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IILJ Graduate Scholars and J.S.D. Candidates
IILJ GRADUATE SCHOLARS
Doreen Lustig
J.S.D. Candidate and IILJ Graduate Scholar (Israel).
Topic: History and Theory of International law and the Business Enterprise.
Doreen Lustig is a J.S.D. student and IILJ Graduate Scholar. Her dissertation traces the role of the business enterprise in the history of international law. Her work is supervised by Professor Benedict Kingsbury. Ms. Lustig completed her LL.M. in International Legal Studies as a Hauser scholar at NYU in 2006. Her thesis, The Modern Temples of India: International Law and Development Induced Displacement, was written under the supervision of Professor Benedict Kingsbury. She received both her LL.B., magna cum laude and a Bachelor's degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Sociology and Anthropology, from Tel Aviv University. Ms. Lustig served as an Associate Editor of the Tel Aviv University Law Review (Iyuney Mishpat). Subsequent to her Bachelor's studies she was employed as a legal clerk for Justice Eliezer Rivlin at the Israeli Supreme Court. During the summer of 2006, Ms. Lustig served as an IILJ intern at the UN International Law Commission in Geneva. She is the co-author of 'Displacement and Relocation from Protected Areas: International Law Perspectives on Rights, Risks and Resistance', Conservation and Society 4 (2006), 404-418 (with Benedict Kingsbury).
J.S.D. Candidates in International Law
Olivier Barsalou
J.S.D. Candidate (Canada)
Olivier is a J.S.D. student from Canada. He studied law at the Faculty of Political Science and Law of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) where he earned a B.A. (2005) in International Law and International Relations and a LL.M. (2007) in International Law. In 2008, he graduated from NYU School of Law with a LL.M. in international legal studies. He is interested in the areas of history, philosophy, and theory of international law. His J.S.D. research project will explore how international law responded and shaped the process of decolonization in the post-1945 world. Contact: obarsalou@nyu.edu
Patricia Palacios Zuloaga
J.S.D. Candidate (Chile)
Ms. Palacios Zuloaga is a J.S.D. student from Santiago, Chile, whose legal interests fall in the area of international human rights law. She received her law degree from the University of Chile and her LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School where she received a Stoffel Scholarship.
She is a member of the faculty at the University of Chile’s Law School where she teaches on matters such as discrimination and women’s rights in international law and where she also works as a researcher for the University’s Human Rights Center (HRC). Through the HRC she has published two books in Spanish: one on discrimination case law in the UN human rights system and another on the gendered interpretations of human rights treaties. Her LLM paper entitled “The Path to Gender Justice in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights” won the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on the Human Rights of Women awarded by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law. The paper will shortly be published in the Texas Journal of Women and the Law.
Her dissertation will examine the obstacles to the transmission of international human rights law between supranational human rights protection organs.
Guy Fiti Sinclair
J.S.D. Candidate (New Zealand and Samoa)
Guy Fiti Sinclair is a J.S.D. candidate at the New York University School of Law. He has over 10 years experience as a corporate commercial lawyer in leading US, English and Australasian firms; most recently he was Corporate Counsel New Zealand for the largest publicly listed Australasian food company. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, and has been admitted to practice as a Solicitor in England and Wales.
Guy's principal area of interest is public international law. His thesis, supervised by Professor Jose E. Alvarez, will examine the expansion of the powers of international organizations through processes of informal reform. Guy's publications include articles in Volume 8 (May 2007) of the Melbourne International Law Journal and Volume 14 (March 2008) of the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, as well as articles in New Zealand and English law journals.
Guy has B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) and LL.M. (First Class Hons.) degrees from the University of Auckland. He is the recipient of several scholarships and prizes, including the Fowlds Memorial Prize (awarded to the most distinguished Masters student at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law), the Gordon Watson Scholarship and the Spencer Mason Travelling Scholarship in Law. Guy is a Fulbright scholar.
Recent J.S.D. Graduates
Eran Shamir-Borer
J.S.D. and IILJ Graduate Scholar (Israel)
Topic: The development of administrative law norms and mechanisms in global administrative bodies
Eran Shamir-Borer is a J.S.D. student and IILJ Graduate Scholar. His research seeks to contribute to the study of the emerging filed of Global Administrative Law (GAL) by exploring the factors that lead to the development of administrative law norms and mechanisms in global administrative bodies, with special focus on international standardization bodies. He studies under the supervision of Professor Benedict Kingsbury. Eran received his LL.B. degree, cum laude, in 1998 from Tel Aviv University, Israel, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Israel Journal of Criminal Justice (“Plilim”). In 2004 he received his LL.M. degree, cum laude, from the same institution. He also holds an LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law. His thesis, entitled “Taming of the Military Decision-Maker?: Administrative Legal Norms in the Laws of Armed Conflict”, was written under the supervision of Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler and dealt with the regulation and control of state discretion when exercising discretionary powers under the laws of armed conflict. From 1998 to 2004 Eran served as an officer (presently at the rank of a Major) in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General Corps in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In this capacity, he provided legal counseling to IDF headquarters and government offices on matters relating to international law, participated in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and negotiated cooperation agreements with foreign militaries. In 2003 he was a delegate to the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and a member of the Drafting Committee.
Kirsty Gover
J.S.D. and IILJ Graduate Scholar (New Zealand)
Topic: Self-constitution and indigenous peoples’ governance.
Kirsty Gover is a recent graduate of the J.S.D. Program, where she was an IILJ Graduate Scholar and New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Fellow. Her dissertation is entitled: “Constitutionalizing Tribalism: States, Tribes and Membership Governance in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.” Kirsty received her B.A./LL.B., with honors, from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and her LL.M. from Columbia University, United States. She was a Columbia University School of Law Human Rights Fellow and James Kent Scholar, and was the first full-time Institute Fellow at NYU Law School's Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ). Kirsty was a Senior Advisor and then consultant to the New Zealand government on international and domestic policy on indigenous peoples, and taught in this field at the University of Canterbury Law School. Her research and publications address the law, policy and political theory of indigenous self-governance and self-constitution. In 2009, she will be a senior lecturer in law at the University of Melbourne Law School.
Robert Dufresne
J.S.D. (Canada)
Topic: Trade and violence in the international law of natural resources
Robert Dufresne received his J.S.D. in international law in 2007, supervised by Professors Benedict Kingsbury (chair) and Martti Koskenniemi. His dissertation was on “Law, Resources, and Violence: A Study of International Law’s Role in the Relation between Organized Violence and Global Resource Exploitation". It covered, inter alia, extractive industries' exploitation of resources located in regions under guerrilla control (e.g. as has occurred in Liberia or the Democratic Republic of the Congo ) or in close collaboration with state authorities of an oppressive regime. His wider academic interests include public international law, international law of human rights, the law of the use of force, history and theory of international law, and globalization. Recent publications include “The Opacity of Oil: Oil Corporations, Internal Violence and International Law”, New York University Journal of International Law & Politics (Summer 2004), and “Assessing Clashes and Interplays of Regimes from a Distributive Perspective: IP Rights under the Strengthened Embargo against Cuba and the Agreement on TRIPS”, 24 Michigan Journal of International Law 767 (2003). Robert received his LL.B/B.C.L.( Distinction ) from McGill University in Montreal. After having clerked with Justice André Brossard of the Quebec Court of Appeal, he graduated from NYU’s LL.M (International Legal Studies) program in 2000. In 2000-2001, he served as a law clerk with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands, and then worked as a research assistant for Professor Alain Pellet during the 2001 session of the International Law Commission before returning to NYU for his doctoral work. In 2005-06 he held a full-time fellowship in the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs dealing with extractive resource issues, and thereafter worked as a consultant for the Ministry before taking up his current position working in the Canadian Parliament.
Roy Schondorf
J.S.D. (Israel)
Topic: Theory and History of International Criminal Law
Roy Schondorf recently completed his J.S.D., with a dissertation entitled “A Theory of Supra-National Criminal Law”. That work aims to provide a comprehensive principled approach to the field so far known as ‘international criminal law’, and to challenge analogies often drawn between this field and traditional inter-state international law. His dissertation was supervised by Professor Theodor Meron, the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Roy's academic interests include international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international law of human rights, the law of the use of force, history and theory of international law, and globalization. His article, “Extra Territorial Armed Conflicts Between States And Non-State Actors: Is There A Need For A New Legal Regime?”, was published in New York University Journal of International Law & Politics (2004). In addition to his J.S.D., Roy holds a B.A. in economics (summa cum laude), an LL.B.(valedictorian), and an M.A. in law and economics (magna cum laude), all from Tel Aviv University. Roy currently specializes in international litigation and arbitration at a major US law firm. Before coming to NYU he served as senior legal advisor in the international law department of the Israeli Defense Forces Military Advocate General Unit, where he earned officer course honors and a special award for excellence. He took an active part in the Middle East peace negotiations, and represented the Israeli government in various peace negotiations with Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. He was a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Preparatory Commission on the establishment of the International Criminal Court. In Summer 2001, he interned with Judge Eric Mose, later the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
