Manal Totry- Jubran, PhD.
(Associate Professor)

Bar Ilan University, Faculty of Law

law

law and space, law and society, multiculturalism, legal geography, public law, transtional justice, freedom of expression, platform governance, emergency governance
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About Me

Totry- Jubran is an associate professor at the Law faculty, Bar Ilan University, and she is the founder and director of the program for promoting the Arab students in the Law Faculty. In 2026 she was a visiting professor at the Global Centre of Democratic Constitutionalism at UCL, Faculty of Laws and a visiting scholar in the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, University of Chicago Law School. In 2024 and 2025 she was a visiting professor at the Luiss Law School, Rome. In 2023 and 2025 she was a visiting professor at the Bicocca Law School, Milano. She was a Post Doctorial Fellow at the Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University. She received her LL.M. (Magna cum Laude) and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law, University of Tel- Aviv. In 2023 she was awarded the “Cegla Prize” for Exceptional Legal Articles in Hebrew. In 2019 she was awarded the “Gorni Prize”, by the Israeli Association of Public Law young researchers for Excellent young researcher in public Law. In 2018 she was selected by “Calcalist” newspaper and “Bank Hapoalim” as one of ten Young Promising Arab leaders in the Arab Society. In 2015 she was awarded the Ma’of scholarship for outstanding Arab students, The Council for Higher Education. In 2025, she received a research grant on "Selective Moderation and Democratic Resilience: The Role of Social Platforms in Shaping Freedom of Speech During Emergencies in Israel", funded by Chief Justice Meir Shamgar Center for Digital Law and Innovation. In 2019, she received a three-year research grant on “Conceptualizing Environmental Justice in the Israeli Legal and Regulative System: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives”, funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF). In 2017, she received a research grant on Social Rights in Israel: Distributing Burdens between the state and the Local Government in Supplying Welfare Services and its Effect on the Creation of Social and Economic Gaps between Local Authorities funded by the National Insurance Institute of Israel; a research grant on “Examining Legal and Spatial Aspects Rothschild Foundation Mode of Work” funded by Rothschild Foundation; a research grant on “Minority Judge, Judge of Minorities: Salim Joubran” funded by the Center for Jewish and Democratic Law. In 2016 she received a research grant on “The Legal Regulation of Acquisition Groups in Israel”, funded by the Gazit- Globe Real Estate Institution. She attended several local and international conferences and academic workshops and published articles in international leading Law journals. She is also an activist in promoting the rights of the Palestinian minority in Israel.

Her main fields of interests are: Public Law, Law and Society, Critical Legal Geography, Freedom of Speech, Minority Rights and Transitional Justice. 

Publications

  • Israel Doron, Manal Totry-Jubran, Guy Enosh and Tal Regev, “An American Friend in an Israeli Court: An Empirical Perspective,” THE ISRAEL LAW REVIEW , 2015.
  • Israel Doron, Manal Totry-Jubran, Guy Enosh and Tal Regev,, “A Decade of Amicus Curiae: An Empirical Analysis of Israeli Court Decisions,” TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, 2011.
  • Manal Totry-Jubran, “Public Participation in the Israeli Planning Law: Wadi Nisnas as a Test Case,” MISHPAT UMIMSHAL: LAW AND GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL, 2007.
  • Israel Doron and Manal Totry-Jubran, “The Birth and Development of an Israeli Amicus Curiae,” ALEI MISHPAT , 2006.
  • Israel Doron and Manal Totry-Jubran, “Too Little, Too Late? An American Amicus In An Israeli Court,” TEMPLE INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW JOURNAL , 2005.
  • Manal Totry –Jubran, “The Emergence of “Israeli Mixed Cities in the Making”: Players in the Private and Public Domains ,” Din Udvarim , 2017.
  • Manal Totry –Jubran, “Privatization and Exclusion in the City: Associations for “Self-Construction” as Producers of Separated Spatial Enclaves ,” MISHPATIM , 2017.
  • Manal Totry Jubran, “Beyond Walls and Fences: Exploring the Legal Geography of Gated Communities in Mixed Cities,” 26 Journal of Law & Policy (Brooklyn Law School) 123, 2018.
  • Manal Totry-Jubran, ““Law, Space and Society: Exploring the Legal Challenges of Middle-Class Ethnic Minority Flight”,” 34 HARVARD JOURNAL ON RACIAL & ETHNIC JUSTICE 57, 2018.
  • Manal Totry-Jubran, “Historical Justice of Private History in State Building,” THEORETICAL INQUIRIES OF LAW , July 2020.
  • Manal Totry-Jubran, “Transitional Justice in Housing Injustice: The Case of Housing Rights Violations Within Settler Democracies,” 52 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW 795 (2019), October 2019.
  • Manal Totry-Jubran, “Historical Justice of Private History in State Building,” 21 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES OF LAW 305 (2020), 2020.
  • Manal Totry-Jubran, “Dissent, Diversity and Representation: Lessons From The First Minority Judge in The Israeli Supreme Court ,” 31 SOCIAL AND LEGAL STUDIES 603 (2022) , 2022.
  • Manal Totry-Jubran, “Moving Towards Regionalism as a Mode of Inclusive Citizenship in Divided Societies ,” 24 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW (2023), 2023.
  • Manal Totry- Jubran, “Constitutionalizing Israel’s Constitution System,” 56 ISRAEL LAW REVIEW (2023), 2023.
  • Manal Totry- Jubran, “Towards Critical Environmental Justice Approach in Multicultural Divided States: Lessons from the Israeli Regulative System,” FORDHAM ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW, 2023. Pages 47
  • Manal Totry- Jubran, “Collaborative Displacement: Legal Geographies of Emergency Power and Spatial Exclusion in Mixed Cities,” SOCIAL AND LEGAL STUDIES (2026), 2026. Pages 24
  • Manal Totry- Jubran and David Kretzmer, “Parliaments as Constituent Assemblies in the Age of Populism: Israel as a Case Study,” 24 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2026), 2026. Pages 29
  • Manal Totry- Jubran, “Escalating Suppression: The Silencing of Palestinians in Israeli Academic Institutions in the Wake of War Time,” 40 ISRAEL STUDIES REVIEW, 10 (2025), 2025. Pages 9

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