EIPA Press Briefing, 10 February 2021
ICC & Israel, A War on Law?
With:
Professor Eugene Kontorovich
Professor at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, specializing in constitutional and international law. Before coming to George Mason, he had been a professor at Northwestern University School of Law for 11 years. As head of the International Law Department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem-based think tank, and he is recognized as one of the world’s preeminent experts on international law and the Israel-Arab conflict. Prof. Kontorovich also plays a leading role in many Israelrelated policy matters, and is regarded as the “intellectual architect” of U.S. state laws
regarding boycotts of Israel. In his work at Forum Kohelet, he regularly advises senior Israeli, U.S. and European officials on a variety of diplomatic issues.
Colonel (res.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch
Joined the INSS in 2012 as a senior research associate and heads the program on law and national security. She retired from the Israel Defense Forces in 2009, after serving in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General (MAG) Unit for twenty years, five of which (2003 – 2009), she was head of the Department. In this capacity, she was a senior legal advisor responsible for advising IDF commanders and decision makers at the governmental level on a wide variety of issues relating
to international law and administrative law, among them: the laws of armed conflict and occupation of territory; naval law; counter-terrorism; security liaison; border demarcation; and conflict resolution. She commanded the operational legal advisors at the IDF. Adv. Sharvit Baruch also served as a legal advisor in Israel’s delegations to negotiations with the Palestinians, from the early contacts and thereafter. She is a member of the board of several organizations, including the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IJL) and Forum Dvorah – Women in Foreign Policy and National Security.
Andrew Tucker
Raised in Australia, He trained as a lawyer in Australia, UK and Netherlands, where he practised for almost 20 years as an attorney in the field of international law. Since July 2018 Andrew serves as International Adviser.
Andrew is leading the establishment of The Hague Centre for International Law and Public Policy in the Middle East – a think tank contributing to the development of freedom and justice in the Middle East based on the rule of law.