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| Born | (1948-05-06)May 6, 1948 |
| Died | October 27, 2013(2013-10-27) (aged 65) |
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| Institutions | Osgoode Hall Law School |
Michael Mandel (May 6, 1948 – October 27, 2013)[1] was a Canadian legal academic, specializing incriminal law with a particular interest incriminal sentencing and legal theory.
He was the author of the 2005 bookHow America Gets Away With Murder.
Mandel graduated from Osgoode with hisLL.B. and the silver medal. Mandel also had aB.C.L. fromOxford,[2][3] where he studied under the late renowned legal scholarRonald Dworkin.[citation needed]
Mandel was a part ofOsgoode Hall Law School's faculty from 1974 until 2013.[citation needed]
In 1999, during theNATO bombing ofSerbia, Mandel filed a formal complaint of NATO war crimes with theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), charging 67 NATO leaders with war crimes. Mandel's submissions were dismissed by the tribunal. He was anti-war and suggested that US PresidentGeorge W. Bush be banned from entering Canada because of theAmerican invasion of Iraq. He was also a critic of theCanadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and opposed Zionist settlements in theWest Bank andGaza.[4]
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