Orna Ben-Naftali is the Rector of the College of Management Academic Studies in Israel (The Collman) and the Emile Zola Chair for Human Rights at the Striks School of Law, The Collman. A Graduate of Tel-Aviv Law Faculty, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University, Professor Ben-Naftali’s research focuses on international law (specifically international humanitarian law, the law of belligerent occupation, international human rights law, and international criminal law) and on law and culture. She was a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of International Law and is currently a member of the editorial advisory board of the Max Planck Trialogue on the Law of Peace and War. Her numerous publications on the law governing the Israeli control of the Palestinian Territory have appeared in journals such as the Harvard Journal International Law, American Journal of International Law, Berkeley International Law Journal, and Cornell International Law Journal. She is also the editor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law (Oxford University Press).
Michael Sfard is a lawyer specializing in international human rights law and the laws of war, a former Open Society Fellow, and the recipient of the Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award (given by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel). He has represented numerous Israeli and Palestinian human rights and peace organizations, movements, and activists in the Israeli Supreme Court, in addition to serving as legal adviser to several Israeli human rights organizations and peace groups. His book, The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights (Metropolitan Books), came out earlier this year. He has also authored, co-authored, and co-edited several books, as well as a number of articles, including “The Price of Internal Legal Opposition to Human Rights Abuses” (Journal of Human Rights Practice) and “The Fallacies of Objections to Selective Conscientious Objection” (with Amir Paz-Fuchs, Israel Law Review).
Hedi Viterbo is a lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Essex. Previously, he was a Leverhulme Fellow at SOAS (University of London), a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and a visiting researcher at Columbia University. His research examines legal issues concerning childhood, state violence, and sexuality from an interdisciplinary and increasingly global perspective. Among his recent publications are: “Rights as a Divide-and-Rule Mechanism: Lessons from the Case of Palestinians in Israeli Custody” (Law & Social Inquiry), “Ties of Separation: Analogy and Generational Segregation in North America, Australia, and Israel/Palestine” (Brooklyn Journal of International Law), and “Seeing Torture Anew: A Transnational Reconceptualization of State Torture and Visual Evidence” (Stanford Journal of International Law).
