Visiting Faculty Fellow, 2006-07

Faculty of Law, Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Chair in Criminal and Administrative Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Professor Harel teaches jurisprudence, political philosophy, law & economics and criminal law.

Harel is author of articles on issues ranging across the nature of rights, judicial review, democratic theory, multiculturalism, law & economics, and criminal law. Recent publications include: “The Right to Judicial Review”, (with Yuval Eylon), Virginia Law Review (2006); “Matching Probabilities: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Repeated Behavior”, (with Ehud Guttel), University of Chicago Law Review (2005); “Theories of Rights”, (Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, eds. Martin P. Golding & William Edmundson, 2005); “Benign Segregation? A Case Study of the Practice of Gender Separation in Buses in the Ultra Orthodox Community In Israel”, South African Journal of Human Rights (2004); “The Virtues of Uncertainty in Law”, (with Tom Baker & Tamar Kugler), Iowa Law Review (2004); “Whose Home is it? Reflections on the Palestinians’ Interests”, Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2004); “Rights-Based Judicial Review: A Democratic Justification”, Law and Philosophy (2003).

Harel received his D.Phil from Oxford University, Balliol College and his Ll.M and Ll.B from the Hebrew University. He was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School (1998-9), Faculty Fellow at Center of Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University (2002-3), Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University (2003-4, Spring term). Harel is also a member of the Center for Rationality & Interactive Decision Theory at the Hebrew University.