Michael Mandel is a Canadian legal academic, specializing in criminal law with a particular interest in criminal sentencing and legal theory. He has been a part of Osgoode Hall Law School's faculty since 1974 having graduated from Osgoode with his LL.B.. Mandel also has a B.C.L. from Oxford where he studied under renowned legal scholar Richard Dworkin (currently at NYU LAW).
In 1999, during the NATO bombing of Serbia, Mandel filed a formal complaint of NATO war crimes with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), charging 67 NATO leaders with war crimes. Mandel's submissions were dismissed by the tribunal. He is anti-war and has suggested that US President George W. Bush be banned from entering Canada because of the American invasion of Iraq. He is also a critic of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He is a supporter of Palestinian rights.**
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