Lisa Hajjar is a professor of sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara and a co-editor of Jadaliyya. Her scholarship focuses on international law, war and conflict, human rights, and torture. She is the author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005) and Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights (Routledge, 2013). She is working on a new book, The War in Court: The Inside Story of the Fight against Torture in the "War on Terror."
Hedi Viterbo is a lecturer in law at Queen Mary University of London. His research examines legal issues concerning childhood, state violence, and sexuality from an interdisciplinary and global perspective. He is co-author of The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Among his other publications are: "Torture's In/visibility" (in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Torture, Brill, 2019); “Rights as a Divide-and-Rule Mechanism: Lessons from the Case of Palestinians in Israeli Custody” (Law & Social Inquiry, 2018); “Ties of Separation: Analogy and Generational Segregation in North America, Australia, and Israel/Palestine” (Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 2017); and “Seeing Torture Anew: A Transnational Reconceptualization of State Torture and Visual Evidence” (Stanford Journal of International Law, 2014).
