Areas of interest
- Law and Society
- Feminist Jurisprudence
- International Human Rights Law
- Family Law
- Minority Rights
- Muslim Women
- Settler-Colonialism
- legal history
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.