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Dr. Daphne Richemond Barak

Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy

Head of the BA in Government - RRIS

Research and Teaching Expertise

Laws of Warfare
International Relations
International Law
Conflict Resolution
Asymmetrical Conflict
International Terrorism
Public International Law
International Humanitarian Law
International Law of Armed Conflict

Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak joined the Reichman University in 2009. She is Assistant Professor (tenured) at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, and serves as the Academic Head of the International Program in Government (RRIS) and as Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT).

In 2019, her book UNDERGROUND WARFARE was awarded the Prize Chaikin by the Chair in Geostrategy at the University of Haifa for its contribution to the geostrategy of Israel and the Middle East.

Dr. Richemond-Barak holds a Maitrise from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), a Diploma in Legal Studies from Oxford University (Hertford College), an LL.M. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University. She was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship, and was a recipient of the European Commission Scholarship, the Hertford College Prize, and the Oxford Prize for Distinction. Prior to joining the IDC, Dr. Richemond-Barak served as a clerk at the International Court of Justice, and worked as an attorney in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb.

She has acted as a private counsel for international law firms and as a legal adviser to states including the government of Colombia in its territorial dispute against Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice. She served as a member of the Committee on International and Security Affairs at the New York Bar Association, and is admitted to practice law in New York and Paris.
Teaching and research interests include the role and status of non-state actors, law and terrorism, asymmetric warfare and the morality of war, international institutions, and the relationship between international law and international relations.

Dr. Richemond-Barak also established and supervised the IDC's participation in the International Committee for the Red Cross’s Jean Pictet Competition in International Humanitarian Law in which the IDC won first place in 2010 and 2011.
Ending Wars: The Law of War's Latest Source of Stress (with Laurie Blank)
Articles of War (Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare, West Point) (2020)

While the North Korean Nuclear Button Cools, the Threat of the Underground Lingers (with John Spencer)
Modern War Institute (2018)

Is Israel Winning the Underground Fight?
Small Wars Journal (2019)

It's Too Early to Declare Victory against the Underground (in Hebrew)
Globes (2019)

Of Temporal Jurisdiction and Power Struggle in the ICC's Palestine Investigation
EJILTalk! (2020)

Underground Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Rosenne's The World Court: What It Is and How It Works, seventh edition under contract with Martinus Nijhoff (forthcoming, 2020).

The Irony of the Iron Dome: Intelligent Defense Systems, Law, and Security
7 Harvard National Security Journal 469 (2016), with Ayal Feinberg

Foreign Volunteers or Foreign Fighters? The Emerging Legal Framework Governing Foreign Fighters
Opinio Juris (2016)

Is Money a Legitimate Target?
Just Security (2016)

Double Duty at the ICC
EJIL Talk! (2015)

Can Self-Regulation Work? Lessons from the Private Security and Military Industry
35 Michigan Journal of International Law 773 (2014)

The Human Rights Council and the Convergence of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law
in Shaping a Global Legal Framework for Counterinsurgency: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare (William Banks, ed.) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012).

Applicability and Application of the Laws of War to Modern Conflicts
23 Florida Journal of International Law 327 (2012).

Regulating War: A Taxonomy in Global Administrative Law
22 European Journal of International Law 1027 (2011).

Rethinking Private Warfare
5 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 159 (2011).

Nonstate Actors in Armed Conflicts: Issues of Distinction and Reciprocity
in New Battlefield, Old Laws: From the Hague Conventions to Asymmetric Warfare (William Banks, ed.) (Columbia Univ. Press, 2011).

The International Court of Justice on Kosovo: Missed Opportunity or Dispute Settlement?
23 Hague Yearbook of International Law 1 (2010)

Transnational Terrorist Organizations and the Use of Force
56 Catholic University Law Review 1001 (2007).

The New Peacekeepers? Private Military Companies and the Future of Peacekeeping Operations
European Society of International Law Web Publications, pp: 11, 2007.

Commentary to Article 37 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
in The Statute of the International Court of Justice (Andreas Zimmerman, Christian Tomuschat, Karin Oellers-Frahm, eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2006(, with Judge Bruno Simma (new edition in progress).

The Oil Platforms Case before the International Court of Justice: A Non-Case of International Responsibility
in International Responsibility Today, Essays in Memory of Oscar Schachter (Maurizio Ragazzi, ed.) (Martinus Nijhoff, 2005(, with Prosper Weil.

Normativity in International Law: The Case of Unilateral Humanitarian Intervention
6 Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal 45 (2003).
The Laws of War - Israelis Know Them Best

Army lawyers, academics debate how to make international law ‘relevant’ to today’s battlefields

The Underground Threat is Growing: As Militaries Become More Sophisticated and the Technology Advanc

HFN and Globes Conference for the Security Industry, Interview with Col (ret.) Daniel Reisner

The World Doesn't Realize the Extent of the Tunnel Threat

West Bank annexation ends logger jam for peace, former NSC official says (JPOST)
Annexation – Yes or No? Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy online event

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Security Affairs, Hong Kong University online event

One Hundred Years after the San Remo Conference: Political and Strategic Changes, ELNET online event

Can Technology Bring about the End of War?