C.V. Starr Lecture III

The Goldstone Report and the Laws of War: Raising the Bar Too High? with speaker Yuval Shany (Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Approved for 1.5 CLE credits in Professional Practice (CLE credits are free for graduates of New York Law School
 

  • Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
  • Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  • Location: 185 West Broadway (Room W-202, 2nd floor). Click here for directions.
  • Contact: Michael Rhee at (212) 431-2865. You may also send an e-mail to mrhee@nyls.edu.
  • Click here for registration materials: including RSVP and payment information. There is no charge for CLE credits for NYLS graduates. There is also no charge for students and members of the general public not seeking CLE credit. But registration is still required.


Prof. Yuval Shany will discuss the recent report issued by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which investigated alleged violations of international humanitarian and international human rights laws in the Gaza Strip from December 2008 through January 2009. He will argue that the report serves as an illustration of the growing consensus among, what he calls, international legal elites of the desirability of converging international human rights and the laws of war. The report also demonstrates, says Prof. Shany, some of the problems associated with extending the human rights discourse to armed conflict situations.

About Shany Yuval

Prof. Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves currently as the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, a director in the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University, a director in the Project on International Courts and Tribunals, a member of the steering committee of the DOMAC project (assessing the impact of international courts on domestic criminal procedures in mass atrocity cases), and as a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Professor Shany has degrees in law from the Hebrew University (LL.B., 1995 cum laude), New York University (LL.M., 1997), and the University of London (Ph.D., 2001). He has published a number of books and articles on international courts and arbitration tribunals and other international law issues such as international human rights and international humanitarian law. Prof. Shany has taught in a number of schools outside Israel, and is currently a visiting professor of law at Columbia University.