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Co-chairs: Yaniv Roznai and Tamar Hostovsky-Brandes .

Secretary of the Chapter: Noa Kwartaz-Avraham.

Co-Editors of the Israeli Blog: Eden Lapidor and Chagai Schlesinger.

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Upcoming Chapter Events and Activities

  • War against Ukraine and IHL (submission deadline: August 1, 2022).
  • Events of the Israeli branch of ICON•S, in collaboration with Reichman University : an international workshop on Religion, Illiberliam and Emotions in Constitutionalism (May 31, 2022, 11:30-13:30); Public lecture on How Bad Is Holmes’ ‘Bad Man’ Really (1 June 2022, 17:00–18:30). The events will take place physically on the Reichman University campus, and will be held in the English language.
  • Minerva Center – lecture (March 15, 2022, at 4:30-6:00 p.m.): Prof. Richard H. Steinberg, Politics and International Justice: A Look at the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Link to register here .
  • Calling: an online conference on “Transitional justice: time for a fundamental turnaround?” , Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University (June 13-14, 2022). Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2022.
  • Calling: Vidal Angel post-doctoral scholarship for the fight against hatred, racism and intolerance of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Applications will be accepted until March 1, 2022.
  • Calling: Postdoctoral fellowship of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University on transitional justice . Applications will be accepted until February 20, 2022.
  • Call for proposals: The first Jerusalem conference for male and female law student research (deadline for sending proposals: January 16, 2022).
  • International conference on behalf of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University – Looking from the outside in: Evaluating IHL from other normative perspectives (November 8-10, 2021). Link to register here .
  • The opening conference of the 2018 academic year of the Israeli branch of ICON•S – Tuesday, November 2, 2021, at 5:00-7:00 p.m. (online). Link to register here .
  • Online symposium of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University – Political violence and children: psychosocial effects, intervention and prevention policy (Thursday, October 21, 2021, at 4:30-6:30 p.m.). Link to register here .
  • Extra-territorial applicability of human rights – new developments : following a series of cases recently discussed before international committees and courts, the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is hosting an online symposium, with the participation of leading experts from around the world, which will deal with the question of the extra-territorial applicability of human rights – That is, what are the limits of a state’s responsibility for violations committed outside its territory. The online symposium will be held on Monday, July 26, 2021, at 4:00-7:00 p.m. Link to register here .
  • A call for an international conference of the Minerva Center at the Hebrew University: “An outside view: an examination of international humanitarian law from other normative perspectives” (November 9-10, 2021).
  • International conference (online) of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, on the topic: ” Scripts and settings of transitional justice: procedure, form and procedure “. The conference will deal with the relationship between the goals and results of transitional justice processes and the procedural rules and frameworks of these processes in different contexts. The event will take place online for three days – Monday-Tuesday and Wednesday, June 14-16, 2021, in the afternoon / evening.
  • The Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University is very happy to invite you to an event in honor of the book by Prof. Dave Kretschmer and Prof. Yael Ronan The Occupation of Justice . The event will take place   on Zoom  on Thursday, May 20, 2021, between 18:30-20:00 Israel time and will be attended by the former President of the Supreme Court, Judge (retired) Dorit Binish, Prof. Eyal Benvanishti, Attorney Sausan Zahar, and more” Daniel Reisner. The event will be moderated by Prof. Yuval Shani and we will hear the authors of the book, Prof. Dave Kretschmer and Prof. Yael Ronan.
  • Lecture on behalf of the Minerva Center at the Hebrew University – Prof. Raya Moorg, “Testimony, Confession and Video: Violation of Human Rights in Contemporary Israeli Cinema” (Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 6:30 p.m.).
  • Summer program of the INSS from June 21 to July 1, 2021, under the title “Israel, the Middle East, and Beyond: A New Perspective after a Decade of Upheaval in the Arab World”. The program consists of two separate courses. More details here .
  • A study evening on behalf of the Minerva Center for Human Rights in collaboration with the Truman Institute: an investigation into Israel / Palestine at the International Criminal Court in The Hague: the tension between the right to justice and conflict resolution (Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 18:00–19:30).
  • Study evening on behalf of the Minerva Center on the topic: Guantanamo Bay: an advocate’s perspective (Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 18:00–19:00).
  • Postdoctoral scholarship for the fight against hatred, racism and intolerance on behalf of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Applications will be accepted until March 31, 2021.
  • Call for an online conference, Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University : The Scripts and Settings of Transitional Justice: Procedure, Protocol and Form (deadline for submitting proposals: March 17, 2021).
  • Call for proposals for a postdoctoral program of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University on transitional justice (deadline for submitting applications: January 15, 2020).
  • Online conference of the Israeli branch of ICON•S: The establishment of the exchange government – a legitimate constitutional arrangement or an anti-democratic Band-Aid? (December 7, 2020, 9:00–11:00).
  • Year opening event of the Minerva Center at the Hebrew University – Human rights during a pandemic at the Supreme Court: a conversation with the Honorable Judge Hanan Meltzer (November 23, 2020).
  • Symposium on the Corona Law in Israel – an emergency within an emergency: the Corona Law through the lens of the rule of law, democracy and human rights (Minerva Center at Tel Aviv University, November 11, 2020).
  • Online conference on indirect victims of conflict (Minerva Center at the Hebrew University, November 9-11, 2020).
  • call for submissions to the 4th young researchers workshop on “Terrorism and Belligerency” at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa. Application deadline: January 7, 2021.
  • Flattening the Conflict? COVID-19 and Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine An On-line Symposium, Monday, June 29, 2020 at 17:00-19:00
  • The Ministry of Justice’s call for ideas from the general public regarding regulatory relief in light of the Corona crisis in the areas of operation of the Ministry of Justice
  • A call for students and research students for the human rights and Judaism program at the Israel Democracy Institute
  • Icon’s sixth conference 5.3.2020 | Haifa University
  • ICON•S Conference 2020: Public Law, (Dis)trust and Dissent Call for Papers, July 9-11, 2020 Wrocław, Poland
  • Call for submission of manuscripts on the topic “A legal perspective on checks and balances in Israeli democracy” to the journal Law Studies – deadline update extended to April 5, 2020
  • Call for a conference of the Minerva Center : Transitional Justice and the Crisis of Democracy
  • Conference “70 Years of Legislation” – 22.1, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center
  • The Forum for International Law – Annual Conference – Developments in International Law in Israel and the World , The Hebrew University 1/14/2020
  • Rights Researchers’ Workshop: Courts and Diversity | January 6-7 2020 | College of Law and Business
  • Conference on election laws in the digital age , Bar-Ilan University 1.1.2020
  • Study evening on the subject of reconsideration of the Seligman rule, Tel Aviv University, 12.1.2020
  • Invitation to the annual conference of the Israel Society for Law and Society: The Limits of Law , 12.29.2019, Bar-Ilan University
  • Invitation to the 20th Anniversary of the Disabled Demonstrations Conference: Past, Present and Future of Social Protest , 16.12.2019, Bar-Ilan University
  • A call for the Gili Ben Ami Prize for research and action in the field of crime victims
  • A letter from jurists and lawyers to stand by the rule of law and prevent further elections
  • Lecture by Professor Jennifer Chacon from UCLA on the subject of the criminalization of immigration in the US and around the world at the Minerva Center for Human Rights 12.18.2019
  • Call for Papers: ICL Journal Symposium on 100 years to the Austrian Constitutional Court – Constitutional Courts in Retrospective
  • Populism and Policy , Israel Democracy Institute, December 9, 2019, Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem
  • Association for Public Law conference , December 5 to 7, 2019, Dan Carmel, Haifa.

Call(s) For Papers

  • Call for submissions of articles for the ICON•S Israel award for an outstanding article in public law by a young researcher (deadline for submission: Thursday, March 31, 2022).
  • Call for articles on “Law and Corona” for a special issue of Law and Government.
  • Call for submission of articles for the symposium on the issue of the party bloc in the journal Law and Business – update deadline extended until April 15.
  • Call for submission of articles for the Icon’s Israel Award for an outstanding article in public law by a young researcher.

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