Dr. Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

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CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal Details

Name: Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar.

Permanent Home Address:

Hanotrim 4, P.O. Box 1562 Zichron Yaakov, 30900.

Home Telephone Number: 972-77-6645119

Cellular Phone: 972-522942109

Office Telephone Number:

Fax Number:

972-4-8240009.

972-4-8240681

Electronic Address: Sandy@research.haifa.ac.il.

http://law.haifa.ac.il/faculty/eng/kedar.htm

2. Higher Education

A. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies 1996 S.J.D.; Harvard Law School, Boston, USA.

Fields of Study: Legal History, Israeli Land System.

1989 LL.M. (Waived); Harvard Law School, Boston, USA.

1986 Post B.A.; General Studies, Faculty of the Humanities, Tel-Aviv University.

1986 LL.B.; Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University.

B. Post-Doctoral Studies

None

3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education

DATES NAMES OF INSTITUTION AND DEPARTMENT

RANKS

2004-present Faculty of Law, University of Haifa Senior Lecturer (With Tenure)

*2009 Michigan Law School, Center of International and Comparative Law

Grotius Visiting Scholar

*2009 University of Michigan, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies

Visiting Scholar

*2008 Michigan Law School Visiting Professor of Law

1998-2003 Faculty of Law, University of Haifa Lecturer

1996-1998 Faculty of Law, University of Haifa Proposed Rank, Lecturer

1993-1996 Faculty of Law, University of Haifa Instructor

1994- 2005 Teaching in different times at the following academic Institutions: Tel Aviv University, Law School; Management College, Law School, Academic College in Ramat Gan, Law School, Interdisciplinary Center, Law School, Natania College, Law School. Subjects taught are property, legal history, land regimes, distributive justice, and constitutional right to property.

Visiting lecturer.

1990 Brandeis University, Legal Studies Program Visiting Lecturer.

4. Offices in University Academic Administration

1994 – Present*

Member of several Law Faculty and University of Haifa Committees. Law School: Master Program Committee, Committee on the Special Master Program for Acting Judges, Advisory Appointment Committee, In charge of PH.D. Colloquium, Head of the Law and Society Forum; Research Committee, Dean's Search Committee, Teaching Committee, Student Committee, and Head of Alumni Committee; Coordinator of Faculty Seminar; Director of the Law Faculty program in history and law. Founding and former Editor of Din U Dvarim (Haifa Law Review) the general Law Review of University of Haifa Faculty of Law. Former Co-Editor Mishpat Umimshal (Law and Government) Law Review; University: Senate of the University, Senate's University Library Committee, Senate Constitutional Committee, Special Committee on the Status of Contractor's Workers, University Graduate School's Grant Committee, Board Member The Jewish Arab Center; The Jewish National Fund Prize Committee, Board of Trustees (Representative of the University Senate), Rector Search Committee, President Search Committee; Exam Policy Committee (Moed Gimel) .

5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

2012-2013 Member of the Steering Committee, Annual Conference of the Israeli Law and

Society Conference

2011-2012 Member of the Steering Committee, Annual Conference of the Israel Studies Association

2011-2012 Head of the Steering Committee, Annual Conference of the Israeli Law and History Association

2005-present* Coordinator of Collaborative Research Network on Legal Geography

2003-present* Co-founder and head of the Association for Distributive Justice, an Israeli NGO addressing these issues.

2011* Co-chair of the Land Subcommittee, of the Expert Team (Spivak Yonah), Social Protest Movement

2010* President, The Israeli Law and Society Association

2007-2008* Member of the Steering Committee, Israeli Association for Law and Society

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2004-2005* Member of the Jury, International Architectural Competition for Unrecognized Villages, Organized by De Balie Cultural Center, Amsterdam.

1996-2003 Head of the Land Committee of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow.

20-1998 14* Referee and reviewer for professional journals including, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, The Indigenous Law Journal Iyuney Mishpat, Mishpat U Mimshal, Mishpatim, Bulletin of Israel Studies, Bitachon Sotziali and Katedra, Hamishpat.

Reviewer of teaching material for the Open University.

Reviewer for the Israeli Academy of Science and the South African National Research Foundation.

Reviewer and examiner of M.A. and Ph.D. research proposals and dissertations of the following institutions: University of Haifa: Law School, Political Science Department; Tel-Aviv University, Law School.

Member of promotion committees or referee in promotion proceedings in the following institutions: Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College; Tel-Aviv University, Law School; University of Haifa, Law School; Carmel College, Law School; Sapir College, Law School.

1996-1997 Member of the Organizing Committee of the Israeli Legal History: Conference Honoring the Jubilee Year. (With Professor Pnina Lahav, Boston University, and Dr. Ron Haris,. Tel-Aviv University. The conference took place on May 19-21, 1997.)

1992 Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School, USA.

6. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences (Selection) a. Active Participation

Conference Place and Dates Title of My Presentation * Diffusion: An international, Interdisciplinary Conference Organized by the Swiss Institute of International Law and Juris Diversitas

Lausanne, June 4th, 2013 Expanding Legal Geographies: A Call for a Critical Comparative Approach

* Law and Society Association Annual Conference

Boston, MA, June 1st, 2013 Critical Comparative Legal Geographies: A Tentative Research Program

*Annual Meeting of the Israeli Geographical Association

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 9.12.2012 (Co-presenter)

Challenging the Dead Negev Doctrine

*Israeli Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting

The Academic Center for Law and Business, 20.12.2012 (Co-presenter).

The Silencing Doctrine: Voice and Power Disparities in Land Adjudication between Negev Bedouins and the Israeli State

*Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History

St. Louis, MO, 20.11.2012 The Enduring Legal Legacy of the British Empire: The British, Indian and Pakistani sources of the Israeli Absentee Property Act

*Competing Histories and Conflicted Spaces: Property,

University of Haifa, 30.10.2012 Refugee Property in the Aftermath of the Partitions of India and

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Ethnicity and Contested Memories in Post-War societies

Palestine

*Law, Spaces, Cultures & Empire: Engagements & Legacies

National University of Singapore, July 5, 2012

The Enduring Legal Legacy of the British Empire: The British, Indian and Pakistani sources of the Israeli Absentee Property Act

*Annual International Conference, Association for Israel Studies

University of Haifa, 25.6.2012 (co-presenter)

Indigenous Challenge to A legal Doctrine: Bedouin Land Rights in Israel

*Israeli Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting

Bar-Ilan University, 29.11 2011 The Land Dispute between the State and the Bedouins: the al-Ukbi Case in Legal-Geographical-Historical Perspective (co-presenter)

*Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association for Legal History

Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem, 24.10.2011 The Land Dispute between the State and the Bedouins (co-presenter)

*Israeli Association for Political Science, Annual Meeting

Ben Gurion University, 12.5.2011 Is a New Land Regime Dangerous? (co-presenter)

*The Arab Bedouins of the Negev

The Arnow Center, Ben Gurion University, 16.6.2010

The Land Question

*Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association

Denver, CO, 29.10.2008 The Making and Transformation of the Israeli Regime, 1948-2009

*The Immigration of Land Law: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Interdisciplinary Center December 17.12. 2007

Land Disputes between the State and the Negev Bedouins in Legal Historical Perspective

*The Legal Year – Conclusions and Assessments

University of Haifa, 27.10.2011 Land and Housing in the Shadow of The Social Protest

*Contested Spaces: Legal and Cultural Practices in Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel after World War II

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 29.3.2009

Towards a Vertical Approach to Judicial Doctrine Development: With a Special Emphasis on the Case of Arabs Land Possessors in Israel

*International Workshop:, The Hidden Spaces of Law : Exploring Legal Geographies

Baldly Center, Buffalo Law School, 23-24.2.2009

The Enduring Imperial legacies

*Annual conference of Law and Society Association

Montreal, Canada, 29.5.2008 The Legacy of the British Empire’s War Legislation on Ethnic States

*Conference: Sixty Years of Law in Israel

Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia, 11.5.2008

The Israeli Land Regime: From Nationalization to Selective Privatization

*Israel Law and Society Association First Annual Meeting

University of Haifa, 22.2.2008 Shaping Marginality through Illegality

*Annual Conference Israeli Geographical Society, Ben- Distributive Justice in Israel Land

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Gurion University, 9/12/07 *Jewish National Fund annual Conference on Land Policy

Jerusalem, 12.12.2007 Distributive Justice in State and JNF Land

*The Nationalization of Cities in the 20th Century: East Central Europe and Palestine/Israel Compared

18.9.07 Berlin German Israeli Foundation Workshop

Out of Place: The Bedouin of the Negev and the Israeli State

*Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association

Berlin, 27.7.07

Israeli Courts and the Construction of the Separation Zone/Regime between Israel/Palestine

*Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association

Berlin, 25.7.2007

Constructing Marginality through Illegality: Israeli Law and the Bedouins of the Negev

*Sapir College, Annual Conference

22.3.07 Shderot Housing in Israel: A Comparative Historical Perspective

*Conference in Honor of the Retirement of President Barak

Bar-Ilan University, 28.12.06 The Shaping of Israeli Geography in Judge Barak's Jurisprudence

*The Israeli Association for Legal History

26.9.06, Yad Ben Tzi, Jerusalem "Not from Here, not from Now: The law and the Bedouins of the Negev

*Special Conference on the Constitutional Proposal

Haifa Law School, 25.6.06 State's Land and the Property of the Public

*Sapir College, Annual Conference

Sapir college, 22.3.06 "Land and Housing: Toward a Social Reform"

*The Israeli Planners Association Annual conference

Herzelia, 2.2.06 "Legal Geography"

*The Association of Israeli *Geographers Annual conference

Tel Aviv, 2.1.06 "Legal Geography"

*Israeli Annual Conference on Real Estate

Tel-Aviv, 16.3.05 "Unfreezing of Agricultural Land"

*Israeli Association for Political Science

Tel_Aviv, 26.5.05 "Not from Here and Not from Now: The Bedouins of the Negev'

*Conference on the Israeli Codification

Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia, 15.5.05

Land Law: The Current Picture

*Association of Israel Studies Annual Conference

Hebrew University, Jerusalem June 16th 2004.

From Arab Land to “Israel Lands”: The Legal Dispossession of the Palestinians Displaced by Israel in the Wake of 1948

*Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association

Chicago 28.5.04

Out of Place, the Bedouins of the Negev and the State of Israel

*The Politics of Humanitarianism in the Occupied Territories

Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem April 2004

Land and space Issues in the Occupied Territories

The New Israel 1977-2002 Bar Ilan University 3.3.03 The Struggle over Distributive Justice in Israel Land.

Distributive Justice in Israel Lands: Following the High Court of Justice Case: Hakeshet Hademocratit Hamizrachit and Others V. the Israel Lands Administration and Others

University of Haifa, 6.11.02 Public Lands in Israel: Between Struggle and Settlement

Law and Society Vancouver, Canada, 1.6.02 A Critical Legal Geography of Land

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Association International Conference

Dispossession in Settler Societies

Israeli Sociological Association

Annual Meeting, University of Haifa February 12, 2002

The Struggle over the future of Israel’s Land, a legal perspective and a perspective from the Ground.

Israeli Geographical Association

Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv University. December 12, 2001.

Towards a Legal Geography of Settler Society.

Israeli Geographical Association

Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv University. December 12, 2001.

Land Policy in Israel.

Law and Society Association International Conference

Budapest, Central European University, July 4th, 2001

The Legal Transformation of Ethnic Geography: Israeli Law and the Palestinian Landholder 1948-1967

International Political Science Association: Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies

Hebrew University of Jerusalem June 26, 2001

The Role of High Courts in the Creation and Transformation of Settler's Land Regime - Preliminary Observations

International Conference on Social Rights

Tel Aviv University, the Buchman Faculty of Law 20.5.01

Universal Housing Rights or Selective Propertization? Israeli Land Regime in Transition.

Political Science Research Center of Arabs in Israel

The Status of Palestinians Citizens of Israel. March 22, 2001.

Israeli Land Regime and the Palestinians Citizens of Israel.

Israeli Geographical Association

Annual Meeting, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. December 25, 2000.

Plenary: The future of Israel’s Land.

American Society for Legal History

Princeton University, New Jersey,

20.10.00

The Transformation of Legal Geography in an Ethnocratic State

Israeli Anthropology Association

25.5.00 Absentee Property and Israeli Law.

Toward a Critical Israeli Geography

Tel Aviv University 13.4.00

The Legal Geography of Israel.

Empirical Research and Legal Realism – Setting the Agenda

Research Workshop of the Israeli Science Foundation 8.6.99

Israeli Land Regime: An Empirical Legal Investigation

Law and Society Conference

University of Chicago and Northwestern University, 28.05.99

The Transformation of the Israeli Land Regime: 1948-1998

Association For Israel Studies

American University, Washington D.C. 24.05.99

The Transformation of the Israeli Land Regime: 1948-1998

The Israeli Geographical Conference

Bar Ilan University

17.12.98

Israeli Land Regime: From Collective Nationalism to Privatized Nationalism

Law and Society Conference

5.6.98

Snowmass, Colorado

Land, Law and the Making of the Israeli Land System

Changes in Property due to Hostilities

2.6.98 Workshop, University of Haifa

The making of Israeli Land Regime

Distribution and Redistribution

Tel-Aviv University 26.5.98 Land, Privatization and Social Justice (With Yosi Dahan.)

Israeli Legal History: International Conference Honoring the Jubilee Year

20.5.97

Tel-Aviv University.

Israeli Legal History, Past and Present. (Chair and Panelist).

Israeli Legal History: 21.5.97 Re-Ordering Space: The Jewish

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International Conference Honoring the Jubilee Year.

University of Haifa. State and the Arab Possessor.

International Conference: Property Law at the Threshold of the 21st Century.

29.8.95

Maastricht, Holland.

Israeli Land System: Between

Liberalism and Collectivism.

Conference of the Israeli Historical Society.

7.95

University of Haifa.

The Formative Years of the Israeli Land System.

Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society.

3.94

Aco.

A Historical Sociology of the Land Structure in Israel.

American Society for legal History.

10.92

Yale University, USA

The Socio-Economic Background of Spite-Fence Litigation in Late 19th Century American Cities.

Critical Legal Studies Conference.

4.92

Harvard and Northeastern Universities.

The Objectivity Question in Legal History.

b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions *2012 Co-organizer: International workshop: Where Now? Moving beyond Traditional

Legal Geographies. University of Buffalo, Law School, April 19-20, 2012

*2012 Co-organizer: International Conference: Competing Histories and Conflicted Spaces: Property, Ethnicity and Contested Memory in Post-War Societies University of Haifa and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem; October 29-31, 2012.

*2005-present Law and Society Association: Coordinator of Collaborative Research Network on Legal Geography (Organized many panels on legal geography)

*2012 Member, steering committee, Annual conference of the Association for Israel Studies

*2012 Head of the Steering Committee of the Annual conference of the Israeli Legal History Organization

*2009 Co-organizer, International Conference: Contested Spaces: Legal and Cultural Practices in Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel after World War II, Hebrew University, 29-30.3.2009

*2009 Co-organizer, International Workshop, The Hidden Spaces of Law : Exploring Legal Geographies, Baldly Center, Buffalo Law School, 23-24.2.2009

*2008 Head of the Steering Committee, First Annual Meeting, Israel Law and Society Association University of Haifa, 22.2.2008

*2005 Member of the Steering Committee, first conference of the Israeli Association for Legal History.

1996-1997 Member of the Organizing Committee of the Israeli Legal History: Conference Honoring the Jubilee Year. (With Professor Pnina Lahav, Boston University, and Dr. Ron Haris,. Tel-Aviv University. The conference took place on May 19-21, 1997.)

7. Invited Lectures Conference Place and Dates Title of My Presentation * Transitional Justice: Hebrew University 13.5.13 Expanding Legal Geographies: A

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Workshop organized by Prof' Ruti Teitel)

Call for a Critical Comparative Approach

* Faculty Seminar, Law School, Interdisciplinary Center

Herzelia, 7.5.13 Expanding Legal Geographies: A Call for a Critical Comparative Approach

* Partition Legacies Workshop (Funded by the Van Leer Institute)

Haifa University, 30.4.2013

Expanding Legal Geographies: A Call for a Critical Comparative Approach

Posen Forum Haifa University, 18.4.13 From the Social Protest to the Incoming Government: The State of Social Justice in Israel

Faculty Colloquium, Faculty of Architecture, The Technion

Haifa, 16.1.12 Spatial Justice in Israel: From Theory to Practice

*International Workshop, Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Passage to Modernity in the Middle East“

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 4.6.2012 (Co-Presenter

Questioning the "Dead (Mewat) Negev Doctrine": Property Rights in Arab Bedouin Space (Invited Lecture)

*École des hautes études en sciences sociales Études Sociales et Politiques des Populations, de la protection sociale et de la santé (ESOPP)

Paris, France, 9.5.2012 The British, Indian and Pakistani Sources of the Israeli Absentee Property Act, 1950 (Invited Lecture)

*International workshop: Where Now? Moving beyond Traditional Legal Geographies.

University of Buffalo, Law School 20.4. 2012

Critical Comparative Legal Geographies: A Tentative Research Program (Invited Lecture)

*Annual Meeting of the Israeli Geographical Association

Tel-Aviv University, 25.11.2012 Plenary Panel: "What do we mean when we talk about Space?"

Nomosphere: Contemporary and future Perspectives in Critical Legal Geography (Invited Lecture)

*Israeli Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting

Bar-Ilan University, Plenary Panel, the Social Protest of 2011, 29.11 2011

Participant (Invited Participation)

*The Transition from the Yishuv to the State: A Legal/Historical Perspective, The Berg and the Weitzman Centers, Tel Aviv University

Tel-Aviv University, 21.9.2011 The Land Dispute between the State and the Bedouins: the al-Ukbi Case in Legal-Geographical-Historical Perspective (co-presenter) (Invited Lecture)

*Annual Meeting of the Israeli Geographical Association

Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 12.2010

A New Regime? Privati-Nation in the Israel Land System, Plenary Panel, (invited lecture, co-presenter)

*Comparative Legal Histories Workshop :Colonial/Postcolonial India and Mandatory

Stanford Law School, June 6, 2011 The Enduring Legal Legacy of the British Empire: The British, Indian and Pakistani sources of the Israeli Absentee Property Act of 1950

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Palestine/Israel (invited lecture)

*A Conference in Honor of Morton Horwitz

Harvard Law School, 26.9.2008 The Transformation of the Israeli Land Regime (invited lecture)

*Jewish National Fund annual Conference on Land Policy

Jerusalem, 12.12.2007 Distributive Justice in State and JNF Land (invited lecture)

*Forty Years after 1967: Reappraising the Role and Limits of the Legal Discourse on Occupation in the Israeli-Palestinian Context

The Minerva Center for Human Rights Hebrew and Tel-Aviv Universities, ICRC and Konrad Adenauer Stifung: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 7.6.07

The Israeli Supreme Court and the Construction of a New Legal Geography in the Seam Zone (invited lecture)

*Conference in Honor of the Retirement of President Barak

Bar-Ilan University, 28.12.06 The Shaping of Israeli Geography in Judge Barak's Jurisprudence (invited lecture)

*International workshop on “Squatters or Settlers: Rethinking Ownership, Occupation and Use in Land Law”

Onati, Spain, 1.6.05 “Land Possession and Dispossession in Israel / Palestine” (invited lecture)

*International Property Law Conference

Stellenbosch, South Africa, April 5, 2005

Out of Place: The Bedouins of the Negev under Israeli Law

*Archi-Politica, Annual meeting of Israeli Architects and Planners

'Ganey Hataarucha", Tel Aviv, 4.2005

The Social Role of the Planner (invited lecture)

International Conference: Israel and the Palestinian Refugees

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law, Heidelberg, 12.7.03

Internally Displaced Persons in Israel (invited lecture)

Israeli Geographical Association

Annual Conference, Ben Gurion University. 2.12.02

Plenary Lecture: Distributive Justice in Israel Lands (invited lecture)

International Conference: Challenging Ethno-National Citizenship

Schloss Elmau, Germany, 02.07.02

The Land Regime of the Jewish State: A Critical Legal Geography (invited lecture)

International Conference on: Writing Legal History

The Cegla Center For International and Comparative Law, Tel Aviv University, 12.06.02.

Land, Law, and Domination: Towards a Critical Legal Geography of Ethnocratic Settler States(invited lecture)

Minerva Center for Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Arabs,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 20.5.02

Nationalization, Privatization, and the Palestinian Citizens of Israel (invited lecture)

Israeli Bar Association Eilat, Israel, Annual Conference May 5, 2002

Israel’s Land Administration – to Whom? (invited lecture)

Law and Geography International Workshop

University College London, July 3rd, 2001

The Transformation of Legal Geography in Ethnocratic Settler States: Preliminary Observations (invited lecture)

Israeli Bar Association Eilat, Israel, Annual Conference May 15, 2001

The Future of Israel’s Land (invited lecture)

Association of Israeli Architects and Planners

The Rechter Conference, Maalot. March, 30, 2001.

The Organization of Israeli Space (invited lecture)

Land Regimes and Domination, an International Conference

European Law Research Center Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. March 3 2001.

The Legal Transformation of Ethnic Geography: Israeli Law and the Palestinian Landholder (invited lecture)

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The Palestine Mandate: Fifty Years After

8.12.98

University of Haifa

The Legacy of the British Mandate on the Israeli Legal System (invited lecture)

Changes in Property due to Hostilities

2.6.98 Workshop, University of Haifa

The making of Israeli Land Regime (invited lecture)

International Conference: Property Law at the Threshold of the 21st Century.

29.8.95

Maastricht, Holland.

Israeli Land System: Between Liberalism and Collectivism (invited lecture)

Critical Legal Studies Conference.

4.92

Harvard and Northeastern Universities.

The Objectivity Question in Legal History(invited lecture)

8. Colloquium Talks and other Invited Addresses (Selection)

*Book panel on Haifa Before and After 1948: Narratives of a Mixed City

University of Haifa, 17.06.2012 Law and Geography in the Transition from the Mandate to the Israeli Period

*Social and Economic Academy Haifa, 29.5.2012 Housing , Land and Spatial Justice in Israel

*Walter Liblich Center, Tel-Aviv University

Tel Aviv University, 16.5.2012 Land, Democracy and Majority-Minority Relations

*Israeli Democracy Institute Roundtable, The Negev Bedouin Settlement

Participant (Invited Participation)

*Faculty of Architecture, The Technion, Haifa

Faculty Colloquium, 16.1.2012 Spatial Justice in Israel, From Theory to Practice (Invited Lecture)

*Israeli Bar Association, Workshop

Tel Aviv, 5.10.2011 Spatial Justice, Social Protest and the "Unfreezing" of Agricultural Land

*Israeli Land Administration in the Current Period (Organized by The Marker Daily)

Tel-Aviv, 5.10.2011 "Unfreezing" of Agricultural Land

*Mendel Center, Legal Workshop

Beer Sheba, 20.9.2011 The Bedouin Land Question

*Ministry of Justice, the Center for Advanced Studies

Maale Hahamisha, 24.6.2011 The Reform in the Israeli Land Administration – Social Aspects

*Van Leer Institute Jerusalem, 24.6.2011 "And the Land Should not be Sold?"

*Temple Beth Emeth Ann Arbor, MI, 14.12.2010 The Making and Transformation of the Israeli Regime, 1948-2009

*Frankel Institute University of Michigan, 29.10.2009

The Making and Transformation of the Israeli Regime, 1948-2009 (invited lecture)

*International Law Workshop Michigan Law School, Nation State Formation and

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13.10.2008 Ethnic Displacement: the Enduring Legal Legacy of the British Empire (invited lecture)

*Harvard Law School Seminar on Israel/Palestine Legal Issues, 25.9.2008

Sales of Land to Arabs(invited lecture)

*Harvard Law School, Human Rights Center

Harvard Law School, 25.9.2008 Out of Place: The Bedouins of the Negev Under Israeli Law (invited lecture)

*The Tami Steinmetz Center Tel-Aviv University, 14.7.2008 Legal Aspects of the Separation Barrier

*National Land Policy Yearly Conference

Institute for the Research on Land Policy, Jerusalem, 12.12.07

Distributive Justice in Land

*The Committee for the Proposal of Settlement of Bedouin Land Question (the Goldberg Committee)

Beer Sheba, 5.5.2008 The Bedouin Land Question

*Faculty Lunch Michigan Law School, 3.11.2009 The Making and Transformation of the Israeli Regime, 1948-2009

*Faculty and Students Workshop John Marshall Law School, 26.2.09

The Making and Transformation of the Israeli Regime, 1948-2009

*Middle Eastern Law Students Association

University of Michigan, 17.2.2009

The Making and Transformation of the Israeli Regime, 1948-2009

*Bureaucracy and Politics, Workshop

Ministry of Justice, Maale Hahamisha, 24.1.2008

Policy Setting from a Social Perspective

*Sixty Years to November 29th 1947

Lohamei Hagetaot Museum, 27.11.07

From 1947 to 1969: The Making of the Israeli Land Regime

*Ministry of Justice, Settlement of Title Department Workshop

Kibbutz Hagoshrim, 13.12.06 Settlement of Title in Israel: Past and Future

*Beer-Seba, Elsirag' Fund, Meeting on the Adverse Claims of the Bedouins in the Negev

13.11.06 The Elhawashle Case, a New Reading

*Tel-Aviv, Consensus Building Institute

24.10.06 The Situation of the Bedouins and Suggestions for Solutions

*Haifa University, Department of Sociology

21.3.06 Legal Geography

*Israeli Judges' Seminar: Legal History

4.3.06 Law and Geography: The Israeli Law and Land law in the 1950's

*The Ministry of Interior, Seminar of the Central Department of Land Supervision

Neve Ilan, 20.7.05 The Israeli Land Regime

*Constitution and Legal Committee of the Israeli Knesset

Israeli Knesset, 14.6.05 Settlement and Land

*Israeli Bar,Haifa Branch, Colloquium on the Proposed Codification,

9.6.05, Haifa University Property

I*sraeli Bar, Tel Aviv Branch Tel Aviv, 8.3.05 Licensee's Law

*Shatil Conference on Distibutive City Hotel, Tel-Aviv, 18.4.05 Distributive Justice

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Justice

*Israeli Ministry of Education, Special Program on Human Rights,

Haifa, 17.4.05 Social and Economic Justice

*The Arab Supervision Committee, Conference on the Land Day

Baqa El Garbia, 28.3.05 The Israeli land Regime

*Forum Posen, Haifa University Haifa University, 22.2.05 "Consensus Constitution?"

*Social-Economic College Haifa, 20.5.05 Distributive Justice: The Israeli Case

*Israeli Bar, Haifa Branch Haifa, 15.2.05 Distributive Justice in Land

*Israeli Bar, Northern Branch Nazareth, 11.2.05 The Legal Position of the Arab Minority: Between Nationalization and Privatization

*The Center for Democratic Education

The Kibbutzim Seminar, 27.12.04

Distributive Justice in Land

*International Planning Conference on Ein Hud

Holland, 2.2.05 Israeli Land

*Israeli Judge's Seminar Neve Ilan, 27.12.04 Distributive Justice in Land

*Constitution and Legal Committee of the Israeli Knesset

Israeli Knesset, 19.12.04 "Constitutional Property Right"

*Gathering of Regional Council, Eshkol

Kibbutz Lahav, 17.12.04 Social Reforms and Social Justice

*Adala, Conference on the Bedouins in the Negev

Beer Sheba, 6.12.04 "The Legal Position of the Bedouin of the Negev

*'One Land, Two Systems' De Balie, Cultural Center, Amsterdam,

June 6, 2004

The Unrecognized Villages in Israel.

*Israeli Lawyers' Association Colloquium, 19.3.04 "Unfreezing" of Agricultural Land.

Faculty of Humanities, Haifa University

Monthly Colloquium

31.12.03

"How to Divide the Bear's Skin?": Aspects of Distributive Justice in Resource Allocation

Annual Conference: Association of Civil Rights in Israel

Tel Aviv, 31.8.03 Distributive Justice in Israel Land

Kiosk Exhibition Kunst-Werke Museum, Berlin

7.6.03

Territories

Israeli Lawyers Guild 7.3.03 Haifa Muddy Rights in Land

Israeli Lawyers Guild 28.02.03 Haifa The Israeli Land Regime

National Security College Glilot, 16.2.03 The Israeli Land Regime

Association of Civil Rights in Israel, Education Program.

Tel-Aviv, 7.2.03 Equality in Land.

Roteri, Haifa Branch Haifa, 29.1.03 The Land Question.

Israeli Managerial Center: Colloquium on the Land

Kfar Hamakabia, 14.1.03 Distributive Justice in Israel

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Question Lands.

Departmental Seminar Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Geography 1.1.03

Distributive Justice in Israel Lands.

Yad Tabenkin: Dialogue Keshet Kibbutzim

Seminar Efaal, 18.11.02 Toward a Land Reform in Israel

Maariv Congressim: Judicial and Land Revolution: The Decision of Bagaz on Agricultural Land

Kfar Hamacabia, 2.10.02 The Decision of Bagaz.

The Forum for Land Policy, The Jewish National Fund

Jerusalem, September 11, 2002 Land Reform in Israel

Jewish Arab Center for Economic Development

Herzelia, September 9th, 2002 Israeli Arabs and Israel Lands.

Mishcanot Shaananim, Colloquium on Ethics

Jerusalem, 2002. Israel Lands: Toward a Equitable Reform

Seminar of the Young Kibbutz Leadership.

The Land Dilemma. Tel-Aviv, April 8th, 2002.

Outlines for a solution of the strife over the agricultural land.

Seminar on Land and Planning Mada, Haifa, March, 7, 2002. The Privatization of Israel’s Land.

Research Seminar on Legal History

Tel-Aviv University, Janury 31st, 2002.

Legal Geography of Settler States.

Institute for the Attorneys continuing Education

Tel Aviv University, November 23, 2001

Adverse Possession in Land.

Institute for the Attorneys continuing Education

Tel Aviv University, November 9th , 2001

Constitutional Property Right.

Rabin Center, Forum of National Responsibility

Rabin Center, Novermber 11th, 2001.

The Status of Landholders of Agricultural Land.

Regional Planning Commission 30.07.00 The Israeli Land System.

Israeli Ministry of Education Continuing Education for Teachers of Ezrachut

29.6.00

Social Rights in Israel.

Israeli Democracy Institute Working Group on a covenant between Jew and Arabs in Israel

10.3.00

Guidelines for solutions of the land Issue.

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Guest Speaker, European Law Research Center Seminar 8.2.00

A Preliminary Critique of Israeli Legal Geography, 1948-2000.

Institute for the Attorneys continuing Education

19.11.99 Tel Aviv University Undefined Rights in Land

Israeli Peace and District Judges’ Conference: Land Issues Colloquia

8.2.99 Newe Ilan Possession in Land: The Law, the Reality and what is in Between.

Israeli Justice Department: Social Justice Colloquia

15.9.98 Social Justice in Land Allocation in Israel.

Faculty Seminar 12.5.98 Sociology Department, Haifa University

The Contribution of the Study of Law to the Understanding of Israeli Society

Milestones in Fifty years of 16/12/97 The “Elon Moreh Case “and the

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Israeli Court Decisions Tel-Aviv University Court.

S.J.D. Colloquium. 5.96

Harvard Law School.

An Outline of the History of Israeli Land System.

Faculty Seminar. 4.96

Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jrusalem.

The Israeli Land System.

The Committee for the Examination of the Zionist Implications of the New Basic Laws.

6.95

Justice Ministry, Jerusalem.

The Zionist and Democratic Implications of the New Basic Laws.

Colloquium in the Occasion of Teoria U Bikoret No. 5.

12.94

Van Lir Institute, Jerusalem.

The Politics of Reasonableness and the Reasonableness of the Politics: The Interference of the Israeli Supreme Court in Israeli Public Life.

8. Scholarships, Awards, Research Grants, etc.

a. Grants Awarded 1. *Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions Grant for

research and workshop proposal: "Twentieth-Century Partitions: Legacies of British Rule" for two years starting May, 2014 5,000 Euros, with Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Dr. Alexandre Kedar, Dr. Ornit Shani.

2. *Israeli Science Foundation (Founded by the Israeli Academy of Science). Grant for research Proposal: "The Legal Geography of the Negev, 1900-1947". Grant for the three years 2013-2016, about 126,000 Shekel a year, with Professor Oren Yiftachel. (Grant 920/13).

3. *Israeli Science Foundation (Founded by the Israeli Academy of Science). Grant for research Proposal: "The Legal Geography of the Negev, 1900-1947". Special increase of the grant for cooperation between the research-groups, 50,000 Shekels with Oren Yiftachel. (Grant 920/13).

4. *GIF (German Israeli Foundation) (With Claudia Kraft, Yfaat Weiss and Dieter Gosewinkel) Research grant for 3 years Project title: " Property Realocation and Symbolic Appropriation: Ownership, Ethnicity and Memory in 20th Century Czechoslovakia, Poland and Israel.” (2009-2012). Budget (my own part) about 40,000 Euro.

5. *The Arno Center for Research on the Bedouins, Ben Gurion University. Grant for research proposal "The formalization of Property Rights in the Negev" (2012) (With Oren Yitachel and Ahmad Amara). (About $4000).

6. *The Arno Center for Research on the Bedouins, Ben Gurion University. Grant for research proposal "Documenting the Geo-Legal History of the Negev: 1858-1975" (With Oren Yitachel and Ahmad Amara) (2011) (about $3500).

7. *GIF (German Israeli Foundation) (With Yfaat Weiss, Dieter Gosewinkel and Philipp Ther) Research grant for 3 years – Total budget grant including the German part: 186,720 Euro. (2005-2008) Project title: "Out of Place: Ethnic Migration, Nation State Formation and Property regimes in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Israel"

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8. *The Arno Center for Research on the Bedouins, Ben Gurion University. Grant for research proposal on "The Legal Status of the Bedouins in the Land of the Negev". 2006-2007.

9. *ISF "'Gray Urbanization': Informalities and the Israeli Space" (2008-2011) Cooperating Investigator (CI) (Principal Investigators: Yiftachel and Tzfadia; (About 70,000 Shekel).

10. Israeli Science Foundation (Founded by the Israeli Academy of Science). Grant for research Proposal: Israeli Land Regime: Land Regime in Israel, 1948-1998: Genesis, Transformation, Implications and Reform. Grant for the three years 1999-2002, about 180,000 Shekel (about 37,500$) a year with Professor Oren Yiftachel.

11. Israeli Science Foundation (Founded by the Israeli Academy of Science). Grant for research Proposal: The Rise of a New Land Regime: Changes in Israeli Legal Geography 1992-2002. Grant for the four years, 2002-2006, about 122,200 Shekel (about 25,500$) a year, with Professor Oren Yiftachel.

12. Research Grant. Embassy of France, Center for Cultural Cooperation. For a research project on Land Regimes in French Algeria and in Israel. (2002).

13. Research Proposal Prize, the Research Authority, Haifa University: The Israeli Land System - From Zionist Collectivism to Liberal Privatization: Background, Implications and Reform Proposals. (1999).

b. Submission of Research Proposals – Pending c. Submission of Research Proposals – Denied 1. Israeli Science Foundation (Founded by the Israeli Academy of Science).

Research proposal Mapping Land Allocation and Land Use: Spatial, Planning and Legal Aspects during Israel's Early Decades, With Professor Deborah Shmueli.

10.Scholarships, Awards and Prizes

• Michigan University, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship (Fall 2009).

• Michigan University, Grotius Research Fellowship (Winter 2009). • Elected Person of the Year, by the Journal "Mivnim" (2001). • Person of the Year in the field of Real Estate in Haaretz Daily and Globes

Daily. (2002) (with other members of the Mizrachi Democratic Rainbow).

• Person of the Year, by the Journal "Mivnim" (2001).

• Person of the Year in the field of Real Estate in Haaretz Daily and Globes Daily. (2002) (with other members of the Mizrachi Democratic Rainbow).

11. Teaching a. Courses taught in recent years: *Property. Compulsory Course. 1993-2012

1996-1997 Law School, Haifa University. Law School, Netania College

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1999-2000 Law School, College Of Management.

*The Israeli Land Regime

Elective and Seminar 1999-2013 Law School, Haifa University Law School, Tel Aviv University Law School, Interdisciplinary Center Law School, College Of Management

*Rifts in Israeli Society: Socio Legal Aspects

Elective

*The Israeli Land Regime in Comparative Perspective

Elective Fall 2008 Michigan Law School

*Land Disputes between States and Indigenous Minorities - The Case of Israel and its Bedouin Citizens: History, International Comparisons and Potential Resolutions

Seminar Fall 2008 Michigan Law School

*Law and Society. MA for Acting Judges Elective Course, Haifa Law School

2004, 2007-2010

Law School, Haifa University

*Law, Geography and Ethnic Strife

Elective interdisciplinary course, with Dr. Arnon Golan

2006, 2007 Law School and Geography Department, Haifa Universtiy

*Law and the Occupied Territories

Colloquium and Seminar 2007 Law School, Haifa University

*Historical Justice and Legal Justice

M.A. Interdisciplinary Seminar (With Dr. Yfaat Weiss)

2004 Law School and Department of Jewish Studies, Haifa University..

*Transitional Justice M.A. Interdisciplinary Seminar

2005 Law School.

Sources of Israeli Law. Compulsory Class 1st year. 1995-2003 Law School, Haifa University. Social-Historical Perspective on the Israeli Legal System 1917-1967

M.A. Interdisciplinary Seminar (with Professor Deborah Bernstein).

2003 Law School and Sociology Department, Haifa University.

Israeli Legal History. Seminar and elective course 1994-2000 Law School, Haifa University. Law School, College Of Management

Constitutional Property Right

Elective 1999-2001 2003

Law School, College Of Management Law School, Ramat Gan College.

Distributive Justice Seminar 2002, 2003 Law School, Ramat Gan College. Jurisprudence. MA in the School of Social

Work. 1994-1996 Haifa University.

Introduction to American Law.

B.A. 1990 Legal Studies Program, Brandeis University, USA.

B. Supervision of graduate students in recent years:

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• Ala Haider, "Barriers to the Enforcement of Environmental Legislation in Arab Local Authorities" (Co-Advisor with Rassem Khamaisi, Geography Department, University of Haifa.)

• Ela Trachtenberg, "The Crystallization of the Land Allocation Regime in Early Israeli Period. (Co-Advisor with Professor Deborah Shmueli, Geography Department, University of Haifa.)

• Judge Menahem Raniel, Ph.D. Dissertation, "Judge Yitzhak Kahan" (Co. Advisor with Professor Assaf Likhovsky, Tel Aviv Law School.) (Graduated in 2012).

• Geremy Forman, Ph.D. Dissertation on the Land Settlement in the Galilee. (Co. Advisor with Professor Yossi Ben Artzi. Land of Israel Department, Haifa University. (Graduated in 2005)

• Shiri Hayman, M.A. Dissertation on Community Settlements (Co. Advisor with Professor Meironi of Haifa University Law School). (Graduated in 2006)

• Additional Graduate work: Examiners of several M.A. and doctorate proposals, and theses Law School, Tel-Aviv University, The Technion, Ben Gurion University and the University of Aix En Provence, France

10. Miscellaneous

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PUBLICATIONS

A. Ph.D. Dissertation

1. Israeli Law and the Redemption of Arab Land: 1949-1969. Harvard University, Law School, 1996. (312 Pages, English).

Supervisors: Professor Morton Horwitz, Harvard University

Professor Reuven Avi Yonah, Harvard University.

B. Scientific Books (Refereed) Authored Books – Published None Edited Books and Special Journal Issues - Published

1. The History of Law in A Multi-Cultural Society: Israel 1917-1967 (Edited by

Ron Harris, Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Pnina Lahav and Assaf Likhovsky) (Ashgate, 2002, 452 pages). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

2. Haifa Law Review, Law and Geography (2005). 3. *The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography (Edited by

Irus Braverman, Nicholas Blomley, David Delany and Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar (Stanford University Press, 2014).

Edited Books and Special Journal Issues - Accepted for Publication

C. Monographs none

D. Articles in Refereed Journals

PUBLISHED

1. “Majority Time, Minority Time: Land, Nation and the Law of Adverse Possession Israel” Tel-Aviv University Law Review 21(3) 655-746 (1998) (Hebrew).

2a. “Majority Time, Minority Time: Land, Nation and the Law of Adverse Possession Israel” 443-524 Land Law in Israel: Between Private and Public (1999, Hanoch Dagan Ed. (Republished). (Hebrew).

2. “The Quiet Revolution – More on Judicial Review according to the New Basic Laws” Mishpat Umimshal 4(2) 489-520 (1998) With Eli Salzberger. (1998) (Hebrew). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

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3. “On Property and Power: Israeli Land Regime” Teoria U Bikoret 16 (2000) with Oren Yiftachel. pp. 67-100. (Hebrew). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

3a. Also published as “On Property and Power: Israeli Land Regime” 18-51 in Space, Land, Home with Oren Yiftachel. (2003, Yehuda Shenhav Ed.) (Republished) (Hebrew)(Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

4. ”A first Step in a Difficult and Sensitive Road: Preliminary Observations on Qaadan* v. Katzir” Israel Studies Bulletin vol. 16 pp. 3-11 (2000).

5. “The Legal Transformation of Ethnic Geography: Israeli Law and the Palestinian Landholder 1948-1967", 33 (4) NYU J. Of International Law and Politics, 923-1000 (2001).

5a. A different version was published as “The Jewish State and the Arab Possessor: 1948-1967” in The History of Law in a Multicultural Society: Israel 1917-1967 R. Harris, S. Kedar, P. Lahav & A. Likhovski (eds.), (Dartmouth, Ashgate, 2002).

6. "Between History and Law: On the Historiography of Israeli Law", R. Harris, S. Kedar, & A. Likhovski 26(2) Tel Aviv University Law Review, 351-389 (2002). (Hebrew). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

7. “On the Legal Geography of Ethnocratic Settler States: Notes Towards a Research Agenda" 5 Current Legal Issues, 401-441 (2003).

8. “Israelische Rechtsgeschichte: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart” 25 Zeitschrift fur Neuere Rechtsgeschichte, R. Harris, S. Kedar, P. Lahav & A. Likhovski 70-94 (2003). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

8a. An extended version was published as “Israeli Legal History: Past and Present” with other editors in The History of Law in a Multicultural Society: Israel 1917-1967 R. Harris, S. Kedar, P. Lahav & A. Likhovski (eds.), (Dartmouth, Ashgate, 2002)( pp.1-34). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

9. "Colonialism, Colonization and Land Law in Mandate Palestine: The Zor al-Zarqa / Barrat Qisarya Land Disputes in Historical Perspective" Theoretical Perspectives in Law Vol. 4(2) (2003) (pp. 491-539) (with Geremy Furman). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

10. *"The Legal Construction of Rural Space in Israel" State and Society 4(1) 884-883) (2004) (Hebrew).

11. *"From Arab Land to “Israel Lands”: The Legal Dispossession of the Palestinians Displaced by Israel in the Wake of 1948" 22 Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2004) pp. 809-830(With Geremy Furman). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

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12. *"Re-Examining the 'Dead Negev Doctrine': Property Rights in Arab Bedouin Regions" 14 Law and Government 7-147 (2012) (Hebrew) (With Oren Yiftachel and Ahmad Amara). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

E. ARTICLES OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS WHICH ARE NOT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1. “The Right to Elect and be Elected” in D. Hashin, B. Okon, A.

Likhovsky and M. Gurell (Eds.) The Courts of Law: Fifty Years of Adjudication in Israel 84-86 Jerusalem: Judicial Department Publications (1999) (Hebrew).

2. “The Agricultural Land in Israel Toward the End of the Millenium: Historical, Legal and Social Aspects” Distributive Justice in Israel (Menachem Mautner, (Ed. 2000) (With Oren Yiftachel) pp. 149-201. (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

2a An early and extended version was published as “The Agricultural Land in Israel Toward the End of the Millennium: Historical, Legal and Social Aspects in Vol. # 4 of the Center for Crime, Law and Society) (Hebrew).

3. Sandy Kedar and Oren Yiftachel, "Land Regime and Social Relations in Israel" in Hernando de Soto & Francis Cheneval (ed.), "Realizing Property Rights". Swiss Human Rights Book Vol. 1, Ruffer&Rub Publishing House. Zurich 2006

4. "Public Land: Strategies on the struggle for Distributive Justice" in Rainbow of Opinions (Yossi Yonah and others ed. 2007) (Hebrew).

5. "Expanding Legal Geographies: A Call for a Critical Comparative Approach" submitted to The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography (Edited by Irus Braverman, Nicholas Blomley, David Delany and Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar (Stanford University Press 2014).

6. "Expanding the Spaces of Law: An Introduction" Co-authored with Irus Braverman, Nicholas Blomley, David Delany submitted to The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography (Edited by Irus Braverman, Nicholas Blomley, David Delany and Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar (Stanford University Press 2014).

F. Articles in Conference Proceedings none

G. Entries in Encyclopedias none

H. Other Scientific Publications 1. Book at a Glance: A Review of Peter Novick, That Noble Dream (1988) Poetics

Today 11(3) 717. 2. "Land and Planning" (with Oren Yitachel and Rassem Hammasey).

Published in After the Break: New Directions for the Government Policy

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towards the Arabs in Israel (Dany Rabinovitch, Asaad Ganem and Oren Yiftachel Eds., 2000). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

3. "Land Regime in Israel: Genesis, Transformation, Implications and Reform" Interim Report to the Israeli Academy of Science (2001) (About 300 pages.) (With Oren Yiftachel). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

4. The Israeli Land Regime. Final Scientific Report to the Israeli Academy of Science for the Period 1999-2001 (Two volumes) (With Oren Yiftachel). (Appear in alphabetical order, equal contribution.)

5. Land Settlement in the Negev in International Law Perspective, Adalah Newsletter, volume 8, December 2004.

I. Other Publications

Various op-ed in newspaper, among which Haaretz, Ynet, Maariv, Globes (*)

J. Other Works Connected with my Scholarly Field none

14. Submitted Publications

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