Dr Michelle Lesh

Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters)

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Overview

Dr Michelle Lesh is a Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School. She has also taught at the London School of Economics Summer School. At the United Nations she worked as an international lawyer on the UN Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza protests and for the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory. She worked as a legal advisor for Chief Justice Aharon Barak at Israel’s Supreme Court, the Turkel Commission on investigating alleged war crimes, the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, and Israel’s Deputy Attorney General for International Law. She is on the board of Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee; on the International Council of New Israel Fund; and the Asia Pacific Regional Forum Liaison Officer for the International Bar Association War Crimes Committee.

Teaching (2024)

Melbourne Law Masters