Updated: This event will be moderated by N itsan Plitmam.
Dr. Shereshevsky will discuss recent cases in the Isra eli Supreme Court in the context of the war in Gaza and how the Court’s app roach can be explained through broader discussions of the application of in ternational law in domestic courts. Specifically\, he will examine these ca ses against the backdrop of the various international proceedings related t o the war\, as well as the recent domestic tensions between the executive b ranch and the judiciary.
Dr. Yahli Shereshevsky is an Associate Profe ssor at the University of Haifa Law School. He was previously a post-doctor al fellow at the Federmann Cyber Security Reserach Center\, the Minerva Cen ter for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions\, and a Grotius Research S cholar at the University of Michigan Law School. Yahli specializes in inter national law\, focusing on international humanitarian law\, international l awmaking\, international legal theory\, war and technology\, and internatio nal criminal law.
Yahli received his PhD from the Hebrew University o f Jerusalem\, where he was a Hans-Guth Dreyfus Fellow for Conflict Resoluti on and the Law and was enrolled in the Hoffman Leadership and Responsibilit y Fellowship Program. Yahli holds an LLB in Law and the “Amirim” I nterdisciplinary Honors Program for Outstanding Students (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University. He clerked for the Honorable Deputy Chief Justi ce Eliezer Rivlin of the Supreme Court of Israel. Yahli’s work has been pub lished in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law\, the Virginia Journal of International Law\, The Michigan Journal of I nternational Law\, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice.
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