Leora Bilsky

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Leora Bilsky
Born1967 (1967)
Israel
Academic background
EducationLL.B, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
LLM., J.S.D., Yale University Law School
ThesisThe Narrative Turn in Legal Scholarship
Doctoral advisorAnthony T. Kronman
Academic work
InstitutionsTel Aviv University

Leora Y. Bilsky (Hebrew: ליאורה בילסקי; born in 1967) is an Israeli full professor at the Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, both at Tel Aviv University.

Education[edit]

In 1991, she was a law clerk for Honorable Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. She passed the Israel Bar Association in 1992 and subsequently joined the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Association for Israeli Studies.[1]

In 1995, after being granted a Fulbright scholarship, Bilsky completed her JSD degree at Yale University.[2]

Career[edit]

In 1996, Bilsky joined the Tel Aviv University faculty of Law as a Lecturer.[1] During the 1998–1999 academic year, Bilsky was a Faculty Fellow at Harvard University.[3] Upon her return, she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and accepted a visiting faculty position at the University of Toronto.[4] In 2004, Bilsky published Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial.[5] She later sat on the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Theory and Criticism journal Editorial Board from 2010 until 2012.[6] Before leaving the board, Bilsky received a research grant[7] and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012.[1] In 2013, she was awarded the Zeltner Award for Excellence in Legal Research.[8][9] That same year, she also became the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University.[1]

During the 2015–16 academic year, Bilsky was the William and Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor in International Law at Boston University.[10] In 2017, she published The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law: Unfinished Business through the University of Michigan Press.[11]

Publications[edit]

The following is a list of publications:[12]

  • Territory, community and political trials
  • Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial (2004)
  • Political trials
  • Giving voice to women: a feminist reading of an Israeli case study
  • The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law: Unfinished Business (2017)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "CV" (PDF). en-law.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Leora Y. Bilsky". ethics.harvard.edu. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Ethics and the Professions Annual Report 1998–1999" (PDF). ethics.harvard.edu. p. 3. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Faculty - Visiting - 2002-03". law.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  5. ^ Allan E. Shapiro (Fall 2005). "Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial. Leora Bilsky [Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2004] 392 pp". Israel Law Review. 38 (3): 185–190. doi:10.1017/S0021223700012863. S2CID 152276140. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Theory and Criticism" (PDF). theory-and-criticism.vanleer.org.il. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  7. ^ "5 חוקרים בפקולטה למשפטים באוניברסיטת ת"א זכו במענקי מחקר". globes.co.il (in Hebrew). 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  8. ^ "TAU Officers Distinctions" (PDF). med.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  9. ^ @TAU_LAW (April 7, 2013). "ברכות לכלת פרס צלטנר 2013: פרופ' ליאורה בילסקי. הטקס יתקיים ביום שלישי בחמש באולם כס המשפט. בילסקי תציג את מחקרה: משפט אייכמן והמשפט הבינ"ל" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ Christian Saucedo. "Victims' Right to Truth: The Changing Faces of International Criminal Law". bu.edu. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  11. ^ Moran, Mayo (11 February 2019). "HOW PRIVATE LAW COULD HELP WITH "UNFINISHED BUSINESS": A COMMENT ON LEORA BILSKY'S THE HOLOCAUST, CORPORATIONS AND THE LAW". jamesgstewart.com. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Au:Bilsky, Leora". worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
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