Prof Gabriella Blum
Prof Gabriella Blum
Gabriella Blum is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and the Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
She specializes in public international law, the law of armed conflict, international negotiations, new technologies, the intersection between Public International Law and Private Law, as well as counterterrorism. She is also the Faculty Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict and a member of the Program on Negotiation Executive Board.
Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in the fall of 2005, Blum served for seven years as a Senior Legal Advisor in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General’s Corps in the Israel Defense Forces, and for another year as a Strategy Advisor to Israel’s National Security Council.
Blum is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University (LL.B. (’95), B.A. (Economics) (’97)) and of Harvard Law School (LL.M. (’01) and SJD (’03)).
She is the author of The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones – Confronting a New Age of Threat (Basic Books, 2015) (co-authored with Benjamin Wittes and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize), Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists (MIT Press, 2010) (co-authored with Philip Heymann and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize), and Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries, (Harvard University Press, 2007), as well as journal articles in the fields of public international law, international negotiations, and the law and morality of war.
She was awarded the Carnegie Fellowship to work on a book manuscript entitled “The Fog of Victory”.
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