Yossi Nehushtan - Keele University

Dr. Yossi Nehushtan

Title: Lecturer
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Location: CBC 1.027
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Yossi Nehushtan holds degrees from Striks Law School (LLB), the Hebrew University (LLM) and the University of Oxford (BCL, MPhil, DPhil).

Yossi held a stipendiary lectureship post at Balliol College, Oxford, through which he taught Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence. Since 2007 he held a lectureship post at Striks Law School, through which he taught Public Law; Jurisprudence; Law and Religion, Law and Racism, and Human Rights Law. He was also the chief-editor of the Law School's law review and the head of the 'secular Judaism' programme at the Law School.

Currently Yossi is a member of a research group at the Minerva Centre of Human Rights, the Hebrew University, which studies the interaction between international human rights law and Israeli law.

In 2013 Yossi will hold the HLA Hart Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law (CEPL), University College, Oxford.

Yossi’s areas of research are legal theory, political theory, public law, human rights law, and law and religion.

In English

Refereed journal articles:

  1. 'What Are Conscientious Exemptions Really About?' (2012) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 1-24.
  2. ‘Granting Conscientious Exemptions: The Need to Take Sides’ (2012) 7 Religion and Human Rights 31-58. 
  3. ‘The Links between Religion and Intolerance’ (2011) 23(1) Philosophy and Theology 91-132.
  4. ‘Religious Conscientious Exemptions’ (2010) 30(2) Law and Philosophy 143-166.
  5. ‘Female Segregation for Religious Justifications: The Unfortunate Israeli Case’ (2009) 4 Droit et Religions 441-459.
  6. ‘The Limits of Tolerance: A Substantive-Liberal Perspective’ (2007) 20(2) Ratio Juris 230-257.
  7. ‘Free Expression and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance’ (2007) 40(1) Israel Law Review 255-276.

Chapters in edited books:

  1. 'Selective Conscientious Objection: Philosophical and Conceptual Doubts in Light of Israeli Case Law (forthcoming 2013 in Selective Conscientious Objection and Military Service in the 21th Century; edited by Paul Robinson & David Whetham).
  2. ‘Secular and Religious Conscientious Exemptions: Between Tolerance and Equality’ in Law and Religion in Theoretical and Historical Context (edited by Peter Cane, Carolyn Evans and Zoë Robinson; Cambridge University Press, 2008) 243-267.

 

In Hebrew

Refereed journal articles:

  1. ‘The Principle of Tolerance’ (2011) 34 Tel-Aviv University Law Review 5-46.
  2. ‘Finding the Ratio Decidendi in Cases of Plurality Decision’ (2010) 50 Hapraklit - Israeli Bar Law Review 631-649.
  3. ‘The Use of the Presidential Pardon Power: Who Has the Last Say?’ (2010) 2 The Hebrew University Law Review – Online 25-54.
  4. ‘Not Drafting the Yeshiva Students – A Tale of Judicial Review’ (2001) 6 Hamishpat – Haim Striks Law school’s Law Review 183-205.
  5. ‘Discrimination of Men in the Israeli Defence Forces’ (1999) 4 Hamishpat – Striks Law School’s Law Review 115-136.

Public Law 2

Legal Systems.