Haim Abraham
Haim Abraham (St. Edmund’s, 2015) is a Lecturer at UCL Faculty of Laws, where he is also the Deputy Chair of the LLB Board of Examiners, an Executive Committee Member of the Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy, coordinator of OutLaws – the Faculty of Laws staff-student LGBT+ group, and a member of UCL’s LGBT+ Equality Steering Group.
Haim specializes in tort law and theory. His current research projects center around two themes: states’ responsibility during armed conflicts, and a critical theorization of tort law using a rights-based approach and queer theory.
Haim advocates for LGBT+ Rights in academia and in practice. He created a new module in 2022 on Sexuality and the Law, which examines numerous ways in which the law regulates and responds to issues connected with an individual’s sexuality, including sexual orientation and gender identity. He has organized a conference on Queering Private Law, and is in the process of creating a network of queer scholars and scholarship on this topic. He is a member of the LGBT+ Research-to-Policy Project with the House of Lords.
While pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, Haim organized an LGBT+ Workshop in which students, faculty members, and members of the Ontario Provincial Parliament presented and discussed their works and deliberate about the past, present and future of LGBT+ rights in Canada. In recognition of these activities, he received the Start Proud Organization National Student Leadership Award, as well as the Faculty of Law’s Dean Award.
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During his graduate studies at St. Edmund’s, Haim was LGBT+ Officer. During his undergraduate studies he founded the first-of-its-kind LGBT+ Rights Student Association at Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University in Israel, pushing for the establishment of a legal clinic dedicated to LGBT+ issues, such as fighting conversion therapy and aiding Palestinian LGBT+ refugees. For this activity he received the Lord Woolf Award.
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Haim organized a two-day conference on surrogacy, and was consequently invited to partake in the Minister of Health’s Special Advisory Committee on Israel’s surrogacy laws reform. The Supreme Court of Israel has cited Haim’s article ‘Parenting, Surrogacy, and the State’ in multiple cases, eventually ruling that Israel’s surrogacy laws are discriminatory and interpreting the law inclusively to resolve this illegality.