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. Yaël 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).

• Introduction; 1. On Limits and Restrictions of Human Rights: A Systematic Attempt to Privacy Eckart Klein; 2. Digital Surveillance, Meta Data and Foreign Intelligence Cooperation: Unpacking the International Right to Privacy Anja Seibert-Fohr; 3. Some Reflections upon Access to Justice, in the Transnational Setting, as a 'Right to Law' Gianluigi Palombella; 4. Human Rights Treaty Bodies as Standard-Setting Mechanisms: the Case of Family Law in CEDAW Ruth Halperin-Kaddari; 5. The Applicability of the Law of Occupation to UN Administration of Foreign Territory Eyal Benvenisti; 6. The Responsibility of Businesses operating in the Settlements in Occupied Yaël Ronen; 7. Occupational Hazards: Gender and The Law of Occupation in Israel-Palestine Fionnuala Ní Aoláin; 8. Rule of Law de jure and/or de facto?: Shamgar and the International Law of Belligerent Occupation Yuval Shany; 9. Political Liberalism in a Jewish and Democratic State Gila Stopler; 10. Law and Identity: An Unwieldy Dance Joseph E. David; 11. David Kretzmer: An Academic Biographical Portrait Pnina Lahav; 12. David Kretzmer: A Role Model Mordechai Kremnitzer.