Leora Bilsky

Leora Y. Bilsky (; born in 1967) is an Israeli full professor at the Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, both at Tel Aviv University.

Education In 1991, she was a law clerk for Honorable Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. She passed the Israel Bar Association in 1992 and subsequently joined the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Association for Israeli Studies.

In 1995, after being granted a Fulbright scholarship, Bilsky completed her JSD degree at Yale University.

Career In 1996, Bilsky joined the Tel Aviv University faculty of Law as a Lecturer. Upon her return, she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and accepted a visiting faculty position at the University of Toronto. In 2004, Bilsky published Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial. She later sat on the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Theory and Criticism journal Editorial Board from 2010 until 2012. Before leaving the board, Bilsky received a research grant and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. That same year, she also became the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University. In 2017, she published The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law: Unfinished Business through the University of Michigan Press.

Publications The following is a list of publications: Territory, community and political trials Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial (2004) Political trials Giving voice to women: a feminist reading of an Israeli case study The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law: Unfinished Business (2017)