Ruth Gavison

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Ruth Gavison (Hebrew: רות גביזון; Born: Jerusalem, March 28, 1945) is an Israeli Law professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is also a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute. Her areas of research include Ethnic Conflict, the Protection of Minorities, Human Rights, Political Theory, Judiciary Law, Religion and Politics, and Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State.

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[edit] Background, education, appointments and awards

  • LLB, 1969: Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  • BA,1970: Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Philosophy and Economics.
  • LLM, 1971: Hebrew University, Jerusalem:
  • D.Phil (legal Philosophy), 1975: University of Oxford, England.
  • Clerk to Justice B. Halevi, Israel Supreme Court 1970.
  • Admitted to the Israeli Bar 1971.

[edit] Academic Appointments

  • From 1969, teaching appointments, Faculty of Law, HU.
  • 1978-1980: Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  • from 1984: Incumbent, Haim H. Cohn Chair for Human Rights, HU
  • from 1990: Full Professor, Faculty of Law, HU
  • 1990-1991: Visiting Professor of Law, University of Southern California
  • 1998-99: Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton University

[edit] Awards

  • Gavison was awarded the Zeltner Prize for Legal Research in 1997.

She was a founding member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) where she served for many years as Chairperson and as President from 1996 to 1999. Professor Gavison is currently a member of the International Commission of Jurists.

[edit] Public committees

Gavison was a member of numerous Israeli Public Inquiry committees, most recently serving as a member of the Winograd Commission to investigate the 2006 Lebanon War.

[edit] Previous committee memberships

  • 1976: Member, The Kahan Committee on Privacy (generated Israel's law of privacy 1981).
  • 1983: Member, committee on the privacy of information in governmental data-banks (generated an amendment to the privacy law).
  • 1987-1990: Member, a public committee on orthodox-secular relationships in Israel.
  • 1994-1997 Member, National Committee for Scientific and Technological Infrastructure.
  • 1996-1997 Member, Zadok committee on press laws
  • 1997-1998 Member, Shamgar Committee on the Appointment of the Attorney-General and Related Issues.
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