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Dr. Rawia Aburabia


Rawia Aburabia is an assistant Professor of law at Sapir College School of Law, and a visting scholar at Aix Marseille Univerity and the Institute for Reaserch and Studies in the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM). She earned her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in an interdisciplinary doctoral program “Human Rights under Pressure- Ethics, Law and Politics” that was jointly held by the Hebrew University and the Freie Universität Berlin. Aburabia received her LL.M in International Human Rights Law from the American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC. Aburabia teaches and researches in the fields of family law, international human rights law, feminist jurisprudence, and minority rights. Aburabia has received several awards for her academic and feminist work. She was awarded the Ma'of scholarship of the council of higher education for outstanding Arab Scholars (2020), and the Polonsky post-doctoral fellowship (2019). Aburabia was selected by Globes Magazine “40 under 40” most promising young leaders in Israel (2018), and by 972 Magazine “Person of the Year: Woman Activists of the Arab World” (2011). Aburabia practiced as a human rights attorney for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and has been at the forefront of several civil rights initiatives, concerning the unrecognized Bedouin villages and Bedouin women’s rights in Israel.

Areas of interest and Teaching

Areas of interest

  • Law and Society
  • Feminist Jurisprudence
  • International Human Rights Law
  • Family Law
  • Minority Rights
  • Muslim Women
  • Settler-Colonialism

Teaching

Hebrew lective year: תשפד

Research

My research philosophy stems from an intellectual interest in interdisciplinary research fields and knowledge: socio-legal understanding of the Israeli legal system and the formation of legal gaps between the "law on the books" and the "law in action," and their impact on women from minority groups, with special focus on the relationship between Muslim women's legal marginality and agency.  As an interdisciplinary scholar who is engaged with post-colonial and feminist theories to understand the law as a paradigm for politics in Israeli society, with a special focus on minorities and Muslim women's citizenship, I seek to further develop these areas of interest and competence.

Awards

•The Ma'of scholarship of the Council of Higher Education for outstanding Arab scholars in Israel (2020).

•The Polonsky postdoctoral fellowship for advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (2019-2020).

•Postdoctoral fellowship of the Buchmann Faculty of Law & NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University (2018-2019).

•The Sophie Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship on Gender, Conflict Resolution, and Peace.The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2017-2018).

•The Arian de Rothschild fellowship for outstanding doctoral students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014-2017).

•Human Rights under Pressure – Ethics, Law, and Politics Research Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014-2017).

•NA'AMAT award for excellent doctoral research proposal for the advancement of gender equality and gender studies (2016).

•The New Israel Fund Scholarship for Civil Liberties Lawyers. Academic Scholarship for the Master of Laws Program (2008-2009).

•Honorable Recipient of Dean Claudio Grossman International Prize Scholarship, for Significant Contribution to International Public Service. American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC (2009).

 

 

Publications

  1. Scientific Books (Refereed)




  1. Articles in Refereed Journals

 

  1. Rawia Aburabia, 2022 The Coloniality of Multicultural Entrapment: A Few Comments on Michael Karayanni's book a Multicultural Entrapment Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 26(1) 92-103 
  1. Rawia Aburabia. 2022 Settler-Colonial Regulation of Bigamous Marriages Across the Israeli Palestinian Border, Territory, Politics, Governance.
  1. Rawia Aburabia. 2021. The Law on the Books versus the Law in Action: Muslim Women in Polygamous Marriage under the Jewish State. Social Politics,29(2), 643-657
  1. Rawia Aburabia. 2020. Towards a hybrid paradigm of Polygamy in Israeli Law -a reflexive journey following the work of Richard T. Ford. Ma'asei Mishpat 11, 53-67 (Hebrew).
  1. Rawia Aburabia. 2019. Family, Nation Building and Citizenship: The Legal Representation of Muslim Women in the Ban against Bigamy Clause -1951, Journal of Law and Religion 34 (3), 310-333.
  1. Rawia Aburabia. 2017. Trapped Between National Boundaries and Patriarchal Structures: Palestinian Bedouin Women and Polygamous Marriage in Israel. Journal of Comparative Family Studies XLVIII(3), 339-349.
  2. Rawia Aburabia. 2011. Redefining Polygamy among the Palestinian Bedouins in Israel: Colonialism, Patriarchy, and Resistance. American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 19(1), 459-49

 

  1. Rawia Aburabia. 2009. Realities and Challenges of the Right to Education for Arab-Bedouin Girls in Israel. International Legal Studies Program Law Journal, American University Washington College of Law 1(3), 119-126.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

Presentations

Links to

Rawia Aburabia  https://ssrn.com/author=4378606