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:
Body Politics: Law, Corporal Punishment, and Imperial Authority
This project explores the relationship between the imposition of corporal publishment and the negotiation of imperial political authority in modern Jewish history. By placing the body at the centre of inquiries into episodes of Jewish engagements with British imperial authority—in WWI Europe, South Africa, and the ‘National Home’ in Palestine—the project provides a counterpoint to accounts of 20th century Jewish political history, and agency, that privilege the state and seminal texts of political thought.
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)Read more.
Articles
Rotem Giladi, ‘Nathan Feinberg (1894—1988)’, in: S. Troebst, I. Löhr, D. Müller, and N. Richardson-Little (eds.), International Law and History: Eastern Europe in a Global Perspective (Routledge, forthcoming) Read more.
Rotem Giladi, ‘The Jewish Yearbook of International Law: Form, Knowledge, and Time’, in: I. van Hulle & C. Landauer (eds.), The Journals of International Law (Brill, forthcoming)Read more.
Rotem Giladi, ‘At the Sovereign Turn: International Law at the Hebrew University Law Faculty Early Years’, in: History of the Hebrew University, vol v: Nation State and Higher Education (Magnes Press 2024) 138 (Hebrew)
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) 409 Read more.
Rotem Giladi, ‘Corporate Belligerency and the Delegation Theory from Grotius to Westlake’ (2020) 41 Grotiana 349 Read more.
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 Read more.
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 Read more.
Rotem Giladi, ‘Negotiating Identity: Israel, Apartheid, and the United Nations 1949—1952’ (2017) CXXXII (No.559) English Historical Review 1440 https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cex372
Rotem Giladi, ‘Rites of Affirmation: The Past, Present, and Future of International Humanitarian Law’ (24) 2021 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (2022) 33-70 Read more.