Shulamit Almog is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Haifa and Director of the Doctoral Program of the faculty. Her research focuses on law and culture, law and literature, law and film, children's rights and feminist legal studies. She has published numerous books and articles in US, Canadian, European and Israeli law reviews. Alongside her academic work, she is appearing before the Israeli Knesset, drafting sections of Israel's report to the UN on the International Convention on Children's Rights, and participating in the committee reforming Israel's Adoption Law and in the committee endowing national award for combating trafficking in persons. She is also a member of the Israeli Press Council Presidency.
Internet, Narrative Cognizance, Law and Literature
From Sterne and Borges to Lost Storytellers: Cyberspace, Narrative, and Law, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal (2002)
Human Rights Law
REVIVING MULTICULTURALISM: CONCEPTUALIZING THE RIGHT TO ADAPTABLE EDUCATION (with Lotem Perry-Hazan), ExpressO (2011)
The contention put forward here is that conceptualization of the right to adaptable education, derived...
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Contesting Religious Authoriality: The Immanuel “Beis-Yaakov” School Segregation Case (with Lotem Perry-Hazan), The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (forthcoming) (2012)
This paper will focus on two textual articulations that emerged in the Immanuel “Beis-Yaakov” school...
THE ABILITY TO CLAIM AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMAGINE: RIGHTS CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE EDUCATION OF ULTRA-ORTHODOX GIRLS (with Lotem Perry-Hazan), The Journal of Law and Education (2011)
In this article we explore the linkage between human rights education and the development of...
Crimes Passionais, Crimes de Compaixão, Narrativas e Direito, Worlds in Dialogue (2010)
Este ensaio ocupa-se da velha mas longe de obsoleta narrativa de “emoção violenta”. A partir...
From 'Paratroopers' to 'Waltz With Bashir' - The Absence of Law from Israeli War Films, Studies in Law, Politics and Society (2009)
The chapter contends that although Israeli reality is saturated with law and legal issues, very...
Ethics, Aesthetics, and Law: The Third Man’s Three Prongs (with Amnon Reichman), Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (2008)
The chapter explores the role of law in society and its relation to ethical conflicts...