Karin Loevy graduated magna cum laude in both History (BA) and Law (LLB) from the Tel Aviv University (2004). There, she served as a research and teaching assistant in the fields of criminal law, administrative law and law and society and on the editorial board of Plilim the Journal of Public Law, Society and Culture. Following her graduation Karin joined Avigdor Feldman’s public law firm where she practiced criminal and administrative litigation before civil and military courts and before the Israeli Supreme Court. In 2009 she completed a dual LLM in Law and the Global Economy at NYU@NUS, Singapore, received the dean’s award and served as a research assistant to Professors Simon Chesterman and Victor Ramraj on law and security projects. While in candidacy at the NYU JSD Program from 2010, she served as a Tikvah Scholar in residence between 2012-2014 and graduated in May 2014. Her doctoral dissertation was published by Cambridge University Press (2016), titled: Emergencies in Public Law: The Legal Politics of Containment.  Karin currently serves as the Manager of the NYU Law School JSD Program and a Visiting Scholar with the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) where she is working on a new book project in history of international law in the Middle East. An overview of this project, titled: 'Reinventing a Region (1915-1922): Visions of the Middle East in Legal and Diplomatic Texts Leading to the Palestine Mandate" is forthcoming in Israel Law Review 49(2016).