International Humanitarian Law and the Israel/Hamas War: Understanding the Principles of Proportionality and Distinction, 02/20
The Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy welcomes
Claire Finkelstein
Algernon Biddle Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, February 20
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Arthur M. Goldberg '66 Classroom (Room 202)
John F. Scarpa Hall
The McCullen Center welcomes Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. Finkelstein’s current research addresses national security law and policy, democratic governance and professional ethics. In her lecture, she will address the principles of proportionality and distinction in international humanitarian law regarding the Israel/Hamas war.
Finkelstein is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, a non-partisan interdisciplinary institute affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC). She is a distinguished research fellow at APPC and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
An expert in the law of armed conflict, military ethics, national security law and professional ethics, she is a co-editor (with Jens David Ohlin) of The Oxford Series in Ethics, National Security and the Rule of Law, and an editor of six of its volumes: Targeted Killings: Law & Morality in an Asymmetrical World (2012); Cyber War: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts (2015); Weighing Lives in War (2017); Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (2018); Preserving Cultural Heritage in Times of War (2022) and Between Crime and War: Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict (2022). She has published widely in national security and democratic governance, and most recently led a working group of over 30 national security professionals to produce a significant report discussing recommendations for closing Guantanamo Bay Prison.
Finkelstein is a sought-after national security consultant, briefing individuals, Pentagon officials, U.S. Senate staff and JAG Corps members on national security law and practice issues. She is also regularly consulted on matters of personal and professional ethics. She is a frequent radio, podcast, broadcast and print commentator and has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg and Newsweek. Her other scholarly work has focused on criminal law theory, moral and political philosophy, jurisprudence and rational choice theory.
The Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board has approved this symposium for 1 substantive CLE credit. Please note registration for this event is required.
