Prof. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes

Prof. Member of the Faculty of Law

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Dr. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Law Faculty at Ono Academic College. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law (LL.B) from Tel Aviv University (cum laude) and a master’s (LL.M) (cum laude) and doctorate (J.S.D) in law from Columbia University. Dr. Tamar’s research interests are public international law and constitutional law, and her research focuses on the relationship between the two, as well as the interface between law and political theory.

Prior to joining the Ono Academic College faculty, Dr. Tamar worked as a lawyer in the commercial department at New York’s Schulte, Roth & Zabel, LLP law firm and taught in the master’s degree program in Global Studies. In 2018, Tamar was hosted as a Short Term International Visiting Professor at Columbia University School of Law.

Selected Publications

International Law in Domestic Courts in an Era of Populism (International Journal of Constitutional Law, forthcoming)
On the Relationship Between International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law in Israel, 31(3) MECHKAREI MISHPAT (2018) (Law Studies, Bar-Ilan University), (Hebrew, peer-reviewed).
Law, Citizenship and Social Solidarity: Israel's "Loyalty-Citizenship" Laws as a Test Case, 6(1) POLITICS, GROUPS AND IDENTITIES 39 (2018).
"No Citizenship Without Loyalty": on Loyalty, Citizenship and Social Solidarity in Israel HAMERCHAV HAZIBURI (The Public Sphere, Tel-Aviv University, 2016) (published also as "Citizenship, Loyalty and Social Solidarity: The Loyalty Discourse in Israel and the Legitimatization of Discrimination" in CONDITIONAL CITIZENSHIP (Van Leer and University of Haifa Press, 2016))
Human Dignity as a Central Pillar in Constitutional Rights Jurisprudence in Israel: Definitions and Parameters, in ISRAELI CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN THE MAKING (Sapir, Barak-Erez & Barak ed., Hart Publishing, 2013)

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