Served as Member until 2022

José Brunner is Professor Emeritus at the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas of Tel Aviv University, where he taught from 1984 to 2018. In the course of these years, Brunner served as Director of the Cohn Institute (2015-18) and the Minerva Institute for German History (2005-2013). He founded the Interdisciplinary Study Program for Law and the Humanities (in 2010) and co-established Israel’s first Legal Clinic for the Rights of Holocaust Survivors (in 2011). Currently, he still is Director of the Eva & Marc Besen Institute for the Study of Historical Consciousness, where he edits the journal History & Memory. Brunner published more than 100 scientific publications in various languages, including 2 monographs and 17 edited volumes. His research addresses a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from issues in modern and contemporary political theory through the right to truth to the history of compensation for Holocaust survivors in Germany and Israel, and from the history and politics of psychoanalysis through the politics of the mental health discourse on trauma to psychological theories of Nazism.