Leora Bilsky is involved with the Council for the Protection of Children and teaches courses at TAU on administrative law, feminist legal theories, child law, law and literature, and civil procedure. Dr. Bilsky earned her LL.B. cum laude, from Hebrew University and both her LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the Lady Davis Award, and the Justice Kazan Prize for Excellence in academic and social contribution. Her publications include "Battered Women, From 'Self Defense' to 'Defense of the Self,'" Plilim (Hebrew); "When Actor and Spectator Meet in the Courtroom: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Conception of Judgment," History of Memory; to be published, "Child-Parent-State: The Absence of Community in Courts' Approach to Education," Children's Rights and Traditional Values; and "Naming and Re-categorization in the Law: Child Abuse as Slavery," International Journal of Children's Rights.