Gila Stopler Academic Center of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel Email: gila at stopler.net  gstopler at clb.ac.il    פורטל זכויות האדם

Research interests:

Constitutional law, Comparative constitutional law, Women's rights, Church-state relations, Multiculturalism, Human rights, Equality, Demography, Immigration.

Academic positions:

• (October 2004 -  )   Assistant Professor, Academic Center of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel.

• (Aug. 2003- May 2004)   Hauser Research Scholar, New York University School of Law.

Education: 

•  JSD NYU School of Law (2004)

•  LLM in Global Public Service Law NYU School of Law (2001)

   Global Public Service Law scholar; won the David H. Moses Memorial Prize as the member of the LLM class with the highest cumulative average.

•  LLM in International Legal Studies, Washington College of Law American University (1997)
   New Israel Fund Fellowship for Israeli human rights lawyers

•  LLB Tel Aviv University (1994).

Publications in academic journals (in reverse chronological order):

Recent professional activities:

• Member of researchers’ working group on Human Rights and Justice in Immigration established by the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University and headed by Professor Chaim Gans from Tel Aviv University (2007-2009).  Member of conference academic committee, international conference on Human Rights and Justice in Immigration, Jerusalem, May 2009
• Originator and academic editor of the web site "Human Rights Portal" (Hebrew)  "פורטל זכויות האדם".
• Member of academic advisory board of the journal “Ma'asei Mishpat - Tel Aviv University Journal of Law and Social Change” (Hebrew), published by the faculty of law, Tel Aviv University. "מעשי משפט – כתב-עת למשפט ולתיקון חברתי"
• Member of advisory committee Irmgard Coninx Foundation.
• Guest editor of the second volume of the journal Law and Ethics of Human Rights on the subject of Demography and Human rights (2008).
• Initiated and co organized (with Dr. Moshe Cohen Eliya) an international workshop on “Demography and Human rights” with the participation of world renowned experts such as Seyla Benhabib, Christian Joppke, Peter Shuck, Chaim Gans and Sammy Smooha. Details on the workshop and all participants’ papers, abstracts and comments can be found at the workshop's web site (2007).

Last updated: December 15, 2008.