Mishpat Ivri are the aspects of halakha that are relevant to non-religious or secular law. In addition,the term refers to an academic approach to the Jewish legal tradition and a concomitant effort to apply that tradition to modern Israeli law.
Aharon Barak is an Israeli lawyer and jurist who served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to this,Barak served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1978 to 1995,and before this as Attorney General of Israel from 1975 to 1978.
Ruth Gavison was an Israeli expert of human rights,professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,and recipient of the Israel Prize.
Alon Harel is a law professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,where he holds the Phillip P. Mizock &Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative and Criminal Law. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Yale University,and Balliol College,Oxford. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University,Harvard University,the University of Toronto,the University of Texas at Austin,and the University of Chicago.
Gad Barzilai was an Israeli professor of law,political science and international studies,famous for his work on the politics of law,comparative law and politics,human rights,and communities. Barzilai published 18 books and 173 articles in major academic refereed journals and publishing houses. He had been a full professor of law,societies and justice,and international studies at the University of Washington and the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. Gad Barzilai had served as the dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Haifa (2012–2017) and was the vice provost of University of Haifa from 2016 until 2019.
Galit Hasan-Rokem is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald professor of folklore at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author and editor of numerous works,including co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Folklore (2012),her research interests include proverbs,folklore and culture of the Middle East,and folklore genres and narratives. She is also a published poet and translator of poetry,and a Pro-Palestinian activist. The Jerusalem Post has called her "a figure of some prominence in Jerusalem intellectual circles".
Paul Lyndon Davies KC (Hon),FBA is Allen &Overy Professor of Corporate Law Emeritus at the University of Oxford,Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College,Oxford,Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College,Oxford,and Emeritus Professor of Law at the London School of Economics,where he was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law from 1998 to 2009. He is an honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn.
The American Journal of Comparative Law (AJCL) is a quarterly,peer-reviewed law journal devoted to comparative and transnational legal studies—including,among other subjects,comparative law,comparative and transnational legal history and theory,private international law and conflict of laws,and the study of legal systems,cultures,and traditions other than those of the United States. In its long and rich history,the AJCL has published articles authored by scholars representing all continents,regions,and legal cultures of the world. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Comparative Law. As of 2014,it is co-hosted and administered by the Institute of Comparative Law and the Georgetown University Law Center. It has been hosted in the past by institutions such as University of California,Berkeley School of Law,Columbia Law School,and the University of Michigan Law School. The current Editors-in-Chief are Georgetown University Law Center’s Franz Werro,and McGill University's Helge Dedek.
Joseph M. Baumgarten was an Austrian-born Semitic scholar known for his knowledge in the field of Jewish legal texts from biblical law to Mishnaic law and including the legal texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Baumgarten immigrated to the United States with his family in 1939 as a result of the Anschluss,Germany's occupation of Austria in 1938. In 1950,he was ordained a rabbi at Mesivta Torah Vodaath,a prominent Brooklyn yeshiva. He married Naomi Rosenberg in 1953.
The purposive approach is an approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation under which common law courts interpret an enactment within the context of the law's purpose.
Bernard Malcolm Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota,where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. He is the author of Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation,"The Right Chorale":Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation, and Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel;and is the co-editor of The Pentateuch as Torah:New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance. He has published extensively on biblical and ancient Near Eastern law and on the reception of biblical literature in the Second Temple period. His research interests extend to early modern intellectual history,constitutional theory,the history of interpretation,and literary approaches to biblical studies.
Frances Raday is a professor emerita of Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law,Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Raday is currently a professor of law at the Haim Striks Law School at Colman College of Management Academic Studies,where she also acts as president of the Concord Center for Integration of International Law in Israel and as head of the school's graduate programs.
The Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies is an English-language Israeli law journal covering books and research in legal theory. It is published by Oxford University Press in cooperation with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The editors-in-chief are Alon Harel and Ori Herstein. The journal is dedicated entirely to critical discussions of books or large research projects.
Guy Gedalyah Stroumsa is an Israeli scholar of religion. He is Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Emeritus Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at the University of Oxford,where he is an Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Eyal Benvenisti is an attorney and legal academic,and Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at Tel Aviv University's faculty of law. Since 2003 he has been part of the Global Law Faculty at New York University School of Law. He is the founding co-editor of Theoretical Inquiries in Law (1997–2002),where he served as Editor in Chief (2003-2006). He has also served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law,and International Law in Domestic Courts.
David Kretzmer is an Israeli expert in international and constitutional law. He is professor emeritus of international law of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and professor of law at the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He has been a member of international and Israeli Human Rights organizations,including the UN Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,serving as its vice-chairperson in 2001 and 2002. He established the Centre for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a founding member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel,the Minerva Centre for Human Rights,a joint centre of the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University. He is also a founding member of B'Tselem. Kretzmer is a member of the Israeli Law Professors' Forum for Democracy,established in 2023 to respond to the Israeli coalition's plans for changes in the legal system.
Michael (Mousa) Karayanni is an Arab-Israeli professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Bruce W. Wayne Chair in International Law.
Arie Reich is an Israeli legal scholar specializing in international trade law and European Union Law. He is a full professor at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law,and serves as the Vice Rector of the university. He previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law and Dean of students.
Gillian L. L. Lester is a Canadian legal scholar who is the 15th Dean of Columbia Law School. She joined Columbia Law School on January 1,2015,as Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law. Previously,Lester was acting dean of the University of California,Berkeley,School of Law where she had been a professor since 2006. Before that,she was a full professor at the School of Law of the University of California,Los Angeles. Lester announced she will step down as Dean of Columbia Law School at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year.
Shai Dothan is a lawyer and legal academic. He is currently Associate Professor of International and Public Law at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law affiliated with iCourts—Centre of Excellence for International Courts (2014-present). He lives close to Copenhagen with his wife and two children.
