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Faculty of Law University of Toronto
HEALTH LAW & POLICY WORKSHOP SERIES
presents
Professor Aeyal M. Gross
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
The Right to Health in the Era of Privatization:
Public Health/Private Rights or Private Health/Public Rights
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Classroom C – Flavelle House
78 Queen’s Park
Aeyal Gross LLB (magna cum laude) (Tel-Aviv) 1990, SJD (Harvard) 1996, Diploma in Human Rights (European University Institute, Florence) 1998, is a full time tenured faculty member at the Tel -Aviv University Faculty of Law. In 1995 he was an intern with the European Commission on Human Rights.
Dr. Gross served on the board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He was also a board member at the Concord Center for the Interplay between International Norms and Israeli Law in the College of Management, and at the Academic Committee of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel-Aviv University. In 2003-6, he taught during the summer term at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was also a fellow with the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies in South Africa, and, in 2007-9 he is a visiting fellow with the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London and teaching as a visitor at SOAS, also at the University in London. In 2009-10 he will be the Global Health and Human Rights fellow at Harvard Law School. Dr. Gross' research interests include international, constitutional, human rights, and humanitarian law; the law of occupation; health rights; sexuality and the law and queer theory, and critical theories of law. He has published and lectured extensively in Israel, Europe, North America, and South Africa. He is most recently the co-editor of Exploring Social Rights (Hart, 2007).
A light lunch will be served.
For more workshop information, please go to our web site at http://www.law.utoronto.ca/healthlaw/index.htm or contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
