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Noah Weisbord

Professeur agrégé

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Noah Weisbord

Biographie

Noah Weisbord est professeur agrégée à la Faculté de droit de L’Université McGill. Ses recherches portent sur le rôle du droit pénal dans la gestion, le reflet ou l'exacerbation des conflits intergroupes. Un de ses projets actuels examine la légitime défense dans le droit pénal canadien d'un point de vue historique, comparatif et conceptuel. Un autre projet est une étude des doctrines de responsabilité de groupe, y compris la conspiration séditieuse, l'entreprise criminelle commune et la RICO, dans une perspective internationale et comparative. Noah est un expert de premier plan sur le crime d'agression, il a aidé des délégations diplomatiques à définir la responsabilité pénale individuelle en cas de guerre agressive.

Les articles scientifiques de Noah ont été publiés dans le McGill Law Journal, le Queen's Law Journal, le Harvard International Law Journal, le Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, le Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, Law and Contemporary Problems et d'autres publications. Les opinions et les commentaires éditoriaux de Noah ont été publiés dans le New York Times, l'International Herald Tribune, le Globe and Mail et le National Post. Sa monographie sur le crime d'agression a été publiée par Princeton University Press en 2019.

Parcours professionnel

  • Associate Professor, McGill University, Faculty of Law, 2023- 

  • Associate Professor, Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, 2018-2023 

  • Visiting Professor, Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, 2017-2018 

  • Associate Professor, Florida International University College of Law, 2013-2017 

  • Assistant Professor, Florida International University College of Law, 2010-2013 

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke Law School, 2008-2010 

  • Teaching Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2005-2006 

Éducation 

  • Doctorate in Juridical Science (S.J.D.), Harvard Law School, 2004-2011 

  • Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program, Harvard Law School, 2003-2004 

  • Master of Social Work (M.S.W.), McGill University, 1999-2003 

  • Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.), McGill University, 1999-2003 

  • Bachelor of Common Law (LL.B.), McGill University, 1999-2003 

  • Bachelor of Social Work (B.S.W.), McGill University, 1997-1998 

  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. in Psychology), McGill University, 1994-1997 

Champs d'intérêt

  • Criminal law 

  • Evidence 

  • International Criminal Law 

  • Comparative Criminal Law 

  • Public International Law 

  • Law and War 

Recent Professional Accomplishments

  • Winner of The David Watson Memorial Award for “Licence to Khill: What Appellate Decisions Reveal About Canada’s New Self-Defence Law,” presented annually for the paper published in the Queen’s Law Journal judged to make the most significant contribution to legal scholarship 

  • “Who’s Afraid of the Lucky Moose? Canada’s Dangerous Self-Defence Innovation,” cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in R v Khill (2021) 

  • Co-Chair of the Anti-Racism Working Group at Queen’s University, 2020-2021. 

  • Member of the Council of Advisers on the Application of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to Cyberwarfare, 2019-Present 

  • Publication of The Crime of Aggression: the Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents and Autocrats (Princeton University Press, 2019) 

  • Keynote Lecture, 2017 Annual McGill Law Graduate Conference, “Self-Defense in Climates of Fear.” 

  • Invited expert participating in the activation of International Criminal Court jurisdiction over the crime of aggression alongside genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, United Nations Headquarters, 2017 

Publications récentes 

Books (Monograph) 

  • Noah Weisbord, The Crime of Aggression: the Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents and Autocrats (Princeton University Press, 2019) 

Articles 

  • Noah Weisbord, “Diplomatic Practices: Activating the Crime of Aggression,” 40 American University International Law Review (Forthcoming 2025).

  • Noah Weisbord, “Benjamin Ferencz in the Cold War,” 8(3) Cardozo International and Comparative Law Review (Forthcoming 2025).

  • Noah Weisbord, “Licence to Khill: What Appellate Decisions Reveal About Canada’s New Self-Defence Law,” 46(1) Queen’s Law Journal 97 (2020) 

  • Noah Weisbord, “Who’s Afraid of the Lucky Moose? Canada’s Dangerous Self-Defence Innovation,” 64(2) McGill Law Journal 349 (2018) (published summer 2020). 

  • Noah Weisbord, “A Practitioner’s Bildungsroman: Book Review of Payam Akhavan’s In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey,” Journal of Human Rights Practice (July 2019) 

  • Noah Weisbord, “Bargaining Practices: Negotiating the Kampala Compromise,” 76 (3) Law & Contemporary Problems, 85 (Winter 2014) 

  • Noah Weisbord, “Judging Aggression,” 50(1) Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 82 (Winter 2012) 

  • Noah Weisbord & Matthew Smith, “The Reason Behind the Rules: From Description to Normativity in International Criminal Procedure,” 36 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 255 (Winter 2011) 

  • Noah Weisbord, “The 1990s and the Use of Force: Anxiety, Realignment and New Justifications,” 22 (1) Global Change, Peace & Security 129 (February 2010) 

  • Noah Weisbord, “Conceptualizing Aggression,” 20(1) Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 1 (Fall 2009) 

  • Noah Weisbord, “Prosecuting Aggression,” 49 Harvard International Law Journal 168 (Winter 2008) 

Chapitres 

  • Noah Weisbord, “Civil Society,” in The Crime of Aggression: A Commentary, Claus Kreß and Stefan Barriga, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 

  • Noah Weisbord and Carla Reyes, “War Crimes,” in International Crime and Justice, Mangai Natarajan, ed. 321 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) 

Opinion and Editorial 

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