Dr. Ilan Saban is a lecturer in University of Haifa, Faculty of Law. He has graduated from the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, and earned a LL.M from American University, Washington College of Law (with the scholarship of New Israel Fund, for Israeli Human Rights Lawyers), and LL.D. from the Hebrew University.

He worked as a lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and for Shatil.

His areas of research include: minority rights, comparative constitutional law, and law and social change.

His publications include: "Minority Rights in Deeply Divided Societies: A Framework for Analysis and the Case of the Arab-Palestinian Minority in Israel", New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 36: 885-1003 (2004); "Offensiveness Analyzed: Appropriate Representation of Minorities: Canada's Two Types Structure and the Arab-Palestinian Minority in Israel", Penn State International Law Review 24: 563-594 (2006); Lessons for Comparative Analysis of Free Speech Doctrines", 2 The Journal of International and Comparative Law at Chicago-Kent, 62-83 (2002).

Email: isaban@law.haifa.ac.il