VALENTINA AZAROV

Valentina lectures in Public International Law and Human Rights and is Head of the Human Rights Program at the Al-Quds Bard College, Al-Quds University, in Palestine. She was also a legal researcher with Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organisation based in Ramallah, West Bank and HaMoked – Center for the Defense of the Individual, providing legal aid on Israeli Supreme Court cases. She has also done casework on asylum and immigration detention issues in the UK and advocacy work for the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) in Abuja, Nigeria, during the negotiations of the ECOWAS Convention on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons.

She obtained her LLB in European Legal Studies (Honours) from the University of Westminster in London, United Kingdom, and the Certificate of Transnational Law under the LLM in International and European Law at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland. She also attended the Hague Academy of International Law, Public International Law Session in 2009, and holds a Certificate in Development Economics, from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Her research and teaching interests lie in the fields of international humanitarian law, and in particular the international law of belligerent occupation, and their application by national courts, international human rights law, corporate responsibility for war crimes and public international law, including issues of statehood, sovereignty and state responsibility. She has published and participated in conferences on these topics.

Her PhD research focuses on the object and purpose of the international law of belligerent occupation and its interaction with principles of general international law, namely by considering the effects of the principle and right to self-determination of peoples on the law of occupation. The research explores the crossroads between rules of the law of occupation and other regimes of international law examining the legal history and underlying object and purpose of the law of occupation and argues for the need for further, new forms of regulation of Occupying Powers.

Selected Publications:

 -- “’Trickle-Down’ Legality: The Roles of the International Courts in Achieving Palestine’s Independence”, Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2012, forthcoming). 

-- with Ido Blum, “Belligerency”, and “Suspension of Hostilities”, Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, 2010.

-- with Mutaz Qafisheh, “Article 1D”, forthcoming in Zimmermann, Andreas (ed.), Commentary on the Refugee Convention 1951 (Oxford University Press, 2010).

-- “Introductory note to the UK House of Lords EM (Lebanon) v Secretary of State of the Home Department judgment”, International Legal Materials, Vol 48, No 1, 2009.

-- with Franz C. Ebert, “The Kadi-Decision of the ECJ – A Pyrrhic Victory of Human Rights at the Costs of International Law?”, Hanse Law Review, Vol 5, No 1, 2009.

-- “Internationalisation and Attribution: The Tadic Analysis in the Genocide in Bosnia Case”, University of Westminster School of Law Research Paper No. 09-11; Westminster Centre of International Law and Theory Working Paper No. 2009/2 (available on SSRN).

Selected Conference Papers:

-- ’Transitioning from Injustice: 'Operation Cast Lead' and the Imperative of Accountability for International Crimes in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict’, conference on ’Transitional Justice and Accountability’, Al-Quds Human Rights Clinic; International Center for Transitional Justice, Al-Quds University, 24 November 2011.

-- ’Putting An End to Impunity: The Establishment of a Palestinian Coalition for the International Criminal Court’, closed workshop on ’News Approaches to the Israel-Palestine Conflict’, International Development department, London School of Economics, 3-4 November 2011.

-- ’The Role of the International Court of Justice in Achieving Palestine’s Independence’, conference on ’The Quest for Palestine Statehood: Legal, Political and Economic Implications’, Institute of Law, Birzeit University, 25 October 2011.

-- ’Targeting Doctrines and Rules of Engagement: A Factual Analysis of Israel’s Practices in the OPT’, Center for Applied International Law, Al-Haq, IHL workshop, 17 March 2011.

-- ’Criminal Venture or ’Business as Usual’? Corporate Accountability for Violations of International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’, Human Rights Project, Bard College, NY, on 8 February 2011; Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University Law School, 9 February 2011.

-- ’Politicising Academia and the Politics of Education in the Palestinian Experience’ at the “Higher Education and Civil Society: A New Social Mission of the University”, International Conference at the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the Saint-Petersburg State University, 14-16 October 2010.

-- ’Disjointed Paradigms: The Current Legal Status of the Oslo Accords, IHL and the HCJ’ at the “International Humanitarian Law Arguments before the Israeli Supreme Court”, NRC Workshop organised for the Legal Taskforce of UN OCHA, Jerusalem, 27 July 2010.

-- ’The Post-Conflict Responsibilities of the Parties to the Conflict: Israel and Palestine after “Operation Cast Lead”, Seminar on Accountability for Violations of IHL organized by the Law Faculty, Al-Quds University, 21 December 2009.

-- ’The Gaza Strip under Siege, Conflict and Humanitarian Crisis’, Presentation for CCFD conference at the SciencePo University, Paris, France, 18 November 2009.

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