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Call for Applicants for a Tenure-Track Position

at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

New Chair in the Field of Child and Youth Rights

with the establishment of a major academic research program in the field

 at the Faculty of Law’s Minerva Center for Human Rights

 

The Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites exceptional researchers in the research fields of child and youth rights to submit their candidacy to join the Faculty in a tenure-track position in 2022.

Background:

Following the receipt of a major new grant dedicated for this purpose, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is establishing at the Faculty of Law a new Chair and Academic Research Program in Child and Youth Rights, under the auspices of the Faculty’s Minerva Center for Human Rights (en.minervacenter.huji.ac.il). The funding in place for the Chair and Program will enable extensive and multifaceted academic activity in the field.

The new Program in Child and Youth Rights will be the leading academic-research program of its kind in Israel, with the goal of furthering research and teaching on child and youth rights in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The Program will be supported by an international advisory board and will seek to establish close research ties with senior researchers and leading international academic institutions in the field. One of the Program’s central areas of focus will be the implementation of the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Another emphasis of the program is on the utilization of interdisciplinary research methods.

This call seeks to identify a suitable candidate for appointment to a tenure-track position at the Faculty of Law for the new position of Chair in Child and Youth Rights, and to serve as Academic Director of the Program in Child and Youth Rights. As such, the Chairholder will be tasked with developing, in the first months following their appointment, a detailed multi-year work plan for the Program, for approval by the funding body. Alongside the Chairholder will be a Program Executive Director, with academic and/or practical experience in the field, supported by the Minerva Center staff. A call for candidates for the Executive Director position will be published in the future.

For further details, please contact Dr. Einat Albin, Academic Director of the Hebrew University’s Minerva Center for Human Rights (einat.albin@mail.huji.ac.il) or Mr. Danny Evron, Executive Director of the Center (dannye@savion.huji.ac.il).

Requirements:

• Academic expertise and experience in human rights in general and in child and youth rights in particular.
• A doctoral degree in law, or a doctoral degree in another academic discipline if the candidate dealt in his/her academic research with the study of law and human rights or child and youth rights – and/or the position of Professor in these fields in a recognized academic institution in Israel or abroad.
• Availability for start of employment during 2022, and no later than October 2022.

Candidates are requested to submit the following documents (in English):

• Letter of interest, with full contact details.
• Detailed academic CV, including full list of publications, research grants, participation in conferences, teaching, and any other relevant academic and practical experience.
• Digital copies of main academic publications.
• Description of areas of interest in teaching, including previous courses taught.
• Teaching evaluations and surveys at academic institutions (if available; these can be in Hebrew).
• Personal research plan in the field of child and youth rights (up to 3 pages).

Submission Deadline: January 1, 2022

Submission of candidacy – by e-mail, to Mr. Danny Evron, Executive Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Israel (dannye@savion.huji.ac.il), with a copy to Ms Tomer Hazan, Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Law (tomerco@savion.huji.ac.il). Confidentiality is assured.

The appointment will be in accordance with Hebrew University regulations regarding academic appointments, and subject to the approval of the relevant bodies in the Faculty of Law and the University. The Faculty and University are not obliged to appoint any candidate to the position and may identify suitable candidates through additional recruitment channels. 

The language of teaching at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Hebrew, though some courses are taught in English. New faculty members are expected to be able to teach in Hebrew within a few years after their arrival.

 

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קול קורא למשרה אקדמית (סגל אקדמי בכיר)

בפקולטה למשפטים באוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים

קתדרה חדשה בתחום זכויות ילדים ונוער

עם הקמת תכנית אקדמית-מחקרית מובילה בתחום במרכז מינרבה לזכויות האדם

הפקולטה למשפטים באוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים מזמינה חוקרות וחוקרים מצטיינים/ות בתחומי המחקר של זכויות ילדים ונוער להציג את מועמדותם/ן להצטרפות לפקולטה במשרה של חבר/ת סגל בכיר במסלול האקדמי הרגיל(tenure track position)  במהלך שנת 2022.

רקע:

בעקבות קבלת מענק ייעודי רחב-היקף למטרה זו, האוניברסיטה העברית תקים בשנת 2022 קתדרה ותכנית אקדמית-מחקרית חדשות בנושא זכויות ילדים ונוער, במסגרת מרכז מינרבה לזכויות האדם בפקולטה למשפטים (en.minervacenter.huji.ac.il). המענק יאפשר פעילות אקדמית ענפה ומגוונת בתחום.

המדובר בתכנית האקדמית-מחקרית המובילה מסוגה בישראל, ומטרתה קידום מחקר והוראה בנושא זכויות ילדים ונוער בישראל ובשטחים. התכנית תשאף לפתח קשרי גומלין הדוקים עם חוקרות וחוקרים בכירים/ות ועם מרכזים אקדמיים מובילים בתחום בעולם, ותסתייע בוועדה מייעצת בינלאומית. אחד ממוקדי העניין המרכזיים של התכנית הוא הטמעת עקרונות האמנה הבינלאומית לזכויות הילד (CRC). דגש נוסף של התכנית הוא שימוש בשיטות מחקר בין-תחומיות.

קול קורא זה נועד לאתר מעומד/ת מתאים/ה להצטרפות לפקולטה למשפטים במשרה של חבר/ת סגל בכיר במסלול האקדמי הרגיל(tenure track position)  לאיוש הקתדרה החדשה ולשמש מנהל/ת אקדמי/ת של התכנית החדשה לזכויות ילדים ונוער. במסגרת זו, יהיה על חבר/ת הסגל לגבש כבר בחודשים הראשונים של הכהונה תכנית עבודה רב-שנתית מפורטת עבור התכנית לזכויות ילדים ונוער, לאישור הגורם המממן. לצד חבר/ת הסגל י/תפעל מנהל/ת מקצועי/ת לתכנית בזכויות ילדים ונוער, בעל/ת ניסיון אקדמי ו/או מעשי בתחום, בתמיכת הצוות של מרכז מינרבה. קול קורא למשרת המנהל/ת המקצועי/ת יפורסם בהמשך.

לקבלת פרטים נוספים, נא לפנות לד"ר עינת אלבין, המנהלת האקדמית של מרכז מינרבה לזכויות האדם באוניברסיטה העברית (einat.albin@mail.huji.ac.il), או למר דני עברון, המנהל האקזקוטיבי של המרכז (dannye@savion.huji.ac.il).

מועד אחרון להגשת מועמדות - 1 בינואר 2022

ההגשה – בדואר אלקטרוני, למר דני עברון, המנהל האקזקוטיבי של מרכז מינרבה לזכויות האדם, הפקולטה למשפטים, האוניברסיטה העברית (dannye@savion.huji.ac.il), עם העתק לגב' תומר חזן, עוזרת הדיקנית בפקולטה למשפטים (tomerco@savion.huji.ac.il). סודיות מובטחת.

הקליטה תהיה בהתאם לכללים האוניברסיטאיים הנוגעים למינויים אקדמיים, ובכפוף לאישור הגופים הרלבנטיים בפקולטה למשפטים ובאוניברסיטה. הפקולטה והאוניברסיטה אינן מתחייבות למנות מועמד/ת כלשהו/י ועשויות לאתר מועמדים מתאימים באפיקי גיוס נוספים.

שפת ההוראה באוניברסיטה העברית היא עברית, אם כי ישנם קורסים הנלמדים באנגלית. הציפייה מחברי/ות סגל חדשים/ות היא ללמד בעברית בתוך שנים ספורות מיום הקליטה במוסד.

 

The Center's Vidal Angel Postdoctoral Program for Research against Hate and Bigotry, established in 2005, was the first Postdoctoral Fellowship at any Israeli university devoted exclusively to human rights.

2018-2019

Dr. Lior Erez – PhD in Political Theory from University College London. His postdoctoral project at the Minerva Center was titled: “The Normative Case Against Citizenship for Sale”. Lior was an HR-UP Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center.

2017-2018

Dr. Nimrod Kovner - PhD in Government from London School of Economics. Dr. Kovner’s doctoral dissertation, under the supervision of Dr Kai Spiekermann, was entitled: “Migration in A Warming World: On the Responsibility and Obligations Of States Towards Climate Change Immigrants”. His postdoctoral research focused on “Rights, Risk, and Vaccination Ethics”.

2016 - 2017

Dr. Ebtesam Barakat – PhD in Gender Studies from Bar Ilan University. Dr. Barakat’s post-doctoral research deals with the ways educated Druze women succeed in coping with and shattering the intersecting barriers to their integration and professional advancement in the main labor market.

2015 - 2016

Dr. Yael Litmanovich- PhD in Social Policy and Intervention from Oxford University. Dr. Litmanovich’s postdoctoral research at the Minerva Center examines protest policing in Israel, and more generally advancing democratic policing and reducing misuse of force.

2014 - 2015

Dr. Noam Peleg- PhD from University College London. His postdoctoral research looked at how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’s conceptions of ‘the child’ and childhood influence and shape the implementation of the Convention in various local contexts, with respect to children with diverse personal characteristics (ethnicity, religion, class, gender, sexuality) and/or who come from different social, religion or economic backgrounds.

2013 - 2014

Dr. Nelly Kfir- PhD in Anthropology and Sociology from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Kfir's study builds on the anthropology of human rights and considers the “social life” (Wilson, 1997) of labor migrants’ rights in two nominally “non-immigration” countries: Israel and Singapore. It focuses on the role of NGOs and migrants in giving life to rights in these countries. Nelly's areas of research include: migration, human rights, civil society and NGOs.

2012 - 2013

Dr. Shiri Regev-Messalem- PhD from Stanford University Law School. Dr. Regev's research is based on a bottom up qualitative approach and surveys the responses of marginalized populations, especially Israeli Arab, ultra-orthodox and poor women, to welfare policies conducted in Israel today.

2011 - 2012

Dr. Ruthie Ginsburg- PhD in Hermaneutics from Bar-Ilan University. Dr. Guinsburg's study examined the relations between cultural practices such as art, dance or even religous ceremonies, to society narratives and memory.

2010 - 2011

Dr. Einat Albin- PhD in Law from Oxford University in 2010. Dr. Albin's research focused on prejudice, racism and discrimination in the Israeli construction workers section.

2009 - 2010

Dr. Meital Pinto- PhD in law from the University of Toronto. Dr. Pinto's research, "a new perspective on the rights of minorities within minorities", dealt with examining the rights of minorities within minorities in multicultural societies and to distinguish between cases in which their claim should be perceived in terms of their rights to equality, and cases in which their claim should be perceived in terms of their right to culture – the same culture that majority members within their minority group aim to protect and preserve. Such a conclusion should be drawn if we pay careful attention to the concept of group rights.

2008 - 2009

Dr. Yaël Ronen- PhD in law from Cambridge University. Her research, "Genocide, Media, and International Law", aimed to examine the role of mass media with respect to genocide and other ethnic-hatred related phenomena regulated by international law, focusing on the prohibition on incitement to genocide from both an international criminal law and an international human rights law perspective.

2007- 2008

Dr. Nir Halevy- PhD in Psychology and Business Management from the Hebrew University. His research consisted of four projects, that used empirical experiments to explore the relations between groups and individuals as well as inter-group relations.

2006 - 2007

Dr. Yousef Jabareen- PhD in law from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. His research addressed the issue of equal employment opportunities from a comparative perspective, discussing lessons from America to Israel.

2005 - 2006

Dr. Anat Gesser-Edelsburg- PhD in Theatre Arts from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Gesser-Edelsburg's research is entitled: "Encouraging tolerance and confronting hatred and racism among youth through theater: Are educational plays an important and effective tool?" and she presented her findings at the Minerva Biennial Conference in December 2006.

Dr. Sophie Walsh- PhD in Psychology from Bar Ilan University. Dr. Walsh's research  is entitled: "The experience of the 'other': Individual differences in the experience of prejudice, discrimination and racism among young immigrant adults and their association with positive and negative adaptation".

The Center's David and Marcia Kretzmer Fellowship for Research in Human Rights Law, established in 2010, provides an outstanding Hebrew University doctoral student or postdoctoral researcher with a generous scholarship and the opportunity to conduct their research at the Center for a year.

2018-2019

Dr. Tomer Shadmy - Postdoctoral research fellow, who focused on the topic of “Data-Driven Corporations and Human Rights”. Dr Shadmy received her PhD from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law in 2016. Her dissertation traced changes in the conceptualization of human rights obligations of corporations towards individuals, and towards society in general.

2017- 2018

Ms. Vera Shikhelman – Postdoctoral research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights. Vera completed her JSD degree at the University of Chicago Law School, under the supervision of Prof. Eric Posner and Prof. Tom Ginsburg. The title of her dissertation was "Decision-making and Access to Justice in the United Nations Human Rights Committee." The subject matter of Vera's research is "Why and when states implement decisions of international human rights institutions".

2016 - 2017

Ms. Banna Shoughry-Badarne – PhD candidate at the Law Faculty, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Karayanni. Her research focuses on Islamic Law, Gender and Human Rights under the Jewish-Democratic State.

2015 - 2016

Ms. Shiran Reichenberg – of the Law Faculty, whose doctoral dissertation focuses on children’s rights and the representation of children in Youth Courts.

2013 - 2014

Mr. Ronen Polliack – PhD candidate at the Law Faculty and under the supervision of Prof. Barak Medina, his research focuses on the issue of monetary compensations in constitutional and administrative law. 

2012 - 2013

Ms. Dana Gur. Dana – research-fellow at the Law Faculty, and the recipient of several research grants and stipends. The subject matter of Dana’s research is “Justifications, Excuses and International Circumstances”. 

2011- 2012

Mr. Yahli Shereshevsky – PhD candidate at the Law Faculty. Yahli graduated with honors from the Law Faculty and the Hebrew University's Amirim Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities for Outstanding Students. His doctoral thesis was entitled "The Tension between Reality and Utopia in the Process of Balancing Humanitarian Considerations and Military Necessity in International Humanitarian Law".

2010 - 2011

Ms. Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar – doctoral candidate at the Law Faculty, and has received numerous academic honors throughout her studies. Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Educational Equality and The Privatization of Education".

The Minerva Center for Human Rights issues an annual call for proposals for multidisciplinary research grants (generally $2,000-$4,000 each) and doctoral scholarships ($2,000-$3,000 each) for human rights research The Center's call for proposals for research grants is unique in that it is open to researchers from all research institutes in Israel – the only such source of national, multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary human rights research funding in Israel. Over the years the Minerva Center’s grants have had a powerful cumulative role in developing significant human rights-related academic research in Israel.

2017- 2018

1. Vernacular conceptions of human rights: The case of Haredi people with mental disabilities in Israel (Dr. Zvika Orr, Civic Engagement Program, Jerusalem College of Technology, and Dr. Adi Finkelstein, Life and Health Sciences, Jerusalem College of Technology)

2. The Impact of Majority Nationalism Laws on Intergroup Relations (Prof. Netta Barak-Corren, Law, Hebrew University, Prof. Yuval Feldman, Law, Bar Ilan University, and Prof. Noam Gidron, Law, Hebrew University)

3. What Shapes Individuals’ Preferences for Criminal Justice Error Types? (Prof. Yehonatan Givati, Law, Hebrew University)

4. Bystanding, Complicity, and Human Rights in Current Israeli and Palestinian Cinema (Prof. Raya Morag, Communication, Hebrew University)

5. Intergroup Contact in Everyday Spaces: A Natural Experiment in Jerusalem Hospitals (Dr. Devorah S. Manekin, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University)

6. Listening from Afar: Assessing Judicial Response to Human Rights Violations using Algorithmic Topic Modeling of Testimonies in International Criminal Trials (Dr. Renana Keydar, Law, Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University)

7. Mainstreaming the Refugee Women Rights Advocacy, (Dr. Tally Kritzman-Amir, Law, Ramat Gan College of Business and Law)

8. The Right to Memory as a Human Right (Prof. Amit Schejter, and Dr. Noam Tirosh, Communication, Ben-Gurion University)

9. Framing Moral Transgressions as Violations of Rights Increases Their Perceived Severity (Allon Vishkin, Psychology, Hebrew University)

10. Constraining or Expanding State Power: Why Do States Ratify Counterterrorism Conventions? (Efrat Hakak, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University)

11. Disabled children’s and adolescents’ report of self-determination at home and in school, relating to their capacities and opportunities, and their parents’ report relating to these issues (Tamar Taub, School of Social Work & Social Welfare, Hebrew University)

12. The Ongoing Trauma of Palestinian Refugees from Lod (Rawan Nasser, School of Social Work & Social Welfare, Hebrew University)

2015 - 2016

1. Civil Society Organizations Promoting Coexistence, Shared Society and Human Rights of the Arab-Palestinian Population in Israel (Dr. Michal Almog-Bar, School of Social Work & Social Welfare, Hebrew University)

2. Universal Righting of Human Rights Wrongs (Prof. Iris Canor and Dr. Yifat Bitton, Law, Academic College Rishon LeTzion)

3. The Legal Treatment of Asylum Seekers in Israel: Domestic Law, Policies and Collective Memory (Prof. Margit Cohn, Law, Hebrew University)

4. How Human Rights Activism Impacts Volunteer Students of Minority Groups: The Case of Haredi Students Promoting Human Rights of Haredi People with Disabilities (Dr. Adi Finkelstein, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center)

5. Economic Woman in the Age of Capital Gendering Economic Inequality (Prof. Frances Raday, Law, Academic College Rishon LeTzion)

6. The Adoption of Human Rights Discourse by Israeli Right-Wing Groups: Causes, Functions and Consequences (Dr. Ron Dudai, Marin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University)

7. Abuse of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners` Human and Medical Rights (Dr. Tomer Einat, Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University)

8. Poverty law and the civil justice system (Assaf Tabeka, Law, Hebrew University)

9. Proportionality in Theory and in Practice: A Critical Analysis of the Constitutional Methodology of the Israeli Supreme Court Talya Steiner, Law, Hebrew University)

2014 - 2015

1. The Right to Equal Special Education in Jerusalem: The Treatment of Children with Special Needs in West and East Jerusalem (Dr. Thomas Gumpel, Education, Hebrew University)

2. The Impact of Language Accessibility of Legal Hearings on the Legal Process and its Outcomes (Dr. Michal Schuster, Translation, Bar Ilan University)

3. Human Rights Law in Israel (Prof. Barak Medina, Law, Hebrew University)

4. Realization of the Right to Health and Access to Health Services among Statusless Palestinian Women in Israel (Dr. Nihaya Daoud, Public Health, Ben Gurion University)

5. Participatory Technologies for Mapping Crises and their Political Implications (Dr. Michal Givoni, Politics and Governance, Ben Gurion University)

6. Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights (Dr. Liav Orgad, Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzlia)

7. Responses of the Criminal Justice System to Moral Panics (Prof. Miri Gur-Arye, Law, Hebrew University, and Prof. Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Sociology, Hebrew University)

8. Israel, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Portrayal of Israel in the International Sphere (Dr. Rotem Giladi, Law, Hebrew University)

9. To What Extent Does Children’s Representation in Youth Court Promote Their Rights? (Shiran Reichenberg, Law)

10. Between Employment and Family Life in the Arab and Jewish Populations of Israel: A Comparative Analysis (Ola Nabwani, Sociology)

2013 - 2014

1. Armed with Cameras: Human Rights, Gender, and the Public Sphere (Dr. Ruthie Ginsburg, Hermaneutics, Bezalel Academy)

2. Asylum Seekers with Disabilities (Dr. Tali Kritzman-Amir, Law, Van Leer Institute)

3. Damages for the Infringement of Human Rights in the Israeli Legal System (Prof. Iris Canor, Law, Academic College Rishon LeTzion, Prof. Tamar Gidron, Law, Academic College Rishon LeTzion, Dr. Haya Zandberg, Ministry of Justice)

4. The Invisible Constitution: Judicial Review in Trial Courts (Dr. Uri Aharonson, Law, Bar Ilan University)

5. Israel Public Policy towards "Foreigners" – the Cases of Human Trafficking and of Asylum-Seekers and Migrants (Dr. Nurit Hashimshoni Yaffe, Government and Society, Tel Aviv Academic College)

6. Migrant Workers Advocating for Their Rights?! The Case of Filipino Community Organizations in Israel (Dr. Debbie Babis, Truman Center for Peace Research, HUJ, and Itai Greenspan, Sociology, Hebrew University)

7. The Right to Divorce in Jewish Tradition (Dr. Avshalom Weistrich, Law, Ramat Gan College of Business and Law)

8. Rights of Older Persons in the African Union: Empiric Examination of the African Court of Human & Peoples' Rights (Prof. Israel Doron, Gerontology, Haifa University, and Dr. Benny Spanier, Law, Haifa University)

9. Technological Changes and Human Rights: The Case of Airport Security Screening in Israel (Dr. Tal Yonatan-Zamir, Criminology, Hebrew University, Dr. Badi Hasisi, Criminology, Hebrew University, and Dr. Yoram Margaliot, Law, Tel Aviv University)

10. Urban/Regional Structure and Environment as Facilitators or Barriers for Participation in Activities for Diverse People with Disabilities (Prof. Pnina Plaut, Architecture and Urban Studies, Technion, and Dr. Naomi Schreier, Occupational Therapy, Haifa University)

11. Victims’ Rights as Human Rights (Dr. Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, Law, Bar Ilan University, and Dr. Dana Pugac, Law, Ono College)

12. ”A Historic Commitment? Israel’s Attitude to the Refugee Convention: Interests, Identity, and Ideology” (Dr. Rotem Giladi, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University)

13. The Legal Status of “Social Parenthood” (Tali Marcus, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University)

14. The Discursive Dynamic of Institutional Work: The Case of the GBLT Community in Israel” (Merav Migdal Picker, Doctoral Candidate, Business Administration School, Hebrew University)

15. The Interaction between Transnational Factors and Local-Particular Social, Cultural, and Religious Factors Shaping the Moral Perceptions, Discourses, Practices and Public Policies Regarding Human Rights Issues Related to the Human Body (Zvika Orr, Doctoral Candidate, Federmann School of Public Policy & Government, Hebrew University)

16. The Monetary Dimension of a Constitutional Right (Ronen Polliack, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University)