~ Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law Paula Goldberg Research Fund in International Law International Legal Colloquium on TERRORISM AS AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME PROGRAM Tuesday - Thursday, 20 - 22 DECEMBER 1988 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY CAMPUS -2- Tuesday, 20 December 1988. 09:15 - 13:00 - MORNING SESSION 1. Introductory Presentation •••••••••••••••• Professor Yoram Dinstein A. THE LEGAL ELEMENTS OF TERRORISM 2. Defining International Terrorism: A Way Out of the Quagmire ••••••••••••••••••••• Professor John F. Murphy 3. Notes on Definitional Problems of Terrorism •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Professor Krzysztof Skubiszewski DISCUSSION 13:00 - 14:15 - Lunch 14:15 - 18:00 - AFTERNOON SESSION B. QUESTIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPLICITY 4. State Responsibility for Participation and Complicity in the Commission of International Terrorism Professor Sompong Sucharitkul 5. The Imputability to States of Acts of International Terrorism Professor Luigi Condorelli 6. Vicarious Liability of Governments for Acts of Terrorism • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• Professor Thomas M. Franck DISCUSSION -J-') Wednesday, 21 December 1988 09:15 - 13:00 - MORNING SESSION C. SANCTIONS AGAINST TERRORISM 7. Terrorism and the Use of Armed Force Professor Oscar Schachter 8. Is a State's Inability to Control Its Territory a Valid Excuse? •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Professor Yehuda Z. Blum 9. Sanctions and Counter-Measures Short of Use of Force against States and Terrorists ••••••••• Professor Natan Lerner DISCUSSION 13:00 - 14:15 - Lunch 14:15 - 18:00 - AFTERNOON SESSION D. TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS 10. When Do Terrorist Acts Violate Human Rights? ........................................... Professor Theodor Meron 11. Terrorists and the Protection of Human Rights ......................................... .. Professor Goran Melander 12. Torture and Terrorism: Its Uses and Abuses •• Professor Leon Sheleff DISCUSSION -4- Thursday, 22 December 1988 09:15 - 13:00 - MORNING SESSION E. TERRORISM AND METHODS OF RENDITION: EXTRADITION, DEPORTATION AND EXCLUSION 13. Rendition of Terrorists: Extradition v. Deportation ........................................... Professor Torsten Stein 14. The political Offence Exception and Other Legal Obstacles to the Extradition of Terrorists ••••• Professor Christine Van den Wyngaert DISCUSSION F. SELECTED MANIFESTATIONS OF TERRORISM 15. Terrorist Acts on Board and against Ships ....................................... Professor Malvina Halberstam 13:00 - 14:15 - Lunch 14:15 - 18:00 - AFTERNOON SESSION 16. The Search and Seizure of Civilian Modes of Transportation in the Fight against Terrorism •••••••••••••••••••••••• Dr. Barry Feinstein DISCUSSION G. TERRORISM AND ARMED CONFLICT 17. Terrorism and Humanitarian Law: The Debate over Protocol I ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Dean Christopher J. Greenwood 18. Terrorism and Armed Conflict: The Claim and the Verdict ........................................ Professor Leslie C. Green DISCUSSION CONCLUSION NOTE: Owing to conflicting engagements, the order of some presentations may be transposed. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS INTERNATIONAL LEGAL COLLOQUIUM ON .... TERRORISM AS AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME TUESDAY - THURSDAY, 20 - 22 DECEMBER 1988 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY CAMPUS Nissim Bar-Yaacov Professor of Department of Interna- International Relations tional Relations, Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel Anne Bayefsky Associate Professor of Common Law Section International and " University of Ottawa Constitutional Law Ontario Canada Yehuda Z. Blum Professor of Faculty of_Law International Law Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel Baruch Bracha Professor of Faculty of Law Constitutional Law Tel Aviv Univ~rsity Israel Luigi Condorelli Professor of Interna- Dept. de Droit International tional Law and Interna- Univ. de Gen~ve tional Humanitarian Law 1211 Geneva 4 CH Switzerland Yoram Dinstein Professor of Faculty of Law International Law Tel Aviv University Israel - 2 - Barry A. Feinstein Adjunct Lecturer Faculty of Law International Law Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel Thomas M. Franck Professor of Law School of Law New York University 40 Washington Square South New York, N.Y. 10012, U.S.A. Meir Gabay Head, Civil Service Civil Service Authority Jerusalem I~rael Leslie C. Green University Professor University of Alberta, of Law ... Edmonton, Alta T6G2H4, Canada Christopher Greenwood Fellow and Director of Magdalene College, Studies in Law Cambridge CB3 OAG Magdalene College U.K. Cambridge. Lecturer Faculty of Law University of Cambridge Malvina Halberstam Professor of Law Cardozo School of Law 55 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. 10003 U. S. A. David Kornbluth Head of Dept of Law Legal Division of the Sea Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jerusalem Israel Eli Lederman Senior Lecturer Faculty of Law Criminal Law Tel Avii.University Tel Aviv' Israel - 3 - Ruth Lapidoth Professor of Interna- Faculty of Law tional Law Hebrew University Jerusalem Natan Lerner Visiting Assoclate Faculty of Law Professor of Interna- Tel Aviv University tional Law Tel Aviv Israel· Kenneth Mann Senior Lecturer Faculty of" Law Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel Theodor Meron Professor' of Law School o·f Law New York University 40 Washiifon Square South New York, N.Y. 10012 U.S.A. John Murphy" Professor of Law School of Law Villanuva University Villanova, PA 19085 U.S.A. Eli Nathan Judge 128 Harav Ouziel St. Jerusalem District Jerusalem Court (Retired) Israel Shabtai Rosenne Ambassador of Israel P.O. Box 3313 (Retired) Jerusalem 91033 Israel Benny Rubin Senior Assistant to Ministry of Justice the Attorney General Jerusalem Israel Robbie Sabel Legal Adviser Legal Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jerusalem Israel'· - 4 - Oscar Schachter Professor Emeritus Law School of International Law Columbia University and Diplomacy New York, N.Y. 10027 U.S.A. Amos Shapira Professor of Consti- Faculty of Law ~ tutional Law Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel Nitza Shapiro-Libai Lecturer Tel Aviv University Israel Leon Sheleff Associate Professor Faculty oL Law of Criminology Tel Aviv--University I Tel Aviv Israel • Dov Shefi Acting Legal Adviser Ministry of Defence Tel Aviv Israel Krzysztof Skubiszewski Professor at the Ins- Slowianska 18, M. 41 titute of State Law 60-651 Poznan Polish Academy, Warsaw Poland Torsten Stein Professor and Senior Max planck Institute Fellow Berlinerstr.'48 D-6900 Heidelberg Federal Republic of Germany Sompong Sucharitkul Visiting Professor of School of _~w International Law and Lewis & Clark Business Northwestern University Portland, __ .. Oregon 97219 U.S.A. Mala Tabory Associate Editor, Faculty of Law Israel Yearbook on Tel Aviv Dniversity Human Rights Tel Aviv Israel - 5 - Harris Weinstein Partner Covington & Burling Box 7566, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. 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