Michael Mandel teaches Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, The Law of War, and Legal Politics. His primary scholarly interests are in the law of war, and international criminal law. Among his many published works are The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics in Canada (Thompson Education Publishers, 1989, 1994; French edition, 1996), How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity (Pluto Press, 2004, Italian and German editions, 2005) and The Unbearable Flexibility of the Statuto Albertino (CLUEB Bologna, 2006). Recent articles include "Aggressors' Rights: The Doctrine of 'Equality between Belligerents' and the Legacy of Nuremberg" (2011), 24 Leiden Journal of International Law 627, and "Israel and Palestine: Three Questions for International Law" Dartmouth Law Journal (2011) 9: 101 (forthcoming).

A member of Osgoode's faculty since 1974, Professor Mandel has taught in the Native Law Program at the University of Saskatchewan, in the Political Science Department at McMaster University, and in the Criminology Department at the University of Toronto. He has also taught and lectured at several of Italy's major universities: Bologna (where he ran an exchange program for law students from 1995-2001), Torino, Trento, Padova, Napoli, Calabria, and the European University Institute in Florence where he was a Jean Monnet Fellow in 1990-91. In 1998 he was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Mandel was a founding member of Lawyers Against the War and frequently comments in the mass media on issues of war and peace.

Areas of interest: The Law of War and International Criminal Law