The Israeli Law and Society Association

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Current positions:
Lecturer, University of Haifa (appointment effective from spring 2010);
PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science;
Visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law & Society, UC Berkeley (summer and fall 2009).

Education:
PhD candidacy - LSE (expected award: December 2009)
MA - philosophy, Tel Aviv University, sumna cum laude (2005)
LLM - New York University (2004)
LLB - University of Haifa, magna cum laude (2000)

Research focus: Ely's current scholarship focuses on the institutional and political functioning of progressive legal mobilization, with particular focus on criminalization campaigns and on constitutional litigation. His doctoral dissertation explores the genealogy of the legal and political discourses which have governed the criminalization of racist violence throughout American history (from the slavery era to contemporary debates about hate crime and hate speech). On the basis of this genealogy, the study analyzes broader theoretical questions regarding the functioning of "pro-minority" criminalization in facilitating and inhibiting progressive social change.

Primary areas of scholarship: Criminal justice; sociology of law (with particular focus on critical social and legal theory and on socio-legal studies); legal history.

Major publications:
- Co-Editor, "Criminalization and Citizenship in Contemporary Perspective", a special issue of New Criminal Law Review (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
- " 'Pro-Minority Criminalization' and the Transformations of Discourses of Citizenship in the Late-Modern Era: A Critique" forthcoming in New Criminal Law Review (2010).
- The impacts of the judicialization of Israel's political culture on the contours of Israeli progressive politics (31 Tel Aviv Law Journal 157, 2008).
- A Review essay of Wendy Brown's Regulating Aversion (2 Criminal Law and Philosophy, 201, 2008).
- Adjudication as Polemics (9 Law & Government 497, 2006).
- Law as Film: Representing Justice in the age of Moving Image (with Professor Shulamit Almog) 3 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (2004).