The Supreme Court of Israel.
This program is part of the Center's series Key Legal Issues in Israel.
Tuesday, June 9, 202611:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)Webinar
11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern / 19:00 UK / 21:00 Israel–Palestine
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Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.
About the Program
Israel is one of the ten largest arms exporters in the world and is a leading exporter of surveillance technologies. Its arms exports have grown significantly in the past two years as European and Asian states rearm. Some commentators have linked Israeli arms exports to alleged human rights violations committed by the recipient countries. This, despite the establishment in 2007 of a domestic export licensing regime, and a growing array of international norms binding Israel and concerning state, individual and corporate responsibility. Professor Davidson will provide an overview of the history, economics and geopolitical aspects of Israeli arms exports, including the role of US assistance. She will then discuss Israel's regulation of arms exports, highlighting weaknesses in human rights protection, including a lack of transparency, institutional concentration of powers, individualized risk assessment, and judicial deference to the executive. She will argue that the Israeli regulatory approach exemplifies the weaknesses of the dominant model of arms export regulation embodied in international law and in the domestic law of leading arms-exporting democracies.
About the Speakers
Natalie Davidson is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University's Buchmann Faculty of Law, where she is also Vice-Dean for Teaching. She researches and teaches International Law, Constitutional Law, and Law and Society, focusing currently on the regulation of the global arms trade and authoritarian uses of law. She directs the team of Israel reporters for the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts. She is a member of the Forum on the Arms Trade, an international network of experts on the humanitarian, economic and other implications of the global trade in arms.
Richard Steinberg (moderator) is the Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at UCLA, where he writes and teaches in the areas of international law and international relations, with a focus on international economic law, international criminal law, and human rights. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Member of United States Trade Representative’s Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, Chair of the International Trade Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association, Director of Trade Policy Research at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at UC Berkeley, and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning http://iccforum.com/.
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.
Sponsor(s): The Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University