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Education
1991
LL.B., Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law, Summa Cum Laude
1992-1993
LL.M., Yale University Law School (Fulbright Scholarship)
1993-1995
J.S.D., Yale University Law School
Academic Positions Held
Tel Aviv University
1996-2000
Lecturer
2000-2003
Senior Lecturer (with tenure)
2003-2012
Associate Professor
2012-
Full Professor
2016-
Benno Gitter Chair in Human Rights and Holocaust Rearch
2018-
Academic Director Minverva Center for Human Rights, TAU
Visiting Positions
1997-1998
Research Fellow, Van Leer Institute of Research, Jerusalem
1998-1999
Faculty Fellow, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University
Fall 2002
Visiting Professor, Toronto University Faculty of Law
2006-2007
Visiting Professor, Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College
2016-2017
William & Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor of International Law, Boston Universy
2023
Research Fellow (Primo Levi Fellowship), Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2024
Research Fellow, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Spring 2024 (Research Group: Paying for the Past: Reparations after the Holocaust in Global Context)
Related Activities
1989-1990
Editor in Chief, Mishpatim (Hebrew University Law Review)
1991
Judicial Clerk, Honorable Justice Aharon Barak, Israel Supreme Court
2000
Guest Editor, Theoretical Inquiries in Law (Special Issue, Judging the Holocaust)
2001-2002
Editor-in-Chief, Plilim, Vol. 10
2002-2004
Editor in-Chief, Iyunei Mishpat (Tel-Aviv University Law Review, Vol. 27-28)
2003-
Editorial board, Tel-Aviv University Press
2009-2013
Editor in Chief, Teoria ve-Bikoret (Theory and Criticism, Vol. 37-41)
2009-
Member of Scientific Committee, Berg Institute for Legal History, Tel Aviv University
2010-
Member of Steering Committee, Middle East Legal Studies, Yale University
2015-2018
Editorial board, Law and Social Inquiry
2013-
Academic Director, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Tel Aviv University
Grants, Honors and Fellowships
1989-1991
Law Faculty Scholarship for Academic Distinction
1991
Judge Kasan Prize for Excellence in Academic and Social Contribution
1992
Lady Davis Fellowship
1998-1999
Faculty Fellow, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University
2002
Zakhaim Prize (for research on political trials)
2006-2007
Lowenstein Fellowship (Amherst College)
2011-2015
Research Grant – Israel Science Foundation: Transnational Holocaust Restitution
2013
Zeltner Prize for Excellence in Legal Research
2015-2018
Research Grant – Israel Science Foundation: A Critical Appraisal of the Right to Truth
2016
Israel Institute Fellowship for visiting faculty (Boston University)
2016-2017
William & Patricia Kleh Fellowship for visitng professor, Boston University
2019-2021
Research Grant – Israel Science Foundation: Cultural Genocide: Between Criminal and Civil Law
Spring 2023
Research Fellowship (Primo Levi Fellowship), Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Jews and Modern Legal Culture)
2023
The Israeli History and Law Association Prize for the best legal history article: Objects as Witnesses: An Entangled History of Plunder (with Liat Kozma)
Publications
Books
Leora Bilsky, Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial (Michigan University Press, 2004)
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Leora Bilsky, The Holocaust, Corporations and the Law: Unfinished Business (Michigan University Press, 2017)
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Leora Bilsky, How do we say Genocide in Hebrew? The Struggle over Cultural Genocide in the Eichmann Trial [Hebrew] (2024, HaKituz Ha-Meuhad, Tel Aviv)
Edited Volumes
Leora Bilsky, ed., Judgment in the Shadow of the Holocaust, special issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law, vol. 1 no. 2 (2000)
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Leora Bilsky, ed. The Crisis of the Disciplines after the Holocaust, special issue of Theory and Criticism (Teoria ve-Bikoret), vol. 40 (2012) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky & Annette Weinke, eds. Jewish-European Émigré Lawers: Twentieth Century International Humanitarian Law as Idea and Profession (Wallstein, 2021)
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Leora Bilsky & Anat Rosenberg, eds. Law and the Material Turn, special volume of Law, Society, Culture (2024)
Articles
Leora Bilsky, When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept of Judgment, History and Memory 8, pp. 137-173 (1996)
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Leora Bilsky, Battered Women: From "Self Defense" to "Defense of the Self", Plilim 6 pp. 5-64 (1997) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Naming and Re-categorization in the Law: Child-Abuse as Slavery, International Journal of Children's Rights, pp. 147-176 (1997)
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Leora Bilsky, Giving Voice to Women: An Israeli Case Study, Israel Studies vol. 3, pp. 47-79 (1998)
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Leora Bilsky, The Competition of Storytellers: Gideon Hausner and Hannah Arendt in the Eichmann Trial in Arendt in Jerusalem (Steven Aschheim ed., University of California Press, 2001) 232-252 (also translated into Hungarian Past-Future vol. 4, pp. 55-69, 1998)
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Leora Bilsky, The Kastner Trial, Theory and Criticsm vol. 12-13 pp. 125-133 (1999) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Law and Politics: The Trial of Rabin's Assassin, Plilim vol. 8, pp. 1-62 (1999) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, The Violence of Silence: The Legal Procedure between Allocation and Voice, Tel Aviv Law Review vol. 23(2), pp. 427-474 (2000) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, In a Different Voice: Nathan Alterman and Hannah Arendt on the Kastner and Eichmann Trials, in Theoretical Inquiries in the Law vol. 1(2), pp. 509-547 (2000)
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Leora Bilsky, "I Accuse": Derei, Political Trials and Collective Memory, in Shas- The Challenge of Israeliness (Yoav Peled ed.), pp. 279-320 (2001) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Justice or Reconciliation: The Politicisation of the Holocaust in the Kastner Trial, in Lethe's Law: Justice, Law and Ethics in Reconciliation (Emilios Christodoulidis and Schott Veitch eds., Oxford), pp. 153-173 (2001)
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Leora Bilsky, Judging Evil in the Kastner Trial, Law and History Review 19, pp. 117-160 (2001)
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Leora Bilsky, Judging and Understanding: Response to Prof. Douglas and Prof. Luban, Law and History Review 19, pp. 184-188 (2001)
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Leora Bilsky, The Arendt Controversy 2000: An Israeli Perspective, Hannah Arendt Newsletter vol. 5(1), pp 41-46 (2001)
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Leora Bilsky, Between Justice and Reconciliation: Thoughts after the Death and the Maiden, Israeli Sociology vol. 3(2), pp. 343-370 (2001) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Cultural Translation: The Case of Israeli Feminism, Tel Aviv Law Review 25(2), pp. 523-575 (2001) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, The Arendt Controversy 2000: An Israeli Perspective, Beshvil HaZikaron (Yad Va-Shem), pp. 16-23 (2001) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Kufr Qassem: Between Ordinary Politics and Transformative Politics, Adalah’s Review vol. 3, pp. 62-70 (Summer 2002) [Hebrew, Arabic]
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Leora Bilsky, Law’s Literature: A Response to Ariel Bendor, Studies in Law vol. 18, pp. 119-128 (2002) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky and Analu Verbin, "Rothstein's Affair": Nachum Gutman, Local Mythology and the First Attempted Rape in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Review vol. 26(2), pp. 391-449 (2002) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Book Review: Lawrence Douglas, The Memory of Judgment, Journal of Modern History 75(2), pp. 397-400 (2003)
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Leora Bilsky, Between Territorial and Universal Jurisdiction: Changing the Concept of Nation State in International Criminal Law, Tel Aviv Law Review 27(2), pp. 655-702, (2003) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Book Review: Shoshana Felman, The Juridical Uncounscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century, Journal of Law and Society , vol. 30, pp. 615-619 (2003)
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Leora Bilsky, Suicidal Terror, Radical Evil and the Destruction of Politics, Theoretical Inquiries in Law vol. 5(1), pp. 131-161 (2004)
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Leora Bilsky, The Eichmann Precedent, Legal Affairs, pp 21-22 (March/April 2004)
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Leora Bilsky and Analu Verbin, Nachum Gutman and The First Rape in Tel Aviv, Zemanim vol. 98, special volume on Law and History, R. Harris, A. Likhowski eds., pp 20-31 (2007) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Citizenship as Mask: Between the Imposter and the Refugee, Constellations 15(1), pp. 72-97 (2008)
Leora. Bilsky, Criminal Trials in an Age of Terror, Adalah’s Review vol. 5, pp. 11-27 (2009) [Hebrew, Arabic]
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Leora Bilsky and Hemda Gur-Aryeh, The Judenrat as Collaborator: Libel Law in the Service of Memory, Mishpat Umimshal Law Review 12, pp. 33-82 (2009) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Muslim Headscarves in France and Army Uniforms in Israel: A Comparative Study of Citizenship as Mask, Patterns of Prejudice vol.43 (4-5), pp. 285-309 (October 2009)
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Leora Bilsky, Uniforms and Veils: What Difference Does a Difference Make?, Cardozo Law Review vol. 30(6), pp. 2715-2743 (2009)
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Leora Bilsky, Speaking Through the Mask: Israeli Arabs and the Changing Faces of Israeli Citizenship, Middle East Law and Governance, vol. 1, pp. 165-208 (2009)
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Leora Bilsky, "We Had Never Jumped Fences Before:" The City, The Woman and the Drifter in the Yaakobowitz Case, Studies in Law Politics and Society, vol. 49, pp. 57-96 (2009)
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Leora Bilsky, Book Review: Janet Halley, Split Decisions; Daphna Barak Erez: Studies in Law Gender and Feminism, Teoria U-Bikoret vol. 34, 212-221 (2009) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Book Review: The Birth of Surrogacy in Israel by D. Kelly Weisberg, Israel Studies Forum vol. 24, pp. 129-133 (2009)
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Leora Bilsky, "We Had Never Jumped Fences Before:" The City, The Woman and the Drifter in the Gan Meir Trial, Hamishpat, vol. 16, pp. 131-172 (2011) [Hebrew]
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Bilsky, Bloxham, Douglas, Pendas, Weinke, Forum: The Eichmann Trial at Fifty Years on, German History, vol. 29, No.2, pp 265-282 (2011)
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Leora Bilsky, The Habibi Libel Trial: Defamation and the Hidden Community Basis of Criminal law, University of Toronto Law Journal vol. 61(4), pp. 617-655 (2011)
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Leora Bilsky, Transnational Holocaust Litigation, European Journal of International Law vol. 23, pp. 349-375 (2012), also translated into Hebrew as Leora Bilsky, Transnational Holocaust Litigation Law, Society and Culture (Procedures, Talia Fisher and Issi Rozen-Zvi eds.) pp 263-298 (2014)
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Leora Bilsky, The Judge and the Historian: The Holocaust Class Action as a New Model, History and Memory vol 24 (2), pp. 117 (2012)
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Leora Bilsky and Natalie R. Davidson, A Process-Oriented Approach to Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations, Transnational Legal Theory vol. 4, pp. 1-43 (2013)
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Leora Bilsky and Talia Fisher, Rethinking Settlement, Theoretical Inquiries in Law vol. 15 pp. 77-123 (2014)
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Leora Bilsky, Rodger Citron and Natalie R. Davidson, From Kiobel back to Structural Reform: the Hidden Legacy of Holocaust Restitution Litigation, Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation vol. 2, p. 138 (2014)
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Leora Bilsky, The Eichmann Trial – Toward a Jurisprudence of Eyewitness Testimonies of Atrocity?, Journal of International Criminal Justice 12(1), pp. 27-57 (2014)
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Leora Bilsky, Transitional Justice as a Modern Oedipus: The Emergence of a Right to Truth, Critical Analysis of Law(special volume: Arts and the Aesthetic in Legal History) Vol 2(2) (2015)
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Leora Bilsky, Hannah Arendt-Gershom Scholem: Exchange of Letters, Public Sphere vol. 11 (2016) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Between the Right to Truth and Rape by Deception, Law, Society and Culture (Justice in the Legal System? Criminal Law amd Criminal Procedure in Israel: Problems and Challenges, Alon Harel, ed.) pp. 393-433 (2017) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky and Ofra Bloch, Neoliberal Discrimination, Theory and Criticism (Theoria ve-Bikoret,), vol. 50 (2018), 175-194 [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky and Rachel Klagsbrun, The Return of Cultural Genocide?, European Journal of International Law Vol. 29 no. 2, pp. 373-396 (2018)
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Leora Bilsky, Book Review Assaf Likhovski, Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel (CAP, 2017) "The Tax Collecter, the Gangster and the Pirate", Maasei Mishpat vol. 9(2) (2018) 259-274 [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, "Human Rights and Groups: Beyond the Particular/Universal Dichotomy", Review of James Loeffler, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 2018), in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol 37(1) pp. 162-170 (2019)
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Leora Bilsky, "Response to Book Reviews", Forum Iyunei Mishapt, pp. 60-66 (2019)
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Leora Bilsky, "The Virtues of Hybridity": Response to Book Symposium, WordPress blog, Feb. 2019 (James Stewart ed.,)
Leora Bilsky, Between Eichmann Trial and TRC, Law, Society and Culture Vol. 3, pp. 35-82 [Special volume Law and Emotions, Orit Rosin and Yoram Shahar eds., 2020] [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Genocide and Restitution: Early Jewish Struggles for Cultural Restitution Post-WWII, International Journal of Cultural Property, vol. 27(3), 349-374 (2020)
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Leora Bilsky, The Virtues of Comparing: Between Early Jewish Restitution Campaign and Contemporary Post-Colonial Restitution Debate, Art, Antiquity & Law Vol. XXV issue 4 (2020)
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Leora Bilsky and Rachel Klagsbrun, Cultural Genocide and Cultural Return: Jewish Polish Comparison, 43 Iyunei Mishpat 553-630 (Tel Aviv Law Review) (2021) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky and Doreen Lustig, Yad HaRokement: Pnina Lahav and Israeli Legal Feminism, Iyunei Mishpat Vol. 44, pp 561-606 (Tel Aviv Law Review) (2021) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky and Natalie Davidson, The Regularization Law and the Rule of Law, TAU Law Review Forum (2021) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky and Natalie Davidson, Legal Ethics in Authoritarian Legality: A Response to David Luban, 34 (3)Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 1 (2021)
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Leora Bilsky, Between Law, Politics and Legal Education: Response to Ron Harris the Uses of Historical Narratives, TAU Law Review Forum (2021)
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Leora Bilsky, "Private Investigators": Genocide Through the Camera Lens, YNET, Feb. 13, 2021 [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky and James Loeffler, How Should We Remember the Holocaust Today? A Forgotten Poem’s Message for Our Times, The Atlantic (2021)
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Leora Bilsky, Book Review: Wendy Lower, The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre, (A photograph as witness to Genocide), Justice IJL vol. 67 49-52 (fall 2021)
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Leora Bilsky and Natalie Davidson, The Judicial Review of Legality, University of Toronto Law Journal 72(4) 403-435 (2022)
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Leora Bilsky and Vered Lev Kenaan, Silent Witnesses: The Testimony of Objects in Holocaust Poetry and Prose, American Imago 79(3), 379-412 (2022)
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Leora Bilsky, Rachel Auerbach and the Eichmann Trial: A New Conception of Victims' Testimonies, The Journal of Holocaust Research, 36:4, 327-345 (2022)
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Leora Bilsy, Book Review: Restitution: The Return of Cultural Artefacts by Alexander Herman (Lund humphries, 2021), Art, Antiquity & Law Vol. XXVII, Issue 1 (2022)
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Leora Bilsky and Rachel Klagsbrun, The Desk Perpetrator, the Expert Witness and the Role of Law: The Trial of Arthur Greiser, Journal of Genocide Research (2023)
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Leora Bilsky and Ofra Bloch, Resistance through Language: The Nation-State Basic Law, Language and Democracy, Mishpatim (Hebrew University Law Review) (forthcoming, 2024) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky and Liat Kozma, 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]
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Leora Bilsky, 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]
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Leora Bilsky, "The Earth Does Not Want to Keep Secrets": Vasily Grossman and Rachel Auerbach in the Fields of Treblinka, (under review History and Memory)
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Leora Bilsky and Liat Kozma, Petitioning the Israeli Ministery of Minorities, 1948-1949, Law and History Review (Under Review)
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Leora Bilsky and Uri Brun, Law under the Shadow of 7 October: Law, Politics and Violence, Iyyun vol. 73 (2024) pp. 38-63 [Hebrew]
Chapters in Books
Leora Bilsky, Child-Parent-State: The Absence of Community in Court's Approach to Education, in Children's Rights and Traditional Values (Gillian Douglas and Leslie Sebba eds., Dartmouth), pp. 134-159 (1998)
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Leora Bilsky, Facing the Glass-Booth, in Israeli Courts: Fifty Years of Judgment (1999) [Hebrew]​
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Leora Bilsky, When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concept of Judgment, History and Memory, vol. 8 p. 137 (1996), and reprinted in Judgment, Imagination and Politics (Ronald Beiner and Jennifer Nedelsky, eds., Rowman & Littlefield Pub.), pp. 257-286 (2001)
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Leora Bilsky, Breaking the Acoustic Wall: Between the Kastner and Eichmann Trials, in The History of Law in A Multicultural Society (R. Harris, S. Kedar, P. Lahav, A. Likhovski, eds., Ashgate Dartmouth) pp. 123-145, (2002)
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Leora Bilsky, The Violence of Silence: Searching for the Woman's Voice on Trial, in The Voice and the Gaze (Vered Lev Kenaan and Michal Gruber-Friedlander eds.) pp. 59-80 (2002) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Feminism and Family in Israel: Revisiting the Book of Ruth, in On Mother's Love and Father's Fear: Another Look at the Family (Aviad Kleinberg ed., Tel Aviv University Press) 194-270 (2004) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Entry on The Eichmann Trial, in Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (2ndEdition, Philip Mattar ed.) (2004)
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Leora Bilsky, Universal Jurisdiction and the Arendtian Interpretation of Territory, in Hannah Arendt: Half A Century of Controversy (Idit Zartal, Moshe Zukerman eds., Hakibutz Ha-Meuhad) pp. 107-142 (2004) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Strangers Within: The Barghouti and Bishara Criminal Trials, in Law and the Stranger, Amherst Series in Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought, (A. Sarat, L. Douglas, M. Humphrey eds., Stanford University Press), pp. 96-14 (2010)
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Leora Bilsky, Multi-Participants Crimes: From Eichmann to Barghouti, in Trends in Criminal Law: A Decade to the 39th Amendment of the Criminal Code (Eli Lederman, Keren Shapira-Etinger, Shai Lavi ed.), pp. 63-89 (2010) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, The Eichmann Trial and the Legacy of Jurisdiction, in Politics in Dark Times. Encounters with Hannah Arendt (Seyla Benhabib, ed., Cambridge U. Press), pp. 198-218 (2010) also translated into German as Leora Bilsky, Der Eichmann-Prozess und die Frage der gerichtlichen Zustaendigkeit, in Interessen um Eichmann: Israelische Justiz, deutch Strafverfolgug und alte Kameradschaften, (Werner Renz Hg., Campus Verlag Frankfurt/New York), pp 51-78 (2012)
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Leora Bilsky, Hannah Arendt's Judgment of Bureaucracy, in Hannah Arendt and the Law (Chris McCorkindale and Marco Goldoni eds., Hart Publishing, Oxford) pp. 271-290 (2012)
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Leora Bilsky, Critical Theory in the Shadow of Law, in Four Critical Essays (Y. Shenhav ed., Van Leer Institute) 51-72 (2012) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Zwischen Washington und Berlin: Transnational Holocaust-Entschadigung, in Die Globalisierung der Wiedergutmachung (Jose Brunner, Constantin Goschler, Norbert Frei, eds., Wallstein publishers, Goettingen), pp. 175-227 (2013) [German]
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Leora Bilsky, Entry on "Political Trials", in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (2ndEd., James D. Wright, ed., Oxford: Elsevier) pp.497-503 (2015)
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Leora Bilsky, Truth and Judgment in Arendt’s Writing, in The Trial That Never Ends: Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem in Retrospect (Richard J. Golsan and Sarah Misemer, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 161-190 (2017)
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Leora Bilsky, Legal Truth and Historical Truth: The Emile Habibi Trial, in Nili Cohen Book: Law, Culture and Book(Ofer Grosskopf and Shay Lavie, eds., Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2017) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, and Rachel Klagsbrun, Cultural Genocide: Between Law and History, in Oxford Handbook on Hisorical Legal Research (M. Dubber, C. Tomlins, eds,. 2018) pp. 1081-1094
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Leora Bilsky and Hagi Kenaan, Forward, in Images in Spite of All, by Didi-Huberman (Am Oved, 2019) [Hebrew]
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Leora Bilsky, Eichmann in Jerusalem – a Crisis of Judgment?, in The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt (​Peter Gratton and Yasemin Sari eds., Bloomsbury) pp. 228-237 (2020)
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Leora Bilsky, The Right to Truth and International Criminal Law, in The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (Kevin Jon Heller, Frédéric Mégret, Sarah Nouwen, Jens Ohlin & Darryl Robinson eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
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Leora Bilsky, The Eichmann Trial: Toward a Jurisprudence of Eyewitness Testimony of Atrocity, in The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered (Rebecca Wittmann ed., Toronto University Press, 2021)
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Leora Bilsky, Rachel Auerbach: Re-imagining the Victim as "EyeWitness" to the Nazi Camera, in Jewish Émigré Lawyers 74-101 (L. Bilsky & A. Weinke, eds., 2021)
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Leora Bilsky and Rachel Klagsbrun, The List (Bianca Gaudenzi ed., Politics of Cultural Restitution in Global Perspective) (forthcoming 2024)
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Leora Bilsky and Rachel Klagsbrun, Desk Perpetrator and Cultural Genocide: Between Poland and Canada in Desk Perpetrators: Schreibtischtater and their International Crimes (Jens Meierhenrich ed., CUP forthcoming)
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Leora Bilsky, Salo Baron: The Historian as Witness to Cultural Genocide, Living Law in Jewish Studies (Stolzenberg, Brafman, Prendregast eds., forthcoming 2024) [Katz center for Jewish Studies book series] (forthcoming 2024)
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Leora Bilsky, Genocide and Cultural Restitution, Handbook on International Law and History Eastearn Europe in A Global Perspecitve (Isabella Lohr and Ned eds, forthcoming 2024)
Working Papers
Leora Bilsky, The Archive and The Law – Three Variations on a Theme (2023)
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Leora Bilsky & James Loeffler, The Beautiful Crime: Law and Emotion in Raphael Lemkin’s Imagination (2024)
Leora Bilsky & Uri Brun, Political Trials, Neo-Legalism and Gaza (2025)
Selected Invited Lectures
April 2003
Invited Lecture, “Hannah Arendt: Half A Century of Controversy”, Tel Aviv University
January 2005
Invited Lecture, “The Holocaust on Trial”, Holocaust Museum Washington
Sep 2006
Invited Lecture, Hannah Arendt at One Hundred: Crises of Our Republics, Yale University
June 2011
Invited Lecture, "The Eichmann Trial – Israelis & Memory", Memorial de la Shoah Museum, Roundtable
April 2013
Invited Lecture, Robert L. Bernstein Symposium, “Beyond Kiobel: Human Rights and Corporate Liability in the 21' Century.”, Yale Law School
October 2016
The Annual Kleh Lecture, “Victims’ Right to Truth: The Changing Faces of International Criminal Law”, Boston University
March 2017
Invited Lecture, “Jewish Restitution and Cultural Genocide”, Boston University, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies
March 2017
Invited Lecture, “Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda”, Harvard University
October 2018
Keynote Lecture, “The Holocaust and Law”, Masua Conference of Memory Museums: Memory, Art and Identity
April 2019
Ebel Lecture “Genocide and Cultural Restitution” , Princeton University
Sep 2019
Keynote Lecture – “Restitution Reparation and Holocaust Historiography”, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, conf. organziers Regula Ludi & Daniel Siemens
October 2019
Invited Lecture “Rachel Aurebach and the Eichmann Trial: Testimony as Resistance”, in Rokhl Oyerbach: The Bridge Between Wartime and Postwar Testimony, Yale University
June 2020
Invited Lecture, “Between Genocide, Colonialsm and Cultural Restitution”, Latitude Digital Festival, Goeth institute Berlin
January 2021
Invited Lecture, “Cultural Genocide: between Memory and Forgetting” International Holocaust Day, TAU University
April 2021
Invited Lecture, “Complicity and Lesser Evils”, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
June 2021
Invited Lecutre, “Cultural Genocide between Memory and Forgetting”, Wolfson College Cambridge
March 2022
Invited Lecture, “Reflecting on the 60th Anniversary of the Eichmann Trial”, Minnesota Journal of International Law's2022 Symposium
January 2023
The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture on UN Holocaust Memorial Day, Oxford University
January 2023
Key Note Lecture, “Rachel Auerbach, Cultural Genocide and a New Conception of Victims’ Testimonies, United Nations Holocaust Rememberance Day, Peace Palace the Hague IHRD
April 2023
The Eli Wiesel Annutal Lecture, “The Question of Restitution: From Post Holocaust to Post Colonial Struggles”, Boston University
June 2023
Planery Panel, “The Legal Scholar and the Public Sphere”, Workshop Science Po, Paris
July 2023
Invited Lecture, “Rachel Auerbach and Film as Witness to Holocaust”, Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt am Meine
Sep 2023
Invited Lecture, “Petitioning the Ministry of Minorities Affairs,” Cornell University
Nov 2023
Keynote lecture, “The List: Restitution Struggles between Post Holocaust to Post Colonial Conceptions” Int. Conf. 25 Years to Washington Principles, – Frankfurt/Oder
June, 2024
Keynote Lecture, “The Archive and The Law – Three Variations on a Theme”, How did archives emerge and function in times of crisis?, Int. conference TAU