Lisa Hajjar is associate professor in the Law and Society Program, University of California - Santa Barbara. Her publications include Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005) and Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vols. 1-5, co-edited with Richard Falk and Hilal Elver (Routledge, 2007). Her current research focuses on legal challenges to US torture in the context of the “war on terror,” and accountability for the intellectual authors of this policy.
