Participants
Shulamit Almog, Faculty of Law, Haifa University, Israel
Shulamit Almog is a full professor at the University of Haifa, faculty of Law. Her extensive research is broad, and situated in the fields of law and literature, law and film, law and digital culture, and the legal rights of women and children. She has published several books and more than forty articles in Israeli, American and European journals. Alongside her research, she is publicly active, appearing before the Israeli Knesset (house of parliament), as a member on the committee reforming Israel’s adoption law, and the committee regarding national award for eradicating trafficking in persons, and serves a member of the Israel’s Press Council Presidency.
Omer Aloni, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Omer is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Tel-Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law. In his dissertation, supervised by Dr. David Schorr, Omer joins the thrilling renaissance in the study of the League of Nations in recent years. As he studies the centrality and importance of the League of Nations in the first half of the 20th century, as well as its influence on the international arena even beyond 1945, Omer focuses on hidden chapters in the history of the League and the evolution of international environmental law. The project examines the unique ways in which the pioneer institution was creating and regulating the relations between nature, environment, man and community on timeline between the years 1919 and 1939. Before joining the Zvi Meitar Center’s PhD Program, Omer wrote his LL.M. Thesis also in the Center. Supervised by Prof. Ron Harris, Omer has suggested a revisionist historical and socio-political analysis of certain chapters of early Israeli law. Focusing The Israeli Supreme Court in the formative decades of the 1950s and the 1960s in the new born State of Israel, Omer was interested in certain representation of political, sociological and cultural perspectives, which were reflected in the legal texts of the Supreme Court. In his thesis, Omer has created a new historian legal perspective of Edward Said influential critical theory, as manifested in his 1978 Orientalism. Omer is the recipient of research grants and prizes from different funds and research centers, such as the 2015 Raoul Wallenberg Prize; funds of David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History; and the Yad Tabenkin Foundation. Omer obtained his LL.B. and B.A. in General History (cum laude), as well as his LL.M. with thesis (cum laude), from Tel-Aviv University.
Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Ret.), IDC, Israel
Prof. Aharon Barak, LL.D, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1963
Prof. Aharon Barak was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to that, he served as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Israel (1978–95), as the Attorney General of Israel (1975–78), and as the Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches as a Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Law and at the University of Toronto School of law. He also taught at the Law Schools at the University of Michigan and New York University. Prof. Barak served as chairman of various public commissions, including the Public Commission for the New Law on Government Corporations, for Credit Cards, for the Law of Corporations and for the Codification of Civil Law. He has published many books and articles about law and has received various awards such as the Israel Prize for Law and Zeltner Prize.
Deborah Bernstein, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Israel
Deborah Bernstein , Prof. (Amerita), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa. Combines a sociological and Historical perspective, focusing mainly on the mandate period and before that on early statehood. Researched and published on ethnic relations in Israel, gender and women in the Jewish Yishuv during the mandate, Jewish-Arab relations.. Has been working on law, history and society during recent years, during the British mandate in Palestine. Two of her books – Constructing Boundaries, Jewish and Arab labor in mandate Palestine, Case study of Haifa. 2000; Women on the Margins, Gender and Nationalism in Mandate Tel Aviv (Hebrew) 2008
Dov Cohen, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois, USA
Dov Cohen has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is the co-author or co-editor of the books: Handbook of Cultural Psychology, Culture of Honor, and Culture and Social Behavior. Among other topics, he has done research on culture; religion; language use; concepts of face, dignity, and honor; violence; and legal policy and practice.
Raphael Cohen-Almagor, School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies, The University of Hull, UK
Raphael Cohen-Almagor received his DPhil in political theory from Oxford University (1991). He is an educator, researcher, human rights and peace activist as well as Professor and Chair in Politics, University of Hull. He has founded and served in various organizations, including “The Second Generation to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance” Organization in Israel (1985-1987); The Van Leer Think-tank on Medical Ethics (1995-1998); The Center for Democratic Studies, University of Haifa (2003-2007); The Hull Middle East Study Group (2008 – ), http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/me-study-group.aspx. Raphael was a member of The Israel Press Council, and Deputy Dean for Research, University of Hull. He published extensively in the fields of political science, philosophy, law and ethics. Among his more recent books are The Right to Die with Dignity (2001), Speech, Media and Ethics (2001, 2005), Euthanasia in the Netherlands (2004), The Scope of Tolerance (2006, 2007), The Democratic Catch (2007, Hebrew), Voyages (2007, poetry, Hebrew), Public Responsibility in Israel, co-edited with Ori Arbel-Ganz and Asa Kasher (2012, Hebrew) and Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side (2015). Professor Cohen-Almagor is now writing a book on the failed peace process between Israel and the PLO. Twitter: @almagor35; Web: http://www.hull.ac.uk/rca. Blog: http://almagor.blogspot.com
Stephen Darwall, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, USA
Stephen Darwall is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He has written broadly on the foundations and history of ethics and on moral psychology. His work has focused more specifically on the nature of moral obligation, respect, and accountability. His books include The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability, Impartial Reason, The British Moralists and the Internal ‘Ought’, Philosophical Ethics, and Welfare and Rational Care. Oxford University Press has also published two collections of recent papers: Morality, Authority, and Law: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I and Honor, History, and Relationship: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics II. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, with David Velleman, a founding co-editor of Philosophers’ Imprint.
Joseph David, Israel
Antony Duff is Professor Emeritus at the University of Stirling, and a former professor in the University of Minnesota Law School, where he helped to create the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. He works in the philosophy of criminal law, and has published on criminal punishment (Trials and Punishments, 1986; Punishment, Communication, and Community, 2001), on the structures of criminal liability (Intention, Agency, and Criminal Liability, 1990; Criminal Attempts, 1996; Answering for Crime, 2007), and on the criminal process (The Trial on Trial, co-authored, 2007). He recently led major research projects on The Trial on Trial, and Criminalization, and is currently working on a book, The Realm of the Criminal Law, arising from the Criminalization project.
After completing his doctorate at Oxford, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr Feldman took up an Assistant Professorship in English Literature, specialising in Modern Drama, at MacEwan University, Alberta, Canada. In June 2015, he accepted an Alon Fellowship as a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Haifa, and moved to Israel shortly thereafter. Dr Feldman’s research is concerned with the representation of history, and most recently, legal history, on stage. He published his first book, Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage: In History’s Wings, with Routledge, in 2012 and is currently working on a new project, provisionally entitled The Rigging of the Law, concerned with dramatic representations of historical trials, on British, American and European stages. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Modern Drama, New Theatre Quarterly, Law & Literature and Text & Presentation.
Khalid Ghanayim, Faculty of Law, Haifa University, Israel
Tamar Gidron, Israel
Prof. Gidron is an expert on Torts Law with special interests in: Tortuous Interference in Commercial Competition, Wrongful Commercial Acts, Consumer Protection Laws, Economic Damages due to Tort of Negligence, Professional Liabilities, Defamation and Slander and the Protection of Privacy. Prof. Gidron received her LL.B. (cum laude) from the Hebrew University, her LL.M. (cum laude) and her D.Jur from Tel-Aviv University. She is a certified Mediator and heads the Conflict Resolution and Mediation field of specialization which she launched as school Dean.
Ann Goldberg, Professor of History, Department of History, UC Riverside, USA
Ann Goldberg is Professor of German History at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Honor, Politics, and the Law in Imperial Germany (Cambridge, 2010) and Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness (Oxford, 1999). She is currently at work on a research project about the history of hate speech law in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Miri Gur-Arye, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Israel
Miri Gur-Arye is the Judge Basil Wunsh Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has served as Vice-Rector of the University.
She has been involved in a joint research project with a group of Israeli and German scholars, funded by the German-Israel Foundation, examining the constitutional concept of “human dignity” and its impact on the criminal law.
Her additional research interests in recent years have touched on theoretical foundations of criminal liability; criminal law defenses – theory, comparative perspectives and the International criminal law; constitutional restraints on substantive criminal law; the overuse of the criminal law in times of crisis; and the impact of moral panic on the criminal justice system.
Richard F. Hamm, Chair, History Department, Professor of History and Public Policy, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
Richard F. Hamm is Professor of History and Public Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His research interests are focused on the interaction of law and society in the American past, especially the 19th and 20th centuries. He is particularly interested in how ideas, individuals, and structures have combined to shape law and how law has determined the courses the government officials, reformers, and ordinary people. His study of the southern American states in the post-Civil War era has led him to explore how ideas about honor interacted with a changing legal and political system.
Badi Hasisi, Chair of the Institute of Criminology, The Hebrew University, Israel
Badi Hasisi serves as a Chair of the Institute of Criminology, The Hebrew University. His main research focuses on minorities and law enforcement. His research has been published in leading journals. Dr. Hasisi is also the executive editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Tatjana Hörnle, Professor of Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, and Penal Philosophy , Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Main Areas of Research: Punishment Theories; Criminalization; Constitutional Boundaries for the Criminal Law; Comparative Criminal Law; Sentencing; Sexual Offences; Pornography; Human Dignity.
Recent Books: Grob anstößiges Verhalten. Strafnormen zum Schutz von Moral, Gefühlen und Tabus, 2005 (Offensive Behavior. On Penal Norms Which Protect Morality, Emotions and Taboos), Klostermann Verlag, 2005; Straftheorien (Punishment Theories), Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2011.
Orit Kamir, Israel
Orit Kamir publishes, teaches and is socially active in three interdisciplinary areas: 1. Dignity, respect and honor as moral/ethical values, bedrocks of social structures, and foundations of legislation and policy making; 2. Law-and-Film: analysis of mutual influences of two powerful contemporary discourses, that have substantial impact on the creation and determination of individuals’ and societies’ forging of their self-perceptions and visions of their identities and futures; 3. Gender politics in societies, cultures and laws. She has authored six monographs and dozens of articles, mostly in these areas, in English and in Hebrew, and has taught in universities in Israel and the United States. She has participated in drafting legislation in Israel, and as founder and academic head of the center for human dignity in Israel she has worked with diverse audiences on implementing dignity and respect in daily life as well as institutional policy making. She earned her BA in law, philosophy and literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and her Masters and Doctorate in Law and Culture at the University of Michigan (under the supervision of the founder of Law and Literature, Prof. J. B. White). She is an active participant in Israel’s public discourse and a social activist in gender equality and human rights.
M. Lindsay Kaplan , Department of English, Georgetown University, USA M. Lindsay Kaplan is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University where she teaches courses on early modern drama, law, religious identity, race and gender. Her publications include a contextual edition of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (2002), a monograph, The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England (1997, reprinted 2006), essays on The Merchant of Venice, “Constructing the Inferior Body: Medieval Theology in The Merchant of Venice,” (forthcoming, 2015) “Who Drew the Jew that Shakespeare Knew?: Misericords and Medieval Jews in The Merchant of Venice,” (2013) and two essays on sexual slander, “Sexual Slander and the Politics of the Erotic in Garter’s Susannah,” (1996) and “‘Good queen, my lord, good queen’: Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in The Winter’s Tale,” co-authored with Katherine Eggert (1996).
Eyal Katvan, College of Law & Business, Israel
Dr. Katvan received his first Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, where he produced his thesis titled: “Compulsory Examinations and Their Connection to the Oppression of Women”. He received his second Ph.D. at the Interdisciplinary Program for Science, Technology & Society at Bar-Ilan University (his thesis titled: “The Medical, Physical and Mental Examinations of Jewish Immigrants to Eretz-Israel 1919-1939”). He was a post-doctoral student at the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University. Eyal’s academic interests lie in the fields of bioethics, law & medicine; The Legal and Medical Professions; legal history and the history of medicine; He specializes in the topics of “Honor (legal and historical perspectives)”, “Medical, Physical and Mental Examinations,” as well as “Women’s Legal History” (especially “Women’s Entrance into and Integration within the Legal and Medical Professions in Eretz-Israel and in Israel“) and The History of Law & Medicine. Eyal has published scholarly articles addressing these issues in academic journals; participated in numerous conferences in Israel and abroad; and received several academic awards, honors and grants, including the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant. He is a member of the Israeli Bar since May 1998; He is a Board Member at International Advisory Board, International Journal of the Legal Profession, and a Member at Academic Advisory Committee (AAC), Hadassah–Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University. Dr. Katvan organized several conferences, including the Israel Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, and the “Too Many Lawyers?” Workshop in the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Onati, Spain). Eyal also served as a Country Representative at The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, (FAB) as well as a visiting scholar at: the Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.; The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University; the Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; the International Institue for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain; and the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, Germany. He served as the head of the Public Committee on age as a criteria for organ transplantation in Israel. He also served as a member of the Ethics Committee and of the Helsinki Committee, and Member of the Institutional Review Board (Live Organ Transplantation/Donation), at Rabin Medical Center.
Rinat Kitai-Sangero, College of Law & Business, Israel
Prof. Rinat Kitai-Sangero is an Associate Professor at the College of Law and Business School of Law. Prof. Kitai-Sangero’s areas of interest and research are criminal procedure and law and literature. She has published a book on detention and more than thirty articles in Israeli and American journals. She is also the head of the teaching authority at the College of Law and Business.
Roy Marom, Tel-Aviv Univesrity, Israel
Roy Marom is an M.A. student in the Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. Roy’s thesis examines various aspects of the Palestinian communities living in the coastal plain during the late-Ottoman and British Mandate periods, with a focus on social interaction between Jews and Arabs.
Sandra Marshall, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, UK
Sandra Marshall is a Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, and a former Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School. Her main research interests are in issues that connect legal, political, and social philosophy. Recent publications include articles on privacy, on the family, friendship and community, on criminal responsibility, and on punishment and citizenship. She is currently working on theories of criminalization, on the idea of public wrongs and the criminal law, and on victims’ duties and civic virtue. She was one of four collaborators on The Trial on Trial andCriminalization research
Menachem Mautner, Danielle Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence at the Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, Israel
Menachem Mautner is the Danielle Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence at the Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law. He was Dean of the Faculty.
Mautner received his LL.B., magna cum laude, and LL.M., summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law. He obtained another LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School.
For two years, Mautner was visiting professor at Michigan Law School. He was twice visiting professor at NYU Law School – in 1996 he was among the first 20 legal scholars from all over the world appointed by NYU Law School to its Global Law School Program; visiting professor at Cardiff Law School; visiting professor at Venice International University; visiting professor at Columbia Law School; visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Mautner was awarded the “Zeltner Prize for Excellence in the Law” and the Tel Aviv University Rector’s Prize for Distinction in Teaching (twice). Upon his return to Tel Aviv University from Yale he received the “Alon Scholarship” – a highly prestigious scholarship awarded each year to 10 young scholars from all universities in Israel that are expected to become exceptionally outstanding scholars.
Mautner is the author of five books: “The Decline of Formalism and the Rise of Values in Israeli Law” (1993); “On Legal Education” (2002); “Law and Culture” (2008); “Law and Culture in Israel at the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century” (2008; the book has been awarded the “Jonathan Shapiro Prize for Best Book of the Year, 2008” by the Association of Israel Studies); “Law and the Culture of Israel” (2008, Oxford University Press; Italian version appeared in 2014). Mautner edited six books, including “Multiculturalism in a Democratic and Jewish State” (1998, with Avi Sagi and Ronen Shamir). Mautner published over 80 articles and chapters in books in Israel, the United States and Britain (including at the law reviews of Yale, Michigan and Cornell universities). He is the Editor-in Chief of the book series “Law, Society and Culture” published by the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.
Allastair Mullis, Head of School of Law, University of Leeds, UK
Alastair Mullis is the head of the School of Law at the University of Leeds. He is a graduate of King’s College London (LLB, 1984) and Downing College Cambridge (LLM, 1985). Prior to joining Leeds, he positions at King’s College London (1989-1999) and the University of East Anglia (1999-2013) where he was Dean and Head of the Law School for eight years. His research interests lie in the fields of tort law, especially defamation and related wrongs, media law and aspects of international commercial law. He is the joint general editor (with HHJ Richard Parkes QC) of Gatley Libel and Slander and was previously general editor (with Cameron Doley) of Carter-Ruck on Libel and Privacy and the author of the chapters on the English law of defamation.
Meytal Nasie, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Meytal Nasie is a doctoral candidate at the School of Education at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Recently, she has submitted her PhD dissertation. Her doctoral work explored the role of respect and disrespect in conflicts, particularly focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a case study. Meytal received the Azrieli Fellowship award during her doctoral studies. She is currently a lecturer and a pedagogical supervisor at Levinsky College of Education in Tel Aviv. Meytal holds Master’s degrees in Educational Counseling from Tel Aviv University and in Arabic Language and Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests are political socialization and development of intergroup attitudes in the context of intractable conflicts. She was also involved in research project examining barriers to conflict resolution and ways of overcoming these barriers. Her work on these topics has been published in journals such as PSPR, PSPB, and Peace and Conflict. She is also interested in constructive and obstructive socio-psychological processes in human relations, both in the general and specific context of conflicts.
Meron Piotrkowski, Hebrew Univeristy, Israel
Meron Piotrkowski, born in Berlin 1977, completed his Ph.D. in 2015 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the field of ancient Jewish history. He is currently a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working on the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum IV.
Amihai Radzyner, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Amihai Radzyner is a Professor of Jewish Law and Legal History in the Faculty of Law of Bar-Ilan University. His researches deal with Talmudic Law, history of Jewish law and its research, the history of Israeli law and current Halakhic family law in Israel. He is also the Chief Editor of the “HaDin veHaDayan (The Law and its Decisor): Rabbinical Court Decisions in Family Matters”, a position he has held since 2003. He has received numerous academic awards and grants over the years, including the 2008 Cegla Prize for the Best Article of a Young Legal Scholar in Hebrew, and the 2010 Tager Prize for the Best Article in Jewish Law. He is the author of ‘Dine Qenasot’: A Research in Talmudic Law (2014), co-author of The Religious Community and the Constitution: What Can History Teach Us?, and co-editor of Studies in Halakha and Jewish Law: Judge and Judging (2006). Additionally, he has written several articles and book chapters which have been published both in Israel and the United States, many of them deal with the Jewish family law. In 2015, Amihai will be a Harry Starr fellow at Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.
Yair Seltenreich, Tel Hai College and in Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel
Yair Seltenreich holds a PhD degree in social history. He is a senior lecturer in Tel Hai College and in Ben Gurion University in the Negev. Previously head of department of education in Tel Hai College he is presently head of multi-disciplinary department. Yair Seltenreich specializes in cultural history and in history of emotions. His researches concern practical and symbolical interactions between social groups in Eretz-Israel, such as Arabs and Jews, Teachers and farmers etc. His book ‘People from here: educators and education in Galilee moshavot during the Yishuv period (1882-1939) was published by Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi and Bar Ilan University Press in 2014. Another book, ‘Secularism, Cultures, and Emotions: Educational struggles in Hebrew Palestine (1882-1926)’ was published in 2015 by Peter Lang. Actually he leads a research about aspects of solitude in mobilized society in Eretz-Israel during the Yishuv period.
Yoram Shachar, IDC, Israel
Prof. Yoram Shachar is a Full Professor at Radzyner School of Law. He served as the school’s first Dean. Before joining the IDC faculty in 1995, Prof. Yoram Shachar was an Associate Professor in Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was J.R. Fellow at St. John`s College, Oxford, and held visiting positions at the University of Michigan, Boston University and the University of Southern California. Prof. Shachar was also a Resarch Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Public and International Law in Germany and a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Prof. Shachar`s areas of research are legal systems, legal history and criminal law. His present research focuses on decision making of the Israeli Supreme Court, using a quantitative analysis and database techniques.
Boaz Shnoor, College of law & Business, Israel
Dr. Boaz Shnoor received both his LL.B. (1995) magna cum laude and his LL.D. (2005) from the Hebrew University. He joined the Academic Center of Law and Business law school faculty in 2004, and is a senior lecturer since 2013. Dr. Shnoor served as a visiting scholar in Cornell University law school during 2010-2011.
Dr. Shnoor’s research deals with honor and libel; tort law; environmental law; and behavioral analysis of law. He uses both theoretical analysis, as well as empirical and historical methods. Dr. Shnoor has published two books in Hebrew and more than a dozen articles in Israel and abroad.
Daniel Statman, Philosophy Department, University of Haifa, Israel
Prof. Daniel Statman is a faculty member in the philosophy department at the University of Haifa and a research fellow at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. His areas of specialization are ethics, moral psychology, the philosophy of law, and Jewish philosophy. He is author and editor of many books and articles, including Moral Dilemmas, Religion and Morality, Moral Luck, and Virtue Ethics. In recent years, he has been working on the ethics of war and is currently co-authoring a book in this area. In addition to his activities in the academic field, Prof. His most recent publication State and Religion in Israel (co-author) was published in late 2014 by Haifa University Press.
Frank Stewart. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University, Israel
Frank Stewart has a first degree from Cambridge University (history and Arabic) and a doctorate from Oxford University (social anthropology). During the years 1976–1982 he lived for much of the time with a Bedouin tribe in the Sinai Peninsula, where he studied their customary law. From 1994 to 2009 (when he retired) he taught in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University. His publications include Fundamentals of Age-Groups Systems (1977), Texts in Sinai Bedouin Law (1988–90), and Honor (1994). He has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1983–1984), a Guggenheim Fellow (2000–2001), and a visiting professor at Princeton University (2005–2006). In 2007 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Steven Wilf, Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce, Law School, University of Connecticut, USA
Steven Wilf is Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property and Information Governance at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He received both his Ph.D. in history from Yale University and his law degree from Yale Law School in 1995. Prior to joining the faculty, he clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Author of a number of books, he was a fellow at Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs and Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. This spring he visited at Yale Law School. Professor Wilf is currently completing a history of intellectual property law for Cambridge University Press.
Israel Yuval, History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Israel
1998-08: Head of Germania Judaica IV (together with Prof. Michael Toch, Jerusalem and Prof. Stefan Rohrbacher, Duisburg)
2002-11: Academic head of Scholion – An Interdisciplinary Institute for the Research of Judaism, at the Hebrew University
2011-12: Editor of Tarbiz – A Quarterly for Jewish Studies
2011-: Academic Head of the Jack, Josef and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities