Professor; Dr. Teresa A. Miller Professor of Law; SUNY Distinguished Professor
Research Focus: Animal Studies, Nature and Conservation Biology, Law and Geography, Legal Ethnography, Law and Society, Science and Technology Studies
Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRN, Personal Website
717 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-3030
irusb@buffalo.edu
SETTLING NATURE: THE CONSERVATION REGIME IN PALESTINE-ISRAEL (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) (Recipient of a 2023 Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory)
MORE-THAN-ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST-COVID (Irus Braverman, ed. Routledge Press, 2023)
LAWS OF THE SEA: INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2022)
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, SETTLER COLONIALISM, AND MORE-THAN HUMANS IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK (Irus Braverman, ed., 4 Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, 2021) (Special issue)
ZOO VETERINARIANS: GOVERNING CARE ON A DISEASED PLANET (Routledge Press, 2021)
BLUE LEGALITIES: THE LAW AND LIFE OF THE SEA (Irus Braverman and Elizabeth R. Johnson, eds.) (Duke University Press, 2020)
CORAL WHISPERERS: SCIENTISTS ON THE BRINK (The University of California Press, 2018)
GENE EDITING, LAW, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: LIFE BEYOND THE HUMAN (Irus Braverman, ed.) (Routledge, 2017)
ANIMALS, BIOPOLITICS, LAW: LIVELY LEGALITIES (Irus Braverman, ed.) (Routledge, 2016)
WILD LIFE: THE INSTITUTION OF NATURE (Stanford University Press, 2015)
THE EXPANDING SPACES OF LAW: A TIMELY LEGAL GEOGRAPHY (Stanford University Press, 2014)
ZOOLAND: THE INSTITUTION OF CAPTIVITY (Stanford University Press, 2013)
PLANTED FLAGS: TREES, LAND AND LAW IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
HOUSE DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM: ILLEGALITY AND RESISTANCE (The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace, Hebrew) 2006
Frozen Laws on a Burning Planet? Coral Studies on Time and Scale. LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW (under review, 2026).
The New Jewish Shepherd: Land Grabbing and Redemption in the Occupied West Bank, AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST (forthcoming 2026).
The Veterinarization of Israeli Society. In special issue (Marianna Szczygielska et al. eds.) Veterinarization of Society? Care and Control Beyond Animal Health, MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (forthcoming 2026).
Legal Settler Ecologies, THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE (forthcoming 2026).
Zoometrics and the Dogs of Gaza: Species, Race, and Settler Colonial Violence, 29 THEORY & EVENT (2026).
Prigionier: Operazioni zoometriche a Gaza (II parte), 64 LIBERAZIONI (2026) (in Italian).
Prigionier: Operazioni zoometriche a Gaza (II parte), 63 LIBERAZIONI (2026) (in Italian).
Red Tape on a Blue Planet, AEON MAGAZINE (2026).
The Goat Speech: Ecofascism & Israel’s Black Goat Law, SOCIETY AND SPACE, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D (Special issue: Darker Shades of Green: Anthropologies of Everyday and Emergent Ecofascism) (2025).
Law’s Abyss, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C: SPACE AND POLITICS (Symposium) (2024).
The New Jewish Shepherd: The Great Battle of Pastorship in Area C of the West Bank. Antipode (forthcoming 2024).
Settler Ecologies and More-Than-One Health: From Malaria to Avian Flu in the Hula Valley, Palestine-Israel, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E: NATURE AND SPACE (2024).
The Goat Speech: Ecofascism in Palestine-Israel. In “Darker Shades of Green: Anthropologies of Everyday and Emergent Ecofascism.” SOCIETY & SPACE, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D (2025)
Coral Reef Protection Is Fundamental to Human Rights (with Emma F. Camp, Genevieve Wilkinson & Christian R. Voolstra), 30(9) GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY e17512 (2024).
Missiles, Oil, and Corals: Climate Changes in the Red Sea, SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES (2024).
Frontier Ecologies: Israel’s Settler Colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan, 111 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 103073 (2024).
Settler Ecologies and More-than-One Health: From Malaria to Avian Flu in the Hula Valley, Palestine-Israel, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E (2024).
Law’s Abyss, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C: SPACE AND POLITICS (2024).
Green Gold: The Akkoub’s Settler Ecologies. LA+ (2024).
Ha-Shiva La-Teva, Ha-Zman Ha-Ze: THE VAN LEER INSTITUTE MAGAZINE (2024) (in Hebrew)
Law’s Abyss, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C: SPACE AND POLITICS (2024)
Mother Drone, Mother Nature, and the Military Makings of the Griffon Vulture in Palestine-Israel, SPRINGS: THE RACHEL CARSON CENTER REVIEW (4) (2023).
Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward Land-Sea Regimes (with Katrina Ronningen & Katrina Brown), SOCIETY AND SPACE: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D (2023)
Coralations: Back to the Breath, 28(2) QUEENSLAND REVIEW 94 (2022)
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in the Earth Biogenome Project (with Katharine Barker, Jacob Sherkow, Henry Greely, et al.) 119(4) PNAS (2022)
Coralations: Back to the Breath, 28(2) QUEENSLAND REVIEW 94 (2022)
Corals in the City: Cultivating Ocean Life in the Anthropocene, 16 (1) CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCE 96 (2021)
Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel, POLAR:POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW (2021)
Corals in the City: Cultivating Ocean Life in the Anthropocene City, 16 CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCE: JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 96, 96-112 (Special Issue: Urban Animals: Cartographies of Radical Encounters) (2021)
Environmental Justice in the Occupied West Bank, NATURE AND SPACE: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E (2020) (Special issue)
Fleshy Encounters: Meddling with Zoo and Aquarium Veterinarians. HUMANIMALIA (2020)
Nof Kdumim: Imagining the Ancient Landscape in East Jerusalem’s National Parks, 4 NATURE AND SPACE: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E 109, 109-134 (2020) (Special issue)
Shifting Baselines in Coral Conservation, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E 3(1): 20-39 (Special issue) (2020)
Settler Ecologies and Their Decolonization: Thee En-Visions of Ecological Futures, in Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Jessie Fredlund, and Helen Kopnina (eds.), ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Second Edition (Routledge), 362-374 (2026)
Militarism, in KEYWORDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, and David N. Pellow (NYU Press, forthcoming 2026).
Dogs and Domicide: Lessons from Gaza’s Frontlines of Ruination (with On Barak), in THE NON-HUMAN TURN IN THE LAW, edited by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa (British Academy Series, OUP, forthcoming 2026).
Dogs, Domestication, and Domicide in Gaza & Israel, (with On Barak), in UNDERWORLDS, edited by Petersmann, M. and Van Den Meerssche, D. (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2026).
Ocean Laws, in Steve Mentz, Mohammad Muharram, Serpil Oppermann, and Sandra Young (eds.), BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK TO THE BLUE HUMANITIES (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025).
Contemplations on Dig Safe Markings: Law as Street Art, in FRICTION ATLAS (Paolo Patelli, Giuditta Vendrame, & Elise Limon, eds) (Onomatopee, 2025).
Dogs, Domestication, and Domicide in Gaza & Israel, in Underworlds, (with On Barak) edited by Petersmann, M. and Van Den Meerssche, D. (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2025).
Ex Situ Conservation, in THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: A COMMENTARY (Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, ed., Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025).
Ocean Law & Climate Justice, in Steve Mentz, Mohammad Muharram, Serpil Oppermann, and Sandra Young, Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities, (Bloomsbury Publishing: 2024).
Settler Ecologies in Palestine-Israel, in Jessie Fredlund, Elle Shoreman Ouimet, and Helen Kopnina, Routledge International Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (Routledge : 2024).
The Microbial Zoo: How Small is Wild?, in A Wilder Kingdom: Rethinking the Wild in ZOOS, WILDLIFE PARKS, AND BEYOND (Ben Minteer & Harry Greene, eds., Columbia University Press, 2023)
Introduction: More-than-One Health, More-than-One Governance, in MORE-THAN-ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST-COVID 1 (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2023)
One Health, Surveillance, and the Pandemic Treaty: An Interview with John H. Amusai, in MORE-THAN ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST COVID 79 (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2023)
Spillover Interfaces from Wuhan to Wall Street: An Interview with Chris Walzer, in MORE-THAN ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST COVID 55 (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2023)
Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward Land-Sea Regimes, in LAWS OF THE SEA: INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2022)
Genetic Freedom of the Seas in the Age of Extractivism: Marine Genetic Resources in AREAS BEYOND NATIONAL JURISDICTION, IN LAWS OF THE SEA: INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2022)
Coral Restoration and Citizen Scientists in the Anthropocene, in THE NATURE OF DATA: INFRASTRUCTURES, ENVIRONMENTS, POLITICS (Jenny E. Goldstein & Eric Nost, eds., Nebraska University Press 2022)
Animals, in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK FOR LAW AND SOCIETY (Mariana Valverde, Kamari M. Clarke, Eve Darian Smith & Prabha Kotiswaran, eds., 2021)
Blue Legalities: Untangling Ocean Laws, in THE ANTHROPOCENE, INTRODUCTION TO BLUE LEGALITIES: THE LAW AND LIFE OF THE SEA (coauthored with Elizabeth R. Johnson) (2020)
Oculta a Plena Vista: La Geografía Jurídica Desde Una Perspectiva Visual (with Elizabeth R. Johnson, Richard T. Ford, Mariana Valverde & Maria Victoria Castro Cristancho), in DERECHO Y GEOGRAFÍA: ESPACIO, PODER YSISTEMA JURÍDICO 251, 251-80 (Bogotá D. C. & Siglo Del Hombre, eds., Universidad de los Andes 2020)
