Academic Center of Law and Business

Dr. Gila Stopler

Dr. Gila Stopler is a senior lecturer at the Academic Center of Law & Business, and a 2011-2012 Tikvah Fellow at the Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization at the NYU School of Law (http://www.nyutikvah.org/ ). She graduated magna cum laude from the Faculty of Law at the Tel Aviv University (1995) and worked as a lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (1997 – 2000), where she appeared before the Israeli Supreme Court in major constitutional cases. More recently she served as co-chair of the board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (2010-2011). She obtained LL.M (2001) and J.S.D (2004) degrees from the NYU School of Law where she was awarded the David H. Moses Memorial Prize as the member of the LLM class with the highest cumulative average, and served as a Public Service Scholar and a Hauser Research Scholar. She has published articles in leading transnational law and feminist journals of top universities such as Columbia, Duke and Texas, as well as in philosophical journals. She co-organized international conferences on “Rights and Reciprocity” (http://www.clb.ac.il/workshops/2011/ ) and on “Demography and Human Rights” and co-edited volume 2 of the law journal Law & Ethics of Human Rights (http://www.bepress.com/lehr/vol2/iss1/ ).

Among her recent publications: "Probability Thresholds as Deontological Constraints in Global Constitutionalism" 49 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 75-114 (2011) (with Moshe Cohen Elyia); "Women as the Bearers of the Nation: Between Liberal and Ethnic Citizenship" in Democratic Citizenship and War (Peled et. al. eds.), 164-179 (Routledge 2011); "Rights in Immigration: The Veil as a Test Case" 43 Israel Law Review 183 – 217 (2010); "Behind the Veil – Restrictions on Wearing Head Covers by Women in Liberal States", 12 Mishpat VeMimshal 191- 226 (2009) (Hebrew); "A Rank Usurpation of Power" – The Role of Patriarchal Religion and Culture in the Subordination of Women 15 DUKE JOURNAL OF GENDER LAW AND POLICY 365-397 (2008); Israel's Natality Policy and the Rights of Women and Minorities 11 Mishpat VeMimshal 473-516 (2008) (Hebrew); On Conceptual Dichotomies and Social Oppression, 34 PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL CRITICISM 515-535 (2008) (with Dana Freibach Heifetz);

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email: gila@stopler.net