Natalie Davidson

Biography

Natalie Davidson joined the Law Faculty as Lecturer (assistant professor) in the Fall of 2017. She holds a joint LLB-Maîtrise (King's College London and Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne), LLM (University of London), and doctorate in law (Tel Aviv University). She was a research fellow at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Human Rights under Pressure Program). Prior to her doctoral studies, she practiced corporate and banking law in Tel Aviv, and taught French at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Natalie is interested in combining legal, historical and social scientific perspectives on international and domestic human rights law, and has focused to date on the prohibition of torture.

Research Interest

International Law, Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Sociology and History of Human Rights, Tort Law, Transitional Justice.