Ido Rosenzweig is the Director of Cyber, Belligerencies and Terrorism Research, Minerva Center for the Study of Law under Extreme Conditions. He is an international lawyer with expertise in international humanitarian law (laws of armed conflict) and international human rights law. Prior to his work at the Minerva Center, Ido worked as a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute (in the Terrorism and Democracy Research Division) (2009-2014).

He has served as the coach for the Interdisciplinary Center's International Humanitarian Law team (2009 - 2013), directed the "Amicus Curiea" International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Concord Centre in the College of Management (2010 - 2012).  He is the co-founder and chairman of ALMA - Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law since 2010.  Ido earned his law degrees at Tel Aviv University (LL.B, 2005) (LL.M cum laude, 2010) and Northwestern University (LL.M, with honors, 2010).  He served in the International Law Department of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006 - 2008), is a member of the Israel Bar Association (since 2007) and an experienced computer programmer.

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Yaniv Roznai was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2015-16. He holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an LL.M from LSE (Distinction) in international law and LL.B. and B.A. degrees in Law and Government from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya (Magna cum Laude).In 2013, he was a visiting student research collaborator at the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA), Princeton University.

Prior to joining the Minerva Center, Yaniv served as a lecturer of comparative legal systems at Bar-Ilan University and of constitutional law at Carmel Academic Center, and a teaching and research assistant in the areas of constitutional and international law. He also served as an intern and a legal assistant in the Knesset’s (Israeli Parliament) legal department. Yaniv is a member of the Israeli Bar, the Israeli Public Law Association and the International Society of Public Law.

Yaniv’s scholarship focuses on constitutional and international law. His publications appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, International Journal of Constitutional Law,Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law; Wisconsin International Law Journal; Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal,Human Rights & Globalization Law Review, The California International Law Journal, and Stanford Law & Policy Review. His articles can be accessed here. Yaniv’s work was presented in numerous universities such as Yale, Princeton, Stanford,Cornell, Indiana, Washington University St. Louis,Queen Mary University, LSE, andEdinburgh. He was awarded with several scholarships and awards, such as the 2012-2014 Modern Law Review Scholarship, 2010-2013 LSE PhD Scholarship; 2010 California Bar International Law Section Annual Student Writing Competition, and 2006 IDC Annual Student Paper Competition.

In 2014, Yaniv was awarded the thesis prize of the European Group of Public Law (EGPL), which is awarded on an annual basis to the best doctoral public law thesis characterized by its European dimension. 

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Ido Lachman was a research assistant at the Center in 2013-15. He is a third-year law student at Haifa University Faculty of Law. He is a member of the editorial staff Mishpat U' Mimshal, Haifa Law Faculty law review, and member of the "Sea Resources & Law", Haifa Law Faculty law clinic. Recently he began working as a pre-intern at a Law-firm dealing with Commercial Agreement and family law.

Ehud Segal coordinated the research on earthquake preparedness and response at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2015-2017. Ehud is an advanced PhD student at the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University. His dissertation is on accumulating policy changes demonstrated and analyzed through air pollution and road safety governmental policies in Israel. Ehud is also part of a research team devising a policy package for strengthening apartment buildings in the periphery of Israel against earthquakes. Ehud is an independent policy analyst and has prepared policy analyses and research in various fields including governmental HRM, environmental policy and road safety policy. He has master's degree (magna cum laude) in public policy from the Hebrew University.

Sigall Horovitz was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2014-15. Her research areas include transitional justice and international criminal law, with a special focus on Africa and Israel-Palestine. Dr. Horovitz holds a Master of Laws from Columbia University (LL.M.2003,with honors), and a Doctor of Laws from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LL.D. 2014). Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on national reconciliation in Rwanda. It forms part of the larger ERC-funded research on the Effectiveness of International Courts. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Horovitz worked for the UN as a legal advisor at the ICTR (in Tanzania) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (in Sierra Leone and The Hague). 

Dr. Horovitz directs university projects on transitional justice, and she initiated the transitional justice programs at both Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also develops and teaches courses on transitional justice and on election and party law. Dr. Horovitz is a recipient of the Arthur Helton Fellowship of the American Society of International Law (2013), the Rabin Scholarship of the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2013-2014), and the Vodoz Prize of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2012). She is a member of the New York and Israeli Bar Associations, and a founding member of ALMA - the Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law.

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Dr. Michal Saliternik was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2014-15. She also serves as a post-doctoral fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Saliternik received her Ph.D. from the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law Direct Ph.D. Program in 2014. Her dissertation, which was written under the supervision of Prof. Eyal Benvenisti, is entitled The International Regulation of Peacemaking. Prior to joining the Minerva Center she was a research fellow at the Hauser Global Fellows Program at the New York University School of Law. Dr. Saliternik’s main research interests are international law, constitutional law, administrative law, economic analysis of public law, political theory, negotiation theory, conflict resolution, and post-conflict transitions. Her research project at the Minerva Center focuses on the responsibilities of international aid providers. Her publications include: “Reducing the Price of Peace: The Human Rights Responsibilities of Third Party Facilitators”, 47 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming 2015), and “The Treatment of Occupation Legislation by Courts in Liberated Territories” (with Eyal Benvenisti), in Edda Kristjánsdóttir, Andre Nollkaemper and Cedric Ryngaert (eds.),International Law in Domestic Courts: Rule of Law Reform in Post-Conflict States(2012).

Suha Jubran-Ballan was a post-doctoral fellow in the the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa in 2014-2016. In her research she focused on the implications of economic crises on the international obligations of states in the era of bilateral investment treaties. She also worked as an adjunct lecturer at Tel Aviv University, The Buchmann Faculty of Law. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Buchmann Faculty of Law under the supervision of Prof. Eyal Benvenisti. Her dissertation examined the judicial reasoning of investment treaty arbitration and identifies different patterns of judicial reasoning according to the institutional arrangements of the arbitral panel. Suha holds an LL.B (cum laude) from Haifa University and LL.M (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. In the year 2012 Suha was granted the scholarship of the Counsel for Higher Education in Israel for minority Doctorial students. During her LLM studies she was granted a scholarship for distinguished LLM students of the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, and a scholarship of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of Law. During her Doctorial studies she organized a workshop for research students on Legal Theory and is member of the forum for Law, Corporations and the Transnational Sphere in Tel-Aviv University. During the academic year 2010-2011 she was an academic coordinator of the course “Theoretical Approaches of Law” for L.L.M students at the Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University.

Myriam Feinberg was a postdoctoral fellow with the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions between 2015-2017. Her research areas include counterterrorism, international organisations, national security, conflicts of sovereignty, and extraordinary renditions. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow with the ERC-funded Global Trust Project at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, and has been teaching French for the past ten years. Myriam holds a Licence de droit from Université Panthéon-Assas in Paris, an LL.M. in international law from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. Her publications include ‘International Counterterrorism – National Security and Human Rights: Conflicts of Norms or Checks and Balances?’ International Journal of Human Rights, Special Issue, Volume 19, Number 4, 2015 and International Organizations and Counterterrorism: Conflicts of Sovereignty, (Brill Publishers, monograph forthcoming 2016). Publication list

Rivka Brot was a post-doctoral fellow in the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law and the Geography and Environmental Studies Department between 2015-2017. In her research, she examined issues of law and order at the "Space of Exception", focusing on the administration of law in Jewish Displaced Persons Camps in the American Occupation Zone in Germany (1945-1949). Her doctoral research, written at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, examined the necessary relationship between law and the community it practices in, focusing on legal proceedings against Jews suspected of collaboration with the Nazis, held in Jewish DP camps and in the State of Israel. The dissertation was written under the supervision of Professor Leora Bilsky, faculty of law, Tel Aviv University, and Professor David Myers, former chair, history department UCLA. Rivka holds an LL.B and LL.M (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. During her MA and doctoral studies, Rivka granted several scholarships and awards, among them a scholarship for distinguished LLM and PhD students of the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv University Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies and Dan David Young Researchers Scholarship Award. Rivka was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the United States holocaust Memorial Museum (2011) and a Pozen foundation fellow (2013-2014). Rivka published several articles regarding her research topics. In the year 2015-16 she will teach a seminar, "From Nuremberg to Jerusalem: The Holocaust in the Courtroom", in the Jewish History Department, Haifa University.

Olga Frishman was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition in 2015. She also taught the course “Contemporary Issues in Israel” at the Bonita Trust International LL.M. Program at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law. Recently, she was a Golda Meir/Lady Davis post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Law. Olga was also a researcher at the ERC-funded Global Trust Project at Tel Aviv University and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School. Olga holds a Ph.D. (at the direct program towards a Ph.D. in Law) from the Zvi Meitar Centre for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation, titled “Courts ant their Audiences: Organisational Identity, Organisational Images, Intended Images, and Institutional Isomorphism” was written under the supervision of Professor Eyal Benvenisti. She received her LL.B. (summa cum laude, 1st in class) and her B.A. (magna cum laude) in the field of management from Tel Aviv University as part of the Tel Aviv University Adi Lautman Monodisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence. Olga clerked for Justice Asher Grunis at the Supreme Court of Israel. In 2013, Olga co-organized the “Law in Changing Transntational World” workshop, the first international workshop for young scholars at the Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law. She also co-organized the Theory and Philosophy of Law doctoral workshop. She had served as a teaching assistant for a variety of courses. Olga received the “Abba Even Scholarship for Diplomacy and International law” as well as the “Law, Transnational Space and Human Rights” research grant from the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law.

Olga Shteiman was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition at the University of Haifa between 2015-2017 and at the Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Center for Spatial Analysis Research (UHCSISR), Department of Geography and Environmental Studies under the supervision of Prof. Deborah Shmueli and Dr. Anna Brook.

In her research, she examines issues of disaster preparedness among new Immigrants to Israel: Perceptions, attitudes and actual behavior,focusing on the Development of training programs for extreme situations (ES) through changes in attitudes toward authority.  These programs will address the difference between ES in Israel and ES in country of origin, the features of the structure and operation of logistics services and public services and "focus groups" such as older immigrants.

Olga holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the Samara State  University and LL.M in Social Work from the Psychology and Social Work Department at Penza State Pedagogical University named after V.G. Belinsky (Magna cum Laude), as well as B.Sc. in Engineering Robotic and Complexes Systems in the Instrumentation Department  at Penza State Technical University.

Since 2005 Olga is a full member of the Federation of Russian educational psychologists.

During the year 2010-2011 she was a regional coordinator of the International Program «PROJECT HOPE" (USA) in the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

Olga is a licensed clinical social worker in Israel.

Prior to joining the Minerva Center, Olga served as an Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology at Penza State University (1999-2014) and a Lecturer, Associate Professor at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology at Penza Institute for Further Training and Retraining of Education Workers (Russia).

Also in 2011-2013, She was a researcher, member of the advisory council on health preserving technologies, prevention of alcohol and tobacco abuse at the Penza Regional Institute of Public Health (Russia).

Denard Veshi was a PhD fellow with the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions between 2015-2018. His research areas include comparative law, medical law, refugee law and he is specialized in interdisciplinary research. Denard holds a M.Sc. (cum Laude) from University of Bologna, School of Law and M.A. in Insurance and Welfare Law from LIUC University. In 29.01.2016, he was awarded with a PhD title from the Joint International Doctoral Degree in “Law, Science and Technology” (LAST-JD) from University of Bologna (Italy), University of Turin (Italy), University Autonomous of Barcelona (Spain), Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), University of Tilburg (the Netherlands) and University of Luxemburg (Luxemburg). Moreover, in 19.11.2020, he was awarded with the PhD in European Doctorate in “Law & Economics” (EDLE) from Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), University of Bologna (Italy), University of Hamburg (Germany) and University of Haifa (Israel). While he was the first PhD fellow awarded with the LAST-JD title, he is also the first PhD fellow funded by University of Haifa in the EDLE programme. Recently, his EDLE thesis was accepted to be published by Springer.

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Maya Mark was a post-doctoral fellow in the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2016-2018. Maya conducted an interdisciplinary project of law and history which examined the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance as a case study for the rule of law under extreme conditions.

Maya obtained her LLB (magna cum laude) and LLM (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral research, conducted under the guidance of Justice Prof. Daphne Barak-Erez and Prof. Arie Naor, deals with Menachem Begin's world view of law and regime.  Maya was an intern at the Supreme Court (the chamber of Justice M. Naor) and a senior clerk for Justice E. Hayut. She is currently a lecturer at The Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.

Deborah’s Tel Aviv-based law practice focuses on global and Israeli cybersecurity law and regulation. In addition, she is special counsel for cybersecurity law to the New York law firm Zeichner, Ellman & Krause LLP.  Her current work at the global level includes membership in the Advisory Board for the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise and participation as a Core Expert on the Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS) project. She was a member of the International Group of Experts that drafted the Tallin 2 manual on state activity in cyberspace; and of the ILA’s Study Group on Cybersecurity, Terrorism and International Law. Deborah also taught as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Exec Ed Program on Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology in 2016. In 2010-11, she co-chaired the National Cyber Initiative’s Policy and Regulation Committee, under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s Office; and served as a member of Israel’s National Cyber Bureau’s Public Committee on the Cyber Professions. Between 2007- 2014, Deborah was Director of the Wexner Foundation's Israel Fellowship Program, which develops public leadership at the highest levels in Israel and the US together with the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to these positions, Deborah was Director of the Department of Regulation and International Treaties and served in the Director-General’s Bureau of the Israeli Ministry of Communications (1994-2005). She received her B.A. in History and Anthropology summa cum laude and with Phi Beta Kappa membership from Wellesley College and the École de Sciences Politiques in Paris; her LL.B. and LL.M (cum laude) from Hebrew University; and an MC-MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as a Wexner Foundation Fellow in 2000-2001. 

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Shira Meir was a research assistant at the center in 2015-2016, working on Cyber issues. She is a fourth-year student at the Law faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her academic majors are criminal law and philosophy. In addition, she was a TA at the Law faculty in Hebrew University for the Jurisprudence course, and will begin her legal internship in criminal law in the public sector this academic year. 

Aurelie Amidan is a former research assistant at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, researching international cyber law and regulation. Prior to her work at the Minerva Center, Aurelie served as a Duty Officer at the Situation Room under the Prime Minister’s Office’s National Cyber Bureau (2012-2014). At the NCB she was in charge of cyber crisis control, working with the Intelligence and Security community and taking part in shaping the NCSR and its practices.During her military service she was an officer in the 8200 intelligence unit. Aurelie holds a Cum Laude double undergraduate degree in Sociology, Anthropology and Accounting from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2012-2015).

Nadav Dagan was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2017-2019. He specialises in Constitutional & Administrative Law. His present research deals with questions of vires in emergencies with special emphasis on common-law systems.

Dr. Dagan holds LL.B. from the University of Haifa, LL.M. from University College London (UCL), and Ph.D. granted by Bar-Ilan University. His doctoral research, conducted under the supervision of prof. Ariel Bendor, explored the concept of reasonableness in administrative law and sought to promote a coherent doctrine of reasonableness as an integral part of the rule of law. Dr. Dagan is also a qualified lawyer. He is currently an adjunct professor at IDC Herzliya.  

David Vitale was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2017-18. In his research, David seeks to use the concept of political trust as a means of analyzing and evaluating the protection of social rights by the state. He does so by drawing upon, and importing into social rights law, ideas from political theory, philosophy, sociology and psychology. At the Minerva Center, David’s work will focus on questions of political trust and social rights protection in the specific context of socioeconomic crises.

David holds an LLM (Legal Theory) from New York University (NYU), an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School, and in September 2017, submitted his thesis towards a PhD in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Additionally, David holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Toronto (BSc (Hons)).

Previously, David has served as a judicial clerk to the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario as well as the Supreme Court of Israel, has conducted research with the Center for Constitutional Transitions, and has worked as a research assistant to various professors at LSE, NYU, Osgoode and the American University in Cairo.

Idit Shafran Gittleman was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2017-2019. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow with the ERC-funded Global Trust Project at Tel Aviv University. Idit is also a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute and holds a BA and MA in Philosophy. Her dissertation, which was written under the supervision of Prof. Yitzhak Benbaji, is entitled Partiality in War. She is currently an adjunct professor at IDC Herzliya.

Jian Jiang was a PhD research fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2017-2019. His research areas cover laws and regulations in cybersecurity, torts, competition law and regulations on network industries, and financial law. He is specialized in interdisciplinary legal analysis (applying the methods of law and economics), theoretical economic modelling, and empirical legal study. His PhD title was awarded in the programme “European Doctorate in Law and Economics” by Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Bologna, University of Haifa, and University of Hamburg. Before this, Jian obtained an LLM (Bonn University), an MBA in Germany, as well as a B.E. in China. His previous professional experience includes roles as a scientific staff in University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, as a data analyst in Siemens, as the regional manager of Shanghai in China Mobile, as well as a founder of a small-sized high-technology company in China.

Emil Israel was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center in 2017-18. He is is an urban planner, geographer and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion. Emil explores diverse aspects of space and society. Emil’s research interests include issues of spatiality, social justice, inequality and poverty, as well as issues that concentrate on suburbanization, social distinction, and on immigration and globalization. Before arriving at the Technion, Emil was a researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, Technion Israel. There he explored core-periphery inequalities, concentrating on themes of regional development. Emil completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Magna Cum Laude), specializing in Geography and Political Science. He holds a PhD from the Technion (2013). Emil conducted post-doctoral studies in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), in MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as in the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, in the University of Haifa, Haifa. In this recent study he explores stakeholder engagement and participation mechanisms for earthquakes' preparedness (as well as for other large-scale disasters), focusing in peripheral local authorities in Israel.

Ronnen Ben-Arie was a post-doc fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2018-19 and now is a research fellow at the Center. In his research Ronnen studies the city of Haifa at the aftermath of the 1948 war and questions - what lessons can be learned from the case of Haifa for the understating of the resilience of cities in overcoming a state of war? Previously, Ronnen was a postdoctoral research fellow at ‘PECLAB – Planning, Environment, Community’ at the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel-Aviv University, and he teaches at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technion.
In his PhD dissertation he explored the concepts of resistance in the political thought of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, as a basis for thinking of possibilities for transformation of social and political order (Department of Government and Political Theory, Haifa University). Ronnen graduated from the Architecture Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem; and completed his MA studies at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel-Aviv University. His research interests include spatialities of power; contested and shared urban spaces; and settler colonialism in Israel-Palestine. The title of his recently published co-authored book, with Marcelo Svirsky, is From Shared Life to Co-Resistance in Historic Palestine (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017).
Ronnen is also active with different organizations, especially with regard to issues of human rights and spatial planning.

Recorded talk: City at war: the state of emergency as a constituent moment

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Yahli Shereshevsky was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2018-2019. He is an international lawyer and his research focuses mainly on international humanitarian law, international lawmaking, the use of force and international criminal law.
Recently he was a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. During his doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he was a Hans-Guth Dreyfus Fellow for Conflict Resolution and the Law and was enrolled in the Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Fellowship Program. He received the Hebrew University President’s Scholarship and was a Kretzmer fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights. Yahli holds an LLB in Law and the “Amirim” Interdisciplinary Honors Program for Outstanding Students (2009, summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University. He clerked for the Honorable Deputy Chief Justice Eliezer Rivlin of the Supreme Court of Israel and served as an intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). His work has been published or is forthcoming, inter alia, in the Berkley Journal of International Law, the Michigan Journal of International law, the European Journal of International Law and the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.

Recorded talk: Something is not always better than nothing

Anna Evangelidi was a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy, University of Haifa in 2018-2019. Her postdoctoral research extended her doctoral thesis’ insights into UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) warfare and the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) by focusing on the rise of cyberspace as an increasingly prominent means and method of warfare. Anna holds a Law Degree (LLB Hons) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, an LLM degree in International Law from the University of Bristol, UK, and has recently completed her PhD studies at the City Law School, London, UK. During her doctoral studies, she taught International Humanitarian Law (IHL), European Union law and constitutional law. After obtaining her LLM, she worked as a legal consultant with the Chambers at the International Criminal Court, The Hague. Anna is a qualified lawyer in Greece and member of the Thessaloniki Bar (Greece). Her research areas and interests include the legal and ethical dilemmas generated by new weapon technologies; LOAC/IHL; international law and the use of force; international criminal law; international law and human rights; and international dispute settlement.

Itamar Mann's research is in international law and political theory. He teaches international law and a number of related courses, including an elective on law and terrorism, environmental law, and a seminar on human rights.

Before moving to Haifa, he was the national security law fellow and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center, Washington DC. He holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University, and LLM and JSD degrees from Yale Law School.

Alongside teaching and research, he provides pro-bono consultancy to several human rights organizations, and is a member of the legal action committee at GLAN (Global Legal Action Network). He previously provided services to Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Justice Initiative on issues related to refugee and migration law in Europe. Itamar is a member of the Israel Bar and have practiced human rights and criminal defense law.

His book, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2016.

Dr. Itamar Mann's talks at the Minerva Center

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Dr. iur., lic. rer.pol. Anne van Aaken is Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International and European Law at the University of Hamburg. From 2006 to 2018, she was a Professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Before that, she was Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. She taught as a guest professor at numerous universities in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as the USA and was a Global Law Professor at NYU 2016. She was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin in 2010/11.
She was a Vice-President of the European Society of International Law and of the European Association of Law and Economics, was Chair of the Programmatic Steering Board of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law, and is a Member of ILA Committees. She is a member of the EUI Research Council and Member i.a. of the Scientific Advisory Board of European Journal of International Law and of the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law and International Theory.
Her main research areas are international law, (international) legal theory, (behavioural) law and economics including the use of experimental studies as well as corruption. She has published widely on those topics.

Personal webpage: https://www.jura.uni-hamburg.de/die-fakultaet/personenverzeichnis/aaken-anne-van.html

Oren Shlomo was a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions in 2019-2020. His research focuses on the political geography and ecology of cities and metropolitan areas, particularly through the lens of the politics and governance of infrastructure and services and planning and development policy. His PhD research on the governmentalities of East Jerusalem's infrastructure and services in the post-Oslo era (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2016) was awarded Best PhD Dissertation by the Israel Political Science Association. After completing his PhD research Oren was awarded a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship to continue his research on Jerusalem at the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University. In the last two years he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Sustainability at IDC Herzliya where he worked on the environmental policy and infrastructure governance in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. He is the coeditor of Cities of Tomorrow – Planning Justice and Sustainability Today (2014, Hebrew), and his work has been published in leading academic journals.

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Rottem Rosenberg Rubins is a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. She specializes in criminal law, particularly in crimmigration and the interrelations between criminal law and citizenship. Her research at the Minerva Centerfocuses on counterterrorism legislation, particularly on Israel’s 2016 Counterterrorism Bill and the manner in which it reflects the changing relationship between Israel and the occupied territories. The research examines the new balance struck in the legislation between emergency powers and measures of conventional criminal law, and its effect on the civic status of the Palestinian residents of the occupied terrorists, as well as the Israeli citizenship regime in general.
Rottem holds an LLB (magna cum laude), an LLM (summa cum laude) and a PhD from the Tel Aviv University faculty of law. During 2018-2019 academic year, she was a Cheshin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University faculty of law. She additionally serves as the coordinator of the public committee for preventing and amending wrongful convictions, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Prof. Yoram Danziger, and for several years has taught a course on the amendment of wrongful convictions at the Tel Aviv University faculty of law. Her articles on the subject of wrongful convictions in Israel have been quoted in verdicts of the Supreme Court, and an article based on her PhD has been recently published in the New Criminal Law Review.

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Tamar Megiddo was a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa in 2019-2020. She is also an adjunct professor at the College for Law and Business, and a teaching fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  A graduate of the Hebrew University (LL.B. ’09, magna cum laude), she also holds an LL.M. (’12, with honors) and a J.S.D. (’16) from New York University School of Law. She has previously held several post-doctoral positions at both Tel Aviv University (at the GlobalTrust and TraffLab ERC research projects) and at the Hebrew University (Lady Davis).

Tamar’s primary research interests are in public international law and law & technology. Focusing on non-elite, ‘ordinary’ individual people, and on the minute, everyday practice of law, she investigates how law and technology operate to empower and constrain individuals. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including the Harvard International Law Journal, The Yale Journal of International Law and the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.

Recorded talk: Online Activism, Digital Domination & the Rule of Trolls. Nov. 17, 2019

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Robert Neufeld is a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition at the University of Haifa. Robert research interests include international law, International Humanitarian law, Security law, Military law and emergency law. His research, conducted with Prof. Eli  Salzberger and Prof. Shlomo Mizrahi, is focusing on the regulatory framework of the Israeli emergency laws.

Until retiring from active service in the IDF, Robert has served in numerous positions in the Military Advocate General Corps and the Military Ombudsman, including Commander of the IDF’s School of Military Law, Head of the Operational Law Branch in the IDF International Law Department, Legal Advisor to the Israel Air Force, Israel Navy and IDF Home Front Command, Chief Regional Military Prosecutor, Judge Advocate for the Israel Air Force, Legal Advisor to the Intelligence Directorate and Legal Advisor to the Technology and Logistics Directorate.

Robert holds an LLB as well as LLM (Magna cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University, and a PhD from the University of Haifa. His PhD work - "The Impact of political motives on the legality of actions in current warfare under International Humanitarian Law" has examined the adaptability of International Humanitarian Law to modern warfare, current military thought and military doctrines, and the growing political aspects of the use of force.

Recorded talk With Prof. Eli Salzberger: Management of Emergencies in Israel: Towards a Comprehensive Doctrine and Legislative-Regulative Framework. 
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Omri is a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions, and at the Truman Institute (Hebrew U). In 2019-2020 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv U (Jonathan Shapiro Fund). In 2019 he completed a PhD in Anthropology and Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, following an MA in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew U (2010, summa cum laude). In the past he was a research fellow in the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory and in Media and Cultural Studies, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf.
Omri’s research focuses on definitions and modes of representation of violence in bureaucratic and legal interactions between human rights NGOs and state extensions, as part of a political and cultural theatre that includes everyday life, media, and art. He applies inter-disciplinary tools to examine the ethics of cultural adaptations of testimony and struggles over archival issues in Israel/Palestine.
Omri’s publications, from his MA and PhD, have appeared in a number of edited books, and in such journals as Anthropologica, Journal of Borderland Studies, and Children & Society. He also co-edited A Sort of Solution to Silence: Modern Arab Literature in Hebrew (2018).

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Shelly Aviv Yeini is a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa.
Shelly’s primary research interests are in the fields of public international law, constitutional law and labour law. Shelly's research challenges traditional doctrines and assumptions in international law, and considers how traditional public international law adapts in the face of technological advancements and transformations in warfare. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including the American Journal of International Law and the Harvard National Security Journal.
Shelly holds LL.B. from Bar-Ilan University, MSt. in international human rights law from Oxford University, and Ph.D. granted by Bar-Ilan University. Her Master's dissertation deals with Israel's prisoner-exchange policy and the right to life, and her doctoral research, conducted under the supervision of prof. Ariel Bendor, explores the applicability of labour rights on professional football players.

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Danni Reches is a research assistant at the Center. She received her BA in Middle Eastern Studies from Leiden University, the Netherlands, during which she spent a semester at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Danni also holds a BA certificate (1 year) in Peace & Conflict Studies and an MA degree in Diplomacy (cum laude) from the University of Haifa. In this framework, she received a scholarship for outstanding students. Currently, Danni Reches is a PhD fellow at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) at the University of Haifa. Her PhD dissertation focuses on policy and media discourses of persons with a migration background from the MENA region to the EU. For this research, Danni receives a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In other research projects, Danni works on refugees and International Law in the EU during crises, including the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ and the Corona pandemic. She is invited as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Migration Law at Radboud University, the Netherlands, in the summer of 2021.

Danni hosts the podcast ‘What are you going to do with that?’ of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa. In the podcast she talks with Early Career Researchers about their academic journey and raises awareness for mental health in academia.

Mohammed Wattad (LL.B., LL.M., JSD) is an Associate Professor and the Dean of Law at Zefat Academic College; Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel-Aviv University; and Research Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at Haifa University. In addition, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at several law schools in Israel and abroad. In 2014-2016, he served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California at Irvine, both at the Department of Political Science and the School of Law.
Prof. Wattad is a legal scholar specializing in international and comparative criminal law, comparative constitutional law, international law, the laws of war, the laws on torture, the laws on terrorism, Professional Ethics, Medical Law, and the interaction between law and political science, particularly regarding the independence of the judiciary, the rule of law, and other issues concerning the Arab minority citizens of Israel.
Prof. Wattad is a Haifa University School of Law graduate, including studies as an exchange student at Oxford University (a comparative and international law program). Additionally, he accomplished higher academic education in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Columbia University in the USA, the Munk Center of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Toronto University in Canada, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Italy. In all academic institutions Wattad attended, he graduated with distinction and was included in the Dean's List. During his studies, Prof. Wattad has received several prizes of excellence and other prestigious fellowships, inter alia, Fulbright Fellowship, Halbert Fellowship, Minerva Fellowship, Humboldt Fellowship, and the Maof Prize granted for Excellent Israeli Arab Academic Scholars by Israel's Council for Higher Education.
He is 2020 winner of the prestigious Zeltner Young Scholar Award; the 2015 winner of the prestigious Young Scholar Award on Israel Studies; the 2007 and the 2008 winner of the Best Legal Oralist Award of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences; and the 2014 and the 2018 winner of the Excellent Lecturer Award of Zefat Academic College.
Between 2003-2004, he served as a legal clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel under the supervision of Justice Dalia Dorner. Between 2010-2015 he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal 'Medicine and Law'. Between 2018-2021, he served as Research Fellow at the International Center for Health, Law, and Ethics at Haifa University. Since 2009, he serves as a member of the General Assembly and the Presidential Board of Israel Press Council. Since 2020 he serves as a member of the Israeli Institute for Press and Media Board of Governance.
Prof. Wattad is highly involved in professional ethics activity; inter alia, he serves as Vice President of the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal of the Northern District in Israel; the Head of the Ethics Forum in Rotary Israel; and member at the Ethics Tribunal of Israel Press Council.
Additionally, Prof. Wattad has expertise in the history of Israel and issues of self-image and identity in multicultural societies. He has written and spoken worldwide extensively on societal and political challenges confronting the Middle East and Israel, including the relations between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens and Israel’s external relations with surrounding Arab states.
Furthermore, Prof. Wattad served, and so remains, in many important public and professional positions, leading among others, a member at the Public Committee for Recommending Nominees for the Position of the Knesset’s Legal Advisor member at the Bar Examination Committee.
Besides, Prof. Wattad is devoted to volunteering activities in the community and the society, among other things, as a Rotarian since 2008. In 2020-2021, he served as the President of the Stella Maris-Haifa Rotary Club. In addition, Prof. Wattad is the recipient of the prestigious Paul Harris Award, by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among people of the world.

Talia Diskin is a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa.

Talia holds a B.A (Psychology and Communication), an LL.B (Law) and an M.A (Culture Research, cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. During her M.A and doctoral studies, Talia was granted with several scholarships and awards, among them a scholarship from the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, and in 2018 she received the Ben Halpern award from AIS (Association for Israel Studies) for best Ph.D. dissertation for her study: "A Law of Our Own: Legal and Moral Values in Children and Youth Periodicals in the State of Israel, 1948-1958", supervised by Prof. Assaf Likhovski. Between the years 2018-2021 Talia was a post-doctoral fellow at The Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Assaf Mond is a scholar of the Total War, war-time urbanity, and concentration camps. He is currently working on his second book, tentatively titled The Untalked-of Concentration Camps: Imprisonment of Civilians in Liberal States (Britain, USA, Canada, and Australia) during two World Wars. He received his Ph.D. in 2019 from Tel Aviv University, where he studied under the guidance of Iris Rachamimov at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical studies. Afterwards he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Open University and taught European history in Levinsky College of Education. His first book, The Changing Urban Space of Great-War London, 1914-1918, is currently being prepared for publication. An article he wrote, titled “Alexandra Palace: A Concentration Camp in the Heart of London”, will be published soon in a collection by Cornell University Press, World War I and Its Internments: Local, National, and Global Perspectives. His article "‘It is at Night-Time that we Notice Most of the Changes in Our Life caused by the War': War-Time, Zeppelins and Children’s Experience of the Great War in London" was awarded The Gail Braybon Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper in the 9th Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies at Oxford University in 2016, and was published in Routledge’s 2018 War Time: First World War Perspectives on Temporality. His article “Chelsea Football Club and the Fight for Professional Football in First World War London” was published in the November 2016 issue of The London Journal. He published several other articles and book reviews in the Hebrew journals Historia and Zmanim, and in the latter he was also the Managing Editor between 2017-2020.

Gil Rothschild Elyassi is a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. Gil’s work focuses on institutional violence, criminal law and punishment, knowledge production across worlds and under conditions of domination, and the interaction between law, technologies, and human life. Gil’s work is trans-disciplinary, and it primarily draws on ethnographic, historical and collaborative research.
Gil completed a PhD at UC Berkeley in 2021 alongside a designated emphasis in critical theory. Gil’s dissertation explores community/penal supervision as an institution tasked with seeing and acting across the color line, that is across worlds that exist side by side under conditions of racial and economic domination. Prior to that, Gil attained an LLM at New York University (as a Hauser Global Scholar) and an LLB at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Alongside teaching and research, Gil is committed to documenting institutional violence also in non-academic areans, as well as to coming with others to create and sustain spaces for mutual care, support and hope.

Hadeel Abu Hussein, is a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Condition at the University of Haifa, she holds a PhD in Law from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Previously, she was Senior research fellow and consultancy advisor at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law, Heidelberg, Germany; for the Middle East & North Africa projects. In particular:  "Strengthening the new Constitutional Court in Morocco". The projects focus on supporting justice institutions, governments and parliaments as well as non-state actors in various areas of law, such as public international law, the protection of human rights, international fair trial standards, international humanitarian law, comparative constitutional law and administrative law. Also, she was a Research Visitor and Bonavero Early Career Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Mansfield College, University of Oxford. Also she was a Postdoctoral  research fellow at the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford University

Hadeel studied LL.B and LL.M degrees at Tel Aviv University; she is a member of the Israel Lawyers Bar. Prior to starting her doctorate studies in Ireland, she completed an Executive Education, 'Leadership Program for Legal and Business Women, Legal and Business Fellowship' at the Wharton Business School and Penn law at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. While at the National University of Ireland she was a Doctorate Fellow, where she taught international human rights law and minority rights. Following that, she spent time as a postgraduate visitor at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany. 

Currently, her research is dealing with public international law, human rights law and comparative constitutionalism. Exploring the transformative nature of law itself, as it was applied as a critical instrument in the colonial context, it is an attempt to analyse the extended discourse on law, power and colonialism. Hadeel's research focuses on international legal discourse in the Middle East, Israel/Palestine conflict, human rights, social justice and decoloniality. Her work is enlightened by and engages with Third World Approaches to International Law.

Alongside her research, Hadeel practices human rights law and constitutional law in Israel/Palestine, and MENA region where she still collaborating with human rights organisations international civil-society organisations as legal advisor and volunteer.

Her book, The Struggle for Land Under Israeli Law, ”An Architecture of Exclusion”, came out with Routledge in November 2021.