Organizing Committee

Dr. Boaz Shnoor, LL.D., LL.B, College of law & Business

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.

Dr. Eyal Katvan, PhD, PhD, LLM, College of Law & Business

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.