Irit Ballas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5237977 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Irit Ballas |
| NOMBRES | Irit |
| APELLIDO | Ballas |
| FIRMA | BALLAS I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5009-2060 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Convergence Between Punishment and War
Conventional legal thought classifies state violence into two distinct categories: punishment and war. Each is governed by a separate legal regime – criminal law and the law of armed conflict – marked by divergent rationales, doctrines, and institutional frameworks. In recent years, however, scholarship has pointed to a certain convergence between these domains. This Article aims to map, assess, and critically examine this trend. It proposes to d…
The remorseful enemy
Soliciting a defendant's remorse during sentencing resonates with the idea that the individual has breached the community's shared moral values but can be reincluded through moral transformation. This article examines a criminal justice system in which remorse is sought from defendants convicted of security offenses, belonging to a community deemed to hold values opposed to those of the state that punishes them. A qualitative analysis of sentenci…
General Will or Public Order? The Debate on Criminal Justice Policy in Early Colonial Himalaya, 1815–1816
When the British East India Company (EIC) conquered the West Himalaya region in the 1810s, it faced a critical challenge commonly encountered by colonial empires: determining the extent of intervention in intracommunity criminal matters among colonized subjects. This article examines the archived correspondence of colonial officials regarding this challenge and scrutinizes the various arguments made for and against intervention. It shows that the…
Biscuits, the World Cup and Nobel Prizes
Records kept by security authorities documenting potentially violent encounters are generally characterized by technocratic language and parsimonious content, which is intended to project an image of objective and impartial state officials. A qualitative analysis of 688 records covering interrogations of suspects in terror activities by the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) presents a very different picture. They consist of representations of (1…
Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation
Both territoriality and political status serve as parameters for determining the extent of a state's obligation to uphold human rights. Scholars have shown that different actors may manipulate the scope of these parameters to serve their particular purposes. Based on interviews with lawyers from Israeli human rights organizations, this article shows how they also manipulate the relationships between these parameters. When representing different c…
Chronotopes of security legal regimes
Legal regimes dealing with security have prominent temporal attributes: they are often intended to operate for a specified period of time in response to an imminent danger and allow governments to employ extraordinary measures enabling them to act faster when faced with time- critical scenarios. Such regimes also have prominent spatial attributes: they often protect a physical border, delineate spaces with extra-legal status, or use surveillance …
Boundaries, obligations and belonging
In national emergencies, states may establish special criminal regimes that criminalize behaviours legal under ordinary law, use more oppressive measures of enforcement and reduce procedural rights. Scholars associate such regimes with the exclusion of offenders from the political community. However, in some emergency criminal regimes, often dealing with economic crises and recently with pandemics, the reduction of rights can also imply inclusion…
Fracturing the “Exception”
This article examines the legal constructs governing the use of violent interrogation methods in Israel since 1987. It explores the shift from a sweeping suspension of the prohibition on torture to a fractured legal regime in which the different elements of interrogation—the perpetrator, the victim, the time of the interrogation, and the space in which it takes place—are effectively excluded from the prohibition on torture by means of separate le…
Fracturing the “Exception”
This article examines the legal constructs governing the use of violent interrogation methods in Israel since 1987. It explores the shift from a sweeping suspension of the prohibition on torture to a fractured legal regime in which the different elements of interrogation—the perpetrator, the victim, the time of the interrogation, and the space in which it takes place—are effectively excluded from the prohibition on torture by means of separate le…
Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation
Both territoriality and political status serve as parameters for determining the extent of a state's obligation to uphold human rights. Scholars have shown that different actors may manipulate the scope of these parameters to serve their particular purposes. Based on interviews with lawyers from Israeli human rights organizations, this article shows how they also manipulate the relationships between these parameters. When representing different c…
Boundaries, obligations and belonging
In national emergencies, states may establish special criminal regimes that criminalize behaviours legal under ordinary law, use more oppressive measures of enforcement and reduce procedural rights. Scholars associate such regimes with the exclusion of offenders from the political community. However, in some emergency criminal regimes, often dealing with economic crises and recently with pandemics, the reduction of rights can also imply inclusion…
Fracturing the “Exception”
This article examines the legal constructs governing the use of violent interrogation methods in Israel since 1987. It explores the shift from a sweeping suspension of the prohibition on torture to a fractured legal regime in which the different elements of interrogation—the perpetrator, the victim, the time of the interrogation, and the space in which it takes place—are effectively excluded from the prohibition on torture by means of separate le…
Boundaries, obligations and belonging
In national emergencies, states may establish special criminal regimes that criminalize behaviours legal under ordinary law, use more oppressive measures of enforcement and reduce procedural rights. Scholars associate such regimes with the exclusion of offenders from the political community. However, in some emergency criminal regimes, often dealing with economic crises and recently with pandemics, the reduction of rights can also imply inclusion…
Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation
Both territoriality and political status serve as parameters for determining the extent of a state's obligation to uphold human rights. Scholars have shown that different actors may manipulate the scope of these parameters to serve their particular purposes. Based on interviews with lawyers from Israeli human rights organizations, this article shows how they also manipulate the relationships between these parameters. When representing different c…
Chronotopes of security legal regimes
Legal regimes dealing with security have prominent temporal attributes: they are often intended to operate for a specified period of time in response to an imminent danger and allow governments to employ extraordinary measures enabling them to act faster when faced with time- critical scenarios. Such regimes also have prominent spatial attributes: they often protect a physical border, delineate spaces with extra-legal status, or use surveillance …
Biscuits, the World Cup and Nobel Prizes
Records kept by security authorities documenting potentially violent encounters are generally characterized by technocratic language and parsimonious content, which is intended to project an image of objective and impartial state officials. A qualitative analysis of 688 records covering interrogations of suspects in terror activities by the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) presents a very different picture. They consist of representations of (1…
The remorseful enemy
Soliciting a defendant's remorse during sentencing resonates with the idea that the individual has breached the community's shared moral values but can be reincluded through moral transformation. This article examines a criminal justice system in which remorse is sought from defendants convicted of security offenses, belonging to a community deemed to hold values opposed to those of the state that punishes them. A qualitative analysis of sentenci…
General Will or Public Order? The Debate on Criminal Justice Policy in Early Colonial Himalaya, 1815–1816
When the British East India Company (EIC) conquered the West Himalaya region in the 1810s, it faced a critical challenge commonly encountered by colonial empires: determining the extent of intervention in intracommunity criminal matters among colonized subjects. This article examines the archived correspondence of colonial officials regarding this challenge and scrutinizes the various arguments made for and against intervention. It shows that the…
The Convergence Between Punishment and War
Conventional legal thought classifies state violence into two distinct categories: punishment and war. Each is governed by a separate legal regime – criminal law and the law of armed conflict – marked by divergent rationales, doctrines, and institutional frameworks. In recent years, however, scholarship has pointed to a certain convergence between these domains. This Article aims to map, assess, and critically examine this trend. It proposes to d…
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