Past Events
Conferences and Workshops in Purple
2024
November 7 – 9, 2024, Salzburg, Austria
The Human Dimension of Warfare, 6th Young researchers workshop
September 23, 2024
July 3, 2024
Uri Ansenberg: Real Estate Valuation Courts in East Jerusalem
May 29, 2024
Shmuel Lederman: Reading Arendt in Israel: Colonialism’s boomerang effect, October 7 and the question of genocide
May 15, 2024
José Ignacio Hernandez: Restoring the Rule of Law in Fragile States and Conflict-effected Situation: The Venezuelan Case
May 1, 2024
Sharon Yadin: Can Shaming Save the Planet?
March 6, 2024
Ido Rosenzweig: A Mexican Standoff – Competing Right to Life Obligations for Israel Following October 7th
February 29-March 2, 2024
Israeli Association for Public Law Annual Conference: Jewish and Democratic State – Trends and Challenges (Hebrew)
מדינה יהודית ודמוקרטית – מגמות ואתגרים
February 21, 2024
Eli Salzberger: Democracy as a Critical Infrastructure during a State of Emergency (in Hebrew)
February 14, 2024
Nadav Dagan – Between Plague and War – Emergency Situations and the Rule of Law in Israel (in Hebrew)
February 7, 2024
Guy Lurie, Amir Fuchs and Daphne Benvenisty – Emergency Regulations: A Proposal for Constitutional Reform
January 24, 2024
Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins: Only Sovereignty? Global Emergencies between Domestic and International Law
January 3, 2024
Limor Yehuda: Collective Equality: Human Rights and Democracy in Ethno-National Conflicts
2023
November 5-6, 2023
Iron Swords and the Laws of War in the course of Israel-Hamas Conflict, with Dr. Ido Rosenzweig (in cooperation with ALMA)
דיני המלחמה במסגרת הלחימה בין ישראל וחמאס – הרצאה ודיון. מנחה ד”ר עדו רוזנצוייג
July 19-20, 2023
Non-Violent Resistance – Multi-disciplinary perspectives from the past, present and future for today’s democracies (Minerva Stiftung conference)
June 15, 2023
Global Populism: Sources and Effects in Comparative Perspective (With NSSC, HCGES, IASEI and DAAD)
June 14, 2023
Hadeel Abu Hussein: The Struggle for Land Under Israeli Law. An Architecture of Exclusion
May 31, 2023
Orli Oren-Kolbinger: The Role of Tax Courts During Economic Crises
May 29, 2023
Intellectual Property (IP) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Extreme Conditions (With the Faculty of Law, University of Haifa)
May 10, 2023
Ayelet Ben-Yishai: Genres of Emergency: Forms of Crisis and Continuity in Indian Writing in English
April 19, 2023
Jona van Laak: The Effects of Exceptional Policies on Innovation and Economic Resilience
March 16, 2023
Shrinking Spaces for Criticism of Israel in Germany
March 15, 2023
Inbal Maimon-Blau: After the Flood
January 18, 2023
Talia Diskin – The Law and the Child
לשון החוק ושפת הילדים, 18.1.2023
ערב לרגל צאתו לאור של ספרה של טליה דיסקין
January 12-14, 2023
January 11, 2023
Itamar Mann: Law and Politics from the Sea
January 4th, 2023
Omri Grinberg, with Chaim Noy and Moran Avital: Past Lessons for Present Times: Reflections on Contemporary Events in Dark History Museums’ Online Platforms
2022
December 21, 2022
Klaas Eller: Infrastructural Perspectives on Global Commerce under Covid-19: Towards a Resilient Governance of Supply Chains
November 30, 2022
עמנואל גרוס: משפט גבעתי א’ – מהי פקודה בלתי חוקית בעליל
Emanuel Gross: What is Manifestly Illegal Order – Giva’ti A trial (in Hebrew)
November 15, 16, 21 and 23, 2022
The 5th Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency: “The Warfare of Tomorrow”
November 2, 2022
Angelina Stanojoska, Ice Ilijevski, and Kire Babanoski: Exploring Individual Drivers of Violent Extremism in North Macedonia through Life-Course Trajectories
October 26, 2022
Marco Longobardo: The Extraterritorial Duty to Prevent Genocide at the Time of the Aggression against Ukraine: Open Questions 15 Years after the Bosnia v Serbia Case
September 20, 2022
The War in Ukraine: The Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
June 15, 2022
Eli Salzberger and Robert Neufeld: Emergency Management in Israel (in Hebrew: ניהול מצבי חירום בישראל: מדוע אין לישראל דוקטורינת חירום המגובה במוסדות ומסגרת חוקית ומה הדוקטורינה הראויה)
June 1st, 2022
Yagil Levi and Ofra Ben Ishai: Armed with Legitimacy (in Hebrew)
חמושים בלגיטימציה: הצדקות לאלימות הצבאית בחברה בישראל
May 25, 2022
Talia Diskin: A Law of Our Own: Legal Consciousness and Moral Conscience in Children’s Weeklies During Israel’s First Decade
May 18, 2022
Annual Conference of the Israel Political Science Association: Government Crises
Session on Crises, Emergencies and Government (in Hebrew)
April 6, 2022
Gil Rothschild Elyassi: “Other than the projects, you stay professional”: Between institutional racism and routine policing
March 23, 2022
Assaf Mond: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Civil Rights: Thoughts on Urban History, Production of Space, and Law
March 9, 2022
David Manheim: Avoiding the Next (Intentional) Pandemic: Israel and the Biological Weapons Convention
January 17-19, 2022 (part 1)
Hate Speech – International Workshops: Haifa and Berlin
January 12, 2022
Rawia Aburabia: Trapped Across Borders: Palestinian Women from the West Bank and Gaza in Polygamous Marriage in Israel
2021
December 29, 2021
Joel Slawotsky: The Impacts of National Crisis on Contractual Obligations
December 15, 2021
Haim Abraham: Tort Liability in War
December 1st, 2021
Ziv Bohrer:The Defense of Justification for Obeying an Illegal Order in the Israeli Law (in Hebrew)
הגנת הצידוק עקב ציות לפקודה בלתי חוקית: הדין המצוי והראוי במשפט הישראלי
November 24, 2021
Bernard S. Black – Coronavirus: Science, Uncertainty, and Policy
November 10, 2021
Avichai Levit: Legislative Deliberative Democracy: Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of Speech During War
October 27, 2021
International webinar: COVID-19 Impacts and Takeaways for Policy and Planning (with the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness)
October 6, 10, 11 and 13, 2021
The 4th Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency: “Human Enhancement and Advanced Technologies in Terrorism and Belligerencies“
June 23, June 28 and June 30, 2021
Workshop: Relations between ‘the State’ and Civil Society/NGOs in Times of COVID-19: Insights and Lessons for Future Emergencies.
June 16
Amnon Alkalai, retired Chief of Staff, Operations and Policing Division, Israel police: Policing in Corona times (in Hebrew)
June 2, 2021
Ina Kubbe and Rosa da Costa: The Role of Corruption and Human Rights Violations in Migratory Flows: Impact and Perceptions
May 19, 2021
Shelly Aviv Yeini: Promoting Peace in International Law: Bringing States to the Mediation Table
May 5, 2021
Gad Barzilai and Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins: The Intersection of International Law and Domestic Law in Counterterrorism: A Prologue
April 28, 2021
Dr. Sharon Gordon: Democratic Deadlock and Leadership – Germany and Austria and the Rise of Nazism/Fascism
April 7, 2021
Event for the publication of Dr. Dana Schmalz’s book: “Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State”
March 10, 2021
The ICC decision about its jurisdiction in the situation of Palestine – Open discussion
March, 4, 2021
Prof. Jeff Staton: “Psychic Numbing and Mixed Appeals in Immigration Advocay“. (With the Haifa Center for German and European Studies – HCGES)
February 16, 2021
Special Session on Recent Developments in the International Criminal Court – Israel / Palestine. With the International Law Forum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
January 20, 2021
Prisoners and vaccination in Corona times – open discussion (in Hebrew)
January 6, 2021
Oren Shlomo: From Contested Sovereignty to Urban Politics: Palestinian Rights-Claiming and ‘Accessing the State’ in post-Oslo East Jerusalem
2020
December 23, 2020
Antal Berkes: Compliance by tribunals of armed opposition groups with international law
December 9, 2020
The Abraham Accords and Middle Eastern Crises: Legal and Political Aspects
December 2, 2020
Michael Birnhack: Constitutional Engineering and Privacy Engineering
November 11, 2020
Robert Neufeld and Eli Salzberger: Management of Emergencies in Israel: Towards a Comprehensive Doctrine and Legislative-Regulative Framework (in Hebrew)
ניהול מצבי חירום בישראל: לקראת דוקטורינה ישראלית ומסגרת רגולטורית כוללת. קישור להקלטה כאן
October 28, 2020
Eli Salzberger: Introduction to the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. Link to YouTube recording (in Hebrew).
October 13, 2020
Coping with Coronavirus: It’s All About Governance. A special webinar for the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction With the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness. (In Hebrew)
September 24, 2020
1st Early Career Researchers Virtual Conference of “What are YOU going to do with THAT?” podcast
September 9, 2020
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov: Covid-19 Meets Politics: The Novel Coronavirus as a Novel Challenge for Legislatures.
August 26, 2020
Debating Futures for Israel/Palestine: Online discussion with Peter Beinart (following “Twenty Five Years since Oslo” webinar bellow)
July 22, July 27 and July 29, 2020:
International Webinar: Twenty Five Years since Oslo: Contemporary Forms of Governance, Control and Resistance in Israel and Palestine
June 18, 2020
Prof. Dr. Jan Soeffner: A state of Exception Beyond Carl Schmitt: Corona in Germany. (with the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES). See here for recording on YouTube.
June 18, 2020
Dr. Orly Stern: International Humanitarian Law’s Principle of Distinction and Women in Armed Groups. (With Forum Dvora and ALMA).
June 3, 2020
Stavros Pantazopoulos: Wartime Environmental Damage Before International Courts and Tribunals: Strengthening the Environmental Rule of Law.
May 24, 2020
Webinar: Democracy in the Time of Corona (With Law Faculty and The Center for Cyber Law & Policy University of Haifa, Hebrew)
May 20, 2020
Ori Sharon: State Extinction through Climate Change (in Hebrew).
May 19, 2020
Amnon Reichman: Israeli Emergency Law.
May 4, 2020
Stefan Voigt, Christian Bjørnskov and Nir Kosti: Declarations of state of emergency and government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. See here for recording on YouTube
April 30, 2020
Itay Epshtain: Normative Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic Humanitarian Response and Human Rights Protection.
April 26, 2020
Amnon Reichman: Judicial Review and the Coronavirus.
April 22, 2020
Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins: From a state of exception to hyper-legality: Israeli counter-terrorism law in the post-two-state era.
April 19, 2020
Gad Barzilai: Democracies amid Legal Emergencies: Why models are limited, but some are useful.
April 16, 2020
Itamar Mann: Disentangling Displacements: Historical Justice for Mizrahis and Palestinians in Israel.
April 13, 2020
Yoav Mehozai and Nir Kosti: Israel almost stopped using Emergency Regulations. Until the Corona. (in Hebrew)
February 27-28, 2020
Symposium: Perpetuating the State of Emergency: Punitive Responses to Terrorism, 20 Years after 9/11. University of Hamburg, Warburg Haus.
January 29, 2020 at 14:15 – 15:45
Margit Cohn : Fuzziness in Emergency Law.
January 1, 2020 at 14:15 – 15:45
Yaniv Roznai: Who will Save the Redheads? Towards an Anti-Bully Theory of Judicial Review and the Protection of Democracy
2019
December 11, 2019 at 10:15 – 11:45
Jonathan Kolieb: Don’t Forget the Geneva Conventions: Achieving Responsible business Conduct in conflict zones Through Adherence to International Humanitarian Law.
December 11, 2019 at 14:15 – 15:45
Shelly Aviv-Yeini: Frontier Incidents as Armed Attacks.
November 27, 2019:
Tamar Megiddo: Online Activism, Digital Domination, and the Rule of Trolls: Mapping and Theorizing Technological Oppression by Governments.
November 20, 2019:
Prof. Eli Salzberger: The Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions – Some Conceptual Insights. Link to recording on YouTube
June 26 (Jerusalem), June 30 (Haifa), 2019 – conference (in Hebrew)
Normal abnormal state- The 8th Decade of Emergency Laws in Israel (in Hebrew) – Conference and round table with the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) in Jerusalem
מדינה נורמאלית שאינה נורמאלית: העשור השמיני של דיני החירום ביישראל – כנס בשיתוף המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה בירושלים
June 12, 2019:
Prof. Robert Howse with Adv. Amin Yacoub (NYU): Should States be Liable under Investment Agreements for Failure to Prevent Non-state Actor Violence in Conflict Zones? A Skeptical View: The Case of Ampal v. Egypt
May 29, 2019:
Dr. Ronnen Ben Arie: City at war: the state of emergency as a constituent moment
May 15, 2019:
Dr. Yahli Shershevsky: The Internal Logic of Jus ad Bellum Arguments
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May 1, 2019:
Dr. Itamar Mann: Hangman’s Perspective: Three Genres of Critique following Eichmann
Link to recording on YouTube
April 10, 2019:
Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler, School of Law, University of Reading: Uncertain futures: EU citizenship rights in the shadow of Brexit
Link to recording on YouTube
April 10, 2019:
Dr. Denard Veshi, PhD fellow at the European Doctorate in Law & Economics and the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions: Refugee Flow: a Law and Economics Approach
Link to recording on YouTube
May 26-27, 2019:
Workshop: Legal Aspects of Relief Operations
March 24-26:
Haifa and Jerusalem: Conference with Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) and DAAD Center for German Studies, Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Perspectives on Terrorism and Migration in Germany, Europe and Israel: From Discourse to Policy
See here for recorded talks on YouTube
27.3.2019:
Dr. Nadav Dagan: Five Points for Legality: On Law, Exigencies and Emergency Powers (Hebrew)
בזכות החוקיות: מצבי חירום ושלטון החוק
Link to streamline on YouTube (Heb)
13.3.2019:
Dr. Elena Cirkovic: Space, Ice and the Final Frontiers of International Law
Link to streamline on YouTube
Feb. 28, 2019: Guest lecture (with Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES): Dr. Susanne Wasum-Rainer, German Ambassador to Israel: International Law and Diplomacy
See here for a video of the event
27.2 2019:
Prof. Antoni Abat i Ninet: The Messianic Thought of the Rule of Law
Link to streamline on YouTube
Feb. 4-14, 2019: Young researchers workshop
The 3rd Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency
16.1.2019:
Book event and Seminar talk: The Changing Practices of International Law. With Prof. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Dr. Daniel Benoliel, Dr. Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen, Dr, Anna Evangelidy. Facilitator: Dr. Itamar Mann.
Press here for info about the book
2.1.2019
Professor Gad Barzilai, Faculty of Law, Vice Provost University of Haifa: Why Do Courts Incline to Prefer National Security Arguments Over (other) Human Rights?
2018
19.12.2018
Tom Gal: Armed groups – objects or subjects of international law?
Link to streamline on YouTube
5.12.2018
Prof. Gideon Aran, The Smile of the Human Bomb: New Perspectives on Suicide Terrorism
Link to streamline on YouTube
21.11.2018
Adv. Efrat Bergman-Sapir – The Public Committee against Torture in Israel: With Authority and Permission: Torture in ISA (Israel Security Agency) Interrogations (Hebrew)
עו”ד אפרת ברגמן-ספיר-מנהלת המחלקה המשפטית בוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל: ברשות ובסמכות: עינויים בחקירות שב”כ
7.11.2018:
Book event
The ABC of OPT – Hedi Viterbo, Michael Sfard and Orna Ben Naftali (Event will be in Hebrew).
Press here for Info about the book.
31.10.2018: Seminar talk
Prof. Eli Salzberger: Introduction for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
7.6.2018
International Symposium on Legal Challenges of Terror.
With the Aptowitzer Center for Risk, Liability and Insurance and the Center for Cyber, Law and Policy
30.5. 2018 at 14:30
David Vitale – The Homelessness State of Emergency
Link to streamline in YouTube
23.5.2018
Hassan Jabareen: Can the Court Normalize the Exception? On Territoriality Cases of Palestinians Citizens of Israel
Link to atreamline in YouTube
9.4.2018
Deborah Housen-Couriel – Cybersecurity Regulation: A Case Study
Link to streamline in YouTube
25.3.2018
Nadav Dagan – Reasonableness and the Legal Control of Administrative Discretion
Link to streamline in YouTube
14.3.2018
Nuri McBride : The Application of International Refugee Law in Thailand and Kenya
Link to stremline in YouTube
7.3.2018
A year and a half after the fires in Haifa (Hebrew)
יום עיון: שנה וחצי לגל השריפות בחיפה
2.3.2018
“International Law in a time of crisis”: A personal conversation – Judge Ganna Yudkivska, the European Court of Human Rights interviewed by Dr. Itamar Mann.
28.2.2018
Barbara Korte: Legal definitions of terrorism: criminalizing a contested concept or criminalizing contestation itself?
Link to streamline on YouTube
February 4-18, 2018
The 2nd Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency
17.1.2018
Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska: Weather-related Disasters and Violent Conflicts
Link to streamline on YouTube
3.1.2018
Dr. Daphne Richemond-Barak: Underground Warfare
Link to streamline on YouTube
2017
27.12.2017
Dr. Maya Mark: The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance as a case Study for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
Link to streamline on YouTube
December 14, 2017
Symposium – Institutional Governance Structures for National Emergencies – Before, During and After
November 29, 2017
Workshop (Hebrew) – Dealing with Risks in Densely Populated Areas: Removal of Ammonia from the Haifa Bay Area as Case Study
יום עיון: סיכונים באזורים צפופי אוכלוסיה – מקרה מבחן – הסרת סכנת האמוניה ממפרץ חיפה
15.11.2017
Prof. Amichai Cohen: Emergencies in Israel
Link to streamline on YouTube
November 13-14. 2017 :
Democracy and the State of Exception
A conference organized at the German Historical Institute (DHIP) and the Goethe Institute in Paris, by Matthias Lemke (DHIP), Ece Goztepe (Bilkent University Ankara), Maureen T Duffy (University of Calgary) and Olivier Cahn (CES-DIP), Partially supported by the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
1.11.2017
Prof. Eli Salzberger: Theoretical Introduction to the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
14.06.2017:
Deborah Housen-Couriel: The Rule of Law in an Extreme Environment: The Growing Challenges to the Rule of Law in Outer Space
07.06.2017:
Osnat Broshi-Chen: Creativity and Innovation in Managing Security-induced Tourism Crises: A Strategic Perspective of an Israeli Tourism Case
24.05.2017:
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov: Judicial Review of Temporary Legislation Regulating Emergencies. Link to Video here
10.05.2017:
Adi Hercowitz-Amir: When the state is “under attack” by unwanted migratory flows:The disputed legality of Israeli asylum policy and the role of the courts. See here for more details
26.04.2017:
Moran Zaga: Between the political borders and the socio-political conflicts in the Arab world (Hebrew), see here for more details
19.04.2017:
Hadas Fischer-Rosenberg Colonial Rule and Colonial Law in a Time of War: Palestine Emergency Legislation, 1939-1945 (Hebrew), see here for more details. Link to video here
05.04.2017:
Eyal Ben Ari: International Humanitarian Law, Armed Violence and Military Restraint: Israeli Ground Level Commanders in the Occupied Territories (see abstract here)
08.03.2017:
Natalie Davidson: The Changing Definition of Torture: A Socio-Legal Inquiry
February 1, 2017:
Book talk: Dr. Karin Loevy’s new book: Emergencies in Public Law, The Legal Politics of Containment, and Dr. Yoav Mehozai’s upcoming book: Between the Rule of Law and States of Emergency, The Fluid Jurisprudence of the Israeli regime.
Streamline of the event (in Hebrew) see here: Part A and part B
11.01.2017:
Ester Herlin-Karnell: The Constitutional Structure of Europe’s Area of “Freedom, Security and Justice” and the Right to Justification
18.01.2017:
Yael Berda: Expanding Emergency: from Colonial Emergency Laws to Anti-Terror Laws in Israel and India (ניהול “אוכלוסיות מסוכנות”: מפרקטיקות חירום קולוניאליות לחוקי המאבק בטרור בהודו ובישראל)
2016 – events
December 28, 2016:
Book launch: Dr. Myriam Feinberg – Sovereignty in the Age of Global Terrorism, The Role of International Organization
See here for more details about the book; Link to a post about the book in Opinio Juris
December 14, 2016:
יום עיון – גל השריפות נובמבר 2016 Workshop: November 2016 Fires (Hebrew)
November 2, 2016:
יום עיון לרגל כניסתו לתוקף של חוק המאבק בטרור, התשעו-2016
המציאות המשפטית בעקבות החוק החדש, השלכותיו על הדמוקרטיה ועל שלטון החוק בישראל
יום עיון משותף של מרכז מינרבה לחקר שלטון החוק במצבי קיצון והמכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה
להזמנה , להקלטות מיום העיון
The 2016 Israeli Counterterrorism Law – the New Legal Reality and Implications on Democracy and the Rule of Law in Israel – Workshop with IDI.(in Hebrew)
September 7- 19 -2016:
Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency
July 18-19 2016:
Symposium on Constitutionalism under Extreme Conditions. 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.
June 29, 2016 – July 18, 2016 :
Cyber Regulation, Policy and Theory, Visiting fellows workshop
June 21, 2016:
Human Insecurity, State Fragility and Complex Humanitarian Crises in the Mediterranean. The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem and the Minerva Center for the Study of the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa. See Program here.
June 26, 2016:
Experts workshop: Evaluating Israel’s Regulatory Framework for Earthquake Preparedness, Response and Recovery
Program (Hebrew)
June 5-6, 2016
Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions – Advisory board meeting and Mini-Seminar
March 11-13, 2016
Constitutional and Legal Regulation of Emergencies in Democracies, International workshop, Hamburg
January 12, 2016
Syrian Refugees in Europe: Causes and Consequences of a Foretold Crisis. A workshop and public discussion, with Haifa Center for German and European Studies.
January 10-11, 2016
Crisis, Emergency and Risk Communications in the 21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Seminar.
Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, Wagner College in Staten Island, New York and the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions,
2016 – seminar talks
21.12.2016: Itamar Man: Three Genres of International Criminal Justice
(משפט בינלאומי פלילי ועקרון החוקיות)
07.12.2016: Maria Varaki: Rule of Law challenges in Greece and Turkey. Different crisis, similar issues?
23.11.2016: Amnon Reichman: The Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions – Overview of Israeli Law and Institution
09.11.2016: Eli Salzberger: The Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions – Theoretical Perspectives
25.5.2016: Tobias Ackermann, Research associate at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum: “The Effects of Armed Conflicts on Bilateral Investment Treaties”
18.5.2016: Dr. Yaniv Roznai, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Center: Emergency Unamendability
18.5.2016 : Should the cyber profession be licensed? (Hebrew -Cyber forum event)
15.5.2016: ICON-S Israel, Annual conference of the International Society of Public Law; session on constitutional Law in times of crisis with post-doctoral fellows of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions.
13.4.2016: Dr. Suha Jubran Ballan: Economic Crises and Foreign Investors: Between Necessity and Reparation
6.4.2016: Dr. Denard Veshi: The European management of the refugee flow: an economic and legal comparative approach
6.4.2016: Abhishek Mishra: Extrajudicial Killings: Normative study to determine the impact on State and Democracy in changing World Order
30.3.2016: Dr. Rivka Brot: Law and Order at the Space of Exception: Administration of Law in Jewish Refugee Camps in the American Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949.
6.3. 2016: Ehud Segal : Evaluating Israel’s Regulatory Framework for Earthquake Preparedness, Response and Recovery.
9.3. 2016: Dr. Myriam Feinberg Who should regulate Cyber-terrorism – France and Israel as a case study of a multilevel regime and the protection of the rule of law.
20.1. 2016: Prof. Kenneth A. Bamberger: Privacy on the Ground . (Cyber forum event)
06.01. 2016: Alyssa-Nurit McBride:Refugee Law in the Developing World: The Implications of Protracted Refugee Situations on the Efficacy of Refugee Law.
2015 – events
December 10-11, 2015
The Algorithmic State: Cyber Challenges to Democracy and Civil Rights (see overview, program and Round Tables)
December 2, 2015
The Regulatory System for Coping with Earthquakes in Israel Round tables workshop (Hebrew)
מערכת הרגולציה בישראל להתמודדות עם רעידות אדמה: רגולציה, עשייה בפועל ומצב רצוי
November 24, 2015
Law, violence and exception Workshop at CRFJ, Jerusalem. See program here
January 1-3, 2015
Annual conference of the Israeli Association of Public Law: Public Law in the Eye of the Storm
המשפט הציבורי בעין הסערה: הכנס השנתי של העמותה למשפט ציבורי
2015- seminar talks
30.12.2015: Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Dr. Alexandre Kedar, Dr. Ornit Shani: Twentieth-Century Partitions: An Interim Report. See abstract
25.11.2015 : Dr. Suha Jubran – Ballan: How Institutions Matter: on the Judicial Reasoning of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards.
11.11.2015: Federica Maiorana (Guest at the Minerva Center)The phenomenon of Foreign Fighters: a new challenge for the world between effective protection and legal safeguards.
4.11.2015: Prof. Leslie E. Gerwin, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University: Law and (Dis)Order of Public Health Emergency Response.
15.7.2015: Stephan Michel (with Prof. Stefan Voigt, Hamburg University): The organization of intelligence.
8.7.2015: Prof. Moti Mironi: The Rule of Law and State of Emergency Caused by Strikes of Essential Employees.
24.6.2015: Dr. Karin Loevy (NYU School of Law) Who Decides on the Emergency? Comparing Institutional Response Capacities in the US Executive and the UK Parliament Post 9/11.
10.6.2015 :Suha Jubran Ballan: Investment Treaty Arbitration and Economic Crises: between Necessity and Reparation.
13.5.2015: Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Kedar: Expanding Legal Geographies: A Call for a Critical Comparative Approach. (see paper)
15.4.2015: Natalie Davidson: Alien Tort Statute Litigation and Transitional Justice: Bringing the Marcos Case back to the Philippines.
25.3.2015: Prof. Menachem Hofnung, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Price of Counterterrorism Information Gathering: Intelligence Informers in the Israeli Courts
11.3.2015: Prof. Michael Gross, School of Political Science, The University of Haifa: The Ethics of Insurgency- What’s Wrong with Human Shields?- (See Prof. Gross’s blog on the subject)
28.1.2015: Klaas Rick, University of Hamburg: Terrorism as a Crime under International Law –
21.1.2015:Dr. Yaniv Roznai , The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition: Revolutionary lawyering
14.1.2015: Dr. Michal Saliternik, The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions: Procedural justice in peace negotiations
2014
31.12.2014: Responses to Environmental Crises, Louis II in Dauphiné (1447-1456)- Dr. Guy Lurie, The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
24.12.2014: The use of death penalty in post-conflicts countries and its influence on reconciliation processes – Sigall Horovitz, The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
17.12.2014: The Rise to Power of Sanjay Gandhi During the ‘Emergency’ in India, 1975-1977 – Itamar Baumer, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa.
10.12.2014: Unconstitutional constitutional amendments: towards a theory of unamendability – Dr. Yaniv Roznai , The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
19.11.2014: Public Order and Emergency in Early Twentieth Century Britain – Patrick Graham, PhD student in the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London Abstract
12.11.2014: History of Emergency Laws – Dr. Guy Lurie, The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
5.11.2014: The Israeli Democracy in War – Is the ‘Edge’ Protected?
2013
October 29, 2013: Law, Technology and National Security.
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June 16-17, 2013: Regulating Disasters through Private and Public Law: Compensation and Policy. University of Haifa – Faculty of Law & Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
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Conference videos
See related publication by Betsy J. Grey, NYTimes Jan 20th 2014: End the Panic. Create a Permanent Fund.
April 10, 2013: 4th Israeli Forum for Disasters Management: The Israeli Emergency System (Hebrew)