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Dr. Reut Yael Paz
Postdoc: subproject A04 - Collective Security
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Justus Liebig University Giessen
Professur für Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
Licher Straße 76
Erdgeschoss
35394 Gießen
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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, FinlandAcademic 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, FinlandResearch 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)