Berkley Center

Lisa Hajjar is an Associate Professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which she joined in 2003. Her publications include Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (2005), Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vols. 1-5 (2007, co-edited with Richard Falk and Hilal Elver), and A Survey of the Syrian Population in the Occupied Golan Heights: Demography and Health (1994, co-authored with Hasan Abu Libdeh et al.). Her research interests include law and conflict, human rights, humanitarianism, and cause lawyering. She is currently working on a book, tentatively titled Lawfare: The Legal Campaign Against American Torture. Hajjar previously taught at Morehouse College and Swarthmore College. She holds an MA in Arab Studies with a concentration in international affairs from Georgetown University and a PhD in Sociology from American University.