother of 2 children, and lives in Jerusalem.

3rd Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency

The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions

University of Haifa, February 2019

List of Participants (alphabetical order)

Kire 1Dr. Sc. Kire Babanoski comes from Macedonia. He is Dr. Sc. in the field of security and currently he is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of security studies, MIT University - Skopje, responsible for the courses National Security, Terrorism, Criminalistics and Forensics. He is a mentor for student practical education responsible for communication with the officials from the national security institutions and law enforcement agencies for organizing field visits and expert guests lectures at the faculty. Also, he is a Vice-President of Center for International and Developing Studies - Skopje.
He is a young researcher in the field of security, fight against terrorism, organized crime and illegal trafficking and he has acquired a detailed knowledge in methodology of planning, designing, preparing, developing and conducting surveys, projects and researches. His papers and articles were presented at many international scientific conferences and published in relevant thematic proceedings and journals in Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, France and Italy. He was participant at the 2017 cycle of the Council of Europe Schools of Political Studies and participant at 6th World Forum for Democracy (Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 08-10.11.2017).

Anuar Baltabayev 1Mr. Anuar Baltabayev is a research analyst at China Studies Centre. Within China Studies Centre he is responsible for conducting political, security and economic research about China. He graduated from the Kazakh University of Economics, Finance and International Trade and International School of Diplomacy. He had completed several academic events in China, UK and Russia. Apart from professional activities, he is a volunteer at the Red Crescent Society in Kazakhstan. He worked on Regional Migration Programme (IOM, The World Bank).

Ziv Bohrer PicDr. Ziv Bohrer is an assistant professor at Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law. His main areas of interest are International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law. He is, currently, researching the long (forgotten) pre-WWII history of International Criminal Law. 

 

 

Anna EvangelidiDr. Anna Evangelidi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy, University of Haifa. Her postdoctoral research will extend her doctoral thesis’ insights into UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) warfare and the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) by focusing on the rise of cyberspace as an increasingly prominent means and method of warfare. Anna holds a Law Degree (LLB Hons) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, an LLM degree in International Law from the University of Bristol, UK, and has recently completed her PhD studies at the City Law School, London, UK. During her doctoral studies, she taught International Humanitarian Law (IHL), European Union law and constitutional law. After obtaining her LLM, she worked as a legal consultant with the Chambers at the International Criminal Court, The Hague. Anna is a qualified lawyer in Greece and member of the Thessaloniki Bar (Greece). Her research areas and interests include the legal and ethical dilemmas generated by new weapon technologies; LOAC/IHL; international law and the use of force; international criminal law; international law and human rights; and international dispute settlement.

Sofia GalaniDr. Sofia Galani (LLB, LLM, PhD, FHEA) is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. She was awarded a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Bristol Law School in 2016 for her thesis entitled ‘Hostages and Human Rights: Towards a Victim-Centred Approach?’. Her research interests are on modern piracy, maritime security, terrorism, and human rights, and she has published in these areas. She is currently working on two book projects – a co-edited collection with Professor Sir Malcolm Evans on maritime security and the law of the sea (Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance? EE, 2020) and her monograph on hostages and human rights (Hostages and Human Rights: Towards a Victim-Centred Approach? CUP, 2020). Sofia has providing legal advice to the UNODC on the development of the Global Maritime Crime Programme. She is the Editor of the Case and Commentary section of the European Human Rights Law Review and sits on Human Rights at Sea Non-Executive Board of Advisors. 

Elad GilMr. Elad Gil is an S.J.D. candidate at Duke Law School and the executive editor of The Arena: Diplomacy and Foreign Relations Quarterly at the school of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He received an L.L.B in Law and M.B.A in Business Administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an L.L.M in International legal studies as a Fulbright scholar from American University School of Law. Before joining Duke, Elad was a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) and a member of the International Task Force on Terrorism, Democracy, and the Law with the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Max Planck Institute. Elad’s research interests are foreign relations and national security law, constitutional law, and separation of powers theory. His recent work on the effect of functionalism on the allocation of foreign affairs and national security powers is forthcoming at the Harvard National Security Journal.

Gillard picMs. Emanuela-Chiara Gillard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, and an Associate Fellow in Chatham House’s International Law Programme.
From 2007 to 2012 she was Chief of the Protection of Civilians Section in the Policy Development and Studies Branch of the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The Section works with the United Nations and other key partners to promote and enhance the protection of civilians in armed conflict.
Her research interests include international humanitarian law, with a particular focus on the protection of civilians and mechanisms for promoting compliance; the role of the Security Council in enhancing the protection of civilians; and principled humanitarian action.

MG Photo head smallProf. Michael L. Gross is Professor of Political Science at The University of Haifa and former head of the School of Political Science. Specializing in military ethics and military medical ethics and related questions of national security, his latest books include Bioethics and Armed Conflict (MIT Press 2006); Moral Dilemmas of Modern War (Cambridge 2010); The Ethics of Insurgency (Cambridge 2015) and, most recently, Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict, edited with Tamar Meisels (Cambridge, 2017). Prof. Gross is editor of the Routledge book series War, Conflict and Ethics and has led workshops on battlefield ethics, medicine and national security for the Dutch Ministry of Defense, The US Army Medical Department, the Defence Medical Services (UK), The US Naval Academy, The US Naval War College, the International Committee of Military Medicine and the Medical Corps and National Security College of the Israel Defense Forces.

Alexandra Herfroy Mischler pictAlexandra Herfroy-Mischler (Ph.D) is an Associate Researcher at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the French CNRS (CRFJ) in Jerusalem. She also lectures at the Hebrew University in the Journalism and Communication Department as well as the Rothberg International School. She completed her Ph.D at the Department of Media Studies, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, (Paris 3), France. Her research focuses on Journalism Practices and Political Communication with an emphasis on transitional justice/ conflict resolution, intelligence and counter-terrorism. Her research has been published in Media, War & Conflict Journal (2015), Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism (2016; 2018), Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2018), and Visual Communication (2018).

nimrod karinNimrod Karin is a JSD candidate at New York University School of Law. He received his LLM in international legal studies from NYU in 2014. He received his LLB, magna cum laude, from Tel Aviv University, Israel (2006), where he was a teaching and research assistant in various fields, as well as a member of the editorial board of the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law.

From 2006 to 2012 Nimrod served as a legal adviser to the Israel Defense Forces, at the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General’s Corps’ HQ (retired at the rank of Captain). From 2012 to 2013 Nimrod was the Deputy Legal Adviser to Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. In the course of his public service, Nimrod practiced numerous areas of Public International Law, specializing on the Law of Armed Conflict, International Law of Arms Control and Disarmament, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, and international and comparative anti-terrorism law. As part of his work, Nimrod participated in multilateral and bilateral treaty negotiations, and appeared before several UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies.

Hanna Sophie Kiel picHannah Kiel is a PhD candidate at the Free University of Berlin, where she is performing research about changes in international law regarding arms delivery to non-state actors. In 2017, she worked at the Collaborative Research Center SFB 700 ‘Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood’. In 2018, Hannah was a visiting scholar at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law. She also worked with the IANSA Women’s Network (International Action Network on Small Arms) on the inclusion of gender-topics in international treaties as well as with the German lawyers’ association of feminist women.

Yumiko picDr. Yumiko Kita is an assistant researcher at the University of Sussex where she completed doctoral thesis: ‘A Lay Adjudication System as a Democratic Institution’. She has research background in international criminal law, international criminology, and comparative criminal law and criminal justice system. Her current research focuses on international terrorism and State legislative responses to it in the fulfilment of regional and international multilateral treaties and United Nations Security Council resolutions. She also participates a research project about human rights and humanitarian law, and her research focus in the project is about sexual violence and criminal justice procedures.

Barbara Korte PicMs. Barbara Korte studied political science, psychology and sinology at LMU Munich and Fu Dan Catholic University inTaipei. Since her graduation in 2014 she has been pursuing her PhD on counter-terrorism strategies in authoritarian countries, based at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Previously, she has worked at the German Bundestag, the German embassy to in Phnom Penh and at NATO School Oberammergau. Barbara speaks English, German, Spanish and Mandarin. She has lectured and published on Jihadist terrorism in China, Germany’s and the European Union‘s counter-terrorism strategies, and on the strategic implications of the Iranian nuclear program. Currently, Barbara is a visiting scholar at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions here in Haifa, working on a project which compares criminal definitions of terrorism and related offenses across different jurisdictions.

RajeshMr. Rajesh Kumar is full time Doctoral candidate at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India. He has completed his LL.B. and LL.M. from Faculty of law, University of Delhi. He also has M.A. (Masters) in Political Science. In 2018, he had participated in the Summer Academy organized by Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIER), Frankfurt and in Max Planck Symposium for Alumni and Early Career Researchers, Berlin, Germany. His research interests are Public International Law, Constitutional Law, Federalism and Internal Security Issues etc.

Itamar MannDr. Itamar Mann is a law professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. His research is in international law and political theory. He teaches  international law and a number of related courses, including an elective on law and terrorism, environmental law, and a clinical seminar on law and politics in the Mediterranean region.

Before moving to Haifa, Itamar was the national security law fellow and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center, Washington DC. He holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University, and LLM and JSD degrees from Yale Law School.
Alongside teaching and research, Itamar provide pro-bono consultancy to several human rights organizations, and is a member of the legal action committee at GLAN (Global Legal Action Network). He has previously provided services to Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Justice Initiative on issues related to refugee and migration law in Europe. Itamar is a member of the Israel Bar and have practiced human rights and criminal defense law.
His book, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2016.

Keren Michaeli 2Ms. Keren Michaeli is the Head of Legal Department, UNHCR, Israel 

 

 

 

Stefan OeterProf. Stefan Oeter is a full Professor for German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law, Managing Director of the Institute of International Affairs, University of Hamburg Law School (since 1999); studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Montpellier; 1987-1997 research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and Public International Law, Heidelberg; 1990 Dr. iur. utr. (Heidelberg); Chairman (since 2006) of the Independent Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (Council of Europe); Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Transport; President of the Historical Commission, International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War; Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; research mainly in comparative federalism, minority protection and human rights law, humanitarian law, European and international economic law, theory of international law and international relations.

Photo Muhsin 1Mr. Muhsin Puthan Purayil is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, India. His research concerns India’s public diplomacy. Muhsin holds a masters degree in Political science from the same university. He has worked as an intern at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India. He is a recipient of research fellowship from the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India for his doctoral research since 2017.  His research interests include International Relations, diplomacy, human rights and national security.

Ido Rosenzweig 1Mr. Ido Rosenzweig is the Director of Cyber, Belligerencies and Terrorism Research, Minerva Center for the Study of Law under Extreme Conditions. He is an international lawyer with expertise in international humanitarian law (laws of armed conflict) and international human rights law. 
Prior to his work at the Minerva Center, Ido worked as a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute (in the Terrorism and Democracy Research Division) (2009-2014).
He is the co-founder and chairman of ALMA - Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law since 2010.  Ido serves as Director of International Organizstions at the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.

Riccardo SalabeRiccardo Salabè studied at the Faculty of Law at Roma Tre University in Rome. His interest in international law was born after participation in the International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition in 2015. In 2016 he was granted a scholarship by his University to spend a semester for research purposes at the Shanghai International Studies University. In 2017 he participated again at the ICC Moot Court as coach of the Italian team and concluded his academic career at the University of Roma 3, graduating in December. During the academic year 2017/18, he attended the Master in Diplomacy and International relations at the SIOI institute in Rome.

Eli Salzberger new 1Prof. Eli M. Salzberger was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the President of the European Association for Law and Economics.  He is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (1st in class).  He clerked for Chief Justices Aharon Barak and Dorit Beinish. He wrote his doctorate at Oxford University on the economic analysis of the doctrine of separation of powers.  His research and teaching areas are legal theory and philosophy, economic analysis of law, legal ethics, cyberspace and the Israeli Supreme Court.  He has published more than 40 scientific articles. His latest book (co-authored with Niva Elkin-Koren) is The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: The Limits of Analysis (Routledge 2012), preceded by Law, Economic and Cyberspace (Edward Elgar 2004).  He was a member of the board of directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, of the public council of the Israeli Democracy Institute and of a State commission for reform in performers’ rights in Israel.  He was awarded various grants and fellowships, among them Rothschild, Minerva, GIF, ISF, Fulbright, ORS and British Council. Salzberger was a visiting professor at various universities including Princeton, University of Hamburg, Humboldt University, University of Torino, Miami Law School, University of St. Galen and UCLA. Currently he is the director of the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, the director of the Minerva Center for the Study of the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and he is the co-director of the International Academy for Judges at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law.

Yuval Shany 1Prof. Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a member of the UN Human Rights Committee since 2013 and currently serves as its chair. Yuval Shany is the Vice-President of the Israeli Democracy Institute.
He has published a number of books and articles on international courts and arbitration tribunals and other international humanitarian law and human rights issues such as the role of human rights in the fight against terrorism, and the legal aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Yuval Shany has taught in a number of law schools in Israel, and has been in recent years a research fellow in Harvard and Amsterdam University and a visiting professor at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, Columbia University Law School, University of Sydney, University of Michigan Law School and Georgetown Law Center.

Pnina 1Col (ret.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch is a senior research fellow and the head of the program on law and national security at the Israel Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). She retired from the Israel Defense Forces in 2009 at the rank of Colonel after twenty years in the International Law Department, heading the Department from 2003. In this capacity she was responsible for advising the IDF and the GOI on issues relating to international law, including on the laws of armed conflict and counter-terrorism. She also served as a member of Israel's delegations to the negotiations with the Palestinians and with Syria. After 2009 she taught courses on public international law and on the legal aspects of the Israel – Arab conflict in the law faculty of the Tel-Aviv University.

Yahli Shereshevsky 3RMr. Yahli Shereshevsky is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. He is an international lawyer and his research focuses mainly on international humanitarian law, international lawmaking, the use of force and international criminal law.
Recently he was a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. During his doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he was a Hans-Guth Dreyfus Fellow for Conflict Resolution and the Law and was enrolled in the Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Fellowship Program. He received the Hebrew University President’s Scholarship and was a Kretzmer fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights.
Yahli holds an LLB in Law and the “Amirim” Interdisciplinary Honors Program for Outstanding Students (2009, summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University. He clerked for the Honorable Deputy Chief Justice Eliezer Rivlin of the Supreme Court of Israel and served as an intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). His work has been published or is forthcoming, inter alia, in the Berkley Journal of International Law, the Michigan Journal of International law, the European Journal of International Law and the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.

daniel Statman 1Prof. Daniel Statman is head of the philosophy department at the University of Haifa and former chair of the Israeli Philosophical Association. His areas of specialization are ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and Jewish philosophy. He is author and editor of many books and articles, including Moral Dilemmas, Religion and Morality, Moral Luck, and Virtue Ethics. His most recent (co-authored) books areState and Religion in Israel (Cambridge University Press, in print) and War by Agreement: A Contractarian Defense of Just War Theory (Oxford University Press, also in print).

Dr Kimberley Trapp 1Dr. Kimberley Trapp is Vice Dean (International) and Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Laws, UCL. Prior to joining UCL in 2012, she was a Lecturer at Newnham College and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Kimberley obtained a BA (philosophy), BCL and LLB (all with great distinction) at McGill University, and an LLM and PhD at the University of Cambridge. Kimberley's doctoral thesis was awarded the Cambridge Yorke Prize for a dissertation of distinction, and is the basis of her OUP monograph State Responsibility for International Terrorism (2011) and UN Audio Visual Library lecture on the same subject.  Kimberley collaborates as an academic advisor on issues of international humanitarian and human rights law with various NGOs and Government departments, has published in leading academic journals and edited collections on issues relating to the use of force, State responsibility, the interaction between international humanitarian law and terrorism suppression, and the settlement of international disputes, and has presented related scholarship at various forums, including the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Council on International Law and American Society of International Law.  Kimberley directed research at the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law in 2012. She is co-editor of the soon to be launched OUP ‘Elements of International Law’ book series and a member of the Advisory Board, Academic Review Board or Board of Editors of several international law journals.

Elad Uzan 1Mr. Elad Uzan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC). In 2016-2018 he was a Research Fellow at the ERC-funded GlobalTrust - Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity research project.
Uzan works primarily on issues at the intersection of political, legal and moral philosophy, international law and the law of armed conflict, studying legal and moral norms—their nature and normative import.
Uzan obtained his LL.M at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, with a thesis on law and economics, after receiving his LL.B. in law and politics in the same institution. He is a graduate (with honors) of the Ruderman MA Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa. In 2018, he was a recipient of the President of Israel Fellowship for Scientific Excellence and Innovation.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions

is happy to invite you to a lecture by

Professor Gad Barzilai

Faculty of Law, Vice Provost University of Haifa

 

"Why Do Courts Incline to Prefer National Security Arguments Over (other) Human Rights?"

         Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 between 14:15-15:45

Room 1013, Terrace building, University of Haifa*

 

 Lecture is available on YouTube 

* The Center is located at ground level of the Terrace building (Hamadrega). See map

For more details, contact Michal at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Seminar lecture:

Tom Gal

Armed Groups - Objects or Subjects of International Law?

         Wednesday, December 19th, 2018 between 14:15-15:45

Room 1013, Terrace building, University of Haifa*

Abstract:

States are presumed to be the main, if not the sole, subjects of international law. Nevertheless, we have recently viewed the degradation of their status, as well as the introduction of new and meaningful players to the international law arena, among them, armed groups. From a positivist perspective, armed groups have been addressed and defined narrowly in the international law sphere, mainly in IHL provisions. In light of their important role, be it in armed conflict, or outside of it, their impact on civilian population, trade and internal national affairs, it is important to address the definition of armed groups in international law and the implications of such definition.

Tom Gal is an associate at Goldfarb Seligman Law Offices. Details about Tom see  here

 

Participation is free

 Lecture is available on YouTube 

 

* The Center is located at ground level of the Terrace building (Hamadrega). See map

For more details, contact Michal at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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