Daphné Richemond-Barak joined the Radzyner School of Law at the IDC, Herzliya in 2009. She holds a Maitrise from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), a Diploma in Legal Studies from Oxford University (Hertford College), and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. She was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship, and was a recipient of the European Commission Scholarship, the Hertford College Prize, and the Oxford Prize for Distinction. Prior to joining the IDC, Daphné served as a clerk at the International Court of Justice, and worked as an attorney in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb. Her doctoral dissertation, currently under way at Tel Aviv University, addresses the legal challenges arising from military outsourcing and the status of private military contractors under the laws of war. Daphné has acted as a private counsel for international law firms and as a legal adviser to several states including the government of Colombia in its territorial dispute against Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice.
She served as a member of the Committee on International and Security Affairs at the New York Bar Association, and is admitted to practice law in New York and Paris. Teaching and research interests include the role and status of non-state actors, asymmetric warfare and the morality of war, the International Court of Justice, the relationship between international law and international relations, and the comparative analysis of systems of law.
In 2009-10, Daphné supervised and trained the IDC team for the National Competition in International Humanitarian Law (which took place in Israel) and for the Jean-Pictet Competition in International Humanitarian Law (which took place in Canada). The IDC team won first place in both competitions.