MORIA PAZ Center for International Security and Cooperation 616 Serra St E200 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6165 (650) 723-1468 mpaz@law.stanford.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND COOPERATION, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2013-2014 Law and International Security Fellow STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, 2011-2013 Fellow in International Law STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, 2007-2011 Lecturer and Teaching Fellow, Stanford Program in International Legal Studies Teaching: Empirical Research Methods for Socio-Legal Studies (graduate level) Advanced Writing and Research Seminar (graduate level) Program responsibilities include supervising theses, academic advising, day-to-day program management. EUROPEAN LAW RESEARCH CENTER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2007-2008 Research Affiliate GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, 2005-2006 Visiting Scholar EDUCATION HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, S.J.D. 2007 Dissertation: Honors: The Rise and Fall of Ethnic Transnationalism: The Case of the Alliance Israélite Universelle Laylin Prize for best dissertation in the field of public international law, Harvard Law School Post-doctorate fellowship, European Law Research Center (waived) Fellow, Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Byse Fellowship, Harvard Law School Hauser Research Grant, Kennedy School of Government Edmund J. Curley Scholarship, Harvard University Summer Travel Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, LL.M. 2000 (formal degree waived) Thesis: Honors: International Law, Religion and Nationalism: A Theoretical Encounter and the Case Study of Tibet Graduate Scholarship, Harvard Law School Summer Travel Grant, Department for East Asian Legal Studies UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, B.A. Law and Mandarin 1994-1998 BEIJING SHI FAN DA XUE, Diploma in Mandarin 1996-1997 TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Certificate in Mandarin studies, 2001 PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS BOOKS NETWORK OR STATE? INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE HISTORY OF JEWISH SELF-DETERMINATION, a book manuscript in preparation under contract with Oxford University Press. JEWISH LAWYERS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: A SPHERE BETWEEN NATIONS, (ed. with James Loeffler, in preparation) ARTICLES Human Rights and Border Walls (in preparation) The Tower of Babel: Human Rights and the Paradox of Language, forthcoming European Journal of International Law (EJIL), Issue 25/2 (forthcoming, June 2014) René Cassin and the Development of Human Court of Human Rights, in JEWISH LAWYERS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: A SPHERE BETWEEN NATIONS, (ed. with James Loeffler, in preparation) Introduction, with James Loeffler in JEWISH LAWYERS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: A SPHERE BETWEEN NATIONS, (ed. with James Loeffler, in preparation) Harvard International Law Journal Symposium: Moria Paz responds to Efrat Arbel, 54(1) HARV. INT L L. J. (2013), symposium Diversity, 107 AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. PROC. (2013, forthcoming). The Failed Promise of Language Rights: A Critique of the International Language Rights Regime, 54 HARV. INT L L. J. (2013). Moria Paz Page 2 of 5
States and Networks in the Formation of International Law, 26 AM. U INT L L REV. 1241 (2011). A Non-Territorial Ethnic-Religious Network and the Making of Human Rights Law: The Alliance Israélite Universelle. 4 INTERDISC. J. HUM. RTS. L. 1 (2010). This paper was cross-published as a chapter in THE NEW INTERNATIONAL LAW - AN ANTHOLOGY (Marius Emberland and Christoffer Eriksen ed., Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law). THE RISE AND FALL OF ETHNIC TRANSNATIONALISM: THE CASE OF THE ALLIANCE ISRAÉLITE UNIVERSELLE. Harvard Law School SJD doctoral thesis (Laylin Prize for best paper in international law, Harvard Law School) PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Human Rights and Border Walls, Georgetown Law School, Faculty Workshop (forthcoming, April 10, 2015) How Law Speaks: The Use of Law in the Regulation of Languages, invited talk, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (forthcoming, November 2013) Language Rights in the USA, Europe and Canada, IGLP, Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA (June 3, 2013) Diversity, The Second Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, competitively selected, Nottingham, England (May 29, 2013) Diversity, New Voices Panel, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), competitively selected, Washington DC (April 2013) The Failed Promise of Language Rights: A Critique of the International Language Rights Regime, invited talk, International Law Workshop: History and Philosophy of International Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (November 15, 2012) The Failed Promise of Language Rights: A Critique of the International Language Rights Regime, paper selected for presentation at the American Society for International Law (ASIL) Mid-Year Meeting and Research Forum, Athens, Georgia (October 19-21, 2012) Right to Remain Silent: Are There Language Rights Under International Law? Paper selected for presentation at the 3rd AUSTAT International Workshop on Authority Beyond States, at the Centre Franco- Norvégien en Sciences Sociales et Humaines, Paris, France (May 4, 2012) A Critique of the International Language Rights Regime, selected for a panel at the symposium Forces Without Borders: Non-State Actors in a Changing Middle East, held by the International Law Journal at Cornell Law School, (February 17, 2012) Are There Language Rights Under International Law? A paper selected for presentation at the International Law Conference at the American University in Cairo, Egypt (February 18, 2012) The Failed Promise of Language Rights: a Critique of the International Language Rights Regime, selected for a panel on Blasphemy, Religious Defamation, and Religious Nationalism: Threats to Civil Society from Religious Speech and its Suppression in the Law and Religion section of the AALS Annual Meeting, Washington DC (January 6, 2012) Moria Paz Page 3 of 5
Nations, Networks and the Mapping of Political Identity: A Case Study, selected for a panel on Comparative Approaches to Group Political Identity in the Age of the Transnational, Comparative Law section of AALS, San Francisco, CA (January 8, 2011) Jews and the Making of Human Rights Law, AJS Conference, Boston, MA (December 20, 2010) States and Networks in the Formation of International Law, invited talk, Political Theory Workshop (Professors Joshua Cohen and Robert Reich), Program on Global Justice, Stanford Law School, Stanford CA (October 20, 2010) Transnational (Private) Religious Education as a Development Tool, invited talk, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (April 2010) The State and the Network: Mutually Constitutive Relationship, After Empire: Global Governance Today, Brown University, Providence, RI (June 2008) Education as the Site of the Political: Non-Territorial Ethnic Political Identity, Law and Society Association, Montreal, Canada (June 2008) A Non-Territorial Ethnic Network and the French State System, Law and Society Association, Berlin, Germany (July 2007) The Genealogy of the State Based System of International Law: An Ethnic Network Meets State Power, Law and Society Association, Berlin, Germany (July 2007) The Rise and Fall of Ethnic Transnationalism: The Case of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Colloquium, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (May 2007) Human Rights Discourse: A Story from the Margins, paper selected for discussion at May gathering, Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, VA (May 2007) A Non-Territorial Ethnic Network and the Making of Human Rights Law: The Case of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, New International Law Conference, Oslo, Norway (March 2007) Network as a Structure of Self-Rule: A Non-Territorial Order Outside the State System, Law and Society Association, Baltimore, MD (July 2006) Networks, States and the Colonial Project: The Case of France and the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Law and Society Association, Las Vegas, NV (June 2005) Networks and States: The Intersection between Religion, Identity and Boundaries, Weatherhead Center for International Affair, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April 2005) A Comparison: Jewish Non-Territorial Public Political Identity in Germany, Russia, and France, Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April 2005) Jewish Religious Nationalism Outside Zionism, International Relations Week, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April 2005) An Inquiry Into the State of Territory and Identity Three Contemporary National Projects in Israel, The Program on Law and Social Thought, Harvard Law School and Duke University, Cambridge, MA (September 2004) Germany, Russia, and France Three Jewish Non-Territorial National Projects, Colloquium, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (November 2003) Moria Paz Page 4 of 5
History and Ideology of Non-Zionist Transnational Governance Projects at the Fin de Siecle, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (October 2003) PRIOR TEACHING EXPERIENCE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2004 Byse Fellow. Developed and taught workshop Transnational Identity, Governance, and International Law HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, 2002-2004 Teaching Fellow for International Law class taught by Professor David Kennedy. Led weekly discussions. HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, 2002-2003 Teaching Assistant for LL.M. Paper Writing Workshop. Advised LL.M. students on legal research and writing techniques, corrected paper drafts, and organized student presentations. HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, 2001-2002 Chair of the Graduate Forum. Organized a yearlong series of colloquia on legal, cultural, and policy issues for the law school graduate community. Coordinated symposium on the Kashmir conflict. HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, 2001-2002 LL.M. Advisor. Advised incoming LL.M. students on their coursework and papers. PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE UNITED NATIONS, DEPT. OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS, 2001 Summer Intern. Researched Article 55 of the UN Charter and prepared a report on the international debts of developing countries in the years 1985-1989, included in the Reparatory of Practice, an official U.N. legal publication. PHILIP C. JESSUP INTERNATIONAL LAW MOOT COMPETITION, 2000-2001 Judge ROTH AND DISKIN LAW OFFICE, Tel Aviv, Israel 1998-1999 Legal Associate. Assisted senior lawyers in the representation of creditors and other parties in bankruptcy and reorganization procedures; worked in real estate law and business transactions. LANGUAGES English, Hebrew, Mandarin Moria Paz Page 5 of 5