Oren Gross

2012-2013 Academic Year

Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems

Research Interests

• Use of Force and the Laws of War
• Technology and War
• International Law
• National Security Law
• International Business Transactions
• Roman Law
• International Trade Law

Appointments

• Irving Younger Professor of Law and Director, Institute for International Legal & Security Studies, University of Minnesota Law School
• Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems, 2012

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Gross will teach a section of Contracts in the Fall 2012 term. He will also teach the course International Business Transactions, as well as the course International Law in the Spring 2013 term.

Biographical Statement

Professor Oren Gross (LL.M. '92; SJD '97) is the Irving Younger Professor of Law and the Director of the Institute for International Legal & Security Studies at the University of Minnesota Law School. He is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of international law and national security law. He is also an expert on the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Professor Gross holds an LL.B. degree (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University, where he served on the editorial board of the Tel Aviv University Law Review. He obtained LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School while a Fulbright Scholar. Professor Gross was a member of the faculty of the Tel Aviv University Law School in Israel from 1996 to 2002. He has also taught and held visiting positions at Princeton University; the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; the Max Planck Institute for International Law and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg, Germany; the Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast (while a British Academy visiting professor); Queen's University in Belfast; the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Brandeis University. He has received numerous academic awards and scholarships, including a Fulbright scholarship and British Academy and British Council awards. Between 1986 and 1991, Professor Gross served as a senior legal advisory officer in the international law branch of the Israeli Defense Forces' Judge Advocate General's Corps. In 1998, he served as a legal adviser to an Israeli delegation that negotiated an agreement with the Palestinian Authority's senior officials concerning the economic component of a permanent status agreement between Israel and Palestine. Professor Gross's work has been published extensively. His articles appeared in leading academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Yale Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law, Minnesota Law Review, and Cardozo Law Review. His book, Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice, co-authored with Professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 and was awarded the prestigious Certificate of Merit for Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship by the American Society of International Law in 2007. Professor Gross joined the University of Minnesota in 2002 and was appointed the Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar in 2003 and the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law in 2004. He was appointed as the Irving Younger Professor of Law in 2005. Professor Gross practiced law at Sullivan and Cromwell (New York) and is a member of both the New York and Israeli bars. In 2008 he was elected as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI).

Representative Publications

• Gross, Oren. "Security vs. Liberty: on Emotions and Cognition" in The Long Decade: How 9/11 Has Changed the Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012).
  
• Gross, Oren. Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press 2006).
  
• Gross, Oren. "Chaos and Rules: Should Responses to Violent Crises Always Be Constitutional?" 112 Yale Law Journal 1011 (2003).