Prof. Ruth Gavison, Law School, Hebrew University

Professor Gavison received an LLB, an LLM and a BA in Philosophy and Economics from the Hebrew University, and her doctorate in Legal Philosophy from Oxford. A Visiting Professor at Yale Law School from 1978 to 1980 and the USC Law Center from 1990 to 1992, she teaches legal theory and human rights in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1998-1999 she was Laurance Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. In addition, she was a Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Professor Gavison was a founding member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) where she served for many years as Chairperson and as President from 1996 to 1999. Professor Gavison is currently a member of the International Commission of Jurists.

Among her many publications: "Jewish and Democratic? A Rejoinder to the Ethnic Democracy debate", 1999 4(1) Israel Studies. 44-72; "The Constitutional Revolution: Not A Reality But an Attempt At Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" 1977, 28 Mishpatim 23-147 (Hebrew); Feminism and the Private-Public Distinction', 45 Stan.L.Rev. 1-45 (1992); "The Role of Courts in Rifted Democracies", 33 Isr. L.Rev., 216-258 (1999); Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy: The Influence of H.L.A. Hart. Oxford, 1986.

Email: msgav@mscc.huji.ac.il