Rotem.Giladi@roehampton.ac.uk, Academia.edu
Major scholarly fields of interest:
History of international law, laws of war, and human rights; empire, colonialism, race, and violence; Jewish legal internationalism.
Current Projects:
Sovereignty and the Laws of War: Signalling Civilisation Through Law in Israel’s First Decade
The research examines the laws of war and, in particular, the 1948 war and the making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions as arenas where the transition from nonstate community to a sovereign polity could be asserted by Israel’s legal-diplomatic apparatus to the ends of procuring informal, cultural legitimacy and recognition.
Education:
2011: S.J.D. University of Michigan Law School.
2008: LL.M. University of Michigan Law School.
2001: LL.M. Magna Cum Laude, Hebrew University Law Faculty.
1993: LL.B. University of Essex.
Post-Doctoral Research:
2019-2022: Senior Researcher, Israel Science Foundation Grant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (‘Nathan Feinberg and His Contemporaries: Jewish International Lawyers and the Sovereign Condition’ PI: Prof Yfaat Weiss)
2017-2019: Research Associate Fellow, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture—Simon Dubnow, Leipzig
2014-2017: Researcher, ERC Grant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (‘Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948—1990’)
2012-2013: Fellow, Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (‘Identity and International Law in Early Israeli Human Rights Diplomacy: The Making of the Refugee Convention’)
2010-2012: Fellow, ERC Grant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (‘The Promise and Limits of International Courts and Tribunals’)
Publications:
Books
Rotem Giladi, Jews, Sovereignty, and International Law: Ideology and Ambivalence in Early Israeli Legal Diplomacy (Oxford University Press, ‘History and Theory of International Law’ series, 2021)
Articles
Forthcoming - Rotem Giladi, ‘Gegenwartsarbeit in the National Home: International Law and the Two Nationalisms of Nathan Feinberg (1895—1988)’ (2020) XIX Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook (2022)
Rotem Giladi, ‘Corporate Belligerency and the Delegation Theory from Grotius to Westlake’ (2020) 41 Grotiana 349
Rotem Giladi, ‘Picking Battles: Race, Decolonization, and International Law’, in: Battle for International Law in the Decolonization Era 1955—75 (P. Dann, J. von Bernstroff eds, Cambridge University Press, 2019) 216
Rotem Giladi, ‘The Phoenix of Colonial War: Race, the Laws of War, and the “Horror on the Rhine”’ (2017) 30(4) Leiden Journal of International Law 847
Rotem Giladi, ‘Negotiating Identity: Israel, Apartheid, and the United Nations 1949—1952’ (2017) CXXXII (No.559) English Historical Review 1440
Rotem Giladi, ‘Rites of Affirmation: The Past, Present, and Future of International Humanitarian Law’ (24) 2021 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (2022) 33-70