Omar Yousef Shehabi

Omar Yousef Shehabi is a visiting professor of law at McGeorge for the 2024-25 academic year. He was previously an acting assistant professor at New York University School of Law.

Shehabi is a generalist international lawyer with a particular interest in international labor law, the law of international organizations, territorial disputes, the history and historiography of human rights, and the law of wars and peace. Before teaching law, he served as a legal officer with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), a legal officer with the United Nations Secretariat, Office of Administration of Justice, and a legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team in permanent-status negotiations with Israel. Previously, he worked as a labor lawyer, representing trade unions, employees, and employee benefit funds.

Shehabi holds degrees from the George Washington University (BA), the University of Notre Dame Law School (JD), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LLM), and Yale Law School (LLM). He is currently a doctoral candidate (JSD) at Yale Law School. He is a member of the California and Illinois State Bars, and is admitted to the roll of solicitors in England & Wales.