Attorney Rawia Aburabia completed her PhD dissertation on “Personal Status Laws of Palestinian Bedouin Women: Colonized by the Law,” at the faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as a research fellow at the joint interdisciplinary doctoral program, “Human Rights under Pressure – Ethics, Law, and Politics” at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her PhD project dealt with the Israeli legal system’s regulation of the criminal prohibition of polygamy among the Bedouin, with special focus on the policy of non-enforcement as a colonial legacy and its effects on the legal status of Bedouin women.

Her PhD project dealt with the Israeli legal system’s regulation of the criminal prohibition of polygamy among the Bedouin, with special focus on the policy of non-enforcement as a colonial legacy and its effects on the legal status of Bedouin women.