Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and associate professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. She is a co-founding editor of “Jadaliyya,” an electronic magazine on the Middle East, and author of the award-winning “Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine.” Erakat serves on the boards of the Institute for Policy Studies, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, and Arab Studies Institute; and she is a policy advisor to Al Shabaka. She also serves on the Editorial Committee of the Journal for Palestine Studies, and she is a founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival.