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Thesis title
Obscure Chains, Transparent Prices: Contested Commodification in Global Value Chains
Supervisors
Professor Stephen Humphreys and Dr Marie Petersmann
Research interests/areas
Ilil’s research investigates non-economic costs incurred by the current international economic order and channelled through global value chains, traversing metaphysical, physical, distributional, and environmental boundaries. Her research explores constructive regulatory avenues to render these costs more tangible and reducible, while striving for harmony with nature. To this end, her research draws from a cross-disciplinary dialogue – especially between law, philosophy, economic theory, ecology, and anthropology.
Ilil is a PhD candidate at the LSE Law School. Prior to joining LSE, Ilil pursued interdisciplinary, environmentally oriented studies at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University, where she also completed an MA in economics and an LLB (magna cum laude). Subsequently, Ilil clerked for the Honourable Justice Anat Baron and the Honourable Justice Gila Canfy-Steinitz at the Supreme Court of Israel, as well as engaged in activism and litigation countering democratic backsliding.
Ilil’s former research involved the global waste market from both economic and international legal perspectives (master’s project: “Down the Global Drain: Revisiting the Economics of the International Waste Trade”, under the joint supervision of Professor Zvika Neeman and Dr Doreen Lustig); international climate governance and litigation theory under the supervision of Dr Doreen Lustig; and post-capitalist theory under the supervision of Professor Ofer Setty.
Publications
The Climate Change Turn in Human Rights, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Human Rights Law (Neha Jain & Mila Versteeg eds., 2025) (with Doreen Lustig)
The Constitutional Turn in Climate Litigation: Two Decades after the Adam Teva Ve-Din Decision 46 TAU L. Rev. 349 (with Doreen Lustig) (2024) [Hebrew]
Affiliations / Memberships
Israel Bar Association
Awards / Scholarships
AHRC London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP) DTP Studentship (2025–2028)
Tel Aviv University Master’s-level Research Scholarship (2022–2023)
The Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students Scholarship (four-year tuition, 2018–2022)