Professor Michal Alberstein

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Michal Alberstein received her LL.B and her B.A in Philosophy (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel-Aviv University, and her J.S.D from Harvard Law School. Her research areas are: Theories of law and mediation; Law and film; Jurisprudence; Legal, Medical and Cultural Perspective of Trauma; Restorative justice. She is the head of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program of Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar-Ilan University. She has won several prestigious grants including Alon scholarship for the "excellent scientist," given by the higher council for academic studies in Israel for young scholars, fully sponsoring their university positions for three years (2001-2004); Byes Fellowship, Harvard Law School, for excellent doctoral students (1999-2000). Among her recent publications are: Pragmatism and Law: From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution (Ashgate, 2002); (with Nadav Davidovitch) Apologies in the Health Care System: From Clinical Medicine to Public Health Law and Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2011); ADR and Transitional Justice as Reconstructing The Rule of Law, Journal of Dispute Resolution (forthcoming 2011).

Professor Ori Aronson

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Ori Aronson received his LL.B. (Summa Cum Laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. He also graduated from the Amirim Honors Program in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on procedure, courts, institutional analysis, constitutional law, constitutional and political theory, judicial review, and multiculturalism. He has won several prestigious grants including the E. David Fischman Scholarship for doctoral studies; the Justice, Welfare & Economics Dissertation Fellowship, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; and the Alon Scholarship for outstanding junior professors (Israel Council for Higher Education). Among his most recent publications are: Out of Many: Military Commissions, Religious Tribunals, and the Democratic Virtues of Court Specialization, 51 VirginiaJournal of International Law 231 (2011); Getting It Right: Institutional Design and Epistemic Competence in Law and the Limits of Reason, 2 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 32 (2010); Inferiorizing Judicial Review: Popular Constitutionalism in Trial Courts, 43 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 971 (2010).

Professor Adi Ayal

Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University

Adi Ayal received his LL.B. (1997) from Tel-Aviv University (The Interdisciplinary Program for the Fostering of Excellence and Faculty of Law), and his LL.M. (2001) (Summa Cum Laude) from Bar Ilan University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics (2006) from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Law (2002) with Highest Distinction from Bar Ilan University. His fields of interest are primarily Antitrust Law, Corporate law, Economic Analysis of Law and Industrial Organization (economics). Dr. Ayal was a Visiting Research Scholar in the London School of Economics and Political Science, and in the University of Chicago Law School. He has won several of prestigious awards including a University-Wide Award for Excellence in Teaching, Bar Ilan University (2010); A Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California – Berkeley (2005); and a John M. Olin Foundation Fellowship in Law and Economics (2004). Among his most recent publications are: The Economic Basis for the Restrictive Trade Practices Law, The Law and Economics of Israeli Antitrust Law (Michal Gal & Menahem Perlman eds., 2008); "Economic Concentration and the Legal Mechanisms Supporting It", 170 Banking Quarterly 20 (2011); "On Consumers' Freedom of Choice: Lessons from the Cellular Market", 74 Law and Contemporary Problems 91 (Duke University Press, 2011).

Professor Yitzhak Benbaji

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Yitzhak Benbaji received his B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from the Hebrew University (cum laude) and his M.A. (Cum Laude) and Ph.D. (Summa cum laude) in philosophy from the Hebrew University as well. His research areas are: Ethics, Practical Rationality, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and Logic. He is a research fellow (to Prof. Michael Walzer) in The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has won several prestigious grants including Rothschild fellowship for post-doctoral research and Bernard Bloomfield Memorial Endowment prize for an outstanding dissertation. His recent publications include: "Equality as a Paradoxical Ideal", in Paradoxes and Self-Reference in Law 205-224 (Oren Perez and Gunter Teubner ed., Hart Publishing, 2006); "Dehumanization, Lesser Evil and the Supreme Emergency Exemption" Diametros 23: 5-21, 2010; "Introduction, Walzer on the Moral Standing of States" 23 Ethics and International Affairs 319-324 (forthcoming, 2009); "The War Convention and the Moral Division of Labor" 59 Philosophical Quarterly 593-618 (2009).

Professor Ariel Bendor

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Ariel Bendor received his LL.B (1988, cum laude) and his LL.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest are primarily constitutional law and administrative law. Prof. Bendor was a Visiting Scholar in Yale Law School and was the Dean of the Faculty of Law in Haifa University. He has won several of prestigious awards including German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF) - grant for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, with 4 other Israeli (of the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa Faculties of Law) and 5 German researchers. The topic of the research: "Human Dignity: Its Constitutional Status and Impact on Criminal Law and Procedure in Israel and Germany"; Award for outstanding law professor, University of Haifa; and Eshkol Institute Scholarship, granted for the purpose of preparing a doctoral dissertation. Among his most recent publications are: "Justiciability of the Israeli Fight against Terrorism" 39 George Washington International Law Review 149- 163 (2007). "Is It a Duck? On the Israeli Written Constitution" 6 Yale Israel Journal 53-59 (Spring 2005). "The Israeli Constitution and the Fight against Terror" 11 Constitutional Forum 37-41 (2003).

Professor Tsilly Dagan

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Tsilly Dagan received her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University, her LL.M from New-York University Law School, and her J.S.D from Tel-Aviv University. Her research areas are: Tax Policy, International Tax policy, International Tax, Globalization and Tax Competition. She has won several prestigious grants including - The Israeli Science Foundation (2011) "A Market for Public Entitlements?" and the Israeli Social Security Research Fund (2010) "Taxation and Welfare of People with Disabilities". Her recent publications include: "Rights for Sale", Minnesota Law Review (With Talia Fisher, Forthcoming (2012); "Commodification Without Money", 11(1) Theoretical Inquiries in Law Forum 2 (2010); Itemizing Personhood, 29 Virginia Tax Review 93 (2009).

Professor J.-F. Gaudreault

Université de Montréal

Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens is the Associate Dean, Research, and Canada Research Chair in North American and Comparative Juridical and Cultural Identities at the Université de Montréal. He received his LL.D. from Ottawa University, and his LL.M. and LL. B. from Université Laval. He has also taught at the faculties of law of the University of Toronto and of McGill University, in addition to having been visiting professor at different universities outside of Canada (Aix- Marseille, Science Po, Case Western). His teaching and research interests are constitutional law (domestic and comparative), civil liberties, legal theory and epistemology, and the sociology of legal cultures. His work currently focuses on the legal treatment of religious claims in multicultural liberal societies, on the relations between the civil law and common law traditions in a globalized economy, and on the legal theory of federalism.

Professor Alon Harel

Faculty of Law, Hebrew University

Alon Harel received his LL.B. (with distinction) from the Hebrew University and his LL.M from Yale University. His Ph.D. is from Oxford University. Prof. Harel's fields of interest are: moral and political philosophy; philosophy of law; criminal law; law and economics; and behavioral law and economics. He has won the Zeltner Prize for outstanding achievements in Legal Research (2008) and the Bird Prize for outstanding achievements in graduate studies (1985). He was a Member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli Association of Civil Rights (1997-1998, 2003-2004). Among his most recent publications are: "Freedom of Speech" (Companion to Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor ed, Routledge forthcoming, 2012); Necessity Knows No Law (forthcoming Toronto University L.J, 2011) (with Assaf Sharon); "The Triadic Relational Structure of Responsibility: A Defence" in Crime, Justice, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Anthony Duff pp. 103-121 (eds. Rowan Cruft, Matthew H. Kramer, Mark R. Reiff, 2011); "Commensurability and Agency: Yet Two Unmet Challenges to Law and Economics" 96 Cornell L. Rev., 749-788 (2011) (with Ariel Porat).

Professor Nir Kedar

Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University

Nir Kedar received his LL.B (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel-Aviv University, and his J.S.D from Harvard Law School. In addition, he has a B.A in History (With Distinction, Summa Cum Laude, Ranked Number 1 in The History Department) from Tel-Aviv University. His research areas are: Legal History, Comparative Law, Legal Theory, and Israeli History. He has won several prestigious grants including ISF (2007) for his research on Ben-Gurion and the Rule of Law 1948-1963; and a Research Grant in Canadian Studies (2001). He was a member of the National Committee for the Examination of the Policy of Preservation of Legal and Administrative Documents in the Knesset, the Courts and the Ministry of Justice. Among his recent publications are: Ben-Gurion and the Constitution: On Constitutionalism, Democracy and Law in David Ben-Gurion’s Policy (Hebrew) (forthcoming in 2012); Israeli Republicanism (HEBREW) (together with Avi Bareli, Jerusalem 2011); Amlakhtiyut: David Ben-Gurion Civic Ideas (Ben-Gurion University Press & Yad Ben-Zvi, 2009). The book won the Shapiro Prize for best book on Israel for 2009 from the International Association for Israel Studies (AIS); Gideon Katz & Nir Kedar, "Israeli Intellectuals on Judaism" to be published in 14 Democratic Culture (2012) (in Hebrew and English); “Law, Culture and Civil Codification in a Mixed Legal System” 17 Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2007) 177.

Professor Shahar Lifshitz

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Shahar Lifshitz received his LL.B and LL.M (Summa Cum Laude) from Bar-Ilan University, and his Ph.D. (with Highest Distinction) from Bar-Ilan University as well. In addition, he has a B.A in Psychology (summa cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University. His research areas are Theory of Contract Law, Theory of Family Law; History of western Family Law. He is a Senior Fellow of the Israeli Institute for Democracy, and he is the Vice Chairman of the Israeli Association of Private Law. He has won several prestigious grants including: Bar-Ilan University Outstanding Award for Teaching; Hauser Global Law School Fellowship, New York University Law School; Winner of Alon Scholarship for "Excellent Scientist," (given by the Council for Higher Education in Israel for young scholars, fully sponsoring their university positions for three years) (2004). Among his recent publications are: Civil Regulation of the Spousal Relationship (Hebrew University Press, forthcoming); "Liberal Political Multiculturalism as a Remedy for Religion and State Relations" (Forthcoming in 40 (3) Mishpatim, 2011); "Family and Property Relations: Challenges and Tasks subsequent to the 4th Amendment of Property Relations Law" LAWS 1, 227 (2009); "I want to get a Divorce now! On Civil Regulation of Divorce Law" 28 Tel-Aviv U.L. Rev. 671 (2005).

Professor Orly Lobel

University of San Diego School of Law

Orly Lobel received her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University, and her LL.M and S.J.D from Harvard Law School. She writes and teaches in the areas of employment law, intellectual property law, administrative law, torts, health policy, consumer law and trade secrets. Prior to joining USD, she taught at Yale Law School and served as a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. After graduating from Tel Aviv University Law School, she clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court. Her current research focuses on innovation policy and intellectual property. She is currently writing a book titled Innovation’s Edge (under contract Yale University Press). She has recently been awarded several prestigious research grants, including a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the ABA litigation Fund, the Searle-Kauffman Fellowship, the Southern California Innovation Project, and Netspar, University of Tilburg. She is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Labor and Employment Law and Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009) and the author of Labor and Employment Law (Ethics Press, Hebrew). Her recent articles include "The Incentives Matrix: The Comparative Effectiveness of Rewards, Liabilities, Duties and Protections for Reporting Illegality," Texas Law Review (2010) (selected for the Yale-Stanford JF Forum); "Citizenship, Organizational Citizenship, and the Laws of Overlapping Obligations," California Law Review (2009).

Professor Jacob Nussim

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Jacob Nussim received his LL.B (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel-Aviv University, and his LL.M and J.S.D from The University of Chicago. In addition, he received his B.A in Economics (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel-Aviv University. His research areas are: Taxation, Fiscal Policy, Welfare Policy, Law and Economics, and Regulation. He has won several prestigious grants including Rector's Scholarship, University of Haifa (2001-2002); John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics, University of Chicago (2002); University-Wide Award for Excellence in Teaching, Bar Ilan University (2011). Among his recent publications are: "The Integration of Tax and Spending Programs", 113 Yale Law Journal 995 (2004) (with David Weisbach); "A Policymaker’s Guide to Welfarism", 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 227 (2006); "Controlling Avoidance: Ex Ante Regulation versus Ex Post Punishment" Review of Law & Economics: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1, Article 4 (2008) (with Avraham Tabbach).

Professor Oren Perez

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Oren Perez received his LL.B. (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University and his LL.M. and Ph.D. from London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on Environmental Law and policy, International Trade and Globalization, Torts, Legal Theory and e-democracy. He has won several prestigious grants including a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union to pursue his Ph.D. at LSE and various research grants, including grants from the Ministry of Environment, Israel Science Foundation and Environmental Health Fund. He is currently a member of the Management Committee, COST Action IS0802, Transformation of Global Environmental Governance. Among his most recent publications are: 'Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism: Rethinking the Trade and Environment Conflict', Hart Publishing (June 2004); The Dynamic of Corporate Self-Regulation: ISO 14001, Environmental Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior, 43 Law & Society Review (2009) 593-630 (with Yair Hamburger and Tammy Shterental); Precautionary Governance and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge: a Democratic Framework for Regulating Nano-Technology, 28 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 29 (2010); "Private Environmental Governance as Ensemble Regulation: A Critical Exploration of Sustainability Indexes and the New Ensemble Politics," Theoretical Inquiries in Law: Vol. 12 : No. 2, Article 7. Prof. Perez is the chair of the Graduate Students Committee of the Faculty of Law and is the Director of the ATLAS AGORA at Bar Ilan.

Professor Poonam Puri

Osgoode Hall Law School

Poonam Puri is one of Canada’s most respected scholars and commentators on issues of corporate law, securities law, corporate governance, and corporate and white-collar crime. Appointed to York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997 at the age of 25, and a recipient of its Teaching Excellence Award in 1999, Puri is a prolific scholar who has co-authored or edited three books and written numerous articles or reports. She has an LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto, where she was the Silver Medalist in her 1995 graduating law class, and she holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School. Her work is academically rigorous as well as firmly grounded in the real-time of policy-making. It is for this reason that governments and regulators in Canada and internationally, including Industry Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the Canadian Senate, the Wise Persons Committee on Securities Regulation and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, have sought her expertise. In 2008, she was appointed as one of two research directors of the Canadian Ministry of Finance’s Expert Panel on Securities Regulation, which is seeking input on the best way to develop and implement a model Common Securities Act for Canada. In 2005, she was co-research director of the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation and also served as a member of the OSC’s Investor Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2007. She was the President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association from 2006-2008. A 2005 recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under 40™ award, she was appointed in 2008 to the board of directors of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. She is on the board of directors of the Ontario Association of Food Banks, and an inaugural member of the University of Toronto President’s International Advisory Council. Areas of interest: Corporate/Commercial Law.

Dean Arie Reich

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Arie Reich received his LLB (Cum Laude) from Bar Ilan University, and his S.J.D from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (1993). His main fields of research are Law of Torts; International Trade Law; European Community Law; Competition Law. He has won several prestigious grants including a Jean Monnet Chair, Grant awarded by the European Union, Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Award and Jean Monnet Module Award by the European Community. Among his most recent publications are: International Public Procurement Law: The Evolution of International Regimes on Public Purchasing (London: Kluwer Law International, 1999); "EU-Israel Trade in the Automobile Sector: Is Israel's High Taxation of Cars Legal under the Association Agreement?", in Integrating with the European Union: Accession, Association and Neighbourhood Policy (L. Cabada & M. Mravinac, eds.) Pp. 238-255 (2008); "European Union-Israel Trade in the Automobile Sector", 32 The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business 593-614 (2010); "Bilateralism v. Multilateralism in International Economic Law: Applying the Principle of Subsidiarity", 60 University of Toronto Law Journal 263-287 (2010).

Professor Gideon Sapir

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Gideon Sapir received his LL.B from Bar-Ilan University, and his LL.M and J.S.D from Northwestern University. His research areas are: Constitutional law, with a concentration in religion-state issues and constitutional theory. He is the head of the Disability Rights Clinic in Bar-Ilan's Law Faculty. Among his recent publications are: Constitutional Revolution in Israel (Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa Press & Yedioth Aharonoth Books, 2010); Religion and State – Legal & Philosophical Inquiry (University of Haifa Press, forthcoming) (With Daniel Statman); "Justifications of the Duty to Make Employment Adjustments for People with Disabilities", 13 Haifa University Law Review 411 (2011); "Using Religious Arguments to support legislation - Is it Legitimate?" 25 Bar-Ilan Law Studies 599 (2009) (With Daniel Statman).

Professor Yuval Shany

Faculty of Law, Hebrew University

Yuval Shany received degrees in law from the Hebrew University (LL.B., cum laude), New York University (LL.M.) and the University of London (Ph.D., 2001). He has published a number of books and articles on international courts and arbitration tribunals and other international law issues such as international human rights and international humanitarian law. He is the recipient of the 2004 American Society of International Law book award (creative legal scholarship) and a 2008 recipient of a European Research Council grant awarded to pioneering research leaders. He is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves currently as a board member in the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University, a director in the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT), and a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

Professor Yedidia Z. Stern

Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Yedidia Z. Stern received his LL.B from Bar-Ilan University, and his S.J.D from Harvard Law School. His research areas are Corporate Law, Corporate Acquisition, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Religion and State, and Jewish Law. He is the Vice-President of The Israel Democracy Institute. He is also a Director in The Corporation for Collection and Dispersion of Assets of the Victims of the Holocaust (Appointed by the Israeli Government). Prof. Stern has won several prestigious grants including: The House of Worship Award, Baltimore, USA (2006); and since 1988 he is the winner of "best teacher award" regularly. His recent publications include: "Reinventing the Corporate Goal", in Comparative Law Textbook (Kluwer Law International, 2007); "Living with Normative Duality: The Values at the End of the Tunnel" 12 The Jewish Political Stud. Rev. 95 (2000); "The Influence of the Israeli Democracy on the Halakha" 5 Daimon (Annuario di diritto comparator delle religioni, Bologna, 2005).