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Peer Reviewed Journals

S. Horovitz, “How International Courts Shape Domestic Justice: Lessons from Rwanda and Sierra Leone”, 46 Israel Law Review 339 (2013).

Y. Shany & S. Horovitz, “Judicial Independence in The Hague and Freetown: A Tale of Two Cities”, 21 Leiden Journal of International Law 113 (2008).

Book Chapters

Y. Shany & G. Noam & S. Horovitz, “The International Criminal Court”, in Yuval Shany, Assessing the Effectiveness of International Courts: A Goal-Based Approach (OUP, 2014).

S. Horovitz, “The Role of Victims”, in International Criminal Procedure: The Interface of Civil Law and Common Law Legal Systems (Eds. L. Carter & F. Pocar, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013).

S. Horovitz, “The Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone on Impunity in Rwanda and Sierra Leone”, in Africa and the Future of International Criminal Justice (Ed. Vincent Nhemielle, Eleven International Publishing, 2012).

S. Horovitz, “Transitional Criminal Justice in Sierra Leone”, in Beyond Truth Versus Justice: Transitional Justice in the Twenty First Century (Eds. N. Roht-Arriaza & J. Mariezcurrena, CUP, 2006).

DOMAC Research Reports*

S. Horovitz, “Sudan: Interaction between International and National Judicial Responses to the Mass Atrocities in Darfur”, DOMAC Case Study (2013) available at www.domac.is/reports.

S. Horovitz, “Uganda: Interaction between International and National Judicial Responses to Mass Atrocities”, DOMAC Case Study (2013) available at www.domac.is/reports.

S. Horovitz, “DR Congo: Interaction between International and National Judicial Responses to the Mass Atrocities”, DOMAC Case Study (2012) available at www.domac.is/reports.

S. Horovitz, “Rwanda: International and National Responses to the Mass Atrocities and Their Interaction”, DOMAC Case Study (2010) available at www.domac.is/reports.

S. Horovitz, “Sierra Leone: Interaction between International and National Responses to the Mass Atrocities”, DOMAC Case Study (2009) available at www.domac.is/reports.

* The DOMAC project was conducted under the EU 7th Framework Programme; all publications under the project were reviewed and approved by a steering committee and a scientific committee of top international law scholars. 

Conference Proceedings

S. Horovitz, “Accountability of the Hamas under International Humanitarian Law”, in Israel’s Right to Self-Defense: International Law and Gaza (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2012).

S. Horovitz, “Teaching about Legal Responses to Genocide and other Mass Atrocities”, in 16 Years After the Genocide Perpetrated Against the Tutsi: Handling its Consequences (CNLG, Rwanda, 2011).

Op-Eds & Media Articles

Can Israelis Sue Khaled Mashal for Killing Collaborators? The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa (in Hebrew), 16 Sept. 2014

Reopen Old Wounds: Faraway Nepal, Faraway Reconciliation (in Hebrew; with T. Luster), ynet.co.il, 2 July 2014

No They Can’t Sue Palestine at the ICC, timesofisrael.com, 8 May 2014

How Israel Can Lawfully Avoid an ICC Investigation into the West Bank Settlements, Opinio Juris, 3 March 2013

Think Different: Why Israel should join the ICC, Israel Democracy Institute (in Hebrew), 17 Jan. 2013

Recent Conference Presentations:

“International Justice, Penalty Reform, and Reconciliation in Rwanda”, New Practices of Transnational Criminal Law, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, 27-28 Nov. 2014

“Strategizing for Transitional Justice: Civil Society’s Role in Promoting Transitional Justice” Transitional Justice Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 18-19 May 2014.

“Transitional Justice Networks: Lessons from Argentina, Congo, the Balkans and Israel”, Conference on Judging Human Rights Violations – Pondering Past and Future after Kiobel, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, 15-16 Dec. 2013

“Has the ICTR Achieved Reconciliation?”, Conference on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, University of Johannesburg, 31 Oct.-1 Nov. 2013.

“Prisoner Releases in Peace Processes”, Conference on Security Prisoners and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 23 Oct. 2013.

“Can Genocide Trials Promote National Reconciliation?”, Conference on Genocide and Identity in Honor of Prof Yair Auron, Open University of Israel, 18 June 2013.

“Political Research Challenges in Post-Conflict Societies”, Conference on Field Work in Africa, Ben Gurion U., 10 June 2013.

“Recognition and Reconciliation as Conditions for Participation of Arabs in the Israeli Society”, Alan B. Slifka Forum for a Shared Society Among Jews and Arabs in Israel, 23-24 May 2013.

“The Or Commission: A Missed Opportunity for Transitional Justice in Israel?”, Transitional Justice Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 28-30 Oct. 2012.

“Domestic Impact: The Hybrid SCSL Compared to Pure International Tribunals”, Conference on the Special Court for Sierra Leone, University of Pittsburgh, 19-21 Apr. 2012.

“Transitional Justice Networks: What Israel can learn from the Balkans, DRC and Argentina”, Symposium on Historical Reconciliation in Israel/Palestine, EUI, Florence, 20-22 Mar. 2012.

“The ICC’s Contribution to Transitional Justice in Active Conflicts”, Transitional Justice Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 13-15 Nov. 2011.