Omer Shatz is an international lawyer, lecturer in international law at Sciences Po Paris and Yale Law School graduate.
In Israel, his human rights law firm specialized in Supreme Court litigation of high-profile matters, related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He co-founded and was legal adviser to We Are Refugees, an NGO that provided pro-bono legal representation to hundreds of detained asylum seekers, and co-litigated the 'Anti-Infiltration Law' case, a landmark-ruling that led to the release of about 1,500 asylum seekers from detention and prevented the arrest of tens of thousands others. In France he was a senior associate in the leading international law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP, as well as a legal adviser to various international organizations, such as Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Member of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), he was involved in the European Court of Human Rights case against Greece concerning the criminalization of rescue NGOs in the Eastern Mediterranean. A legal case he initiated and directed, against EU migration policies in the Central Mediterranean and Libya, is now pending before the International Criminal Court.