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Israel Doron

Head of the Department of Gerontology - University of Haifa
Israel

Law

01.02.2010-26.02.2010

Older persons in courts of justice: ethics, law and ageism

LL.B. (1989) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; LL.M. (1994) Washington College of Law, U.S.A; Ph.D. (2000) Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada; Advocate, (1991) the Israeli Bar Association.

Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Welfare and Health Studies, and at the Faculty of Law, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. Dr. Doron specializes in elder law, social policy and aging, and senior's rights. He is the editor of "Theories on Law and Aging: The Jurisprudence of Elder Law (2008; Springer) and the author of numerous articles in international journals. He is active in various non-governmental organizations, and one of the founders of the Israeli NGO: "The Law in the Service of the Elderly." Dr. Doron also serves on various national and international committees (e.g. ABA Commission on Law and Aging; IFA Advisory Committee on Law and Aging), and was a member of the UN Expert Group on the Rights of Older Persons.

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Prof. Israel (Issi) Doron, LL.B. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); LL.M. (Washington College of Law, Washington DC, USA); Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, ON., Canada). Prof. Doron is the Head of the Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa, and the Past President of the Israeli Gerontological Society. He specializes in the fields of law and ageing, social policy and aging, ethics and ageism. Prof. Doron has written extensively on topics such as law and aging, and human rights of older persons (e.g. Doron, I. & Apter, I. (2010). The Debate Around the Need for an International Convention on the Rights of Older Persons. The Gerontologist, 50(5), 586-593) and is the editor of key books in the field such as "Theories on Law and Aging: The Jurisprudence of Elder Law" (Springer, 2009); and "Beyond Elder Law: New Directions in Law and Aging" (Springer, 2012; with Ann Soden). Finally, Prof. Doron is also the founder of an Israeli NGO, "The Law in the Service of the Elderly", which was involved in key strategic-litigation regarding rights of older persons in Israel.

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