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Emilio Dabed

Visiting Fellow

Emilio Dabed is a Palestinian-Chilean lawyer and Ph.D. in political science (Science Po-Aix en Provence, France) specializing in constitutional matters, international law, and human rights. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor of international law at the Arab American University in Palestine. Previously, he was adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School (2019-2024) and, until 2022, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Nathanson Center on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, at York University in Toronto. He was also a Researcher and Visiting Professor at An-Najah National University Law School, in Nablus, Palestine (2017-2018). In 2015-2016 he was the Palestine and Law Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University Law School-Center for Palestine Studies in New York. Between 2014 and 2015 he was the director of the International Law and Human Rights Program at Al-Quds/Bard College, Jerusalem, where he taught from 2011 to 2015. He also taught in Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile. His latest research and publications look at the relations between law and political and social changes, subjectivity, and identity formation, with a particular focus on the disciplinary powers of law and the discourse of (human) rights in contemporary politics.