Gabor Rona

Gabor Rona (@GaborRona1) is a Visiting Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Armed Conflict Project at Cardozo Law School. He was previously International Legal Director of Human Rights First, where he advised programs on questions of international law and represented Human Rights First with governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the media and the public on matters of international human rights and international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict).

Gabor was also previously a Legal Advisor in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, where he focused on the application of international humanitarian and human rights law in the context of counter-terrorism policies and practices. He represented the ICRC in intergovernmental, nongovernmental, academic and public forums and his articles have appeared in the Financial Times, the Fletcher Forum on World Affairs and the Chicago Journal of International Law, among other publications. He has also taught International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law in the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law in Geneva, Switzerland. He now teaches IHL at Columbia Law School.