The War Crimes Research Group invites you to a talk with Professor David Kretzmer

Professor David Kretzmer, author of The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories, will discuss the interaction of law, politics and judicial enforcement in the field of International humanitarian law.

About the speaker

David Kretzmer is Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Tulane University, University of Southern California and the Fletcher School of Tufts University and in 2009/10 he was an Inaugural Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at NYU School of Law. From 1995-2002 David was a member of the Human Rights Committee that monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, serving as vice-chairperson of the Committee in 2001 and 2002.

David's main fields of research are constitutional law, human rights and international humanitarian law. His books include The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories (SUNY Press, 2002); The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights Discourse (edited together with E. Klein) (Kluwer International, 2002) and The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel (2nd edition in Arabic, 2002). A second, expanded, edition of The Occupation of Justice (written together with Yäel Ronen) was published by OUP in February 2021.

Alongside his academic work David has been active in NGO work and has appeared before the Israel Supreme Court in human rights cases.