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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. 

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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

​Political Trials, Neo-Legalism and Gaza: Historical Memory in South Africa v. Israel, Law and Ethics of Human Rights vol. 20(1): 49-81(2026).

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Hollow Citizenship: Between Private Property, Rule of Law and Democratic Visions for Israel, 1948-1950, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy Vol. 34:273 (2025).

 

The Beautiful Crime: Raphael Lemkin and the 1927 Shwarzbard Trial, Journal of International Criminal Justice Vol. pp. 1-20 (2026) (Joint with James Loeffler).

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