Eyal Benvenisti is a member of the Institut de Droit International and of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was previously on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law (2009-18) and was Project Director of an ERC Advanced Grant (2013-18). Professor Benvenisti is currently a member of the Global Faculty of the NYU School of Law, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at Yale, Harvard, Toronto, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. He gave special courses at The Hague (2013) and Xiamen Academies of International Law (2017), and will deliver the General Course at The Hague Academy in 2024. He is a co-editor of the British Yearbook of International Law.
Eliav Lieblich joined Tel-Aviv University's Faculty of Law in 2016. He earned his J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Columbia Law School, and an LL.B. from Hebrew University. Professor Lieblich teaches and researches public international law, with a focus on the laws of war the use of force, just war theory, international humanitarian law, and the history and theory of international law. He has taught at Northwestern University and at the European University Institute's Academy of European Law. Professor Lieblich is also general editor of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law.

• Table of Authorities


• Introduction


• 1: Occupation: History, Normative Framework, Concepts


• 2: Definition, Beginning, and End of Occupation


• 3: Maintaining Public Order and Life in Occupied Territories: General Issues and Specific Obligations


• 4: Maintaining Public Order in Occupied Territories: Prolonged and Transformative Occupation


• 5: Security Measures and Military Necessity: Powers and Limitations


• 6: Private and Public Property and Natural Resources


• 7: Basic Issues in Economic Administration of Occupied Territories


• Concluding Thoughts: The Present and Future of the Law of Occupation

This addition to the Elements of International Law series provides an introduction to the framework and dilemmas of the international law of occupation.