Mr Ori Pomson

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onp21@cam.ac.uk

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Lucy Cavendish

Education CV

Education

LLB, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2011-15)
LLM (summa cum laude), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2020-21)

Legal Practice

Assistant Legal Adviser for Cyber Affairs, International Law Department, Israel Defence Forces (2015-2021)
Member of the Israel Bar (since 2016)

Fields of research

Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals; Customary International Law; Treaty Interpretation; State Responsibility; International Humanitarian Law; International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations; Judaism and International Law

Research centres and interest groups

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL)

The Limitations on the Judicial Function of International Courts and Tribunals

Supervisors

Professor Lorand Bartels and Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin

Selected publications

Articles

'Methodology of Identifying Customary International Law Applicable to Cyber Activities' (2023) 36 Leiden J Intl L 1023

'Keeping Score: An Empirical Analysis of the Interventions in Ukraine v Russia' (2023) 14 J Intl Dispute Settlement 305

'‘Objects’? The Legal Status of Computer Data under International Humanitarian Law ' (2023) 28 J Conflict & Security L 349

'Civilian Use of a Military Objective as Incidental Harm in a Proportionality Assessment?' (2022) 60 The Military Law and the Law of War Review 159

'The Prohibition on Intervention Under International Law and Cyber Operations' (2022) 99 Intl L Studies 180

'Does the Monetary Gold Principle Apply to International Courts and Tribunals Generally?' (2019) 10 J Intl Dispute Settlement 88

'The Obligations concerning Negotiations Cases and the “Dispute” Requirement in the International Court of Justice' (2017) 16 The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 373

'The Clean Hands Doctrine in the Yukos Awards: A Response to Patrick Dumberry' (2017) 18 J World Investment & Trade 712

'Humanitarian Intervention and the Clean Hands Doctrine in International Law' (2015) 48 Israel L Rev 219

'The Obligation to Allow and Facilitate the Passage of Humanitarian Relief under IHL: Continued Relevance of Article 23(2) of the Fourth Geneva Convention?' (2025) 63 The Military Law and Law of War Review 36

Case Notes

"Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 (Guyana v. Venezuela). Preliminary Objection" (2025) 119 AJIL 306

"Asylum Seekers in Israel: Legal, Illegal or Somewhere Unclear in the Middle? Thoughts from the Perspective of International Law Regarding the ‘Prevention of Infiltration Law - Offenses and Adjudication’" HaMisphat Online: Human Rights [in Hebrew]

Blog Posts

"Reoccupied? The Israel Supreme Court’s Judgment in Gisha v Government of Israel" Apr 2025, Articles of War

"Iran and Israel: The Light Treatment of Jus ad bellum" Dec 2024, Articles of War

"Interventions in Ukraine v Russia: Plus ça change?" Aug 2024, EJIL: Talk! (with Juliette McIntyre & Kyra Wigard)

"Authoritatively Stating International Law? The ICJ and Israeli Withdrawal from the OPT" Jul 2024, Articles of War

"Damage to UN Premises in Armed Conflict: IHL and Beyond" Dec 2023, Articles of War

"The Obligation to Allow and Facilitate Humanitarian Relief" Nov 2023, Articles of War

"The ICRC’S Statement on the Israel-Hamas Hostilities and Violence: Discerning the Legal Intricacies" Oct 2023, Articles of War

"The ICJ’s 2023 Judgment in Nicaragua v Colombia: A New Chapter in the Identification of Customary International Law?" Jul 2023, CIL Dialogues

"A Hot Potato: The ICJ’s Order on the Admissibility of 32 Declarations of Intervention in Ukraine v. Russia" Jun 2023, EJIL: Talk! (with Juliette Mcintyre & Kyra Wigard)

"We Read 22 Intervention Declarations So You Don’t Have To: Reviewing Key Themes and Arguments in Ukraine v. Russia" Oct 2022, CIL Dialogues (with Juliette McIntyre & Kyra Wigard)

"Russian Preliminary Objections at the ICJ: The Case Must Go On?" Oct 2022, Articles of War

"General Principles of Law Formed Within the International Legal System?" Jul 2022, EJIL: Talk!

"The ICJ’s Provisional Measures Order: Unprecedented" Mar 2022, Articles of War

"The ICJ’s Armed Activities Judgment: A Brave New World?" Feb 2022, Articles of War

"A Primer on the ICJ’s Upcoming Armed Activities Reparations Judgment" Feb 2022, Articles of War

"Proportionality and Civilian Use of a Military Objective" Jun 2021, Opinio Juris

"Ntaganda Appeals Chamber Judgment Divided on Meaning of ‘Attack’" May 2021, Articles of War

Conference Papers

"‘Objects’? The Legal Status of Computer Data under International Humanitarian Law" (ESIL Kraków-Leiden Online Symposium on ‘Exploring the Frontiers of International Law in Cyberspace’, Dec 2020)