Lecturers Page Dr. Rawia Aburabia

Dr. Rawia Aburabia


Dr. Rawia Aburabia is a senior lecturer (with tenure) and researcher at the School of Law at Sapir Academic College. She completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in an interdisciplinary program jointly offered by the Hebrew University and Free University of Berlin, titled "Human Rights Under Pressure: Ethics, Law, and Politics." Her research focuses on critical and feminist analyses of law, with an emphasis on the intersections of family law, constitutional law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Dr. Aburabia has published in leading journals worldwide on family law concerning Muslim women in Israel. Her book, "Within the Law, Outside of Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law," was published in Hebrew and was shortlisted for the Bernstein Prize. Aburabia has served as a visiting researcher at the Institute for the Study of the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM) at Aix-Marseille University during the 2022-2023 academic year. Over the years, she has received several prestigious scholarships, including the "Maof" scholarship for outstanding young Arab scientists from the Council for Higher Education (2020-2023), the Polonsky Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem (2019-2020), a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Faculty of Law and the Gender Studies Program at Tel Aviv University (2018-2019), the Sophie Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (2017-2018), and the Arianne de Rothschild Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students at the Hebrew University (2014-2017).Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights law and public law. As a lawyer, she worked at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, where she engaged in litigation before the Supreme Court and in international forums. She has been invited as an expert to present at international forums. 

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
  • legal history

Teaching

In current lective year:
  • Family Law
  • Public Law Practice
  • Selected Issues in Inheritance Law
  • Selected Issues in Personal Status law

Research

I teach and research in the fields of family law, international human rights law, public law, feminist jurisprudence, and minority rights. The articles that I have published concerning Muslim women's legal marginality, colonialism, citizenship, legal pluralism, and polygamy have contributed to the feminist and critical analysis of the law, bringing marginalized women to the forefront of the law and society as well as increasing the scholarly debate concerning these topics. My research philosophy stems from an intellectual interest in interdisciplinary research and knowledge: socio-legal understanding of the Israeli legal system and the formation of the "law on the books" and the "law in action," combined with their impact on the human rights of minority groups. As an interdisciplinary family law scholar, I seek to develop these interests further.

Awards

  • Excellence teaching award, Sapir Academic College School of Law (2023).
  • The Ma'of scholarship of the Council of Higher Education for outstanding Arab scholars in Israel (2020-2023).
  • 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


A. Articles in Refereed Journals

1. Rawia Aburabia, (2024) "Beyond the Binaries of Liberal/Nonliberal: Reclaiming Secularism in Palestinian Society." The Law and Ethics of Human Rights.

2. Rawia Aburabia, (2023) Colonial Legislations, Intrinsic Paradoxes: The Criminal Prohibition against Bigamy and the Exemption of Muslims in Mandatory Palestine.
Settler Colonial Studies.
3. 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
4. Rawia Aburabia, (2022) Settler-Colonial Regulation of Bigamous Marriages Across the Israeli Palestinian Border. Territory, Politics, Governance.
5. 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): 643‒57
6. 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]
7. 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): 310‒33
8. 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): 339‒49.
9. 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
10. 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).
B. Books

Rawia Aburabia, Within the Law, Outside of Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizinship, and Colonialism in The Israeli Law, (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Megdarim Series, 2022) Hebrew.

*Short list, The Bernstein Prize literary award

Presentations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrtvAb9GVQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9sCE8In4ls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYQeznZ9QI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs-jAkQIlic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgtyfeWtTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3viZPpfNmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3viZPpfNmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oxahu2yz68



Links to

https://sapir.academia.edu/RawiaAburabia

https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=8l_MzBgAAAAJ&hl=iw