About
The Concord Center was established to promote the integration of international law into the laws of the State of Israel and Israeli society at large. The Center is home to extensive research activities and hosts conferences and workshops whose goal is to raise awareness of new developments in the field of human rights and humanitarian law, and implementing them in the discourse among policymakers in Israel. The Center also works to achieve this goal through participating in legal procedures as amicus curiae. The Center is guided in full partnership by leading experts in international law, from Israel and abroad.
Our Director
Prof. Frances Raday
Director
Prof. Frances Raday, Director of Concord Research Institute for Integration of International Law in Israel, is a graduate of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the London School of Economics. She has been a visiting professor at Oxford University, University of Copenhagen, Tulane University, University of Southern California, and more, and is a Professor Emerita of Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prof. Raday served as chairperson of the working group of the United Nations Human Rights Committee examining discrimination against women, as a member of the United Nations Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), as the founding chairperson of the Legal Center of the Israel Women’s Network. She has represented numerous petitioners in groundbreaking Supreme Court cases concerning claims for rights in the fields of labor law, human rights, and discrimination.
She has published numerous books, monographs, and research papers and is the recipient of many awards in recognition of her work, including the Bar-Niv Prize for Labor Law, the Israel’s Bar Prize for Outstanding Attorneys, and an award from the Israel Women’s Network for exceptional contribution
Prof. Raday served as chairperson of the working group of the United Nations Human Rights Committee examining discrimination against women, as a member of the United Nations Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), as the founding chairperson of the Legal Center of the Israel Women’s Network. She has represented numerous petitioners in groundbreaking Supreme Court cases concerning claims for rights in the fields of labor law, human rights, and discrimination.
She has published numerous books, monographs, and research papers and is the recipient of many awards in recognition of her work, including the Bar-Niv Prize for Labor Law, the Israel’s Bar Prize for Outstanding Attorneys, and an award from the Israel Women’s Network for exceptional contribution
