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Jasmin is a PhD candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies. She holds a Doctor iuris and a Magistra iuris from the University of Düsseldorf as well as an LL.M. in international law from the University of Cambridge. She worked as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Düsseldorf, served as a researcher for the Cambridge Human Trafficking Research Panel and volunteered for the Climate Law and Governance Initiative in Cambridge and Marrakesh.

Jasmin specializes in public and private international law, law & technology and legal theory. During her doctoral studies at the University of Düsseldorf, she explored the tension between party autonomy and protection of the weaker party in European private international law. For her dissertation she was awarded the highest distinction and the Faculty Award for the best dissertation of the year. Jasmin’s current research examines extraterritorial human rights protection on the internet through the lens of human rights theory and conflict of laws under the supervision of Dr. Doreen Lustig and Prof. Eyal Benvenisti.

International Human Rights Law, Legal Theory, Law & Technology, Global Governance, Private International Law

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Education:

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel
❖ PhD Candidate (2018 - present)
Dissertation: ‘Territoriality and Extraterritoriality in a Borderless Space: Towards a Theory of Human Rights on the Internet’, supervised by Dr. Doreen Lustig and Prof. Eyal Benvenisti

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Faculty of Law, Cambridge, United Kingdom
❖ LL.M. in International Law (2017)
Thesis: ‘Displaced, But Not Deserted? Vices and Virtues of Refugee Protection Through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (First Class Honours), supervised by Prof. Eyal Benvenisti

UNIVERSITY OF DÜSSELDORF, Faculty of Law, Düsseldorf, Germany
❖ Doctor iuris (2017)
Dissertation: ‘Choice of Law Between the Poles of Party Autonomy and Protection of the Weaker Party in European International Divorce, Maintenance and Succession Law’ (summa cum laude), supervised by Prof. Dirk Looschelders

❖ Magistra iuris (2014)
First State Examination in Law with distinction (class rank 4/298, top 1 %)
Specialisation: German and International Private and Procedural Law

Academic Experience:

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel
❖ Executive Editor, TIL - Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2020 - present)
❖ Editor, ILDC - Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (2019 - 2020)
❖ Assistant, Minerva Center for Human Rights (2019 - 2020)
❖ Research Assistant, Dr. Doreen Lustig and Prof. Eyal Benvenisti (2018 - 2019)
❖ Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Co-Coach (2018 - 2019)
❖ Research Assistant, Dr. Eliav Lieblich (2018)
❖ Visiting Research Fellow, Minerva Center for Human Rights (2017 - 2018)

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Faculty of Law, Cambridge, United Kingdom
❖ Researcher/Volunteer, Cambridge Human Trafficking Legal Research Panel (2016 - 2017)
❖ Volunteer, Climate Law and Governance Initiative (Fall 2016)

UNIVERSITY OF DÜSSELDORF, Faculty of Law, Düsseldorf, Germany
❖ Research Assistant, Prof. Dirk Looschelders (2014 - 2016)
❖ Student Assistant, Prof. Dirk Looschelders (2011 - 2014)

Teaching Experience:

UNIVERSITY OF DÜSSELDORF, Faculty of Law, Düsseldorf, Germany
❖ Comparative law seminar for German and Israeli law students from the University of Düsseldorf and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel (2015 - 2016)
❖ Graduate Teaching Fellow, Private Law and Private International Law (2014 - 2016)
WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
❖ Lessons from CNIL v. Google for Human Rights Realisation Online, International Law Forum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (31.03.2020)

BOOK:

❖ ‘Choice of Law Between the Poles of Party Autonomy and Protection of the Weaker Party in European International Divorce, Maintenance and Succession Law’1 (Jenaer Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018) (in German)
*Original title: ‘Rechtswahl im Spannungsfeld von Parteiautonomie und kollisionsrechtlichem Schutz des Schwächeren - Eine vergleichende Untersuchung der Rechtswahlmöglichkeiten sowie der Effektivität des Schwächerenschutzes im Internationalen Scheidungs-, Unterhalts- und Erbrecht’.

❖ Zvi Meitar Scholarship for Advanced Legal Studies (2018 - 2021)

❖ Faculty Award for the best doctoral dissertation of the year 2017, Faculty of Law & Goethe + Schweitzer GmbH, University of Düsseldorf (2018)

❖ Freundeskreis Award for outstanding doctoral dissertations, Freundeskreis of the Faculty of Law, University of Düsseldorf (2017)

❖ DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) merit-based scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Cambridge (2016 - 2017)

German (native language), English (fluent), Hebrew (fluent)