Professor Zreik graduated from Hebrew University where he earned his LL.B. and LL.M. and during the nineties was a practicing lawyer and active in establishing several groups and NGOs that deal with the individual and group rights for the Palestinians citizens of Israel. In the year 2001 he earned another LL.M. from Columbia Law School and later on he received his S.J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2007. His dissertation deals with Kant’s concept of right and mainly the Kantian distinction between duties of rights and duties of virtue.
Among his recent publications are “When Winners Lose: On Legal Language” in International Review of Victimology (forthcoming), “Between the Political and the Professional: Kant and Hobbes” in Theory and Criticism (forthcoming), “Notes on the Value of Theory” in the Journal of Law and Ethics of Human Rights (2008),“The Persistence of the Exception: Remarks on the Story of Israeli Constitutionalism” in Thinking Palestine, ed. Ronit Lentin (2007).
After his graduation he taught courses such as: Theories of Rights, Between the Private and the Public (Tel Aviv law school), Kant’s Theory of Justice, and Will Theory in Private Law (Haifa Law school). Currently teaches at Georgetown Law Center a seminar on Law and Multiculturalism and a class on Discourses of Rights. He also worked as a researcher in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem during the years 2007-2008 and conducted the workshop on the politics of identity, and recently won (together with Prof. Adi Ofir and Prof. Rivka Peldhai from Tel Aviv University) the prize for establishing the Minerva Center for Human Values.
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