Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar; Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco
Moria Paz is a Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar. 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 on-the-ground operation of human rights law and international law, and their intersection with national law. Her goal is to further understand and to develop a functional way to protect the interests of individuals and minority groups, using extraterritorial laws. 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. In addition to this, Professor Paz has already published two books: The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century (co-edited with James Loeffler), which was nominated for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award and the 2019 Just Security Holiday Reading List; and The Failed Promise of Language Rights. Professor Paz has also published multiple articles and has received many recognitions, including the Sakip Sabanci International Research Essay Award; Winner of the Law and Humanities Interdisciplinary Writing Competition; the Laylin Prize for Best Paper in International Law; and the New Voices selections by both the European Journal of International Law and the American Society of International Law.
