The Minerva Center for
the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
in collaboration with
Boston College Law School
under the auspices of
Israeli Association of Public Law
invite submissions for
Symposium on Constitutionalism under Extreme Conditions
University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel
Monday, 18 July 2016
9:00am-6:30pm
The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa and Boston College Law School, invite submissions for a full-day international Symposium on Constitutionalism Under Extreme Conditions, to be held in Haifa, Israel at the Faculty of Law, University of Haifa on Monday, 18 July 2016, under the auspices of The Israeli Association of Public Law (IAPL).
The Keynote speech at this event will be delivered by Justice Dorit Beinisch, President of the Supreme Court of Israel (ret.) and President of the IAPL.
This Symposium is convened by Prof. Richard Albert (Boston College) and Dr. Yaniv Roznai (Minerva Center for RLuEC).
Subject-Matter of Symposium
Constitutions are often made, broken or changed under extreme conditions, whether war, secession, emergency or another extraordinary circumstance. Over the past 40 years alone, more than 200 constitutions have been introduced in this way—and the number rises dramatically when we consider constitutional changes, both successful and failed, under extreme conditions.
Constitutional change during times of crisis raises a number of concerns. Fear or uncertainty may compel decisions on a compressed schedule without sufficient attention to fundamental freedoms, leading to the expansion of executive powers or even the suspension of democracy as it is has been practiced. The separation of powers often fails to fulfill its purpose under these circumstances, as legislatures and even courts “rally around the flag” and in so doing may fail to exercise their constitutional functions.
Yet constitutions are intended to be stable and to survive during times of crisis. They are often designed expressly to accommodate or respond to unforeseen circumstances, whether the crisis lasts for short or long periods of time. Constitutions authorize resort to emergency powers and in some cases to a temporary “constitutional dictatorship” as the regime seeks to restore the status quo ante emergency.
How are we to understand the role of constitutions during times of crisis? Do different kinds of crises call for different solutions? Can constitutions even shape the conduct of political actors during such extreme conditions?
Papers are welcomed on any subject of constitutionalism under extreme conditions from comparative, doctrinal, historical, philosophical, sociological and theoretical perspectives. A non-exhaustive list of possible subjects includes:
- The resilience of constitutions to internal/external shocks
- Constitutional states of exception
- Abusive constitutionalism under extreme conditions
- Constitutional design for war, siege and emergency
- Designing, constraining and exercising extraordinary powers
- Judicial review during emergencies
- Constitutional rights protection under extreme conditions
- Constitution-making/amending under extreme conditions
- Sunset/sunrise/temporary constitutional provisions
- Constitutional responses to financial crisis
Purpose of Symposium
The purpose of this Symposium is to convene a group of scholars for a high-level discussion on enduring and emerging questions on constitutionalism and emergencies. This full-day Symposium will offer participants a balanced combination of rigorous scholarly discussion and more relaxed social interaction.
Structure of Symposium
This full-day Symposium will feature seven papers selected through this Call for Papers, with one discussant assigned to each paper, for a total of fourteen participants. The day will begin at 9:00am with welcoming remarks over a continental breakfast. Each of the seven papers will be allocated one hour of time for group discussion. The assigned discussant will critique the paper for up to 15 minutes, followed by a 45 minute group discussion. The paper author will not present her/his paper but will have the opportunity to respond to questions over the course of the hour devoted to her/his paper. Lunch will be served from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. The Keynote address is scheduled for 5:30pm. Dinner will follow at 6:30pm.
Publication
The convenors intend to publish the papers in an edited book or as a special issue of a law journal. Discussants may also be invited to submit stand-alone papers.
Eligibility
Submissions are invited from scholars of all ranks, including doctoral students.
Submission Instructions
Interested scholars should email an abstract of 750 words along with curriculum vitae by February 1, 2016 to the following address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstracts should reflect papers that will not have been published by the time of the Symposium, nor submitted elsewhere for consideration for publication. Scholars should identify their submission with the following subject line: “Minerva Center—Constitutionalism Under Extreme Conditions Symposium.”
Notification and Participation Requirements
Successful applicants will be selected by a Symposium Organizing Committee and notified no later than March 1, 2015.
Conditions
An invitation to participate in this Symposium will be issued to a participant on the following conditions: (1) the participant agrees to submit an original, unpublished paper between 8,000 words and 12,000 words consistent with submission guidelines issued by the Symposium convenors; (2) the participant agrees to submit a full pre-symposium draft by June 20, 2016; and (3) the participant agrees to submit a full post-symposium final draft by November 1, 2016.
Costs
There is no cost to participate in the Symposium. Successful applicants are responsible for securing their own funding for travel and other incidental expenses. The Minerva Center is pleased to offer two nights of accommodation and all meals for participants.
Questions
Please direct inquiries in connection with this Symposium to Dr. Yaniv Roznai by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or telephone at +972-(0)-543333340. Please circulate this Call for Papers widely.
Symposium Organizing Committee
Prof. Gad Barzilai, Dean of University of Haifa Faculty of Law and Principal Investigator, Minerva Center for RLuEC
Prof. Eli M. Salzberger, The Director of the Minerva Center for RLuEC
Prof. Amnon Reichman, Principal Investigator, Minerva Center for RLuEC
Prof. Richard Albert, Associate Professor, Boston College
Prof. Suzie Navot, Chairperson, The Israeli Association of Public Law
Dr. Yaniv Roznai, Fellow, Minerva Center for RLuEC & Secretary, The Israeli Association of Public Law
About The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the Geography and Environmental Studies Department, is an international venue and transnational forum - together with the University of Hamburg, for study, research, training, education and publication. It initiates innovative interdisciplinary research on the normative and institutional dimensions of the rule of law under extreme conditions as well as in-depth examination of law-in-action, and fosters multifaceted empirical and theoretical research in the study of the rule of law as a social sphere during belligerencies, natural disasters and socio-economic acute crises. Challenges to the rule of law under extreme conditions may vary under different constitutional and political regimes. The Center concentrates on democracies. The analyses examine institutional, cultural, socioeconomic and policy dimensions. Its mission includes encouraging scholars, young scientists, and students to develop data and cultivate an interactive dialogue for research and training around these issues. The Center fosters dialogue with students, scholars, experts, policy and decision makers through symposia, colloquia, seminars, conferences and a series of publications based on its research and findings. For more, please visit: http://minervaextremelaw.haifa.ac.il
About Boston College Law School
Founded in 1929, Boston College Law School offers broad course offerings and small class sizes that permit considerable personal interaction with faculty. The international and comparative law curriculum provides opportunities for in-class instruction, innovative and flexible study-abroad programs, and meaningful training in the field. Boston College Law School understands that globalization magnifies the scope and complexity of law and legal practice. The curriculum trains students for the needs of today, while giving them skills and perspectives that anticipate the needs of tomorrow. The program prepares leaders to pursue social justice not just nationally, but internationally as well. For more, please visit: http://www.bc.edu/law.
About the Israeli Association of Public Law (IAPL)
The IAPL, established in 1988, serves as the Israeli branch of the International Association of Constitutional Law. It aims to promote public law – both constitutional and administrative – in Israel and to protect its core principles and values. As a young democracy, Israel calls upon its judicial system to deal with an exceptionally wide range of complex and controversial issues. These include the constitutional rights of minorities; the intricacies of emergency laws and wartime conduct; unique citizenship regulations; the complicated relations between religion and state; and the special role of the Israeli Supreme Court in the constitutional discourse. The IAPL actively seeks to broaden and deepen the public and academic discourse on these critical issues and a host of others. For more, please visit:http://www.publiclaw.org.il.
About the Convenors
Richard Albert is an Associate Professor at Boston College Law School and, in 2015-16, a Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. His research focuses on constitutional amendment, both formal and informal, from comparative, historical and theoretical perspectives. Since December 2014, he has been Book Reviews Editor for the American Journal of Comparative Law, which awarded him the Hessel Yntema Prize in 2010 for “the most outstanding article” on comparative law by a scholar under the age of 40. He is also an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, an elected member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, a member of the Governing Council of the International Society of Public Law, and a founding co-editor of I-CONnect, the scholarly blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. Prior to joining the faculty of Boston College Law School, Albert served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada and earned degrees at Yale, Harvard and Oxford.
Yaniv Roznai is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa. Yaniv’s scholarship focuses on constitutional and international law. He holds a PhD and LL.M from The London School of Economics, and LLB and BA degrees in Law and Government from the IDC Herzliya. In 2013, he was a visiting researcher at the Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University and in 2015 he was a Post-Doc Fellow at the Hauser Global Law School, NYU. He is an elected board member and Secretary General of theIsraeli Association of Public Law. In 2015, he was awarded the 2014 Thesis Prize of the European Group of Public Law for his dissertation on “unconstitutional constitutional amendments,” which is forthcoming as a book with Oxford University Press, Constitutional Theory Series.
Mr. Peter Inalegwu Awodi is a Nigerian of the Idoma ethnic descent of Benue State in North-Central Nigeria. I am a Political Scientist and a researcher in International Relations with interests in International Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Human Rights, International Political Economy, Resource-based Conflicts and Indigenous Conflict Resolutions, Comparative Development Studies, Gender and Social Justice. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science (specializing in International Relations), which is consequent on holding an M.Sc. degree in Political Science (International Relations) and a B.Sc. degree in Political Science. I currently hold a membership of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); member African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) and fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Languages spoken include: English (Basic), Idoma (Native), Yoruba and Hausa (Intermediate).
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.
Dr. Daniel Benoliel is a law professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and a member of the Haifa Center of Law and Technology (HCLT). His main fields of expertise include international intellectual property, patent law and innovation, public international law and entrepreneurship law. Benoliel is the author of Patent Intensity and Economic Growth (Cambridge University Press, Intellectual Property and Information Law series, 2017) and Improbable Leaders: The Battle of Developing Countries for Access to Patented Medicines (with Bruno M. Salama) (FGV University Press, 2017) (In Portuguese). He holds a Doctorate in law (J.S.D.) from UC Berkeley School of law (Boalt Hall) and has been a John M. Olin Research Fellow with the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at UC Berkeley, as well as an alumnus of the Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP). Benoliel has received numerous prizes, awards and research grants in these fields.
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
Dr. Fergal Davis is a Reader in Public Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of Law, UNSW Australia. From 2011 to 2014 Fergal was a member of the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship: Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge Project in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at UNSW. Fergal's research is particularly concerned with the maintenance and protection of civil liberties in times of emergency. 
Dr. Myriam Feinberg was a postdoctoral fellow with the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions between 2015-2017. Her research areas include counterterrorism, international organisations, national security, conflicts of sovereignty, and extraordinary renditions. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow with the ERC-funded Global Trust Project at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, and has been teaching French for the past ten years. Myriam holds a Licence de droit from Université Panthéon-Assas in Paris, an LL.M. in international law from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. Her publications include ‘International Counterterrorism – National Security and Human Rights: Conflicts of Norms or Checks and Balances?’ International Journal of Human Rights, Special Issue, Volume 19, Number 4, 2015 and International Organizations and Counterterrorism: Conflicts of Sovereignty, (Brill Publishers, monograph forthcoming 2016).
Dr. Sofia Galani (LLB, LLM, PhD) is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. She previously held the position of Teaching Associate in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Sofia holds an LLB in Law from the National University of Athens (2010) and an LLM in Public Law from the University of Bristol Law School (2011). She was awarded a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Bristol Law School in 2016. Her doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Hostages and Human Rights: Towards a Victim-Centred Approach?’, examined the gaps in the protection of the human rights of hostages by reviewing the existing legal framework and counter-terrorism/piracy policies from a human rights perspective and analysed how these gaps can be filled in light of recent developments of international human rights law. Sofia leads the International Law and Human Rights and Maritime Security modules on the LLM programme and EU Law on the LLB programme. Her research interests are on modern piracy, maritime security, terrorism, and human rights, and she has published on these areas. Sofia is a contributor to the UNODC Manual on Maritime Critme. 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.
Ms. 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.
Dr. Alexandra Herfroy-Mischler studied Media Studies, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, (Paris3, France). She lectures at the Hebrew University and researches media framing of various types of discourses circulated by old and new media regarding counter-terrorism (intelligence) and jihadist propaganda. She is an Associate Researcher at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the french CNRS/CRFJ. Her research has identified the role of narrative in building post-transitional collective memory (2013; Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 2016), impose silences in intelligence events (Media, War & Conflict Journal, 2015), foster conflicts in jihadism (Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2017, Visual Communication, 2019), and is currently focusing on the role of blame in elite versus populist news regarding peace negotiations failures in the Middle East (in peer review, 2018).
Prof. Florian Jessberger is Full Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg where he holds the Chair in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, International Criminal Law and Modern Legal History. He serves as a Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law.
Dr. Bence Kis Kelemen was born in 1993, Pécs (Hungary) and graduated from the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law as a lawyer in the summer of 2017. In the same year he started doctoral training at University of Pécs, Doctoral School of Law at the Department of International and European Law. He also works as a research assistant in the Centre for European Research and Education in Pécs. His areas of expertise include international law of use of force, international humanitarian law and human rights law. He is the author of nearly fifteen articles and frequent participant of international conferences.
Ms. Hannah Sophie 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 2016, she completed her law studies at Humboldt University Berlin with a main focus on legal policy and legal development processes. She then went on work at the Collaborative Reasearch Center SFB 700 ‘Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood’. As of October 2017, she is a scholarship-recipient at the Hans-Böckler-Foundation. Her research interests include development processes within international law, law and ethics, interdisciplinary research and women’s rights.
Ms. 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.
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.
Mr. Abhishek Mishra has five years of academic experience in India as Assistant Professor, he was associated with WBNUJS, Kolkata. WB, India for four years and School of Law, KIIT University for one year. Two years of international and national law firms experience are also to his credit. He has published articles in various journals such as ISIL Year Book of International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law. He is currently a PhD fellow at Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany. He is recipient of grant from Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law in Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa, Israel. Abhishek has taught courses on International Law and Armed Conflict at University of Hamburg, Germany. In the past Abhishek had been an intern with International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, United Nations, the Hague, Netherland. He has also authored a book on the capital market of India.
Ms. Kehinde Folake Olaoye is a PhD candidate in international economic law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof Julien Chaisse and Prof Bryan Mercurio. Her research centres on dynamics and reform of international investment law in Africa. Kehinde holds an LL.M in Transnational Law from King’s College London. She obtained her LLB from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. In 2012 after attending the Nigerian Law School, Kano campus, she qualified as a solicitor and advocate.
Prof. Arie Reich is the former Dean of the Faculty of Law of Bar Ilan University, Israel and he is a Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law & Institutions. He specializes in International Economic Law and EU Law. He has authored over 40 academic books and articles on topics ranging from International Trade Law, Public Procurement Law, European Union Law, Competition Law and Torts. Among them are his books: International Public Procurement Law: The Evolution of International Regimes on Public Purchasing (Kluwer, 1999); and The World Trade Organization and Israel: Law, Economics and Politics (Bar Ilan University Press, 2006). He is a Member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators, has served as the President of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration, and he is a member of the Executive of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law and a National Correspondent for Israel to the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He has served as the Chairman of Israel's Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Tribunal, and as a Member of a four different World Trade Organization dispute settlement panels in trade disputes between the US, EU and China. He has served as Visiting Professor in UCLA, Georgetown University, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, University of Luxembourg and Monash University.
Mr. 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).
Ms. Ira Ryk-Lakhman Aharonovich is an associate with Tadmor - Levy & Co and a PhD candidate at University College London, where she researches the protection of foreign investments in armed conflicts. She holds a master degree in international commercial law with distinction from UCL (Leonard Sainer scholar) and a law degree from the Hebrew University (summa cum laude).
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.
Dr. Rachel Suissa is a teaching associate and a senior research fellow at the National Security Program in the School of Political Sciences and at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies. Her research interests encompass Security Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies. She has been engaged in several activities in the EU as a Policy Evaluation Expert- EU Parliament, Expert Evaluator- EU Horizon 2020 Research Program; DJ-JUSTICE Proposals.
Mr. Emre Turkut (LL.M.) is a doctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium and a member of Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI). His research concerns the compatibility of the Turkish derogation measures adopted in the aftermath of the 15 July 2016 attempted military coup with international human rights law, and with international law more generally, and uses the Turkish case as a springboard to critically address the fallacies of the contemporary derogation regime.
Dr. Maria Varaki is a post doctoral research fellow with the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights in Helsinki, working on an Aristotelian theory of ethics for global governance. Immediate before she was an Assistant Professor in International Law at Kadir Has University, Faculty of Law in Istanbul. Before joining Kadir Has University, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Law Faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a visiting fellow at the iCourts Centre of the University of Copenhagen.
Ms. Ka Lok Yip has just defended her PhD “The Law of Force, the Force of Law – the Legality and Ontology of the Use of Force against Individuals in Armed Conflict and Occupation”, summa cum laude, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She holds a master degree in law with distinction from the University of Oxford and a bachelor degree in law with first class honours from King's College London. She is also a solicitor qualified to practise law in England and Wales and Hong Kong.
Dr. 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.
Mr. 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).
Dr. 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.
Mr. 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.
Prof. 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.
Nimrod 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.
Dr. 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.
Mr. 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.
Ms. Keren Michaeli is the Head of Legal Department, UNHCR, Israel 
Prof. 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.
Mr. 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.
Riccardo 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.
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.
Prof. 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.
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.
Mr. 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. 
Prof. 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 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 
Mr. 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.
