This article introduces the subject-matter of a symposium on international law and science-fictio... more This article introduces the subject-matter of a symposium on international law and science-fiction. The impact of new technologies on human rights, humanitarian issues and indeed on what it means to be human in a technological age, suffers from a paucity of international legal attention. The latter has been attributed to various factors ranging from technophobia and technological illiteracy, inclusive of an instrumentalist view of technology, to the sense that such attention is the domain of science-fiction, not of international law. The article extends an invitation to pay attention to the attention science-fiction has given to the man-machine interaction and its impact on the human condition. Placing this invitation in the context of the ‘‘law and literature’’ movement, the article exemplifies its value with respect to two technologies, one directed at creating life or saving it (cloning and organ donation) and the other at ending life (lethal autonomous robots).
Review essay (in Hebrew) on Menachem Mautner's books "Law and Culture" (2008) and "Law and Cultur... more Review essay (in Hebrew) on Menachem Mautner's books "Law and Culture" (2008) and "Law and Culture in Israeli in the 21st Century" (2008).
Throughout the history of the modern state, homosexuality has been a legal category, and not simp... more Throughout the history of the modern state, homosexuality has been a legal category, and not simply a medical or a psychiatric one. Fear of that legal subject manifests itself in law and policy not only about ‘the family’ but also about nationhood and citizenship. This is an article about this fear of the ‘Wandering Gay’, about the ways in which this fear has influenced domestic and international law regarding recognition in same-sex relationships, and about ways in which it can be overcome. I begin by introducing the Wandering Gay as a hidden driving cultural concept behind a state's reluctance (and in some places, outright objection) to recognise same-sex relationships. I then compare American and Israeli immigration policies concerning immigrants' sexuality, and discuss the different focuses of each system: while American policy (prior to its reform) was mainly concerned with ‘sexual deviancy’, Israeli policy was concerned with otherness, particularly non-Jewishness, in g...
... 4 Eva Cantarella, Marriage and Sexuality in Republican Rome: A Roman Conjugal Love Story, in ... more ... 4 Eva Cantarella, Marriage and Sexuality in Republican Rome: A Roman Conjugal Love Story, in THE SLEEP OF REASON: EROTIC EXPERIENCE AND SEXUAL ETHICS IN ANCIENT GREECE 269, 275-76 (Martha Craven Nussbaum & Juha Sihvola eds., 2002). ...
This article introduces the subject-matter of a symposium on international law and science-fictio... more This article introduces the subject-matter of a symposium on international law and science-fiction. The impact of new technologies on human rights, humanitarian issues and indeed on what it means to be human in a technological age, suffers from a paucity of international legal attention. The latter has been attributed to various factors ranging from technophobia and technological illiteracy, inclusive of an instrumentalist view of technology, to the sense that such attention is the domain of science-fiction, not of international law. The article extends an invitation to pay attention to the attention science-fiction has given to the man-machine interaction and its impact on the human condition. Placing this invitation in the context of the ‘‘law and literature’’ movement, the article exemplifies its value with respect to two technologies, one directed at creating life or saving it (cloning and organ donation) and the other at ending life (lethal autonomous robots).
Review essay (in Hebrew) on Menachem Mautner's books "Law and Culture" (2008) and "Law and Cultur... more Review essay (in Hebrew) on Menachem Mautner's books "Law and Culture" (2008) and "Law and Culture in Israeli in the 21st Century" (2008).
Throughout the history of the modern state, homosexuality has been a legal category, and not simp... more Throughout the history of the modern state, homosexuality has been a legal category, and not simply a medical or a psychiatric one. Fear of that legal subject manifests itself in law and policy not only about ‘the family’ but also about nationhood and citizenship. This is an article about this fear of the ‘Wandering Gay’, about the ways in which this fear has influenced domestic and international law regarding recognition in same-sex relationships, and about ways in which it can be overcome. I begin by introducing the Wandering Gay as a hidden driving cultural concept behind a state's reluctance (and in some places, outright objection) to recognise same-sex relationships. I then compare American and Israeli immigration policies concerning immigrants' sexuality, and discuss the different focuses of each system: while American policy (prior to its reform) was mainly concerned with ‘sexual deviancy’, Israeli policy was concerned with otherness, particularly non-Jewishness, in g...
... 4 Eva Cantarella, Marriage and Sexuality in Republican Rome: A Roman Conjugal Love Story, in ... more ... 4 Eva Cantarella, Marriage and Sexuality in Republican Rome: A Roman Conjugal Love Story, in THE SLEEP OF REASON: EROTIC EXPERIENCE AND SEXUAL ETHICS IN ANCIENT GREECE 269, 275-76 (Martha Craven Nussbaum & Juha Sihvola eds., 2002). ...
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