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SHIRI KREBS Stanford Law School ● 559 Nathan Abbot Way ● Stanford, CA 94305 650.725.2702 (W) ● Shirik@Stanford.Edu SHIRI KREBS Stanford Law School ● 559 Nathan Abbot Way ● Stanford, CA 94305 650.725.2702 (w) ● [email protected] ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Stanford University, Center on International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) Law and International Security Pre-doctoral Fellow (2012-2017) . Teaching and Program Assistant, Stanford Interdisciplinary Honors Program in International Security Studies (2013-2016): Taught methods seminars for selective undergraduate academic program; advised students on both methods and substance of their honors theses; graded student theses; evaluated student applications for the program; served on the program’s awards committee; and guided students through a 2-week Honors College in Washington, D.C., where we met with senior government officials (including the Secretary of Defense) . Member, Stanford Working Group on Refugee Protection (2013-2014) Santa Clara University School of Law Teaching Fellow (2012-2013) . Courses taught (sole instructor): International Humanitarian Law (40 students); and International Criminal Law (10 students); students’ evaluations available upon request . Supervised and instructed graduate students with their independent research projects . Participated in faculty workshops Stanford Law School Lead Teaching Assistant in Negotiation for Prof. Janet Martinez, Director of the Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program (2011-2012) . Tutored students in various negotiation techniques; composed negotiation exercises and graded students’ performance, including written, oral and video assignments . Led multiparty negotiation simulations on various topics Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law Teaching Assistant in Public International Law for Prof. Yuval Shany (2004-2009) . Lectured weekly to over 40 law students . Composed and graded exams . Best Teacher Award, by students’ vote (2008) EDUCATION: Stanford Law School Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) Candidate (degree expected: June 2017) . Dissertation: Just Facts: the Legalization of Truth in International Fact-Finding . Committee: Jenny Martinez (Law), Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Law), Robert MacCoun (Law), Michael Tomz (Political Science), Lee Ross (Psychology) . Member, Stanford Laboratory for American Values (2013-2014) . Research Assistant to Prof. Jenny Martinez (2012-2014) Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M), Program in International Legal Studies (2011) . Thesis: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Judicial Review of Administrative Detentions in the Israeli Supreme Court . Fellow, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (2010-2011) Shiri Krebs Hebrew University of Jerusalem M. A. in International Relations, cum laude (2007) . Teaching Assistant, Public International Law . Research Assistant to Profs. Yuval Shany, Tomer Brodie, Guy Harpaz, Ruth Lapidot (2005- 2007) LL.B. (Law) and B.A. in International Relations, Interdisciplinary Honors Program, cum laude (2005) . Research Assistant to Prof. David Kretzmer (2004-2005), assisted drafting “Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-Judicial Executions or Legitimate Means of Defence?” 16(2) EUR. J. INT’L L. 171 (2005) . Student Attorney, Human Trafficking Clinic: provided legal aid to immigration detainees and to victims of human trafficking. PUBLICATIONS Law Review Articles . The Legalization of Truth in International Fact-Finding (job market paper) . Reducing Uncertainty in Targeted Killing Decision-Making: Protecting Civilians from Both Terrorism and Counterterrorism, 44 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2017, forthcoming) . The Dark Side of Legal Truth, 110 AM. SOC’Y INT’L L. PROC. (2016, forthcoming) . Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Judicial Review of Administrative Detentions in the Israeli Supreme Court, 45 VAND. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 639 (2012) Book Chapters . Intelligence as Evidence, in SECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (Benjamin Goold & Liora Lazarus eds., 2017, forthcoming) . Israel: ‘Law as the Continuation of War by Other Means,’ in COMPARATIVE COUNTER- TERRORISM LAW: THE STATE OF THE ART 511 (Kent Roach ed., 2015) . The Secret Keepers: Judges, Security Detentions, and Secret Evidence, in REASONING RIGHTS: COMPARATIVE JUDICIAL ENGAGEMENT 197 (Liora Lazarus, Christopher McCrudden & Nigel Bowles eds., 2014) . National Security, Secret Evidence and Preventive Detentions: The Israeli Supreme Court as a Case Study, in SECRECY, NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE VINDICATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 133 (David D. Cole, Federico Fabbrini & Arianna Vedaschi eds., 2013) Other Publications . Security, Secrecy and Accountability of Targeted Killing Operations, 9E ISRAEL DEMOCRACY INST. POL’Y PAPERS (2015) . From Illiberal Legislation to Intolerant Democracy, 26 ISRAEL STUD. REV. 4 (2011) (with Mordechai Kremnitzer) . Law and Empathy, 65 PARLIAMENT (2010) [in Hebrew] Selected Op-Eds . Blind Eye in the Sky, INTLAWGRRLS BLOG, April 18, 2016, available at: https://ilg2.org/2016/04/18/blind-eye-in-the-sky/ . Adding Force-Feeding to Injury, HUFFINGTON POST, August 5, 2015, available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shiri-krebs/adding-forcefeeding-to-in_b_7936682.html Page 2 of 5 Shiri Krebs TEACHING INTERESTS Primary: Evidence, Criminal Law, National Security Law, Public International Law, Human Rights, Counterterrorism, Law and Social Science, Research Methods for Empirical Legal Studies Secondary: Criminal Procedure, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution, Cybersecurity, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Constitutional Law HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS International and National . Law and International Security Fellow, Stanford Center on International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) (2012-2017) . Selected to the ‘New Voices’ panel at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting (2016) . Invited speaker on Executive unilateralism in foreign affairs, ASIL Annual Meeting (2015) . E. David Fishman Dissertation Scholarship (2011-2015) . The Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (2013) . Teaching Scholar, Santa Clara Law School (2012-2013) . Moot Court Honors at international conference entitled “The International Criminal Court and the Advent of International Criminal Justice” with the late Justice Antonio Cassese presiding (2003) Stanford University . Christiana Shi Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow in International Studies (2013- 2016): Competitive university-wide fellowship, awarded to outstanding graduate students . Freeman Spogli Institute Research Grant (2015) . Franklin Award for Best Paper in the Field of International Law (2015) . Zuckerman Research Grant, CISAC (2014) . Levin Public Interest Summer Grant (2014, 2013, 2012) . Richard S. Goldsmith Award for Best Paper in the Field of Dispute Resolution, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (2012) . Steven M. Block Civil Liberties Award (2011) . Carl Mason Franklin Award in International Law (2011) Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Bentwich Scholarship Prize (2010) . Dean’s Award for Extraordinary Junior Faculty Members (2007) . Hebrew University full-tuition scholarship (2005-2007) . Berenzon Award for extraordinary research achievements and social contribution (2004) . Dean’s Honors (2002-2004) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Israel Democracy Institute Legal Scholar (2010-2013) . Led interdisciplinary research projects on counter-terrorism and human rights, including a policy paper on accountability for targeted killing operations and a comparative study on secret evidence in preventive detention cases. Published frequent op-eds on human rights violations in mainstream media (including Haaretz, Globes, The Jerusalem Post and Maariv) Page 3 of 5 Shiri Krebs Israeli Supreme Court, Chambers of Chief-Justice Dorit Beinisch Legal Advisor (2007-2010) . Conducted comparative research on legal topics relating to concrete Court cases, including the scope of the duty to investigate police violence, the felony murder rule, habeas corpus, land appropriation and restrictions on the freedom of movement in the West Bank . Composed questions on Evidence and Criminal Procedure for the Israeli Bar Exam . Edited Judgments of the Israeli Supreme Court: Fighting Terrorism within the Law (Jerusalem: The Supreme Court of Israel, 2009) . Supervised and instructed law clerks . Volunteered to teach youth from disadvantaged backgrounds an introduction to law class Law Clerk (2005-2006) State of Israel, Ministry of Justice, State Attorney’s Office Assistant to the Head of the Criminal Department (2003-2005) . Drafted pleadings of State’s appeals to the Supreme Court of Israel . Conducted legal research on criminal and constitutional law matters, including the state secrets privilege, extradition, and evidence admissibility . Made recommendations to the State Attorney in appeals on decisions to close investigations into police misconduct Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Intelligence Corps Lieutenant (rank at discharge) (1996-2000) SELECTED PRESENTATIONS The Legalization of Truth in International Fact-Finding . ‘New Voices’ panel at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 2016 (blind peer-review) . Harvard Experimental Political Science Conference, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2016 (peer-reviewed) . Law, Economics and Empirical Research Workshop, HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM, Jerusalem, Israel, December 2015 (invited guest lecture) . Northern California International Law Scholars Workshop, U.C. HASTINGS, San Francisco, California, September 2014 . OTTAWA LAW SCHOOL, Ottawa, Canada, April 2014 (invited guest lecture) . Stanford Center on International
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