Michal Saliternik
About/Bio
Dr. Michal Saliternik is an international law professor at the Netanya Academic College School of Law. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law. She earned her LL.B. and Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University and was a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University. Her research interests include international law and conflict resolution, legal and political theory, and political participation and representation. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Hastings Law Journal, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, among others.
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EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 32: No Country for Women – Lawyering for Gender Justice in Afghanistan
Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban has sought to reverse Afghan women’s hard-won progress toward gender equality. Through dozens of decrees, policies, and statements, it has targeted the autonomy and rights of women and girls, barring them from public life and severely restricting their basic freedoms. Yet, Afghan women have refused to accept their political, social,…
EJIL:The Podcast! Episode 15 – Now or Never, Or Maybe Later: The Use of Force to Recover an Occupied Territory
March 24, 2022
Michal Saliternik
This episode accompanies the launching of a new rubric in the European Journal of International Law – Legal/Illegal. The first installment of Legal/Illegal, which appears in issue 32(4), focuses on the question whether the use of force by a state to recover a territory that has been occupied for many years may be considered a lawful act of self-defence.
In This Issue
The last issue of 2021 opens with an article by Fuad Zarbiyev, who undertakes a critical examination of the privileged status that the judicial representation of international law enjoys in mainstream international legal discourse. Zarbiyev argues that this status is neither obvious nor unobjectionable, and points to its main ramifications. In the next article, Katie Johnston explains how…
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Popular articles by Michal Saliternik
Editorial: The Legality of the Israeli Annexation – Redux
Once the American Administration recanted its long standing position as regards Israeli settlements, one could expect, as day follows night, that a shift on annexation would also follow, much to the delight of the Israeli government. It played well to the internal political agenda of both governments. In the case of settlements the State Department at least…
EJIL:The Podcast! Episode 15 – Now or Never, Or Maybe Later: The Use of Force to Recover an Occupied Territory
March 24, 2022
Michal Saliternik
This episode accompanies the launching of a new rubric in the European Journal of International Law – Legal/Illegal. The first installment of Legal/Illegal, which appears in issue 32(4), focuses on the question whether the use of force by a state to recover a territory that has been occupied for many years may be considered a lawful act of self-defence.
Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis and the Need for a Regional Response to Statelessness in Southeast Asia
October 30, 2017
Michal Saliternik
Over the past two months, about half a million Rohingya people have fled from Myanmar (Burma) to neighboring Bangladesh. The immediate trigger for this mass exodus was a crackdown by Myanmar’s security forces against Rohingya insurgents and civilians, which reportedly included widespread torture, rape, and killing. However, the roots of this conflict lie far in the past.