Fellow in International Law, Stanford Law School
mpaz@law.stanford.edu
Moria Paz critically investigates the place of minorities, migrants, and refugees within legal orders (international and national) that are fundamentally rooted in state sovereignty. Her scholarship undertakes an inquiry into the actual, on-the-ground operation of human rights law and international law (and their intersection with national law), aiming to develop a functional understanding of the limits and possibilities of using extraterritorial law to protect the interests of individuals and minority groups. She is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled Network or State? The Alliance Israélite Universelle, International Law, and the History of Jewish Self-Determination. Paz has previously published two books: The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century which was nominated for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award and 2019 Just Security Holiday Reading List, and The Failed Promise of Language Rights which addresses different national and international models for the protection of minority language rights.She is the recipient of the Laylin Prize for Best Paper in International Law. Paz is a Visiting fellow at Stanford Law School. She previously served as a Fellow at the Center on National Security and the Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, as a Law and International Security Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and as a Visiting Researcher at TRAFFLAB: Labor Perspectives to Human Trafficking in Tel Aviv University.
