Workshop at Haifa University, March 16, 2016:
New Gatekeeper in a Globalized World? The Israeli Transparency Bill
Legal and Political Aspects of the Work of Israeli NGOs Supported from Abroad
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Venue: Dormitory
Club, University of Haifa
Speakers:
Prof. Eli M. Salzberger is the Director of the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) and Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the President of the European Association for Law and Economics. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (1st in class). He wrote his doctorate at Oxford University on the economic analysis of the doctrine of separation of powers. His research and teaching areas are legal theory and philosophy, economic analysis of law, legal ethics, cyberspace and the Israeli Supreme Court. His latest book (co-authored with Niva Elkin-Koren) is “The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: The Limits of Analysis” (Routledge 2012), preceded by Law, Economic and Cyberspace (Edward Elgar 2004). He was a member of the board of directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel; he is member of the public council of the Israeli Democracy Institute and of a commission for reform in performers’ rights in Israel. Currently he is the director of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and he is the co-director of the International Academy for Judges at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law.
Amnon Reichman is a an associate Professor of law (tenured
2006) at the faculty of law, University of Haifa and a
co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the recently-established
Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions
at the University of Haifa. Professor Reichman specializes
in public law (constitutional law and administrative law),
and his areas of expertise include models of regulation,
neo-institutionalism, separation of powers, theories of
judicial review, human rights, and comparative
constitutional and administrative law. He is the founder and
chair of the Research Forum on the Rule of Law (faculty of
law), and heads the graduate program (LL.M.) that
specializes in civil and administrative law. He is a member
of the European Group of Public Law, and has taught in
several leading institutions, including UC Berkeley (Boalt
Hall), Yeshiva University (Cardozo School of Law) and the
Centre for Judicial Studies (University of Reno, Nevada).
Debbie Gild-Hayo is the Director of Policy Advocacy at the
Association for Civil Rights in Israel. She has joined
ACRI in 2006 and has since overseen ACRI’s policy advocacy
work in the Knesset committees and before leading decision
makers and government officials.
She received a bachelor’s degree in History from
the Hebrew University, followed by an LL.B. from Tel Aviv
University. She
completed her legal internship in the law division of the
Defense Ministry, and went on to work as an attorney in
private practice in the field of commercial law. Ms.
Gild-Hayo is currently studying for a master’s degree in
Public Interest Law at Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Giovanni M. Quer
is a post-doc researcher at the University of Haifa ,
working on EU human rights foreign policy. Previously, he
has worked for the Delegation of the European Union to the
State of Israel, for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and
the NGO Public Committee against Torture in Israel. His
research and professional interests include human rights,
minority rights, Israel studies, law and literature.
Dr. Ayelet Banai is Lecturer in Politics at the School of
Political Sciences and the Haifa Center for German and
European Studies, The University of Haifa. Before joining
the School she was research fellow in political theory at
the University of Frankfurt. She holds a D.Phil. from the
Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford
University. Her research interests are in comparative
politics, international political theory, the right of
self-determination, identity politics, democracy and
democratization. Recent publications include: “Sovereignty
over natural resources and its implications for climate
justice” in Wiley’s Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate
Change (forthcoming); “Freedom beyond the threshold:
self-determination, sovereignty, and global justice” in
Ethics and Global Politics 8 (2015); Territorial conflict
and territorial rights: the Crimean questions reconsidered”,
in German Law Journal 16 (2015).
Kerstin Müller
stepped in as director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s
Israel Office, Tel Aviv in December 2013. At the end of the
last legislative term, Kerstin Müller concluded her career
of many years as a Member of the German Bundestag, serving
as the Spokesperson on Foreign Policy for Alliance 90/The
Greens. In the second term of the red-green government
coalition from 2002-2005, Kerstin Müller was Deputy Foreign
Minister of Germany. The
Middle East, and especially Israel, have been the focus of
her work over many years. In countless visits to the region,
she built a broad network of personal and political
contacts.
Yariv Oppenheimer began his political career as the director of
the Labour Party Youth Faction. In 2002 he was appointed as
the Spokesperson for Peace Now. Within a few months he also
became the General Director of the Movement where he now
guides the political policy and direction of Peace Now.
Yariv also takes part in marathons throughout the country,
running in the name of Peace Now.
Anna Abelmann is a researcher and PhD Candidate at the Ruhr
University of Bochum, Germany. She studied in Erlangen,
Stockholm and Munich and is holding a MA degree in Political
Science and History from the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of
Munich. She was part of the Safe-Comms-Project at Bar Ilan
University, Israel. Anna Abelmann is the Executive Director
of the „International Intelligence History
Association“(IIHA) and Book Review Editor of the „Journal of
Intelligence History“. Her PhD thesis focuses on the history
and development of German political foundations in Israel
from the 1950s up to the 1980s. Her research interests lie
in the field of political foundations, international party
relations, German-Israeli and German-Middle Eastern
relations and intelligence and security studies.
Katharina Konarek
is a PhD Candidate both at the Bundeswehr University of
Munich and the University of Haifa. As a research fellow she
is an active part of the HCGES. She is holding an MA degree
in Political Science and Intercultural Communication from
the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In her PhD she is
focusing German Foreign Policy in the Middle East and the
role of the German political foundations in Israel and the
Palestinian Territories. She worked for the offices of
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in East Jerusalem and in Poland. In
Germany she is part of a voluntary network (AK Asyl)
providing arrivals from Syria and Iraq with first aid and
information.