"Legal Barriers to Justice for Palestinians"

Please register by February 25 for a lunch talk with attorney Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man, an expert in International Humanitarian Law with two decades of experience as a litigator defending Palestinian human rights. From 2006-2017, she served as staff attorney and then managing attorney at the leading Israeli human rights firm, the Michael Sfard Law Office. There, she argued landmark cases before the Israeli Supreme Court challenging Israeli policies and practices in the West Bank and Gaza, and she served as legal counsel to Israeli, Palestinian, and international NGOs including Yesh Din, Breaking the Silence, Who Profits, Al-Haq, and Human Rights Watch. In late 2017 she founded Global Echo Litigation Center, the first organization dedicated to bringing strategic litigation against corporations complicit in systematic human rights abuses against Palestinians under Israeli occupation. An adjunct professor of legal studies at American University, she is regularly asked to lecture and comment on the application of international law to the situation in Palestine in academia and the media, and she has been called as an expert before the UN Committee on Palestine and the UN Security Council.

Emily holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a B.A. with Distinction in Political Science from Goucher College.

Location: Grainger Hall, Nicholas School of the Environment, 5th floor Boardroom
Please register by clicking on the "More Event Information". Deadline to RSVP February 25.