Dr. Aeyal Gross

Aeyal M. Gross teaches in the law school since 1996. He received his LL.B. in 1990 from TAU (magna cum laude) and his S.J.D. in Harvard Law School in 1996. In 1998 he was awarded the Diploma in Human Rights from the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence. In 1995 he was intern with the European Commission on Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Dr. Gross teaches and researches in the areas of international law, constitutional law, human rights, critical approaches to law, law and sexuality, and queer theory. He is a member of the Board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and chair of its legal committee. His publication include:

Rights and Normalization: A Critical Study of European Human Rights Case

Law on the Choice and Change of Names (Harvard Human Rights Journal); The Politics of Rights in Israeli Constitutional Law (Israel Studies); Democracy, Ethnicity and Constitutionliasm in Israel: Between the “Jewish State”

and the “Democratic State” (Israeli Sociology); The Israeli Constitution: A Tool for Distributive Justice, or A Tool Which Prevents

It? (Distributive Justice in Israel); Sexuality, Masculinity, Military, and Citizenship: The Service of Gays and Lesbians

in the Israeli Army in Comparative Perspective (Army, Society, and Law).