Ariel Meyerstein

University of California, Berkeley

PhD Candidate, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program

Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

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Expertise

Public international law (human rights, humanitarian law)
Private international law (foreign direct investment, arbitration)
International Development
Law and Society (anthropology, political science, sociology)

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Between Law and Culture: Rwanda's Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality, Law and Social Inquiry (2007)

The Law and Lawyers as Enemy Combatants, University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy (2007)

Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Israel/Palestine: Assessing the Applicability of the Truth Commission Paradigm, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (2007)

Returning the Harmonization of EU Asylum Law: Exploring the Need for an EU Asylum Appellate Court, California Law Review (2005)

Popular Press

A Pre-Emptive Pardon for Those Who Tortured Could Backfire (with David D. Caron), San Francisco Daily Journal (2009)

The Specific Costs of Arbitrary Detention and Torture: A Response to Eugene Kontorovich, Opinio Juris (2007)

Case Study: The Israeli Strike Against Hamas Leader Salah Shehadeh, Crimes of War Magazine (2003)

Applies the "proprotionality" analysis of international humanitarian law to the Israeli "targeted assassination" of Hamas...

The Role of War Correspondents in International Criminal Justice: ICTY Orders Journalist to Testify, Crimes of War Magazine (2002)

Discusses the role of war correspondents--obligations, rights, moral dilemmas--in testifying before international tribunals.

Unpublished Papers

The “difference without a distinction” strikes again in Glamis Gold: notes on the persisting confusion of preliminary objections to “admissibility” with objections to “jurisdiction” in investment disputes, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (2009)

Book Reviews

Review of PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILTY: DESIGNS, DILEMMAS, AND EXPERIENCES, by Michael Dowdle (ed.) (2007)