Shulamit Almog

Professor Shulamit Almog is an associate professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. She is also the head of the Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa.
Biography
Professor Almog has earned her LL.B. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Haifa Faculty of Humanities. Her researches are in the areas of law and the humanities, law and culture, law and literature, law and film, children's rights and feminist legal studies.
Academic career
Professor Almog had published numerous books and articles in US, Canadian, European and Israeli law reviews. Her most recent book, Dalia Dorner Book, was co-edited with Justice Dorit Beinish, President of the Israeli Supreme Court. Professor Almog is also the author of the book How Digital Technologies are Changing the Practice of Law (2007). Professor Almog has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Haifa Press (2000-2007) and Editor-in-Chief of the University of Haifa Law Review (2005-2006). Currently she serves as an International advisor Member of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.Professor Almog had visiting positions at Washington College of Law at the American University, at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, The University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Monash University Faculty of Law (Prato Center).
Public Activity
Professor Almog is currently a member of Committee regarding National Award for Combating Trafficking in Persons, Israeli Ministry of Justice, as well as member of the Commission for Examination of Adoption Procedure in Israel, Israeli Ministry of Justice. She is also a member of Israeli Press Council Presidency, as well as a mediator on behalf of the Israel Press Council. From 2000-2004 she was a member of the Commission for Examination of Basic Principles in the Field of Children and Law and their Application in Legislation, Israeli Ministry of Justice.
Publications (selection)
Authored Books (English)
*HOW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ARE CHANGING THE PRACTICES OF LAW (2007).
Authored Books (Hebrew)
*PROSTITUTION: LEGAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS (2008).
*LAW AND LITERATURE IN DIGITAL AGE (2007).
*CITY, LAW, STORY (2002).
*LAW AND LITERATURE (2000).
Edited Books (Hebrew)
*JUSTICE DALIA DORNER BOOK: A COMPILATION OF ARTICLES (2009) (with Dorit Beinish & Ya'ad Rotem)
Guidance Books (Hebrew)
*CHILDREN'S RIGHTS (1997).
Articles (English)
*"Prostitution as Exploitation: An Israeli Perspective", THE GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF GENDER AND THE LAW (forthcoming, Volume XI, 2010)
*Ethics, Aesthetics and Law: The Third Man's Three Prongs, STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS & SOCIETY ,Volume 46, 2008 (with Amnon Reichman).
*Healing Stories in Law and Literature, TRAUMA AND MEMORY: READING, HEALING AND MAKING LAW 289 (Austin Sarat, Nadav Davidovich and Michal Alberstein eds., 2008).
*Windows and "Windows": Reflections on Law and Literature in Digital Age, 57 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LAW JOURNAL 755 (2007).
*Creating Representations of Justice in the Third Millennium: Legal Poetics in Digital Times, 32 RUTGERS COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 183 (2006).
*Casablanca: Judgment and Dynamic Enclaves in Law and Cinema, 42 OSGOODE HALL LAW JOURNAL 201 (2004) (with Amnon Reichman).
*Law as Film: Representing Justice in the Age of Moving Images, 3 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY 1 (2004) (with Ely Aharonson).
*The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Meets the American Constitution: Toward a Supreme Law of the World, 11 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS 273 (2003) (with Ariel L. Bendor).
*On Law and Utopia: Rules vs. Principles? A Comment on Ramiro Aviles's Reply, 14 UTOPIAN STUDIES 143 (2003) (with Amnon Reichman).
*"One Young and the Other Old": Halachah and Aggadah as Law and Story, 18 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LAW & SOCIETY 27 (2003).
*Rashomon after the Rain: Judicial Perspective, SCOPE: AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES, University of Nottingham (May 2003).
*From Sterne and Borges to Lost Storytellers: Cyberspace, Narrative and Law, 13 FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 1 (2002).
*Literary Legal Utopias: Alexander’s Visit to Kasiah and Law at the End of Days, 12 UTOPIAN STUDIES 164 (2002).
*Literature alongside Law as a Contemporary Paradigm, 13 CULTURAL DYNAMICS 53 (2001).
*"As I Read I Weep": In Praise of Judicial Narrative, 26 OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 471 (2001).
*Literature, Politics and the Law - On Blacksmiths, Tailors and Demolition of Houses, 1 INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERARY STUDIES 35 (1999).
Research Report (English and Hebrew)
*INITIAL PERIODIC REPORT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL CONCERNING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (CRC) (Eds. of the legal parts, 2001) (with Ariel L. Bendor).
Portuguese
*"Crimes Passionais, Crimes de Compaixão, Narrativas e Direito", in Direito e Literatura - Mundos em Diálogo (editors : Helena Buescu, Cláudia Trabuco, Sonia Ribeiro (forthcoming, Edições Almedina).

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