Yossi Nehushtan

Biography

Professor Yossi Nehushtan holds degrees from Striks Law School (LLB), the Hebrew University (LLM) and Oxford University (BCL, MPhil, DPhil).
Yossi joined the School of Law at Keele University in 2013. In Keele, Yossi is the Founder and General Editor of the Keele Law Review, and Co-Director of the MA in Human Rights.

In the years 2000-2004 and 2007-2013 Yossi was lecturer and senior lecturer at Striks Law School, the College of Management, Israel, where he taught Public Law; Jurisprudence; Law and Religion, Law and Racism; and Human Rights Law. He was also the General Editor of the Law School's Law Review; Academic Supervisor of the Pro-Bono Legal Aid Clinic; Academic Supervisor and Founder of the Novice Jurists Project; and Director of the 'Secular Judaism' programme at the Law School.

In 2006/7 Yossi held a full-time lectureship post at Balliol College, Oxford, as a PhD student, through which he taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Jurisprudence.

Yossi was Visiting Research Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University (2022); and held the HLA Hart Visiting Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law (CEPL), University College, Oxford (2013). In 2010-2012, he was Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2012-2015, he was a member of a research group at the Minerva Centre of Human Rights, the Hebrew University, which studied the interaction between international human rights law and Israeli law.

Since 2016, Yossi has been a regular Visiting Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of Trento, Italy; and Visiting Fellow at St Gallen University, Switzerland. In 2023, Yossi will be Visiting Fellow at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil.

Yossi secured the Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2023-2025 (for £65,000) for his research project on 'Judicial Review of Legislation - and Democratic Legitimacy'.

Yossi has provided legal advice and counselling to various bodies, including the Ministry of Education, Israel; human rights NGOs in Israel; and the UN Human Rights Committee.

Research and scholarship

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

Yossi is happy to supervise PhD students who wish to explore themes within these areas.A variety of PhD funding possibilities are available at Keele.

Teaching

Yossi contributes to the following modules:

• Constitutional Law (UG)
• Administrative Law (UG)
• Jurisprudence (UG)
• Foundations of Human Rights (PG)
• Equality, Discrimination and Minorities (PG)
• Healthcare, Justice and Society (PG)