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RUTH GAVISON is the Haim Cohn Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Founding President of Metzilah – a center for Zionist, Jewish, Humanist and Liberal Thought.  Prof. Gavison was a founding member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), where she then served as Chairperson for many years, and as President from 1996 to 1999. She was a visiting professor at the Yale Law School (1978-1980) and the University of Southern California Law Center (1990-1992).  She is the author and editor of many articles and several books in Israel, among them Legal Activism: The Pros and Cons; the Role of the Supreme Court in Israeli Society (2000) and Where there is no vision- the people cast off restraint: A meta-purpose for Israel and Its Implications  (2007).  Prof. Gavison has a B.A. in Economics, Philosophy, an LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University and a D.Phil in Legal Philosophy from Oxford University.  She earned the Emet Prize in Law (2003), and served as a member in the Winograd Commission investigating the 2nd Lebanon War (September 2006 to January 2008).  She holds honorary doctorates from JTS (2003) and Bar-Ilan University (2009), and is the first winner of the Cheshin Prize for Excellence in Legal Research (2009). 

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