The invite to the interview was prompted by the following quote from Ruvi posted in the Jewish News
‘‘The Israeli government states that it seeks to ‘reform’ Israel’s legal system. In reality, the legal changes it seeks to implement will significantly weaken constitutional review of human rights violations, leaving Israel’s already vulnerable minorities subject to the exercise of untrammelled power by its majority.” He said the changes would also “undermine the independence of the judiciary by altering a long-standing balanced Judicial Appointment Committee, handing over absolute power to the government of the day.” ”Given the severity of the threat to Israel’s democratic character, it is vital to speak out against these dangerous proposals.’’
Listen to Ruvi’s interview on Good Morning Scotland
The segment starts at 1h 45min in.
Dr Ruvi Ziegler joined a demonstration against the judicial ‘reforms’ in Oxford on March 12th.
In his inaugural lecture delivered on Wednesday 22nd February 2023, Professor Milanovic argued that coercion can be understood in two different ways or models. First, coercion as extortion, as a threat to engage or continue engaging in some activity (which itself may be lawful or unlawful) in order to extract some kind of concession from the victim state – in other words, an act targeting the victim state’s will or decision-making calculus. Second, coercion can be understood as the actual deprivation of the victim state’sability to make its sovereign choices, which may be done even through acts like cyber operations that the victim state may be unaware of. Professor Milanovic argued that many of the difficulties surrounding the notion of coercion arise as consequence of failing to distinguish between these two different models.
For nearly three years, Reading Law School has been working with the governments of Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Singapore, as well as Cyber Law International, to offer training for diplomats, military officers, legal advisers, and other government officials on the international law governing cyberspace. Initially, that training was provided online due to the COVID pandemic. In 2022, however, two Reading Law School professors have taken the program, which is certified as Executive Education by the School, on the road.
The training consists of four programs. The flagship course is the Executive Course, a broad survey of relevant law that ranges from general law subjects like sovereignty and intervention to specialized legal regimes such as diplomatic law and international humanitarian law. Directed by Professor Mike Schmitt, with Professor Marko Milanovic also serving as an instructor, the course was offered virtually for Southeast Asia in January, Africa in August, and the Middle East and Africa in September. In October, the team traveled to the Dominican Republic to conduct an in-person course for officials from members of the Organization of American States. The following month, the course was offered in Ghana for African officials. Finally, in December, the program closed with an in-person course in Singapore for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Reading Law School also certified two regional Alumni Seminars conducted by Professors Milanovic and Schmitt and a Cyber Law International instructor for previous graduates of the aforementioned courses. The first was conducted with the collaboration of the Organization of American States in the Dominican Republic, with the second in Singapore at that nation’s new Cyber Security Agency’s training facility.