Publications
Books
American Transitional Justice: Writing Cold War History in Human Rights Litigation (Cambridge University Press, Human Rights in History Series, 2020).
Articles and Book Chapters
"The New Atrocity in International Law" Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming)
"The European Convention on Human Rights in Israeli Courts” 20 European Constitutional Law Review 4, 2023 (with Tamar Hostovsky Brandes).
“Israeli Courts and the Paradox of International Human Rights Law” 33 European Journal of International Law 1243, 2022 (with Tamar Hostovsky Brandes).
“The Judicial Review of Legality” 72 University of Toronto Law Journal 403, 2022 (with Leora Bilsky)
“Everyday Lawmaking in International Human Rights Law: Insights from the Inclusion of Domestic Violence in the Prohibition of Torture” 47 Law and Social Inquiry 205, 2021
“Legal Ethics in Authoritarian Legality: A Response to David Luban” 34 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 665, 2021 (with Leora Bilsky)
“The Regularization Law and the Rule of Law” Tel Aviv University Law Review Forum, 2021 (with Leora Bilsky) (in Hebrew)
“Human Rights Realism” 54 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 31, 2021
"Process-Tracing the Meaning of International Human Rights Law" in Rossana Deplano and Nicholas Tsagourias eds., Handbook on Research Methods in International Law 229 (Elgar, 2021).
“The Feminist Expansion of the Prohibition of Torture: Toward a Post-Liberal International Human Rights Law?” 52 Cornell International Law Journal 109, 2019
“Alien Tort Statute Litigation and Transitional Justice: Bringing the Marcos Case back to the Philippines” 11 International Journal of Transitional Justice 257, 2017
“Toward a Self-Reflexive Law? Narrating Torture’s Legality in Human Rights Litigation” 21 Law, Culture, Text 100, 2017
“Shifting the Lenses on Alien Tort Statute Litigation: Narrating U.S. Hegemony in Filártiga and Marcos” 28 European Journal of International Law 20, 2017
“From Political Repression to Torturer Impunity: The Narrowing of Filártiga v. Peña-Irala” in Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis (Eds.), Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, 255 (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
“A Process-Oriented Approach to Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations” 4 Transnational Legal Theory 1, 2013 (with Leora Bilsky)
“From Kiobel back to Structural Reform: The Hidden Legacy of Holocaust Restitution Litigation” 2 Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation 138, 2014 (with Leora Bilsky and Rodger Citron)
Other Publications
"Academic Freedom in Times of War", Blog of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University Jerusalem (in Hebrew) November 7, 2023.
"Israeli courts legitimized the state’s worst policies. We must still protect them" +972 Magazine, January 23, 2023 (with Limor Yehuda.
"The Covid Law, the Rule of Law and Puppet Theater", ICON-S-IL Blog (in Hebrew) January 1, 2021.
Eyal Benvenisti, Orna Ben-Naftali, Natalie R. Davidson and David Kretzmer, Legal Opinion submitted on July 21, 2021 to Israeli Supreme Court by experts in international human rights law on the right to housing and the right to property, in support of legal claims of residents of Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem against their eviction.
My SSRN page is here.