Aaron Kurman

Aaron Kurman

University of Virginia

Ulster University, Magee (UUM)

Law

Aaron is a Staff Attorney at HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual in Israel. Prior to that, he was a Legal Apprentice in the Israeli Ministry of Justice and he also worked at the National Public Defender's Office in Tel Aviv. His interest is the intersection of human rights law and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As a Mitchell Scholar, Aaron studied at the Ulster University where he obtained an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies. While in Northern Ireland, Aaron coached youth basketball for Playing for Peace, an organization that uses basketball to bring together Catholic and Protestant school children. After his Mitchell year, Aaron moved to Jerusalem as the recipient of a Dorot Fellowship. He then attended Stanford Law School where he worked on a wrongful conviction case with a Stanford professor and then travelled to Israel, where he researched ultra-orthodox rabbis' views on the Arab-Israeli peace process. Following law school, Aaron worked for the Office of the Public Defender in San Francisco. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia.