chairman, who was biased against Israel, the report must not be published". Avidor Liberman attributed Schabas's resignation to Israel's diplomatic work, stating that: "appointing Schabas to investigate Israel was like appointing Cain to investigate Abel." In reply, Schabas said the Prime Minister was entitled to spin the matter any way he liked, and that both he and Avigdor Liberman were "masters of extravagant and ridiculous statements." According to Israeli commentator Gideon Levy, Schabas had fallen victim to investigative character assassination. In an interview with the BBC Schabas admitted that "there is a distortion in the amount of attention given against Israel, and the number of resolutions directed against Israel" but defended the claim by saying Israel gets a "soft ride in the Security Council hearings." Publications Schabas has written or edited twenty-one books dealing in whole or in part with international human rights law, including: The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 3d ed., 2003) The U.N. International Criminal Tribunals: The Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone (Cambridge University Press, 2006) An Introduction to the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 6th ed. 2020) War Crimes and Human Rights: Essays on the Death Penalty, Justice and Accountability (Cambridge University Press, 2008) Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes (Cambridge University Press, 2d ed., 2009) The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute (Oxford University Press, 2010) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the travaux préparatoires (Cambridge University Press, 2013) (three volumes) International Human Rights Law and the Canadian Charter (Carswell, 2nd ed. 1996) International Human Rights Law and Canadian Law: Legal Commitment, Implementation and the Charter (Carswell, 3rd ed. 2007). Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals (Oxford University Press, 2012) He has also published more than three hundred articles in academic journals, primarily in the fields of international human rights law and international criminal law. References External links Introductory note by William Schabas on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law Lecture by William Schabas on Genocide and International Law in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law 1950 births Living people Canadian legal scholars Academics of Middlesex University Academic staff of Leiden University People associated with the University of Galway International law scholars