Yaniv Roznai

Email: y.roznai@lse.ac.uk

Thesis Title: ' "Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments" - A Theoretical and Comparative Study of the Constitutional Amendment Power and its Limits' [title tbc]

Supervisors: Professor Martin Loughlin and Dr Thomas Poole

Research Interests: Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitutional Theory; International and Constitutional Protection of Human Rights; International Law of Armed Conflicts.

Recent Publications

'An Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment - The Turkish Perspective: A Comment on the Turkish Constitutional Court’s Headscarf Decision No. 2008/16; 2008/116 of June 5, 2008' Int'l J. Const. L. (I-Con) (forthcoming, 2011) (co-authored with Serkan Yolcu).

'Human Shields in Modern Armed Conflicts: The Need for a Proportionate Proportionality' 22(1) Stanford Law and Policy Review (S.L.P.R) (forthcoming, 2011) (co-authored with Amnon Rubinstein).

'Let the Caroline Sink! Assessing the Legality of a Possible Israeli Attack on Iranian Nuclear Facilities and Why the Traditional Self-Defense Formula Is Incompatible with the Nuclear Age', 18(2) Cal. J. Int'l L. 18-34 (2010)

'Who Needs Human Security?' Siach Mishpat (Legal Debate) (2010) (14 pages, in Hebrew)

'Retroactivity – Not Only a Matter of Time! Thoughts on Analyzing Retroactive Legislation Following Genis' 9 Law & Business 395-458 (2008) (in Hebrew)

'Freedom of Religion': a 113 pages Research and Position paper, commissioned by the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) (co-authored, in Hebrew, 2005)

'The Right to Life': a 84 pages Research and Position paper, commissioned by the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) (co-authored, in Hebrew, 2005).

Recent Conference Papers

'Human Shields in Modern Armed Conflicts: The Need for a Proportionate Proportionality' Stanford Law & Policy Defense Policy Symposium (Stanford University, 22 January 2011).