Dr. Gil Rothschild Elyassi

Dr. Rothschild Elyassi’s work is in the sociology of law, punishment, knowledge and technology, focusing in particular on knowledge production under conditions of domination and the interaction between law, technologies, and human life. Much of his work focuses on penal supervision and policing as technologies for modern governance that traverse the carceral state, the welfare state and the regulatory state. One recurring theme in Dr. Rothschild Elyassi’s research concerns the centrality and versatility of legal institutional responses to the use of psychoactive substances – specifically drugs and medicines.

Prior to coming to Haifa Gil completed a PhD at UC Berkeley in 2021 alongside a designated emphasis in critical theory. Prior to that, Gil attained an LLM at New York University.

• Sociology of law and legal institutions
• Sociology of science and technologyPenal
• supervision and policing
• Colonial rule and racial capitalism

• “The Datafication of Law: How Technology Encodes Carceral Power and Affects Judicial Practice in the United States.” Law & Social Inquiry (2022)
• “Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional: Colorblind Cops and The Enactment of Spatial Racism in Routine Policing.” City & Community (2022) (with Nikki Jones, Kenly Brown, Eduardo Duran Bautista, Kaily Heitz, Jasmine Kelekay & Geoffray Raymond).
• “The Symbiotic Tensions of the Regulatory-Carceral State: The Case of Cannabis Legalization.” Regulation & Governance (2021) (with Ely Aaronson).
• “The Law of the Street.” Law and Social Change, 5(1): 35-57 (2013) [Hebrew] (with Adi Blutner)
• “Actuarial justice in an algorithmic age.” In Mathieu Deflem (ed.), The Handbook of Social Control (2018). Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell (with Johann Koehler and Jonathan Simon)
• “The New Penology.” In Oxford Annotated Bibliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018) (with Johann Koehler and Jonathan Simon)

• על שיטור, כליאה וגזענות – במסגרת מפגשי למידה ושיח של ארגון ״שוברות קירות״
• The symbiotic tensions of the regulatory-carceral state: The case of Cannabis legalization – New Research in Regulation & Governance
• “Reading Punishment with Du Bois: From a One-World World to a Double Consciousness Hermeneutics”