Irus Braverman
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Irus Braverman is Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Her main interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of law, geography, and anthropology. Writing within this nexus, Braverman conducted ethnographic research on illegal houses, trees, checkpoints, public toilets, zoos, and corals. Born in Jerusalem, Braverman acquired a law degree and a master’s in Criminology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She served as a public state prosecutor and as an environmental lawyer, both in Palestine-Israel, and was also trained as a mediator and worked as a community organizer for environmental justice issues and as a political activist. Braverman acquired her doctoral degree in law from the University of Toronto.

For much of her academic career, Braverman has advocated a move away from anthropocentric approaches in law. She brings posthumanist sensitivities to her ethnographic examinations of conservation politics in various settings. Braverman’s recent research explores the intersection of law and the life sciences. She is involved in multiple transdisciplinary conversations and forums with conservation biologists, veterinarians, and geneticists.

Braverman received multiple fellowships and awards, including a Ryskamp fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies and residential fellowships at the Human Rights Program at Harvard University, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the National Humanities Center, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Recently, her work on marine legal geographies received funding from the Research Council of Norway.

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  • Home
  • Books
    • Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel
    • Zoo Veterinarians: Governing Care on a Diseased Planet
    • Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink
    • Wild Life: The Institution of Nature
    • Zooland: The Institution of Captivity
    • Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine
    • The Powers of "Illegality": House-Demolitions and Resistance in East Jerusalem
  • Edited Collections
    • More-Than-One Health: ​Humans, Animals, and the Environment Post-COVID
    • Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents
    • Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism, and More-than-Humans in the Occupied West Bank
    • Blue Legalities: The Laws and Life of the Sea
    • Animals, Biopolitics, Law Lively Legalities
    • Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment: Life Beyond the Human
    • The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography
  • Contact