Michael Mandel

Michael Mandel is a Canadian legal academic, specializing in criminal law with a particular interest in criminal sentencing. He was a part of the Osgoode Hall Law School's faculty since 1974 having also graduated from Osgoode with his LL.B. and has taught a Native Law Program at the University of Saskatchewan, McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and a lecture circuit in Italy. In 1998 he was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1999, during the NATO bombing of Serbia, Mandel filed a formal complaint of NATO war crimes with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), charging 67 NATO leaders with war crimes. Mandel's submissions were dismissed by the tribunal. He is anti-war and has suggested that US President George W. Bush be banned from entering Canada because of the American invasion of Iraq. He is also a critic of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He is a supporter of Palestinian rights.^[1]

Publications

• Michael Mandel, How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity, Pluto Press, 2004 (ISBN: 0745321518)
• Michael Mandel, Charter of Rights and The Legalization of Politics in Canada: Revised, Updated and Expanded, Thompson Educational Publishing, 1994 (ISBN: 1550770500)

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