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Ariel L. Bendor is Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Frank F. Church Professor of Legal Research at Bar-Ilan University. He also serves as Head of the Center for Media and the Law and of the Law School Publishing House.
Dean Bendor was a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Law School, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Visiting Professor at the York University Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Siena. Before joining Bar-Ilan in 2008 he was a faculty member at the University of Haifa, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Law and Dean of Students. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Haifa Press, the University of Haifa Law & Government Journal, and the Hebrew University Law Review. He also served as the Chairperson of the Israeli Association of Public Law.
Dean Bendor's major fields of interest are constitutional and administrative Law. He is the author of three books and editor of two others, and the author of dozens of articles published in American, Canadian and Israeli books and law journals. Dean Bendor's books and articles were cited by the Supreme Court of Israel in dozens of decisions.
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Giorgio Repetto (1978) is Associate Professor in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Perugia, where he holds the chair of European Constitutional Law. He earned a Law degree at Luiss “Guido Carli” (summa cum laude and special mention), and holds a PhD in Public and Constitutional law from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. A Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Berlin (Humboldt), Hamburg and Freiburg, he obtained the degree of Full Professor in the fields of both Constitutional Law and Comparative Law. In 2012 he has been awarded with the ‘Premio Sergio Panunzio’ granted by the Italian Association of Constitutional lawyers for the best monographical debut in the field of constitutional law. He is Co-Editor-in-chief of Rivista di diritti comparati and in the board of editors of Diritto pubblico, a leading law review in Italy in the field of public and constitutional law.
His research interests cover theory and practice of fundamental rights, sexual orientation law, constitutional adjudication in European and comparative law and constitutional theory.
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Dr Taixia Shen is associate professor of the Law School & Intellectual Property School of Jinan University inCanton of China. Her research fields are Human rights law, comparative law and Hong Kong law. She got her S.J.D at Renmin University of China, and got her L.L.M at theUniversity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She was a Visiting Scholar in the European Court of Human Rights in 2012, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kongin 2014 and in the CERIC of theAix-Marseille University in 2016. She has published numerous articles concerning “the human rights education in China”, “the relationship between the intellectual property and human rights” and “the human rights protection mechanism of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region” in English. She is the author of The Individual Application System of the European Court of Human Rights”. Since 2012, she has promoted human rights education in Jinan University and has opened human rights courses for the students from law school and other schools.
Christine Venter, a native of Zimbabwe, received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She practiced law there with a civil rights firm for two years, before relocating to the United States to practice with a firm in California. She holds a Masters and Doctoral degree in International Human Rights from the University of Notre Dame. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Women’s Rights in post -apartheid South Africa.
Venter teaches classes on Gender Issues in International Human Rights Law, Legal Writing, and Appellate Advocacy at Notre Dame Law School, where she is the Director of the Legal Writing Program. She is the author of a book entitled International Women’s Rights: Equality and Justice, as well as several articles.
She is currently working on an article on Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Adriana Vieira is law professor at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Permanent Professor at the Post-Graduate Program of Law at federal University of Paraiba (PPGCJ/UFPB) and Permanent Professor at the Post-Graduate Programe of Law, Instituions and Business at Fluminense Federal University (PPGDIM/UFF). PhD in Theory and History of Law – Theory and History of Human Rights – from the Florence University. PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Paraiba. Master in Law from Federal University of Paraiba.
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Mikhail Antonov is Professor of Law associated with the Law Faculty at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (Saint Petersburg) where he teaches legal theory and comparative law. He is practising as a member of the Saint Petersburg Bar Association. Professor Antonov’s research interests focus upon contemporary legal theory, history of legal concepts and ideas. He has published extensively, including recent books are Theory of State and Law (Moscow: Iurait, 2018, in Russian) and History of Russian Legal Thought (Moscow: Iurait, 2017, in Russian). Among his recent articles are: “Legal Realism in Soviet and Russian Jurisprudence”, (4) Review of Central and East European Law (2018), 483–518; “Philosophy Behind Human Rights: Valery Zorkin vs. the West?”, in: L. Mälksoo, W. Benedek (eds.), Russia and European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 150–187; “Law and Economics, Judicial Pragmatism and Their Limits on Both Sides of the Atlantic”, (1) Review of Central and East European Law (2017), 73–94; “Conservative Philosophy and Doctrine of Sovereignty: A Necessary Connection?”, (153) Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (2017), 45–59