Rotem Giladi studied law at the University of Essex, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Michigan where he obtain a doctoral degree (S.J.D.). He taught international law at the Hebrew University Law Faculty, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Helsinki and Leipzig University. Before joining Roehampton Law School, he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, in diplomatic service, and in policy thinktanks.

Rotem Giladi’s research explores the intersection of theory, ideas, power, culture, and race in the history of international law, the laws of law in particular; as well as the meeting points between the history of international law and modern Jewish history 

Present projects:

• Senior researcher, Nathan Feinberg and His Contemporaries: Jewish International Lawyers and the Sovereign Condition (Israel Science Foundation Grant, 2019—2022, PI: Prof. Yfaat Weiss), under the auspices of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture—Simon Dubnow, Leipzig, Germany
• Senior researcher, Hebrew University History Project (led by Professors Yfaat Weiss and Uzi Rebhun)

Past projects:

• Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation, 1948—1990 (European Research Council Project; PI: Prof. Louise Bethlehem)
• The Promise and Limits of International Courts and Tribunals—Exploring the Conditions for Effective International Adjudication (European Research Council Project; PI: Prof. Yuval Shany)