Attorney Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler conducts research as part of IDI’s "Constitutional Principles and their Interpretation" project, focusing on questions of immigration, asylum, and citizenship. He joined the project in December 2010.
Attorney Ziegler is a D.Phil. candidate at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, where he convenes the Law Faculty’s Human Rights Discussion Group and co-organizes the "Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects" Lecture Series. In 2009-10, he was a Teaching Fellow (GTA) in Public International Law at Oxford’s Law Faculty. In the fall of 2010, he held a visiting researcher position at Harvard Law School.
Attorney Ziegler holds M.Phil. and B.C.L. degrees from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. with specialization in Public Law (magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University, and a B.A. in Economics and an LL.B. (cum laude) from Haifa University. He was admitted with honors to the Israeli bar in 2003.
From 2001-2007, Attorney Ziegler served as a legal advising officer in the West Bank office of the Judge Advocate General unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. In this capacity, he provided legal counseling to senior IDF and government officials in the Justice and Defense ministries on matters of international humanitarian law.
His scholarly interests lie in Human Rights Law, Refugee Law, International Humanitarian Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Democratic Theory.
Articles by Reuven Ziegler
A Matter of Definition: On ‘Infiltrators’ and ‘Asylum Seekers’ in Israel
The New Amendment to the ‘Prevention of Infiltration’ Act: Defining Asylum-Seekers as Criminals
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