Jerusalem
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Verfassungsblog
A Politician Withdrawn in Eliminationist Times
By Itamar Mann
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 78 that the judiciary has neither sword nor purse. Courts have quoted him ever since. When it comes to the Israeli Supreme Court, however, the…
Critical Legal Thinking
The Carrier Bag and the Checkpoint: Palestinian Feminist Resistance in Occupied Jerusalem
By AK
IntroductionOccupied Jerusalem is often narrated through maps, military operations, diplomatic failures, or religious contestation (Qadir and Smith, 2025). We are told stories of borders, security, sovereignty, and conflict. Rarely are…
Critical Legal Thinking
What we are reading… Jessica Whyte and Máiréad Enright
Jessica WhyteAdania Shibli, Minor Detail. Trans. Elisabeth Jaquette. (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020)Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a novel made of two stories of violence and domination, separated by more than six decades. In the first,…
PrawfsBlawg
Statement of the Heads of Israel’s Universities
Main Friday, October 13, 2023Statement of the Heads of Israel's Universities feel free to share with your institutions. 11 October 2023 5784-Tishrei-26 To our colleagues, heads of universities around the…
The Right Coast
2,500-year-old poop from Jerusalem toilets contain oldest evidence of dysentery parasite | Live Science
By analyzing poop from biblical-era toilets in Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the oldest known evidence of a tiny parasite that causes "traveler's diarrhea," a new study finds.This microscopic parasite, the…
PrawfsBlawg
Another Reason the Academic Boycott of Israel Is Reckless and Counter-Productive
Main Wednesday, August 16, 2023Another Reason the Academic Boycott of Israel Is Reckless and Counter-ProductiveDespite the boycott resolutions of the American Anthropological Association and other scholarly societies, Israeli universities remain…
The Faculty Lounge
Taboo Trades Podcast: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation with Hagai Boas
Today’s guest is the Israeli sociologist, Hagai Boas, a four-time organ transplant recipient and the author of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation. Hagai is the second transplant recipient on…
Religion Clause
In Israel, Jerusalem Municipality Places Tax Lien on Vatican-Owned Guest House
Times of Israel reports that the Jerusalem Municipality has placed a lien on the bank accounts of the Vatican-owned Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center. The Center contains a guest house with…
GT Israel Law Blog
GT Shareholder Spearheads Initiative to Rebuild Famous Synagogue
Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, also known as the Nisan Bek Shul, was one of the most prominent synagogues to ever exist in of the Old City of Jerusalem until its destruction…
Health Law Prof Blog
The Jerusalem Declaration on Ageing 2020
Sarah Harper (University of Oxford), Israel Issi Doron (University of Haifa), The Jerusalem Declaration on Ageing 2020, J. Population Ageing (2021):The Anglo-Israel Colloquium in November 2019, Jerusalem, was a collaboration…