David Kretzmer, LL.B, LL.M (Jerusalem), Dr. Jur. (York, Canada), Dr. Jur. h.c. (Potsdam), is Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of Law at the Academic Centre for Law and Business, Ramat Gan. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Tulane University, University of Southern California and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. From 2006-2009 he was Professor of Law at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster and in 2009/10 he was an Inaugural Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice of New York University School of Law.
Kretzmer was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights from 1995-2002, serving as vice-chairperson of the Committee in 2001 and 2002.
Kretzmer’s main fields of research are constitutional law, human rights and international humanitarian law. His books include The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories (SUNY Press, 2002); The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights Discourse (edited together with E. Klein) (Kluwer International, 2002) and The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel (2nd edition, 2002).
Kretzmer’s recent academic articles have appeared in leading law journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law and the European Constitutional Law Review. He is a contributing editor of the Jerusalem Report and occasionally publishes articles in Israel’s leading daily, Ha’aretz. Alongside his academic work Kretzmer has been involved in NGO work. He has served as chairperson of the board of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel and as joint-chairperson of the board of B’Tselem, Centre for Information on Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Since 2002 he has been a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.