Conferences & Workshops

Conference following the publication of the report by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel:

11 December, 2014.

One Rule, Two Legal Systems: Israel’s Regime of Laws in the West Bank

Workshop on collective rights with Prof. Simon Rabinovitch (BU) 

9 November, 2014 in collaboration with Berg Center.

“Jews and the Persistence of Collective Rights in the Modern World.”

International Conference: “Transitional Justice in South Africa: Lessons for Israel/Palestine”

23 June - 5 July 2014

Students affiliated with the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University participated in a two-week workshop at the University of Johannesburg's Faculty of Law. The advanced workshop, devoted to understanding the connection between South Africa's apartheid and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, provided participants a unique opportunity to evaluate and analyze the importance of transnational justice from new perspectives. 

Round Table Devoted to the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Thu, June 25, 2014

The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) held a joint round table discussion on the UN's "Istanbul Protocol on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment". The event's topic addressed the national and international legal ramifications of the report on the use of torture tactics and abusive interrogation methods. It included lectures of dominant human rights scholars and activists in Israel.

Morning Colloquium on Contemporary Privacy Studies

Thu, June 12, 2014

The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University (TAU) hosted Prof. Amitai Etzioni, a highly-acclaimed sociologist and one of America's top 100 intellectuals. Prof. Etzioni delivered a video-filmed lecture entitled: "A Cyber Age Privacy Doctrine: Control Use versus Collection", which was attended by numerous TAU Ph.D. degree holders and academics from different fields of study. The colloquium event took place at the Sonia Kossoy Conference Room (305) in the Faculty of Law Trubowicz Building.

Guest Lecture by Prof. Nancy D. Polikoff (American University Washington College of Law)

Wed, June 11, 2014

The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University took part in hosting the 14^th annual Other Sex conference program on gay and lesbian studies in Israel. The three-day event included a series of lectures by prominent legal researchers from Israel and abroad, which took place at the Hoffien Hall (Room 105) of the Faculty of Law's Trubowicz Building. Its Chair was Dr. Amalia Ziv (Tel Aviv University, Department of Literature) and its guest-lecturer was Prof. Alex Sharpe (Keele University, School of Law).

The 14th Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies and Queer Theory Conference

June 11-12, 2014 - Tel Aviv University

This year the conference was prepared with the cooperation of the faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the faculty of the Arts, the Women and Gender Studies Program, TAU and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The keynote speaker was Prof. Alex Sharpe from Keele University, U.K., who talked about the crimes of rape by deception and gender & national impersonation. Prof. Aeyal Gross and Prof. Leora Bilsky, both of the TAU Faculty of Law, commented and discussed.
"Sex Acher"

Public Lecture and Interdisciplinary Workshop

Mon-Tue, May 19-20, 2014

The Minerva Center for Human Rights, the Sourasky Central Library; the Wiener Library for The Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, and the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jew held a joint seminar lecture and workshop hosting Michael R. Marrus, Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. During the two-day event Prof. Marrus delivered lectures in the Buchmann Faculty of Law and in the Wiener Library for The Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, on "The Lessons of the Holocaust", and "The Lessons of History", accordingly.

Tort Law and Human Rights

Wed, May 14, 2014

The Minerva Center for Human Rights and the Human Rights Legal Clinic at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Law, co-hosted along with the Center for the Defense of the Individual (HaMoked) an evening lecture series on the scope and importance of tort laws in the advancement of human rights. The event was Chaired by Dr. Yofi Tirosh and included lectures by Israeli legal practitioners and scholars who work in the field of human rights and social justice advocacy.