Prof. Shai Lavi
Dr. Rottem Rosenberg
Faculty of Law
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Email: rottemro@tauex.tau.ac.il
Supervisor/s
Biography
Rottem is a PhD candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies. Her dissertation, focusing on detention of asylum-seekers in Israel, is written under the supervision of Prof. Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University faculty of law) and Prof. Lucia Zedner (Oxford University faculty of law). She is a recipient of the Buchmann Scholarship Fund and the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies doctoral scholarship.
Rottem holds an LLB (magna cum laude) and an LLM (summa cum laude), both from the Tel Aviv University faculty of law. Before she began her PhD studies, she worked as a defense attorney at the National Public Defender's Office, where she focused on retrials and wrongful convictions, as well as Supreme Court litigation. Her Master thesis (under the supervision of Prof. Shai Lavi) analyzes the doctrinal and procedural development of the Israeli retrial institution, and articles she has written on similar subjects have been quoted in verdicts given by the Supreme Court.
Rottem teaches a course on wrongful convictions at the Tel Aviv University faculty of law. She is also a lecturer in the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan.
Research Interests
Criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice, sociology of law.
CV
Publications
‘Crimmigration as population-management in the “control society”: lessons from detention of asylum-seekers in Israel’ (Forthcoming, New Criminal Law Review, 2018).
‘The Israeli retrial: an institution at a crossroads’ 40(1) Tel-Aviv University Law Review 379 (2017) [Hebrew].
'The Polygraph as Lie Detector or as Scientific Evidence: Rethinking the Inadmissibility of Polygraph Testing in Criminal Procedures' 53 Hapraklit law journal 295 (2015) (with Efrat Fink) [Hebrew].
'The Institutional Problems Preventing the Correction of Wrongful Convictions in Israel' 5 Ma'asei Mishpat: Tel-Aviv University Journal of Law and Social Change 193 (2013) (with Efrat Fink) [Hebrew].
‘Structuring the collective memory of the I.D.F operation in Jenin of 2002: The Case of Bakri V. Israeli Film Board’, Tel-Aviv University Law Review 32(1): 203- 250 (2010) [Hebrew].
