Authored by Director, Professor Eugene Kontorovich

Select Academic Articles & Book Chapters

• Jus Post Bellum of Illegally Implanted Settler Populations, in The Justice of Peace and Jus Post Bellum, Carsten Stahn et al. (eds.) (Oxford University Press) (forthcoming, 2020)
• Refugees and Return in Prolonged Occupations, 51 Israel Law Review 63-70 (2018) (conference proceedings)
• Unsettled: A Global Study of Settlements in Occupied Territory, 9 Journal of Legal Analysis 285-350 (2017) [peer reviewed]
• Palestine, Uti Possidetis Juris and the Borders of Israel, 58 Arizona Law Review 633-92 (2016) (with Abraham Bell)
• Economic Dealings With Occupied Territories, 53 Columbia Journal Transnational Law 584 (2015)
• Resolution 242 Revisited: New Evidence on the Required Scope of Israeli Withdrawal, 16 Chicago Journal of International Law 127 (2015)
• When Gravity Fails: Israeli Settlements and Admissibility in the International Criminal Court, 47 Israel Law Review 379-99 (2014) [peer reviewed]
• Israel/Palestine – The ICC’s Uncharted “Territory,” 11 Journal of International Criminal Justice 979-99 (2013) [peer-reviewed]
• The Constitutionality of International Courts: The Forgotten Precedent of Slave Trade Tribunals, 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 39 (2009)
• Originalism and the Difficulties of History in Foreign Affairs, 53 St. Louis University Law Journal 39-52 (2008)
• Inefficient Customs in International Law, 48 William & Mary Law Review 859-922 (2006)
• Disrespecting the “Opinions of Mankind”: International Law in Constitutional Interpretation, 8 Green Bag 2d 261 (2005)
• The Arab League Boycott and WTO Accession: Can Foreign Policy Excuse Discriminatory Sanctions? 4 Chicago Journal of International Law 283 (2003)

Select Reviews, White Papers et al.

• Palestinian Membership in UN Agencies: Mandatory Defunding Under U.S. Law, Kohelet Policy Forum Paper #39 (July 2018)
• Avi Bell & Eugene Kontorovich, Challenging the EU’s Illegal Restrictions on Israeli Products in the World Trade Organization  Kohelet Forum Policy Paper #18 (Oct. 2015)
• EU’s Grant Guidelines: A Legal and Policy Analysis, Kohelet Policy Forum Research Paper (with Avi Bell) (Oct. 2013)
• War Powers, Policy Review 77 (April 2006) (review of John Yoo, The Powers of War and Peace)

Select Essays and Op-Eds

• A Selective Opponent of ‘Settlers’, Wall Street Journal (Jan. 14, 2020)
• Why President Trump is keeping the promise made at San Remo in 1920, Jerusalem Post Magazine 15 (Jan. 3, 2020)
• Pompeo Busts the ‘Occupation’ Myth, Wall Street Journal A19 (Nov. 30, 2019)
• The Many Incoherences and Hypocrisies of International Law on Jerusalem, Mosaic Magazine (July 15, 2019)
• Take the Palestinians’ ‘No’ for an Answer, Wall Street Journal A19 (June 24, 2019)
• The Trump Effect Saves U.S. Soldiers From Runaway Prosecutions, Wall Street Journal A15 (April 19, 2019)
• For the ACLU, Antipathy to Israel Trumps Antidiscrimination, Wall Street Journal A17 (Feb. 12, 2019)
• Airbnb’s Israel Hypocrisy, Wall Street Journal A17 (Nov. 26, 2018)
• Why All the Outrage Over Israel’s Nation-State Law, Mosaic Magazine (Oct. 8, 2018) (with Moshe Koppel)
• Get Over It – Israel is the Jewish State, Wall Street Journal A17 (July 20, 2018)
• Stop Funding UN Agencies that Welcome the PLO, New York Post 25 (July 20, 2018)
• America Recognizes One Jerusalem, Wall Street Journal A17 (May 14, 2018)
• Anti-Israel Activists Subvert a Scholarly Group, Wall Street Journal A17 (with Jesse Fried) Dec. 4, 2017)
• Russia Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital. Why Can’t the U.S.?, Wall Street Journal (May 14, 2017)
• At the U.N., Only Israel Is an ‘Occupying Power’, The Wall Street Journal A15 (with Penny Grunseid) (Sept. 14, 2016)
• Boycotting Israel Isn’t Free Speech, New York Daily News (June 11, 2016)
• Those Israel Boycotts Are Illegal, The Wall Street Journal (with Steve Davidoff Solomon) (Dec. 2, 2015)
• Europe Mislabels Israel, New York Times A35 (Nov. 13, 2015)
• Can States Fund BDS?: Is banning the use of public money to support companies that boycott Israel unconstitutional and illegal?, Tablet Magazine (July 13, 2015)
• A Tale of Two Green Lines, Chronicle of Higher Education (Nov. 17, 2014)
• Sweden’s Unprincipled Stance on Recognition, Jerusalem Post (Oct. 12, 2014) [also appeared in Swedish version, in Dagen]
• New EU/Morocco fisheries deal and its implications for Israel, Jerusalem Post 16 (Dec. 10, 2013)
• The EU is right about Western Sahara — which means it is wrong about Israel, Global Post (Nov. 21, 2013)
• Africa’s Undermining of the International Criminal Court, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online (Oct. 29, 2013)
• How the EU Directly Funds Settlements in Occupied Territory, Jerusalem Post 13 (Sept. 29, 2013)
• UN vote: From ‘occupation’ to border dispute, Jerusalem Post  (Dec. 10, 2012)
• Does the new anti-boycott law harm free speech?, Jerusalem Post 15 (April 12, 2011)
• Is Gaza Still Occupied?, Jerusalem Post (with Paula Kweskin) (July 17, 2011)
• The New Arab Tactic against Israel, National Review Online (May 18, 2011)
• ‘Impending diplomatic tsunami’ is greatly exaggerated, Jerusalem Post (April 12, 2011)
• Reform strategy for Saudi Arabia, Washington Times B3 (August 1, 2004)
• Severe and prolonged harm: Defining torture in international and U.S. law, Washington Times A21 (June 25, 2004).
• Is this a good time to ask for Pollard’s release, Jerusalem Post B11 (Aug. 1, 2003).
• Riyadh’s WTO Outrage, New York Post 31 (December 26, 2002)
• The ICC – Open and Shut, Jerusalem Post B8 (May 10, 2002).