Dr. Limor Yehuda holds a PhD in Law from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University, and at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions at the Haifa University and an adjunct lecturer of Transitional Justice at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2019-2020 Limor was a post-doctoral fellow at the Transitional Justice program at the Minerva Center for Human Rights in Tel-Aviv University.
Limor’s doctoral dissertation, done under the guidance of Professors Barak Medina and Yuval Shany from the Hebrew University, won the 2020 Malcolm and Judith Shaw Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the fields of public international law and human rights. A book based on her dissertation titled “Collective Equality: Human Rights and Democracy in the Resolution of Ethno-national Conflicts and Peace,” is to be published by Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2023). The book’s thesis develops the concept of “Collective Equality” as a new theoretical basis for the law of peace. Collective Equality endorses national groups as legitimate actors and sets proper relations among them based on equality and non-domination.
Limor returned to academia after meaningful career as a lawyer, including six years at Israel's Supreme Court as a legal assistant and member of Chief Justice Aharon Barak’s legal team and later as a human rights lawyer and director of the department for human rights in the Occupied Territories at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).
In addition to her academic work, Limor is a founding member of A Land for All (“Two States, One Homeland”), a movement focused on offering a new paradigm to the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on a modified confederacy model.
Education· Ph.D. 10/2020, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law
· LL.M, 1/2001, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law
· LL.B, 12/1996. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law
Publications· Collective Equality: Theoretical Foundations for the Law of Peace, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2022)
· “The Israeli High Court of Justice and the occupied territories”, The Law in These Parts website, 2014 (Hebrew)
Forthcoming book
· Collective Equality: Human rights and Democracy in the Resolution of ethnonational conflicts, (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Work in progress
· Unlocking the Green Line Trap of the Constitutional discussion: Collective Equality Beyond Borders in Israel/Palestine (Hebrew)
· Everyday Justice in the Public Domain: The Role of Place-Names in Promoting Partnership Based Peace in Israel/Palestine
· Rethinking Peace in Israel/Palestine (Hebrew)
· Theorizing Transition in Intractable Conflict: From Oppression to Parity and Cooperation in Israel/Palestine
· The Invisibility of Nationalism in Transitional Justice (With Dr. Natalie Davidson)
Teaching Experience: Courses
· Introduction to Transitional Justice, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2022-2023
· Justice and Respect in the Public Domain: A cultural, political and legal examination of names of public places in Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2020-2022
· Transitional Justice in places of protracted conflicts, Tel-Aviv University, 2020-2021
· Transitional Justice and Conflict resolution workshop, Study tour to Cyprus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2016-2018
· Israel's High Court of Justice and the Occupied Territories, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Radzyner School of Law, Herzliya, 2011-2013 (Co-taught with Prof. David Krezmer)
· Human Rights in Israel, College of Management — Academic Studies, The Haim Striks School of Law, Rishon LeZion, Israel, 2009 (Co-taught with Prof. Frances Radai and Attorney Dan Yakir)
Other academic activities
· Co-convener — Thinking group on Partnership-Based Peace in Israel-Palestine (With Ameer Fakhoury and Prof. Oren Yiftachel), Van-Leer Institute and the Minerva Center for Human Rights, 2021-2023
· Co-convener — Academic conference on "Place Names as an Arena in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and as a Lever for Peace — Past, Present and Future", Truman Institute and the Minerva Center for Human Rights, May 16, 2022
· Co-convener — Reading Group on Transitional Justice, Pandemic and Law, 2020-2021 (with Dr. Tamar Kricheli Katz), Transitional Justice program, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Tel-Aviv University
· Co-convener — Reading Group on Transitions to and from Democracy, 2019-2020 (with Dr. Natalie Davidson), Transitional Justice program, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Tel-Aviv University
· Academic coordinator, “The Role of Constitutional Design in the Resolution of Ethno-National Conflicts: Comparative Perspectives”, International Workshop, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 17-18, 2017
Professional Experience (Non-Academic)
· Director, Department of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, 2008-2012
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· Staff Attorney, Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, 2004-2008 · Law clerk, legal staff of Chief Justice Aharon Barak, Supreme Court of the State of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, 1997-2003 |
Other Activities
· Founding member and member of the board, A land for All (Two States, One Homeland), an Israeli/Palestinian movement promoting a new paradigm for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on a modified confederacy model between two independent states, (member 2012 - Present)
Co-leader of Mevaseret Group (within Shaharit Research Institute), a study group: Rethinking the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, 2011-2013