Dr. Ziv Bohrer is a faculty member at Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law. His main areas of interest are International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law. He is currently researching (among other things) the long (forgotten) pre-WWII history of International Criminal Law. Prior to his current position, Dr. Bohrer was a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan, under a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2011-12), and a Research Fellow at the Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Hebrew University (2012-13). Dr. Bohrer received his Ph.D. (2011) and LL.M. (2007 (magna cum laude)) from Tel-Aviv University and his LL.B and B.A. (in psychology) from Haifa University. Ziv teaches: Public International Law, Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law (Law of Armed Conflict)

Primary Research Fields: Public International Law; International Humanitarian Law (Law of War); International Criminal Law; History of International Law.

Courses (Past and Present):

Public International Law; International Criminal Law; History and Theory of International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law (Law of War); The "General Part" of International Criminal Law; Israeli Criminal Law; Introduction to the Israeli Legal System; Selected Topics in International Criminal Law; Selected Topics in the Law of War (Seminar); Justifications for Punishment in International Criminal Law (Seminar).

Links to Videos and Podcasts of Lectures:

Lectures on the Neglected Long Legal History of the Supposedly "New" Wars:

1. Ziv Bohrer, "Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?", a lecture given at: The Oxford University Public International Law Discussion Group (2017), published as a podcast, https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/transnational-conflicts-new-kind-war
2. Ziv Bohrer, "The False History of the Categorization of Armed Conflicts", a lecture given as part of: Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency (Day 4, Part 3; Sep 18, 2016), organized by the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35JM2CsQ9U
3. For a lecture in Hebrew, see: Ziv Bohrer, "Transnational Armed Conflict: A New Kind of War?" [in Hebrew], a lecture given as part of: 'Talks about Books' (June 2017), an event organized by the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK6FnkQYjkc

Lectures on the Forgotten, Centuries-Long, Pre-WW2 History of International Criminal Law:

1. Ziv Bohrer, "Nuremburg was not the First International Criminal Tribunal by a Long-Shot", a lecture given at: I-HILT - Institute for the History of International Law @ Tilburg (Oct. 2018), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCg7Eh8vYL0#action=share
2. Ziv Bohrer, "Nuremberg Was Not the First International Criminal Tribunal - by a Long Shot", a lecture given in: The Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars (Oct. 2017), published as a podcast, https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/nuremberg-was-not-first-international-criminal-tribunal-long-shot
3. Ziv Bohrer, "International Criminal Law’s Millennium of Forgotten History and Its Post-WWII Pretermission", a lecture given as part of: XXIst Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians - 6th Berg Institute International Conference (March 2015), organized by Tel Aviv University, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsZokKu34Fw

Lectures [in Hebrew] on Israel & International Criminal Law:

1. Ziv Bohrer, "International Criminal Law – Its Past and Future" [in Hebrew], a symposium on Israel and International Criminal Law (Sept. 2015), event organized by the INSS, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQL8crDULk
2. Ziv Bohrer, "Lawyers in Warfare – Who Needs Them?" [in Hebrew], a lecture given as part of:  Law and Security: Do the Two Go Together? (March. 2014), an event organized by the INSS, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpeeOdETIkQ&feature=youtu.be