Smadar Ben-Natan

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Smadar Ben-Natan (@Smadarbn1) is an assistant professor of human rights in the School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon. She teaches international law, international human rights, global carceral studies, and courses on Israel/Palestine. Previously, Ben-Natan taught at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the University of California, Berkeley, and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society, Center for Middle East Studies, and Harvard Law School Center for Global Law and Policy. She holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University, an MA from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from Tel Aviv University.

Ben-Natan practiced as a human rights and criminal defense lawyer in Israel/Palestine, she is a member of the ICC list of counsel, and a board member of B’tselem, the Israeli Information Center for human Rights in the Occupied Territories. She is also an adviser for Amnesty International. Her research uses socio-legal and comparative methods to study human rights, criminal justice, armed conflict, and citizenship. Her most recent article, The Boundaries of the Carceral State: Accounting for the Role of Military Incarceration, was published in Theoretical Criminology. It is part of the research project The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization, supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.