Lisa Hajjar

Lisa Hajjar is professor of Sociology at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She has devoted her career to researching and writing about law and conflict, including issues relating to torture, military occupations, war, war crimes, and human rights. Her publications include Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza, Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights, and The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture.