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
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.