
I am a professor of law at Tel Aviv University and hold the Benno Gitter Chair in Human Rights and Holocaust Research. I am also the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights. I earned my LL.B from Hebrew University and LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to this, I clerked for Justice Aharon Barak in Israel’s Supreme Court.
My research interests include: law and the Holocaust, Law and History, Transitional Justice, Criminal International Law, Political Trials and Feminist Legal Theories.
My most recent book is How to Say Genocide In Hebrew? The Struggle over Cultural Genocide in the Eichmann Trial (HaKibutz Ha-Meuhad, 2024). My previous books are Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial (Michigan University Press, 2004), The Holocaust, Corporations and the Law (Michigan University Press, 2017).
Recent Papers
Political Trials, Neo-Legalism and Gaza: Historical Memory in South Africa v. Israel, Law and Ethics of Human Rights vol. 20(1): 49-81(2026).
Hollow Citizenship: Between Private Property, Rule of Law and Democratic Visions for Israel, 1948-1950, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy Vol. 34:273 (2025).
The Beautiful Crime: Raphael Lemkin and the 1927 Shwarzbard Trial, Journal of International Criminal Justice Vol. pp. 1-20 (2026) (Joint with James Loeffler).



