CURRICULUM VITAE Faculty: Law Date of birth: December 14, 1975 Place of birth: Rennes, France Citizenship: France, Israel, and U.S. Languages: English and French: native; Hebrew: fluent; Spanish and Italian: advanced. A. EDUCATION 1993-1997 King s College London and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Joint program in English and French Law LLB and Maîtrise, both with honors Year Awarded: 1997 1998-1999 London School of Economics and Political Science Procedural Law LLM, with Merit Year Awarded: 1999 Title of Master s Thesis: Judicial Mediation in England and France Name of Supervisor: Prof. Simon Roberts 2010-2016 Tel Aviv University Law LLD Year Awarded: 2016 Title of Doctoral Dissertation: Between Individual and Community Justice: Assessing Transnational Tort Human Rights Litigation Name of Supervisors: Prof. Leora Bilsky and Prof. Avihay Dorfman B. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1999-2001 Goldfarb, Levy, Eran & Co, Tel Aviv, Corporate Department: Trainee. 2002-2004 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures: Adjunct Lecturer. 2005-2006 Goldfarb, Levy, Eran & Co, Tel Aviv, Corporate Department: Attorney. 1
2006-2009 Bank Leumi, Tel Aviv, Legal Division, International Team: Attorney. 2015-2016 University of Texas, Austin School of Law, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice: Research Fellow. 2016-2017 Hebrew University Jerusalem, Minerva Center for Human Rights (Human Rights under Pressure): Postdoctoral Fellow. C. 1. LIST OF COURSES TAUGHT 2002-2004 French 2017-2018 Constitutional Law, Empirical Perspectives on International Human Rights Law D.1. INVITED PAPERS IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 2010 University of Leicester School of Law, Human Rights beyond Borders conference: presenter (The United States as Moral Witness: The Alien Tort Statute and the Construction of American Identity) 2012 Harvard Law School, Institute for Global Law and Policy Workshop: presenter (Between Individual and Community Justice: Assessing Transnational Tort Human Rights Litigation) 2012 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, European Society for Comparative Legal History conference: presenter (The Swiss and German Holocaust Litigation: Two Processual Models for Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations) (paper co-written with Leora Bilsky) 2012 Tel Aviv University Law School, Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations: presenter with Leora Bilsky (A Process-Oriented Approach to Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations) 2013 University of Texas, Austin School of Law, Impunity, Justice and the Human Rights Agenda conference: presenter (Representations of Political Violence in the Shadow of Alien Tort Statute Litigation: The Filártiga Case) 2013 Universidad Columbia, Asunción, Paraguay, invited lecture (in Spanish) (La Competencia Universal Civil) 2013 Israeli Law and History Association conference: presenter (Representations of Political Violence in the Shadow of Alien Tort Statute Litigation: The Filártiga Case) 2013 Tel Aviv University Law School, Judging Human Rights Violations conference: presenter (Representations of Political Violence in the Shadow of Alien Tort Statute 2
Litigation: The Filártiga Case) 2014 Oxford University, Transitional Justice Research, Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice conference: presenter (Alien Tort Statute Litigation as Transitional Justice: An Ambiguous Way to Address the Neo-Colonial Past) 2015 College of Management, Israeli Private Law Association Annual Conference: presenter (Alien Tort Statute Litigation and Transitional Justice: Bringing the Marcos Case Back to the Philippines) 2015 Stanford University Law School, Program in Law and Society Conference: presenter (Alien Tort Statute Litigation and Transitional Justice: Bringing the Marcos Case Back to the Philippines) 2015 Sciences Po Paris, Intensive Doctoral Week, Teaching International Human Rights Law workshop: presenter (Human Rights in the Social Sciences: an Introduction for Lawyers) 2015 Sciences Po Paris, Intensive Doctoral Week: presenter (Judging the Western Bloc in U.S. Courts: Alien Tort Statute Litigation and American Memories of the Cold War) 2015 Sciences Po Paris-Tel Aviv University joint symposium What is Left of Sovereignty: presenter (Alien Tort Statute Litigation and Transitional Justice: Bringing the Marcos Case Back to the Philippines) 2016 University of Texas, Austin School of Law, Faculty Drawing Board session: presenter (Human Rights and Remedies) 2016 University of Texas, Austin School of Law, Inequality and Human Rights conference: presenter (Alien Tort Statute Litigation and Transitional Justice: Bringing the Marcos Case Back to the Philippines) 2016 University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Law As. Minor Jurisprudence in Historical Key symposium: presenter (Toward a Self-Reflective Law?) 2017 University of Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research, Challenging Human Rights Disenchantment conference: presenter (The Empirical Turn in Human Rights as a Challenge to Disenchantment) 2017 Bar Ilan University Law School, Transnational Legal and Political Theory Conference: presenter (Rethinking Transnational Remedies for Gross Human Rights Abuses: Lessons from the Lost Battle for Universal Civil Jurisdiction.) D.1.2 ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 3
2014 Tel Aviv University Law School, Conference on The Istanbul Protocol for the Evaluation of Torture: Uses in Israel, Legal and Ethical Dilemmas E. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS E.1.2 EXTERNAL GRANTS 2014, 2016 Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa, research grants E.4 ACADEMIC AWARDS 1995 Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert award for second best final examination in Tort Law at King s College London 2010-2014 Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies Tel Aviv University Law School Fellowship 2012, 2013 Minerva Center for Human Rights Tel Aviv University Law School, Law, Globalization and the Transnational Sphere research grants 2013 Raul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies, Tel Aviv University 2013, 2014, 2015 David Berg Foundation for Law and History research grant, Tel Aviv University Law School. 2014 Minerva Center for Human Rights Tel Aviv University Law School, Human Rights: Critical and Historical Approaches research grant 2014-15 Doctoral Fellowship, Tel Aviv University Law School, Global Trust E.R.C 2016 Minerva Center for Human Rights Tel Aviv University Law School, Human Rights, Globalization and the Family research grant 4
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS B.1. ORIGINAL ARTICLES B.1. Articles Published 1. Natalie R. Cohn and Amandine Garde Mutual Influences of English and French Legal Cultures Through Legal Education/ L interaction des Cultures Juridiques Française et Anglaise à l Université 3 European Review of Private Law pp.381-387, 1999 2. Leora Bilsky and Natalie R. Davidson A Process-Oriented Approach to Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations 4 Transnational Legal Theory pp.1-43, 2013 3. Leora Bilsky, Rodger Citron and Natalie R. Davidson From Kiobel back to Structural Reform: The Hidden Legacy of Holocaust Restitution Litigation 2 Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation pp.138-184, 2014 4. Natalie R. Davidson Shifting the Lenses on Alien Tort Statute Litigation: Narrating U.S. Hegemony in Filártiga and Marcos 28 European Journal of International Law pp. 20-30, 2017 5. Natalie R. Davidson Alien Tort Statute Litigation and Transitional Justice: Bringing the Marcos Case back to the Philippines International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2017, published in Advance Access under doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijx006 B.2. Articles Accepted 5
Natalie R. Davidson 1. Toward a Self-Reflexive Law? Narrating Torture s Legality in Human Rights Litigation Law, Culture, Text C. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS Chapters in Books Published 1. Natalie R. Davidson From Political Repression to Torturer Impunity: The Narrowing of Filártiga v. Peña-Irala KAREN ENGLE, ZINAIDA MILLER AND D.M. DAVIS (ED), ANTI-IMPUNITY AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA (Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 255-287. 6