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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Theodor Meron is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences, arts and humanities, and business management. They have a strong focus on political science and international relations, with significant contributions also in history, strategy and management, law, and sociology and political science.

Their recent scholarly output includes a 2023 paper titled The Bystander, the Good Samaritan and the Just in the Holocaust and international humanitarian law, published in the International Review of the Red Cross.

Meron's research topics include:

  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • European and International Law Studies
  • Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
  • International Arbitration and Investment Law
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

Their publication venues show a concentration in the International Review of the Red Cross, reflecting engagement with legal and humanitarian issues.

Regarding book publications, Meron authored Standing Up for Justice, published by Oxford University Press in 2021. This contribution aligns with their research interests in law and justice.

Meron received recognition as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The Humanization of Humanitarian Law

    Theodor Meron

  • International Criminalization of Internal Atrocities

    Theodor Meron

  • Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law

    Theodor Meron

  • On a Hierarchy of International Human Rights

    Theodor Meron

  • Rape as a crime under international humanitarian law

    Theodor Meron

  • The Martens Clause, Principles of Humanity, and Dictates of Public Conscience

    Theodor Meron

  • War crimes law comes of age : essays

    Theodor Meron

  • The Humanization of International Law

    Theodor Meron

  • On the Inadequate Reach of Humanitarian and Human Rights Law and the Need for a New Instrument

    Theodor Meron

  • The Geneva Conventions as Customary Law

    Theodor Meron

  • The Continuing Role of Custom in the Formation of International Humanitarian Law

    Theodor Meron

  • War crimes in Yugoslavia and the development of international law

    Theodor Meron

  • Is International Law Moving towards Criminalization

    Theodor Meron

  • Human Rights Law-Making in the United Nations

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  • Classification of Armed Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia: Nicaragua ’s Fallout

    Theodor Meron

  • War Crimes Law Comes of Age

    Theodor Meron

  • EDITORIAL COMMENT: REVIVAL OF CUSTOMARY HUMANITARIAN LAW

    Theodor Meron

  • Extraterritoriality of Human Rights Treaties

    Theodor Meron

  • A Declaration of Minimum Humanitarian Standards

    Theodor Meron;Allan Rosas

  • Human Rights in Internal Strife: Their International Protection

    Theodor Meron

  • Combating Lawlessness in Gray Zone Conflicts Through Minimum Humanitarian Standards

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  • The Meaning and Reach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

    Theodor Meron

  • The Case for War Crimes Trials in Yugoslavia

    Theodor Meron

  • Henry's Wars and Shakespeare's Laws: Perspectives on the Law of War in the Later Middle Ages

    Theodor Meron

  • So-Called ‘Unprivileged Belligerency’: Spies, Guerrillas, and Saboteurs*

    Detlev F. Vagts;Theodor Meron

  • Henry's Wars and Shakespeare's Laws: Perspectives on the Law of War in the later Middle Ages.

    John S. Nolan;Theodor Meron

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