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Dr. Reut Yael Paz

Postdoc: subproject A04 - Collective Security

  • Contact

    Justus Liebig University Giessen
    Professur für Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
    Licher Straße 76
    Erdgeschoss
    35394 Gießen

  • Vita

    Since 2014
    Postdoc in SFB/TRR 138 Dynamics of Securitization for the project Collective Securitization (with Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn)

    2013 - 2014
    Senior Research Fellow of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany

    Since 2009
    Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, (University of Helsinki, Finland)

    2010 - 2012
    Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Faculty of Law, the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

    2008 - 2010
    Researcher at the Concord - Amicus Curiae Clinic Research Centre for Integration of International Law in Israel

    2008 - 2009
    Public International Law Lectureship, the Haim Striks Law School at the College of Management School of Law, Rishon-Le’Zion, Israel

    2003 - 2004
    Doctoral Researcher, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzelia, Israel

    2002 - 2004
    Social Sciences Research Methods Lectureship, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bar Ilan, Israel

    2000 - 2001
    Researcher, FinnEkvit Association: Civic Association for Communicational and Cultural studies across Europe, Helsinki, Finland

  • Academic background

    PhD
    Bar-Ilan University (Israel in co-operation with the Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany and the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland)

    LL.M
    Law Faculty: University of Helsinki, Finland

    MA
    Political Science Faculty: University of Helsinki, Finland

    BA
    Law and Political Science Faculties: University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Research interests

    the history of international law/relations; European legal history
    international environmental law
    feminism and international law/relations
    the intersection between international politics and international law
    the epistemology of IR theories, international legal theory
    third world approaches to international law (TWAIL)
    the sociology of international law and the religious images of international law/relations.

  • Fellowships and grants

    2002 - 2008
    PhD Presidential Excellency Scholarship awarded by the Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    2005 - 2006
    Study Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) The Humboldt University Berlin: Law Faculty (PhD)

    2004 - 2005
    Study Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) The Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig (PhD)

    1998 - 2001
    Study Scholarship awarded by Finnish Government (CIMO)

  • Publications

    2015
    A Forgotten Kelsenian? The Story of Helen Silving-Ryu (1906-1993),
    /EJIL/: /The European Journal of International Law, vol. 25: No. 4./
    http://www.ejiltalk.org/new-issue-of-ejil-vol-25-no-4-out-wednesday/

    2012
    A Gateway Between a Distant God & a Cruel World: The Contribution of Jewish German Scholars to International Law. Brill: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. http://www.brill.nl/gateway-between-distant-god-and-cruel-world

    Making it Whole: Hersch Lauterpacht and the Rabbinical Approach to International Law, in: Goettingen Journal of International Law 4 (2012) 2, 417-445: http://www.gojil.eu/issues/42/42_article_paz.pdf and in Alexandra Kemmerer (ed.), Transmigrations. Jewish International Lawyers between Law and Politics, (Oxford and Portland: Hart, 2011), Forthcoming.

    Religion, Secularism and International Law in Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory, Eds. Anne Orford and Florian Hofmann, forthcoming.

    Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law as “a Hole in Time”/ La Théorie pure du droit de Hans Kelsen comme « un trou dans le temps » in Monde(s) n°7 Juristes, forthcoming.

    The Cologne Circumcision Judgment: A Blow Against Liberal Legal Pluralism? In: Verfassungsblog, on Matters Constitutional, Recht/Kontext, Wissensschaftskolleg zu Berlin, available at: http://verfassungsblog.de/cologne-circumcision-judgment-blow-liberal-legal-pluralism/ 
    See also an interview in Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/1.1817639

    2011
    Between the ‘Public’ and the ‘Private’: A Review Essay on Elihu Lauterpacht. The Life of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. The European Journal of International Law, Issue Vol. 22 No. 3. Available at http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/863.abstract

    2010
    Review Essay–Erich K. Before the Law: Reflections on Degenhardt’s Study of Erich Kaufmann, 11 German Law Journal, 439-456. Available at http://www.germanlawjournal.com/index.php?pageID=11&artID=1248)

    German Jewish women, International Law & Global Consciousness, in: Karin Gottschalk (ed.), Gender Difference in European Legal Culture: Historical Perspectives, (Germany: Kart)

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