Prof. Israel (Issi) Doron – PI
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). Currently Prof. Doron is the Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Prof. Doron is also the Head of the Center for Research and Study of Aging at the University of Haifa, the Past President of the Israeli Gerontological Society, and the Past Head of the Department of Gerontology. He specializes in the fields of law and ageing, social policy, human rights and ageism. Prof. Doron has written extensively on topics such as socio-legal construction of old age, 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/co-editor of key books in the field such as “Theories on Law and Aging: The Jurisprudence of Elder Law” (Springer, 2009); “Beyond Elder Law: New Directions in Law and Aging” (Springer, 2012; with Ann Soden) or “The Law and Ethics of Dementia” (Hart, 2014; with Charles Foster & Jonathan Herring).
