Dr. Sigall Horovitz advises the Clinical Legal Education Center in the area of transitional justice. Her interests are transitional justice, international criminal law, ethics and anti-corruption. Dr. Horovitz held various positions at the United Nations, including at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Alongside her UN work, Dr. Horovitz was involved in teaching and academic research in Israel and Germany. She initiated transitional justice programs at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, and led experiential study trips to Rwanda and South Africa. Dr. Horovitz completed her master's degree with honors at Columbia University in 2003 and received her doctorate in law from the Hebrew University in 2014. Her doctorate examined the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on national reconciliation in Rwanda, as part of a larger ERC-funded study on the Effectiveness of International Courts. Dr. Horovitz received the Arthur Helton Fellowship of the American Society of International Law (2013), the Rabin Scholarship of the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (2013-2014), the Vodoz Prize of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry (2012), and an award for distinguished academic work from the Israel Law and Society Association (2014). She is a member of the New York and Israeli Bar Associations, and a founding member of the Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law (ALMA).
Education
Doctor of Laws LL.D, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2014)
Master of Laws LL.M, with Honors, Columbia University, New York (2003)
Bachelor of Laws LL.B, with Honors, College of Management, Israel (2000)
Representative Publications
- Attempted Transitional Justice and Historical Dialogue: The Case of Israel's Or Commission, in Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities, eds. Elazar Barkan, Constantin Goschler and James E. Waller (Routledge, 2020), p. 50.
- Life After Genocide: Conceptualizing Post-Genocide Reconciliation in Rwanda Through Lived Experiences, 138 Zmanim 132 (2018) (in Hebrew)
- International Criminal Courts in Action: The ICTR’s Effect on Death Penalty and Reconciliation in Rwanda, 48 Geo. Wash. Int’l L. Rev. 505 (2016)
- How International Courts Shape Domestic Justice: Lessons from Rwanda and Sierra Leone, 46 Israel Law Review 339 (2013)
- The Role of Victims, in International Criminal Procedure: The Interface of Civil Law and Common Law Legal Systems (Eds. Linda Carter & Fausto Pocar, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013)
- Transitional Criminal Justice in Sierra Leone, in Beyond Truth Versus Justice: Transitional Justice in the Twenty First Century (Eds. N. Roht-Arriaza & J. Mariezcurrena, CUP, 2006)