Amir Paz-Fuchs is programme director for The Social Contract Revisited programme. As a lawyer, he worked as the head of the Centre for the Rights of the Unemployed, giving pro bono legal counselling to unemployed Israeli and Palestinians in matters of social security and labour rights. In 2006, Amir finished his DPhil at Oxford, and his thesis will be published under the title, Welfare to Work: Conditional Rights in Social Policy by Oxford University Press in 2008. Amir currently teaches labour law and jurisprudence at the Ono College of Law, Israel. He continues his pro bono work with several human rights organizations.