Special Speaker:
Daniel Taub
Principal Deputy Legal Adviser of
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Co-sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League

“Law and Lawfare: The Role of International
Law in the Middle East”
Bannan 135
Thursday, February 11, 2010
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Provided

About Daniel Taub:
Daniel Taub is Principal Deputy Legal Adviser of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His main areas of responsibility include counterterrorism, international organizations and humanitarian law. He has served as a member of Israel's negotiating teams with both Syria and the Palestinians, and currently serves as head of the Israeli side of the Israeli-Palestinian Culture of Peace negotiations.

Mr. Taub has represented Israel at many multilateral fora, including the hearings over Israel's security fence at the International Court of Justice and the negotiations for the entry of Magen David Adom into the Red Cross Movement, and has served as legal adviser to Israel's Mission to the United Nations. He regularly acts as spokesperson for the Israeli Government, and has been featured on numerous American news
programs.

He has taught extensively in the fields of international law, negotiation theory and Middle Eastern issues at universities and policy institutes in Israel and abroad.

Mr. Taub holds degrees from the universities of Oxford (University College), London (University College) and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (Wexner Fellow).

He served in the IDF as a combat medic, and is a reserve officer in the IDF's international law division.

Mr. Taub lives in Jerusalem with his wife Zehava and their six children. He is in the United States as part of the Anti-Defamation League’s Eugene Warner Middle East Lecture Series.