Prof. Aeyal Gross

Faculty of Law
מנהלת הפקולטה למשפטים סגל אקדמי בכיר
Prof. Aeyal Gross
Phone: 03-6406382
Fax: 03-6409576
Office: Trubowicz - Law, 324

Biography

Professor Aeyal Gross is a member of the Faculty in Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law where he teaches International Law and Constitutional Law. He regularly teaches as Visiting Professor at SOAS, University of London.

He holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University (1990) and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (1996). In 1998 he was awarded the Diploma in Human Rights from the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, in Florence.

Professor Gross served  as a member of the Board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He is a founding member of TAU’s LGBT & Queer Studies Forum. He also contributes to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. See www.aeyalgross.com. He is a member of the Global Health Consortium and serves in the Advisory Scientific Committee to the Israeli National Food Security Council

Prof. Gross also served as a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London, as a Visiting Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies in South Africa, and as a Joseph Flom Global Health and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard Law School. Additionally he taught as a visitor in Columbia University and the University of Toronto and in the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence.  He was also a Fernard Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.

He is the author of numerous articles, including After the Falls: International Law between Postmodernity and Anti-Modernity (in Helene Ruiz-Fabri, Emanuelle Jouannet & J.M. Sorel, eds., Regards D’Une Generation Sur Le Droit International, Editions Pedone, 2008), Gender Outlaws Before the Law: The Courts of the Borderlands(Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, 2009),  Post/Colonial Queer Globalization and Human Rights: Images of LGBT Rights, (Jindal Global Law Review,   2013), Litigating the Right to Health: What Can We Learn from a Comparative Law and Health Care Systems Approach (Health and Human Rights, 2015),  “We Didn’t Want to Hear the Word Calories”: Rethinking Food Security, Food Power,  Food Sovereignty – Lessons from the Gaza Closure (With Tamar Feldman, Berkeley Journal of International Law, 2015),  “Homogloblism: The Emergence of Global Gay Governance” (in Dianne Otto, ed., Queering International Law, Routledge 2017), and  The Past, Present, and Future of Global Health Law beyond Crisis (American Journal of International Law 2021)He is the co-editor, with Colleen Flood, of The Right To Health At The Public/Private Divide: A Global Comparative Study (Cambridge University Press,  2014), , and the author of The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Research Interests and Teaching

International Law, Constitutional Law, Human and Civil Rights, Social and Economic Rights, Health Rights, Humanitarian Law, Law of Occupation, Global Health Law, Sexuality, Gender Identity and the Law, Queer Theory, Critical Approaches to Law.

CV

Education
1990 Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law - LL.B. (magna cum laude)
1996 Harvard Law School - S.J.D. (LL.M. studies completed in 1993)
1998 Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence- Diploma in Human Rights Law. (The Diploma is awarded only to very few participants. I was the only one awarded the Diploma that year).

 

Academic and Professional Experience

1996-present

Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law – Member of the faculty, Professor of Law, teaching Constitutional Law, International Law, seminars and elective courses including seminars on the right to health, global health law, and law and sexuality

2000 

Temple University Summer Session (in Israel), Co-teaching Comparative Constitutional Law

2002-2007    

The College of Management, Academic Studies, Teaching in the Law  School as adjunct

2003-2006

Columbia University, New-York, School of International and Public Affiars, Teaching in the summer term in the Human Rights concentration

2003-2005

Stellenbosch University, The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study,

International Fellow in the Social and Economic Justice Program (Residency  Of two weeks)

2007-2009   

University of London, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies – Visiting Fellow

2007-present

SOAS, University of London, Visiting Professor 

2009-2011

Harvard Law School, Joseph H Flom Global Health and Human Rights Fellow

2009

University of Toronto Law School – Teaching as Distigunished Visitor

2011-present

Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper – frequent contributor (freelance)

2013

European University Institute, Florence – Academy of European Law - Teaching in the Summer Human Rights Program

2017

European University Institute, Florence – Frenard Braudel Senior Fellow

 

Full CV

Representative Publications

Aeyal M. Gross, Human Proportions: Are Human Rights the Emperor’s New Clothes of the International Law of Occupation, 18 European Journal of International Law 1-35 (2007).

 

Aeyal M. Gross, After the Falls: International Law between Postmodernity and Anti-Modernity, Regards D’Une Generation Sur Le Droit International 183-208 (Helene Ruiz-Fabri, Emmanuelle Jouannet & Jean-Marc Sorel eds., Paris: Pedone 2008).

 

Aeyal M. Gross, Gender Outlaws Before the Law: The Courts of the Borderlands, 32 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 165-231 (2009).

 

Aeyal Gross, Is There a Human Right to Private Health Care?, 41 The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 138-146 (2013).

 

Aeyal Gross, Post/Colonial Queer Globalization and Human Rights: Images of LGBT Rights, 4(2) Jindal Global Law Review 98-130 (Special Double Issue) (2013).

 

Aeyal Gross, The Politics of LGBT Rights in Israel and Beyond: Nationality, Normativity and Queer Politics, 46 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 81-152 (2015).

 

Aeyal Gross & Tamar Feldman, “We Didn’t Want to Hear the Word Calories”Rethinking Food Security, Food Power, and Food Sovereignty – Lessons from the Gaza Closure", 33 Berkely Journal of International Law, 379-441 (2015).

 

Aeyal Gross, The Past, Present and Future of Global Health Law Bdyond Crisis, 115 American Journal of International Law, 754-771 (2021)

 

Daphne Barak-Erez & Aeyal Gross eds., Exploring Social Rights (Hart Publishing, 2007).   

 

Colleen Flood & Aeyal Gross eds., The Right To Health At The Public/Private Divide: A Global Comparative Study (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

 

Aeyal Gross, The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

 

 

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