I am a lecturer at the University of Reading School of Law. I am also a D.Phil.(Doctoral) Candidate in Human Rights Law at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, the Editor-in-Chief of the Refugee Law Initiative's Working Paper Series at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, and a part-time researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute (analysing questions of immigration, asylum and citizenship as part of the "Constitutional Principles and their Interpretation" project). Previously, I was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, a GTA in Public International Law at the University of Oxford, and a legal advising officer in the Military Advocate General unit of the Israeli Defense Forces (mandatory military service). At Oxford, I convened the Oxford Law Faculty's "Human Rights Discussion Group", and co-organised the "Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects" academic lectures series. I hold M.Phil. & B.C.L. degrees from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. (with specialisation in Public Law) from the Hebrew University, and an LL.B. and B.A. in Economics from the University of Haifa. I was called to the Israeli bar in 2003. My scholarly interests are in Human Rights Law, Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law), Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Democratic Theory.
Articles
Do Soldiers' Lives Matter? A View from Proportionality (with Sahi Otzari Esq.), Israel Law Review (2012)
A military operation is about to take place during an ongoing international armed conflict; it...
PROTECTING RECOGNIZED GENEVA CONVENTION REFUGEES OUTSIDE THEIR STATES OF ASYLUM, International Journal of Refugee Law (2012)
This article highlights the predicament of persons recognized as refugees according to the Convention Relating...
LEGAL OUTLIER, AGAIN? U.S. FELON SUFFRAGE: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVES, Boston University International Law Journal (2011)
The judiciousness of American felon suffrage policies has long been the subject of scholarly debate,...
Submission on International Law (with Oxford Pro Bono Publico), Submitted to the Iraq Inquiry (2010)
A collaborative submission prepared by six post-graduate students in international law at the University of...
The French 'headscarves Ban': Intolerance or Necessity ?, The John Marshall Law Review (2007)
The notion analyzed in the article is that a right can often be interpreted in...
Contributions to Books
An Imperative for Today: Recognizing a Positive Legal Right to Palliative Care (in Hebrew) (with Sylviane Colombo), LAW, SOCIETY AND CULTURE (2004)
The issue of palliative care, which is increasingly at the heart of the end-of-life discourse...
Case Notes and Book Reviews
R (on the application of E) (Respondent) v Governing Body of JFS and the Admissions Appeal Panel of JFS (Appellants) and others (case note) [2009] UKSC 15, He-A-Rat Din (in Hebrew) (2010)
This case-note offers comparative perspectives on the UK Supreme Court’s judgment in the JFS case...
A Just Zionism (Book review) (in Hebrew) (2009)
A book review of Tel Aviv University Professor Chaim Gans' book ‘A Just Zionism: On...
Case note: The “Assigned Residence” Case: H.C. 7015/02 Ajuri et al. v. IDF Commander, ISRAEL LAW REVIEW (2002)
The case discussed in this Note is surely one of the most important cases rendered...
Israel Democracy Institute
• The New Amendment to the ‘Prevention of Infiltration’ Act: Labelling Asylum Seekers as Criminals (2012)
הגבולות הראויים לשמירה על הגבול הדרומי: "החזרות חמות" של מבקשי מקלט פוטנציאלים, המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה (2011)
A Matter of Definition: on 'Infiltrators' and 'Asylum Seekers' in Israel, Israel Democracy Institute (2011)
הצעת חוק ההגירה לישראל: בחינת ההסדרים הנוגעים למבקשי מקלט ולפליטים, Israel Democracy Institute (2011)
Popular Press
Reclaiming the Human Rights Agenda, Cherwell (2009)
This contribution offers a critical appraisal of the Durban Review Conference