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AN AFRICAN GLOBAL DIALOGUE

Narrative Conditions Towards Peace in the Middle East​

Join celebrated global leaders and scholars in meaningful dialogue to foster sustainable peace.

18-20 SEPTEMBER 2024

JOHANNESBURG, SA

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Ivor Chipkin

Director of African Global Dialogue

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Marco Sassòli

Professor of International Law

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Chile Eboe-Osuji

Former Head of the International Criminal Court

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Yuval Shany

Professor of humanitarian law

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Hadil Al-Ashwal

Activist, Writer, and Public Speaker

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Radmila Nakarada

Sociologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Belgrade

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Benny Morris​

Professor of History in the Middle East Studies Department of Ben-Gurion University

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Ayşe Zarakol

Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge

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Fania Oz-Salzberger

Historian and writer, Professor Emerita at the University of Haifa School of Law

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Mira Erlich Ginor

Psychoanalyst

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Miloš Hrnjaz

Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Belgrade

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Eugene Rogan

Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford and Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative

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Colin Shindler

Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

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Salam Fayyad

Economist and former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority

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Étienne Balibar

Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at Université de Paris X and Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California

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Jie-Hyun Lim

Director of Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University

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Frances Raday

Head of Concord Institute for the Study of the Absorption of International Law

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Eli Salzberger

Law professor at the University of Haifa and Research Lead for Ethics at the Samuel Neaman Institute

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Polarization of the Public Discourse

Since the physical assault on Israel on the 7th of October and the subsequent Israeli war with Hamas in Gaza, the public discourse on Israel/Palestine has radicalized in crude and violent ways. The protracted occupation of the West Bank has come to resemble an annexation, calling into question the conditions for a just resolution of the conflict. Right-wing extremism and messianism in Israel, moreover, threatens the fabric of democracy, the rule of law, and puts Israel in existential danger.

At the same time, many Israelis, including those who are deeply critical of the current Israeli government, find difficulty being heard in the public domain unless they are willing to reject the right of the Jewish state to exist at all. Palestinian politics, especially since the rise of Hamas, entertains fascist strategies and messianic fantasies. The atrocities committed by Hamas are symptomatic of a profound malaise.

What has been lost on all sides is an appreciation of nuance and complexity and, in turn, the search for constructive ways out of the current dead-end. Informed by the idea that political narratives, especially about history, concepts, friends and enemies, matter, we seek critically to engage current political framings, with a view to opening a discursive space about Israel/Palestine and the region that is conducive to more positive engagement.

As the war continues, with increasingly catastrophic consequences for Palestinian civilians and growing danger for the hostages held by Hamas, so does the polarization of the public discourse – which only hinders attempts to break out of the zero-sum logic of conflict and destruction, and the increasingly wide gulf between friend and enemy.

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Ivor Chipkin

Director of African Global Dialogue

Ivor Chipkin is the Director of African Global Dialogue (AGD), based in Johannesburg. He was the founder and director of the Public Affairs Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town for ten years before that. In 2017 Chipkin, with several colleagues, wrote and released The Betrayal of the Promise report, a study of state capture that had a huge political impact in South Africa.

Chipkin completed his PhD at the Ecole Normale Superieure in France, where he also did his DEA. Chipkin was an Oppenheimer Fellow at Oxford University. He is the author of Do South Africans Exist? (Wits University Press, 2007) and Shadow State: the politics of state capture with Mark Swilling (Wits University Press, 2018).

Marco Sassòli

Professor of International Law

Marco Sassòli is a professor of international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. From 2001-2003, he has been professor of international law at the Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada, where he remains associate professor. In March/April 2022, he has been member of a mission of experts under the Moscow Mechanism of the OSCE enquiring into violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Ukraine between 24 February 2022 and 1 April 2022.

Marco Sassòli has worked from 1985-1997 for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at the headquarters, inter alia as deputy head of its legal division, and in the field, inter alia as legal advisor of the ICRC delegation in Tel Aviv, as head of the ICRC delegations in Jordan and Syria and as protection coordinator for the former Yugoslavia. He also chaired from 2004-2013 the board of Geneva Call, an NGO engaging armed non-state actors to respect humanitarian norms. From 2018-2020 he has been director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

Marco Sassòli has published widely on international humanitarian law, human rights law, international criminal law, the sources of international law, and the responsibility of states and non-state actors.

Chile Eboe-Osuji

Former Head of the International Criminal Court

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji was the 4th President of the International Criminal Court. He is the Distinguished International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at the Toronto Metropolitan University and a Special Advisor to the President of the University.

From 2012 to 2021, he served as a judge at the ICC, first as a trial judge and eventually as an appellate judge.

Prior to joining the ICC, Dr Eboe-Osuji served as the Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Earlier in his career he worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, as a senior prosecution counsel.

Following the end of his tenure at the ICC, he has also served in the following visiting professorships: the Paul Martin Senior Professor of political science, international relations and law at the University of Windsor; visiting professor of law at the University of California in Los Angeles; the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford University Law School; Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law; and a senior fellow at the Carr Center of the Harvard Kennedy School. He has also taught as adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa.

He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands); his LLM degree from McGill University (Canada); and his LLB degree from the University of Calabar (Nigeria).

His honours include the Goler T Butcher Medal of the American Society of International Law; a Doctor of the University degree (honoris causa) from the University of Middlesex (England); the Gold Medal of the Honorary Patronage of the Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin; and the Chief Emeka Anyaoku lifetime achievement award.

He has an extensive record of legal scholarship, including the books International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts (2013); Protecting Humanity (2010); and a forthcoming volume on the legal and political history of sovereign criminal responsibility in International Law.

Yuval Shany

Professor of humanitarian law

Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2020 (he served between 2018-2019 as Chair of the Committee). He currently teaches at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College in London and is a visiting research fellow at the Ethics and AI Institute at Oxford University.

Hadil Al-Ashwal

Activist, Writer, and Public Speaker

Hadil Al-Ashwal is a distinguished leader and expert in gender issues in the MENA region, with over five years of experience managing impactful projects across the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, and the MENA region. Originally from Yemen, Hadil is the founder of She Sparks Impact, an initiative dedicated to empowering women by fostering meaningful connections. She advocates for gender equality through connection and empathy, aiming to create spaces where women collaborate and support one another.

Hadil’s dedication to gender equality is reflected in her founding of MENA Advocates for Gender Equality (MENA AGE), where she spearheaded campaigns and trainings to promote gender equality. Through She Sparks Impact, the second phase of her advocacy, Hadil aims to improve inclusiveness and equality by leveraging the power of connections and taking action to support women entrepreneurs and leaders.

With an MBA and expertise in monitoring and evaluation (M&E), Hadil has collaborated with prestigious organizations like the World Bank and YMCA. Her work includes leading digital M&E projects and delivering capacity-building training to enhance data collection and citizen engagement.

Radmila Nakarada

Sociologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Belgrade

Radmila Nakarada is a (retired) professor of Peace Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. In the year 2000 she has set up for the first time at a state Faculty a B.A. and M.A. program in Peace Studies. Currently she is the Distinguished Associate at the New South Institute. In addition, she is teaching in Montenegro at the University of Donja Gorica, an M.A. course: Theory and practice of resolving international conflicts.

She has lectured in Sweden, US, Japan, UK and in the region of ex-Yugoslavia, taken part in number of national and international research projects devoted to the breakup of Yugoslavia, process of transition and reconciliation, EU integration and global challenges. During her participation in the international World Orders Model Project, WOMP was the recipient of the UNESCO Peace Prize. In addition she was a member of the Yugoslav Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the first spokesperson, having the privilege to work with Alex Boraine, as the appointed advisor to the Commission.

Her publications include, among else, The disintegration of Yugoslavia, problems of interpretation, confronting truth and transition (Belgrade, Sluzbeni glasnik, 2008); Nobel Peace Prize: Between Idealism and Political Cynicism (edited with Jelena Vidojević, published by FPS, Belgrade, 2018); Ethnic Stereotypes and National Myths as an Obstacle to Reconciliation in Serbian-Albanian Relations (edited with Tepšić Goran and Mirjana Vasović, published by Center for Peace Studies, Berghof foundation, Belgrade, 2015).

Benny Morris

Professor of History in the Middle East Studies Department of Ben-Gurion University

Benny Morris was born in Israel in 1948 and grew up in Jerusalem and New York. He served in the IDF (Nahal paratroops) and did his BA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in modern European history at Cambridge.

He worked as a journalist at the Jerusalem Post for ten years and from 1997 until 2017 was a professor of Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University. In 2015-2018 he taught at Georgetown University.

Among his books: The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-1949 (Cambridge UP 1988); Righteous Victims (Knopf, 1999); 1948, A History of the First Arab Israeli War (Yale UP, 2008); and Sidney Reilly, Master Spy (Yale UP, 2022).

He has published articles in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Corriere Della Sera, Die Welt, Etc.

Ayşe Zarakol

Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge

Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College.

Zarakol’s academic work is at the intersection of International Relations, Political Science and Historical Sociology.

She is the author of more than sixty scholarly articles. Her most recent book, Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (2022) advanced an alternative global history for International Relations focused on Eurasia. This book has won six international book awards.

Zarakol is the 2023 recipient of the Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science, given annually to one scholar of Turkish origin under 50 for outstanding contributions to their discipline. In 2024, she was elected to the British Academy and Academia Europaea.

Fania Oz-Salzberger

Historian and writer, Professor Emerita at the University of Haifa School of Law

Fania Oz-Salzberger is an Israeli historian, author and public intellectual. Born and raised in Kibbutz Hulda, she is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Haifa’s Faculty of Law and Center for German and European Studies. Her field is the history of political thought.

Oz-Salzberger is a well known speaker and writer on Israeli affairs, a columnist in Moment Magazine, and published op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Haaretz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and New Statesman, among others. Since January 2023 she has been active in the Israeli pro-democracy movement. Following the 7 October 2023 massacre she has written and spoken on CNN, BBC and numerous other venues, offering a moderate, future-oriented Israeli voice.

She formerly held a full professorship and the Israel Studies Chair at Monash University, Melbourne, as well as a Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton Univeristy. She was a Fellow of he Jerusalem Institute for Advanced Studies and of the Federal Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg).

Oz-Salzberger’s doctoral thesis from Oxford (1990) was mentored by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. She has an honorary doctoral degree (2020) from Uppsala University, Sweden, won the Grimm Brothers Award (2021) and is a member of the German Federal Republic’s Order of Merit.

Her authored books include Translating the Enlightenment (Oxford, 1995), Israelis in Berlin (Jerusalem, 2001, and Frankfurt am Main, 2001) and, with her late father Amos Oz, Jews and Words (Yale, 2012). She also published several edited volumes and dozens of academic articles.

Mira Erlich Ginor

Psychoanalyst

Mira Erlich Ginor, M.A. is a training and supervising analyst in the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She lives and works in Israel.

She is involved in many aspects of psychoanalytic education for almost two decades, in her society, and in the international psychoanalytic organizations: EPF and IPA.

Mira is involved in the application of psychoanalytic understandings to various social issues. She is part of a group having to do with transgenerational transmission of trauma. Mira is a Founding Member and past-Chairperson of OFEK (group relations organization in Israel), Founding and Board member of PCCA: Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities, that won the prestigious Sigourney award in 2019.

She ran international Group Relations Conferences as well as experiential events in International psychoanalytic congresses for the last 20 years.

Between 2015-2019 she was Europe representatives to the IPA Board.

Since 2021, she has been the Chair of the Steering Committee, IPA in the Community and the World, a project applying psychoanalytic understanding worldwide to societal issues on practical and theoretical levels.

Miloš Hrnjaz

Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Belgrade

Miloš Hrnjaz is an Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science. He teaches Public International Law, Use of Force in International Law, and International Humanitarian Law.

In 2016 he obtained a PhD after defending his doctoral dissertation at the University of Belgrade titled Formation and Identification of International Customary Law: The Practice of International Court of Justice. His latest book is focused on the classification of armed conflicts and politics of International Humanitarian Law with a special emphasis on armed conflicts in Yugoslavia.
He was a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of IHL and Human Rights, American University – Washington College of Law, and Leiden University. His professional experience also includes holding a position of a Personal Assistant of a Chief Legal Advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. He is one of the co-founders of the Belgrade International Law Circle.

Eugene Rogan

Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford and Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford

Eugene Rogan is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford and Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from Harvard.

In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

His new book is The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman Order (Penguin and Basic Books, 2024). He is also author of The Arabs: A History (Penguin and Basic Books, 2009, 2017), and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Penguin and Basic Books, 2015). With Avi Shlaim he co-edited The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2001, 2nd edition 2007). His works have been translated into eighteen languages.

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is an American writer and analyst who grew up in Gaza City, having left in 2005 as a teenage exchange student to the United States. He writes extensively on Gaza’s political and humanitarian affairs and has been an outspoken critic of Hamas and a promoter of coexistence and peace as the only path forward between Palestinians and Israelis.

Alkhatib is a non-resident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in intelligence and national security studies. His writing has been published in US and Israeli outlets, and his opinions and comments have been featured in the international press.

Colin Shindler

Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

Colin Shindler is emeritus professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

He became the first professor of Israel Studies in the UK in 2008 and was the founding chairman of the European Association of Israeli Studies (EAIS) in 2009.
He is the author of numerous books including his History Of Modern Israel (Cambridge University Press 2008, 2013).

His main interests lie in the evolution of the Israeli Right, the changes in the approach of the British and European Left towards Israel since 1948 and the emigration movement of Soviet Jews between 1917 and 1991.

Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimization (Continuum/Bloomsbury 2012) was one of the first books to examine the history of the relationship between the British Left and Israel.

His The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron (Cambridge University Press) was awarded the gold medal as the best book for 2016 in The Washington Institute’s for Near East Policy’s Book Prize competition.

His book, Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons was published by Cambridge University Press in February 2023. The Routledge Handbook on Zionism which he has edited was published in June 2024. Forty scholars from many parts of the world have contributed to this work.

He has written for and reviewed for: The Times, Guardian, New York Times, Jewish Independent, Jewish Chronicle, Jerusalem Post, Ha’aretz, History Today, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, and many other journals. He is the author of over 800 articles and reviews since 1969 on Israel and Jewish political history.

Salam Fayyad

Economist and former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority

Salam Fayyad is an economist and former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority.

With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2001, his tenure included serving as IMF resident representative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from 1996 to 2001. He then served as manager of the Arab Bank in Palestine, and, in June 2002, he was named minister of finance of the Palestinian Authority. Until he resigned in December 2005, Dr. Fayyad served in that capacity on several cabinets, introducing in the process extensive financial reforms. In January 2006, he ran for elections on a slate of independents and was elected for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), where he served as chairman of the Finance Committee. In March 2007, Fayyad was appointed again as minister of finance in a national unity government, and in June 2007, he was appointed prime minister, a position he held until he stepped down in June 2013. In August 2013, Fayyad founded “Future for Palestine,” a non-profit development foundation.

Currently, Dr. Fayyad is a Visiting Senior Scholar and Lecturer in Public Policy and Daniella Lipper Coules ’95 Distinguished Visitor in Foreign Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is also a Distinguished Statesman with the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Centre on International Security and a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Fayyad holds a BSc from the American University of Beirut, an MBA from St. Edward’s University, and a PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Étienne Balibar

Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at Université de Paris X and Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California

Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at Université de Paris X – Nanterre and Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He also holds a part-time Anniversary Chair in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London.

He has addressed such questions as European racism, the notion of the border, whether a European citizenship is possible or desirable, violence, identity and emancipation. He has published widely in the areas of epistemology, Marxist philosophy, and moral and political philosophy in general.

His works include Lire le Capital (with Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, Jacques Rancière, Roger Establet) (1965); The Philosophy of Marx (1995); Spinoza and politics (1998); Politics and the Other Scene (2002); We, the People of Europe? (2003); Equaliberty (2014); Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (2015);  Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology (2017); Secularism and Cosmopolitanism (2018).

Jie-Hyun Lim

Director of Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University

Jie-Hyun Lim is a South Korean historian, writer, and “memory activist”. He is a full professor of “Transnational history” and the director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University, Seoul who conceptualized paradigms of “Mass Dictatorship” and “Victimhood Nationalism”. Since Lim founded the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture in 2004, he has carried out a series of international projects, including the “East Asian History Forum for Criticism and Solidarity” and the “Flying University of Transnational Humanities.”

Lim has written and edited around two dozen books, including Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Columbia University Press, 2022), Everyday Fascism, and Victimhood Nationalism. He is a co-editor of Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives (2011), Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past: Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century (2014), The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship (2016), and Mnemonic Solidarity: Global Interventions (2021), among other works.

Lately, Lim has been delving into the field of “transnational history as an alternative narrative to the national” asserting that memory beneath history should be deterritorialized. He is also conceptualizing “Global Easts” that are neither Global North nor Global South, thereby developing the problem consciousness of his 2022 publication from the perspective of the global history of modernity.

Frances Raday

Head of Concord Institute for the Study of the Absorption of International Law

Frances Raday graduated in law from the London School of Economics. She acquired a doctorate of law and continued on to become a full professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Raday has written numerous books and articles on the subject of human rights, labour law, religion and human rights, and feminist theory. Raday currently heads the Concord Institute for the Study of the Absorption of International Law in Israel at the College of Management Academic Studies. At the United Nations, Raday has been a Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council and was chair of the Working Group on Discrimination against Women, and is a former member of the Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Raday has, in Israel, served as chairperson of the Advisory Committee to the Commission for Equal Opportunities in Work, and was the founding chairperson of the Legal Centre of the Israel Women’s Network. She has represented numerous petitioners in ground-breaking Supreme Court cases in the fields of labour law; trade union freedoms; discrimination on grounds of sex; rights of asylum seekers; recruitment fees for migrant workers; and freedom of and from religion. She has been a co-petitioner or amicus in cases on abortion rights in the Supreme Courts of the UK and of Brazil; and has acted as expert witness in cases on employees’ patent rights in US courts.

Prof. Raday has been awarded an Honorary Professorship at University College, London and Doctor Honoris at the University of Copenhagen. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her work, including the Cheshin Award for Academic Excellence; the Bar-Niv Prize for Labour Law, the Israel’s Bar Prize for Outstanding Attorneys, and an award from the Israel Women’s Network for exceptional contribution.

Eli Salzberger

Law professor at the University of Haifa and Research Lead for Ethics at the Samuel Neaman Institute

Eli Salzberger is a distinguished law professor at the University of Haifa and serves as the Research Lead for Ethics at the Samuel Neaman Institute. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford on the economic analysis of the doctrine of separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

Salzberger clerked for Chief Justices Aharon Barak and Dorit Beinish. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Haifa and as head of the DAAD Centre for German and European Studies.

Currently, Salzberger is Director of the Minerva Centre for the Study of the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. He was a visiting professor at leading universities in Europe and the US, and is the recipient of numerous awards and research grants. Notably, he was the first Israeli to serve on the steering committee, and subsequently as the President of the European Association for Law and Economics (EALE).

Salzberger served as a board member for both the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the public council of the Israeli Democracy Institute. Presently, he is a member of the Law Professors Forum for Democracy, advocating against the proposed changes in the Israeli legal system. Salzberger was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg and the “Verdienstkreuz am Bande” by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.