Legal Education During Armed Conflict
Live Webinar
23 September, 2024
Participants
(in alphabetical order)
Anzhelika Nazaretyan is an accomplished lawyer with over 8 years of experience, specializing in corporate, labor, and private international law. A graduate of the French University of Armenia Foundation, she holds a Master’s degree in law, with a focus on private international civil law.
She has worked with organizations such as the Children of Armenia Charitable Fund and IDeA Charitable Foundation, and currently serves as the Head of the Legal Department at Fast Shift LLC, a leading payment system company.
In academia, she lectures to Master’s degree students at the French University of Armenia, teaching “The Contractual Techniques” subject. She also lectures at Yerevan Haybusak University (YHU), where she plays a key role in academic benchmarking for the institute of law and international relations study plan in collaboration with the University of Teramo, Italy. Beyond this, she engages actively with students through moot court facilitation and courses within the framework of YHU’s legal clinics.
With extensive experience in both legal practice and education, she brings a practical and dynamic approach to legal challenges and academic innovation.
Arshad Nawaz Khan is a seasoned legal professional with a strong background in legal education, training, curriculum development, and consultancy. Holding an LL.M from the University of Manchester, he possesses a deep understanding of legal principles and practices. His contributions to the justice sector span various areas, including designing law programs, developing national curriculum standards and creating specialized training materials. As a Training Needs Assessment (TNA) Specialist, he has conducted assessments for justice sector entities for UNDP, INL, DFID, UNODC, influencing legal reforms and enhancing training programs in conflict zones of different parts of the world. Beyond his professional achievements, Khan’s research contributions, published in reputable journals and presented at national and international conferences. His expertise extends to diverse fields, as evidenced by his completion of various certification programs in artificial intelligence and law, climate justice, criminal justice, intellectual property, gender, and management.
Artem Shaipov is an international development professional with expertise in law, public policy, management, and business administration and more than 15 years of experience in leading change in the judiciary, central and local government, academia, and civil society. Artem now serves as a legal advisor and team lead on legal education reform for the USAID Justice for All Activity implemented by Chemonics in Ukraine. As a legal education reform lead, Artem supports numerous activities aimed at improving legal education quality by engaging policy makers, law school administrators, faculty, students, and civil society leaders in a joint effort to transform Ukraine’s legal education system so that it can prepare future generations of legal professionals capable of upholding the rule of law. Artem holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Cambridge. He earned a certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government for completing the Implementing Public Policy Program, Executive Education, obtained a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute, and earned his MBA from the IE Business School.
Omoniyi Bukola Akinola, (PhD) is a Professor of Law with specialization in Legal Ethics and Clinical Legal Education. He served as a Deputy Director of Academics at the Nigerian Law School and was Acting Head of Department of Professional Ethics and Legal Skills between October 2015 – September 2019. He served in the team of experts who drafted the current curriculum for Professional Ethics at the Nigerian Law School between 2008 – 2009. He also served as the Law Clinic Coordinator between 2013 – 2019. He is the former Dean, Faculty of Law, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria and currently serving as a Professor, School of Law, Kampala International University, Uganda. He served recently as a consultant in the drafting of the curriculum for Nigerian Legal System I at Miva Open University, Abuja. He is the Editor-in-Chief of African Journal of Law, Ethics and Education (https://ajleejournal.com) and African Journal of Legal Research (https://researchafrica.online). His researchgate profiles are https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Omoniyi-Akinola and linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-omoniyi-bukola-akinola-ab0b5b75/. His Google Scholar account can be accessed using Omoniyi Bukola Akinola. He is published in books and scholarly articles on legal ethics and legal education among others.
Dana Giloh is a lawyer, a social worker, and a mediator. She is the Director of the Dispute Resolution Clinic at the University of Haifa Law School, which provides pro bono mediation services for inidividuals from marginalized groups such as people in poverty, people with disabilities and more. The clinic also uses mediation tools for empowering marginalized groups. In addition Dana specializes in divorce mediations and teaches mediation and negotiation courses at the University of Haifa.
Hala Khoury-Bisharat, PhD from the University of Oxford is a lecturer in Ono Academic College School of Law and the Academic Director of Haifa Campus, and adjunct lecturer in the Law Faculty, Tel Aviv University. Main research interests are in the fields of public international law, international criminal law, transitional justice and human rights.
Ido Rosenzweig
Dr. 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).
He has served as the coach for the Interdisciplinary Center’s International Humanitarian Law team (2009 – 2013), directed the “Amicus Curiea” International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Concord Centre in the College of Management (2010 – 2012). He is the co-founder and chairman of ALMA – Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law since 2010. Ido earned his law degrees at Tel Aviv University (LL.B, 2005) (LL.M cum laude, 2010) and Northwestern University (LL.M, with honors, 2010). He served in the International Law Department of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006 – 2008), is a member of the Israel Bar Association (since 2007) and an experienced computer programmer.
Mariia Tsypiashchuk
Transitional Justice Lead at ABA ROLI in Ukraine, Healing & Accountability Through Human Rights Activity (HEAL), Board member of the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine
Ms. Tsypiashchuk is a Ukrainian attorney who was teaching law at the National University of Ostroh Academy during September 2009 – November 2023, and a coordinator of ‘Pro bono’ legal clinic during 2009-2022. Within cooperation between law schools of Berkeley (University of California) and Ostroh Academy Mariia has been a guest scholar to Berkeley Law School in February 2024. During July 2014 – August 2024, Ms. Tsypiashchuk has worked as a human rights lawyer with the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and coordinator of the UHHRU Public Advice Centre in Rivne. During June 2022 – August 2024 she also coordinated the partnerships within the “Ukraine War Archive” project at the Docudays (Ukraine) and Infoscope (Great Britain). Mariia Tsypiashchuk develops and conducts human rights training for various target groups, and soft and hard skills training for law students. Since 2011, she has been the National Representative for the Brown-Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (ICCC) on behalf of Ukraine. Since 2015, she has been serving as the national coordinator of the National ICCC Rounds in Ukraine. In 2020–2021, Ms. Tsypiashchuk coordinated the International Human Rights School for Young Activists, organized by the Ukrainian Human Rights House in Chernihiv. Ms. Tsypiashchuk is a Ph.D. student at the Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic), and her spheres of professional expertise are human rights law, international humanitarian law, and documenting war crimes.
Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor and Director, Transnational Law Institute, at Washington and Lee University. He has held visiting appointments and has taught at law schools world-wide, including Queen’s University Belfast, Oxford University (University College), Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Free University of Amsterdam, University of Melbourne, Masaryk University, and John Cabot University in Rome. His work has been relied upon by national and international courts; he has served as defense lawyer in genocide trials; co-authored an amicus brief to the ICC in Ongwen; and has been an expert in litigation including on international terrorism, with the UN in matters involving child soldiers, and with the UN Human Rights Council in the drafting of a global convention to criminalize racist hate speech. His books include Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (Cambridge 2007), Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (Oxford 2012), and Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague (Oxford 2024, with Barbora Holá); and co-edited volumes Research Handbook of Child Soldiers (Elgar 2019, with Jastine Barrett), Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions (Brill 2024, with Caroline Fournet), and Children and Violence (Routledge 2024, with Christelle Molima and Mohamed Kamara et al).
Adv. Michal Goren has a LL.B. from the Hebrew University and a LL.M. (Magna Cum Laude) from The Emil Zola Chair for Human Rights at The College of Management Academic Studies, as well as B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the Hebrew University.
Since her internship at the Public Defender’s office in Jerusalem, Michal has an independent legal practice in Jerusalem, with a focus on criminal law, specializing in public defense and providing legal aid to protestors and activists. Prior to her current role at the Clinical Legal Education Center, Michal was a part of the legal department of the Israel Religious Action Center, concentrating on women’s rights and equality within the public sphere and assisting victims of racism and incitement.
Since 2022 Michal has been part of The Clinical Legal Education Center. She is the clinical director of the International Human Rights clinic. She was the clinical director of the clinic for Rights of People with disabilities and a co-director of the Clinic for the Representation of Marginalized Population Groups
Shiran Reichenberg is the Executive Director of the Clinical Legal Education Center, and also the Clinical Director of the Rights of Youth at Risk Clinic at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. In this role, she advocates for children’s rights through personal advocacy, education, and policy initiatives.
Her research interests cover several critical areas related to children and youth at risk, including: Children’s Rights, Youth at Risk and Welfare System, Youth Well-being, Access to Justice for Youth at Risk, Application of Children’s Rights as Human Rights, Gender perspective on marginalized girls at risk; Dr. Reichenberg explores the intersection of children’s rights and broader human rights principles. She is part of COST Action working group on Participation of children and young adults who were maltreatment in research.
Her doctoral dissertation, titled “The Right to Participation and Care Proceedings in Youth Court”, she critically examines the right to participation within care proceedings, shedding light on the legal complexities surrounding young girls in care proceedings.
Sigall Horovitz is the transitional justice advisor of the Hebrew University’s Clinical Legal Education Center. Her interests are transitional justice, international criminal law, ethics and anti-corruption. Dr. Horovitz held various legal positions at the United Nations, including at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Dr. Horovitz was also involved in teaching and academic research in Israel and Germany. She initiated transitional justice programs at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, and led experiential study trips to Rwanda and South Africa. Dr. Horovitz completed her master’s degree with honors at Columbia University (2003) and received her doctorate in law from the Hebrew University (2014). Dr. Horovitz received the Arthur Helton Fellowship of the American Society of International Law, the Rabin Scholarship of the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Vodoz Prize of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and an award for distinguished academic work from the Israeli Law and Society Association. She is a member of the New York and Israeli Bar Associations, and a founding member of the Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law (ALMA).
Stephen A. Rosenbaum, MPP, JD, is Frank C. Newman Lecturer at UC Berkeley Law. He is also a Visiting Researcher Scholar at the University’s Othering & Belonging Institute and Research Affiliate at the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. As a University of Washington Visiting Senior Lecturer in Law (2012-14), he was a member of the State Department-funded LESPA (Legal Education Support Program–Afghanistan) faculty team and conducted workshops for Afghan law faculty and senior students in Herat, Mazr-i-Sherif and Kabul and co-taught tutorials on clinical methodology for junior faculty members from Afghanistan and Indonesia. Steve has served as a legal education consultant to NGOs funded by USAID, European Union and British Council and has published articles on clinical legal education and law and development in Afghanistan, the Middle East, West Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. He is currently teaching on-line courses, under the auspices of Classrooms without Walls in partnership with Monash University, to girls and women living under Taliban 2.0 rule, and is a board member of ALPA (Afghanistan Law, Shari’a & Political Science Association (Academy in Exile)
Thomas H. Speedy Rice
Prof. Rice is a Professor of Practice at Washington & Lee University’s School of Law Transnational Law Institute in Lexington, VA. Currently teaching Practicums on Anti-Corruption, Immigration Issues and a course in Aviation, Drone & Space Law. He designed and taught international practicum courses with W&L Law and six law schools in Ukraine and the law faculty at the University of Tirana, Albania that promoted anti-corruption education using the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and the UNODC Education for Justice / GRACE project. (E4J). He has presented at a number of international anti-corruption workshops sponsored by international organizations, principally the United National Office on Drugs and Crime Anti-Corruption Initiatives. He is the 2017 recipient of the distinguished Sheik Tamim Bin Hamas Al Thani International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award for Anti-corruption Academic Research and Education, in partnership with ROLAAC and UNODC. As a lawyer, he has tried civil and criminal cases in U.S. State and Federal courts and argued appellate cases before American courts including briefing and arguing cases before the California Supreme Court, the New Mexico Supreme Court and one case in the United States Supreme Court.
Yulia Lomzhets
PhD, Candidate of Political Science, Associate Professor.
The author of more than 60 scientific and educational-methodical publications
Head of the Board of Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine. Involved in legal clinical movement since 2013
Since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014, together with colleagues from the association, she has been implementing initiatives to strengthen the capacity of legal clinics to provide assistance to people who suffered because of the war, military personnel and their family members.
After a full-scale invasion in 2022, implements projects to establish cooperation between foreign and Ukrainian law schools and legal clinics to strengthen the practical component of the training of future lawyers in Ukraine.
