IDF Soldier Speaks at Cornell on Warfare in the Middle East

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Major Nadav Minkovsky, Military Advocate General’s Corps, spoke at the Cornell Law School last week on the topic of “Legal Complexities in Contemporary Asymmetrical Conflicts.” Cornell’s chapter of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law hosted the event, which drew in about 50 attendees, most of whom were law students.

Major Nadav Minkovsky with Professor Jacobson. Image via Our Soldiers Speak.

The officer was brought to Cornell Law as part of the Our Soldiers Speak Legal Initiative. Our Soldiers Speak is a U.S.-based not-for-profit organization that specializes in bringing active, specialist, uniformed representatives of the IDF to speak to diverse audiences on U.S. college campuses.

Major Nadav, Head of Security and Law Enforcement Section and Legal Adviser to Judea and Samaria, spoke at length about the complex legal operational challenges in modern-day warfare in the Middle East, and how these challenges are…