Applying Humanitarian Law to Events in Israel-Palestine

Professor Marco Sassòli, Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, gives an analysis of events in Israel-Palestine through the lens of International Humanitarian Law.

Professor Sassòli is renowned in the field of international humanitarian law and has held many distinguished positions including with (but not limited to) the International Criminal Court, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva Call, and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. In our webinar, he gave a general background on international humanitarian law before providing a context-specific analysis of the conflict in Israel-Palestine.

The discussion was facilitated by Nina McKee '16, Program Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs.

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Panelists

Nina T. McKee, Program Director, Madeleine K. Albright Institute for Global Affairs

Nina became Program Director of the Albright Institute in December 2022.
Marco Sassòli, Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

Marco Sassòli is professor of international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva as well as associate professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.