Hedi Viterbo

Email: h.viterbo@lse.ac.uk

Thesis Title: 'The Legal Construction of Childhood in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'

Supervisors: Professor Nicola Lacey and Professor Emily Jackson; Consulting Supervisor: Dr Jenny Kuper

Research Interests: Childhood; Sexuality; Gender; Legal and political theory; The Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Defamation law; Military criminal law.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

'The Age of Conflict: Rethinking Childhood, Law, and Age Through the Israeli-Palestinian Case' in Michael Freeman (ed), Law and Childhood Studies – Current Legal Issues Volume 14 (OUP, Oxford : 2012);
 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1721652

Journal Articles

‘The Crisis of Heterosexuality: The Construction of Sexual Identities in Israeli Defamation Law’ (2010) 33 Tel Aviv Law Review 5-50 (Hebrew).

‘Guarantees of Collectivity: Education Law and the Struggle over Collective Memory’ (2005) 7 Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Journal 44-47 (Hebrew).

‘From the Abyss of Oblivion to the Depths of the Feminine: A Poetic-Political Perspective on Gender and Sexuality’ (2004) 6 Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Journal 2-6 (Hebrew).

Professional Academic Experience

Editing

Assistant editor: Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2006–2008).

Teaching

Academic coordinator: ‘Theoretical Approaches to Law’ – The Law Faculty, Tel Aviv University, Israel (2007–2008).

Teaching assistant: ‘Introduction to Ethics and Political Philosophy’ – The Law Faculty, Tel Aviv University, Israel (2007–2008).

Teaching assistant: ‘Public Law’ – The Law Faculty, Haifa University, Israel (2007–2008).

Research

Research assistant to Prof Aeyal Gross – The Law Faculty, Tel Aviv University, Israel (2005–2008).