About

I am a socio-legal scholar of human rights, criminal justice, colonialism and armed conflict, specializing in military courts and incarceration in Israel/Palestine.

I am a professor of global studies and human rights in the School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon. In 2020-2022 I was a Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar. I am currently writing a book manuscript titled Citizen-Enemies: Military Courts and the Construction of Citizenship in Israel/Palestine, and working on a second book project, The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization.

Before transitioning to academia I was practicing lawyer of human rights and criminal defense in Israel and Palestine, litigating in military and civilian courts up to the Israeli Supreme Court. I hold a Ph.D. in law from Tel Aviv University, a master’s in international human rights law from the University of Oxford, and an L.L.B. from Tel Aviv University. I was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and Harvard Universities, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle.