New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Itamar Mann
Itamar Mann is a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law, where he teaches and does research in the areas of public international law, political theory, human rights, migration and refugee law, and environmental law. Since the summer of 2021, he is the president of Border Forensics.
Itamar has published in leading journals and edited volumes, and his monograph, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2016. Alongside his academic work, he is a legal adviser at GLAN (Global Legal Action Network), where he advances strategic human rights litigation. Before moving to Haifa, Mann was a fellow at Georgetown Law Center, Washington DC. He holds an LLB (Tel Aviv University), LLM, and JSD degrees (Yale Law School).
Itamar’s recent scholarship has focused on law and oceans and seas. In particular, on rescue vessels, both seaborne and airborne, with a recent project on how Greece has employed rescue equipment in a cruel practice of abandoning asylum seekers at sea. Itamar hopes to expand this line of work into areas related to e.g. environmental protection. Read more about Itamar’s work in a recent interview with Voelkerrechtsblog, Chatting with Itamar Mann.
Having previously worked with center director, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, on research concerning maritime legal objects, Itamar has joined MOBILE as a Permanent Visiting Professor to continue the collaboration.
Itamar will be a Visiting Researcher at MOBILE from 14 August to 1 September 2023.