Hedi Viterbo
Friends of ISCIHedi Viterbo is Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University of London. Previously, he was Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at SOAS, University of London, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, and a visiting researcher at Columbia University.
His research examines legal issues concerning state violence, childhood, and sexuality from an interdisciplinary and global perspective. He is author of Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press 2021) and co-author of The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Cambridge University Press 2018). Among his other publications are ‘Seeing Torture Anew: A Transnational Reconceptualization of State Torture and Visual Evidence’ (Stanford Journal of International Law 2014), ‘Rights as a Divide-and-Rule Mechanism: Lessons from the Case of Palestinians in Israeli Custody’ (Law & Social Inquiry 2018), and ‘Ties of Separation: Analogy and Generational Segregation in North America, Australia, and Israel/Palestine’ (Brooklyn Journal of International Law 2017).