Rabeea Assy

Dr Rabeea Assy is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa, and a regular visiting professor at the University of Oxford. He specialises primarily in the laws of civil procedure and evidence, and is generally interested in analytical jurisprudence and legal history. The University of Haifa is also Rabeea's home university, where he read for his LL.B. and LL.M. (ranked 1st in class). In 2007 he embarked on doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where his studies were fully funded by the Oxford University Clarendon Fund. His research at Oxford was awarded two consecutive Modern Law Review prizes. In 2008–2010 Rabeea served as a Senior Editor and subsequently as the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

His current research projects on European civil procedure are funded by the EU's Marie Curie Actions programme, the German-Israeli Fund, and Israel's Maof Fund. Rabeea's published work includes a book on the right to self-representation (Oxford University Press, 2015); a chapter on parole proceedings in a compiled volume (Oxford University Press, forthcoming; 2015); and a number of articles on civil procedure and evidence, published in such prominent journals as the Journal of Law and Society, Civil Justice Quarterly, and Criminal Justice and Behaviour. His work has been cited by leading academics and courts across the Commonwealth.

His personal interests include theology, Arabic poetry, world literature, and chess.