Omar Yousef Shehabi is a public international lawyer and a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he received his LL.M. degree in 2020. His research interests are international labor law, international organizations law, laws of war, data protection law, and administrative law. He works as counsel at Hadef & Partners, a law firm in the United Arab Emirates, in its regulatory & government advisory practice group.
His doctoral research examines the relationship between collective labour law, international investment law, and human rights law. His research is informed by his prior work as a trade union lawyer and his service with the United Nations. He served as a legal officer with the UN Secretariat and UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, concentrating in public international law and international administrative law. He also served as a legal adviser to the Palestinian government in the areas of international negotiations, treaty affairs, and diplomatic relations. He is a former visiting professor at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific and an acting assistant professor at New York University School of Law. He serves on the advisory board of Verfassungsblog, a leading constitutional law blog published in cooperation with the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study and Humboldt University Berlin. He is admitted to practice law in California and Illinois and has qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales.
His recent scholarship has focused on the evolution of the ‘law of nationalism’ from the Treaty of Versailles to the present day, data protection and digital privacy in armed conflict, and the protection of the premises of international organizations in wartime.
Omar began the J.S.D. under the supervision of W. Michael Reisman, Myres McDougal Professor Emeritus of Law.
Doctoral committee
Aslı Ü Bâli (supervisor), Samuel Moyn (reader), Harold Hongju Koh (reader), Paul Kahn (reader), Lea Brilmayer (reader)
Education
B.A., George Washington University, 2003
J.D., University of Notre Dame Law School, 2006
LL.M. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2020
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2020