Past Seminar Talks:
2019
June 12, 2019: 14:15-16:00 - Seminar talk:
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
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9.4.2018
Deborah Housen-Couriel - Cybersecurity Regulation: A Case Study
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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
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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
3.1.2018
Dr. Dafne Richemond-Barak: Underground Warfare
Link to streamline on YouTube
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
2016-17
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
2016-2017 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