Pictured Above: Photo Illustration for the Judicature International article, “The Israel-Hamas Conflict: International Law, Accountability, and Challenges in Modern Warfare” by Mara R. Revkin.
On Nov. 18, 2024, at 12:30 pm at Duke Law School, Peter Kahn JD’76, Senior Counsel at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. and chair of the Bolch Judicial Institute’s advisory board, will lead a discussion with Duke Law Professor Mara Revkin and Avichai (“Avi”) Mandelblit, former Chief Military Advocate General and former Attorney General of Israel, about the law of war as seen through the conduct of the Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah conflict.
Now serving as Dean of the Law Faculty at the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan, Israel, Mandelblit is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the law of war. He joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Military Advocate General’s office in 1991 and served as Israel’s Chief Military Advocate General from 2004 until September 2011. In that role, he frequently was called upon to express the IDF’s legal viewpoint on various issues of international humanitarian law. As Israel’s Attorney General from 2016 to 2022, Mandelblit indicted Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust (those cases are currently ongoing). Since his retirement as Attorney-General, he has criticized the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul efforts as a threat to the country’s liberal democratic system. Mandelblit is visiting Duke as part of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy’s Focus on Israel series.
Professor Revkin teaches and studies in the areas of armed conflict, peace-building, transitional justice, migration, policing, and property with a regional focus on the Middle East and Africa. In addition to her academic research, she has worked with and advised United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organizations on the design of evidence-based programs and policies that aim to strengthen rule of law and the protection of human rights, support peaceful reconciliation after conflict, and mitigate the root causes of political violence. She recently wrote about the law of war as it applies to Israel’s war in Gaza for Judicature International (see https://judicature.duke.edu/articles/israel-hamas-conflict-international-law/).
Event sponsored by Judicature International and the Bolch Judicial Institute.