Strengthening Human Rights Protections in Geneva, Israel, the West Bank and Beyond

Joseph E. David is Professor of Law at Sapir Academic College, Israel and a Visiting Professor at the Program in Judaic Studies and Law School at the University of Yale. He is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Law and Religion (JLR, Cambridge). His research focuses on Jewish Studies, Law and Religion, Legal History and Comparative Jurisprudence, on which he has published extensively. Yael Ronen is a Professor of Law at the Academic Center for Science and Law, Hod Hasharon, Israel, and Research Fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights. She is the academic editor of the Israel Law Review (ISR, Cambridge). She specialises in issues of territorial status including occupation, international human rights law and international criminal law. Yuval Shany is a Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vice-President for Research at the Israel Democracy Institute and a member and former Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva. He specializes in international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international courts and tribunals. J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor at NYU Law School and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. Until recently he served as President of the European University Institute, Florence. Professor Weiler is co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL) and the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON).