I am a professor of law at Tel Aviv University and hold the Benno Gitter Chair in Human Rights and Holocaust Research. I am also the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights. I earned my LL.B from Hebrew University and LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to this, I clerked for Justice Aharon Barak in Israel’s Supreme Court.
My research interests include: law and the Holocaust, Law and History, Transitional Justice, Criminal International Law, Political Trials and Feminist Legal Theories.
My most recent book is How to Say Genocide In Hebrew? The Struggle over Cultural Genocide in the Eichmann Trial (HaKibutz Ha-Meuhad, 2024). My previous books are Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial (Michigan University Press, 2004), The Holocaust, Corporations and the Law (Michigan University Press, 2017).
Recent Papers
Law under the Shadow of 7 October: Law, Politics and Violence, Iyyun vol. 73 (2024) pp. 38-63 (Hebrew) (Joint with Uri Brun).
Petitioning the Israeli Ministery of Minorities, 1948-1949, Law and History Review (under review) (Joint with Liat Kozma).
The Earth Does Not Want to Keep Secrets: Vasily Grossman and Rachel Auerbach in the Fields of Treblinka, (under review History and Memory).
Between Warsaw and Treblinka: The Material Turn and the Testimony of Silent Objects in the writing of Rachel Auerbach Law, Society and Culture Vol. 7 (Leora Bilsky and Anat Rosenberg eds., 2024) pp. 103-142 (Hebrew).
Objects as Witnesses: An Entangled History of Plunder, Law, Society and Culture Vol. 7 (Leora Bilsky and Anat Rosenberg eds., 2024) pp. 319-362 (Hebrew) (Joint with Liat Kozma).