Alon Harel
Education
1988-89 Yale University, L.L.M.
1985-88 Oxford University - Balliol College
D. Phil. (Philosophy of Law)
Thesis Title: Political Authority: A Rational Choice Perspective1979-1985 Hebrew University
1985 L.L.M. (with distinction)
1983 L.L.B. (with distinction)
1980-82 Dean's List
1985 Bird Prize for outstanding achievement in graduate studies
1980-82 Member Editorial Board of Mishpatim (Hebrew University Law Review)
Employment
2010 - present Professor of Law, Boston University School Of Law
2005 Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative And Criminal Law
2003 - Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law
2000 - Associate Professor, Hebrew University
1996-2000 Senior Lecturer, Faculty oflaw, Hebrew University
1990-96 Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
1989-90 Assistant Professor, New York Law School
1989-90 Yale Fellow of law and philosophy
1984-85 Researcher, Ministry of Justice, Israel assisting in drafting a new Israeli Corporate Code
Visiting Positions
Spring 2008, Visiting Professor, University of Texas Law School
2006-2007 Faculty Fellow, University of Toronto (Centre of Ethics)
2003-4 (Spring Tenn) Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies - Hebrew University (Group on Law and Pluralism)
2002-3 Faculty Fellow, Center of Ethics and the Professions Harvard University
September 2000, Distinguished Visiting Faculty, University of Toronto Law School
1998-9 Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School
1994-5 David Ben Gurion Scholar Scholar in Residence, USC Law Center
Other Professional Activities
1991- Member of The Center for Rationality Interactive Decision Theory (Hebrew University)
1998- Editorial Board of "Democratic Culture"
2001-2 Treasurer: Israeli Law and Economics Association
2002-3 Vice-President: Israeli Law and Economics Association
2003-4 President: Israeli Law and Economics Association
2005- Editorial Board: New Criminal Law Review
2006- Editorial Board of Criminal Law and Philosophy
Activities
1997-98, 2000-2001, 2003-4 Member of the Board of Directors of Israeli Association of Civil Rights
1983 Member of the Israeli Association of Civil Rights
1991 Member of Amnesty International
Publications
A. Articles
1) Alon Harel, The Easy Core Case for Judicial Review (forthcoming in Journal of Legal Analysis) (with Tsvi Kahana)
2) Alon Harel, Aggregating Probabilities Across Offences in Criminal Law (forthcoming in Minnesota L. Rev., 2009) (with Ariel Porat)
3) Alon Harel, Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction 107 Michigan L. Rev. 467-499 (2008) (with Ehud Guttel).
4) Alon Harel, Why Only the State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions: The Case Against PrivatelyInflicted Sanctions 14 Legal Theory 113-133 (2008).
5) Alon Harel, The Economics of Stigma: Why More Detection of Crime May Result in Less
Stigmatization 36 Journal of Legal Studies 355-377 (2007) (with Alon Klement).6) Alon Harel, The Right to Judicial Review 92 Virginia L. Rev. 991-1022 (2006) (with Yuval Eylon)
7) Alon Harel, Matching Probabilities: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Repeated Behavior 72 University of Chicago L. Rev. 1197-2005 (2005) (with Ehud Guttel).
8) Alon Harel, Ex-Post Egalitarianism 21 Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 57-75 (2005) (with Zvi Safra & Uzi Segal)
9) Alon Harel, Theories of Rights (Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory) 191-206 (eds. Martin P. Golding & William Edmundson, 2005).
10) Alon Harel, Is There an Autonomy-Based Right to Do Wrong? 24 Ragion Practia, 39-57 (2005) (in Italian).
11) Alon Harel, Benign Segregation? A Case Study of the Practice of Gender Separation in Buses in the Ultra Orthodox Community In Israel 20 South African Journal of Human Rights 64-85 (2004)
12) Alon Harel, The Virtues of Uncertainty in Law 89 Iowa L. Rev. 443-494 (2004) (with Tom Baker & Tamar Kugler)
13) Alon Harel, Whose Home is it? Reflections on the Palestinians' Interests in Return 5 Theoretical Inquiries in law 333-366 (2004)
14) Alon Harel, Separation of the Sexes on Public Transportation 3 Alei Mishpat71-97 (2003) (in Hebrew) (with Aharon Schnarch)
15) Alon Harel, Rights-Based Judicial Review: A Democratic Justification 22 Law and Philosophy 247-276 (2003)
16) Alon Harel, An Economic Rationale for the Legal Treatment of Omissions in Tort Law: The Principle of Salience 3 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 413 -451 (2002) (with Assaf Jacob)
17) Alon Harel, "The Boundaries of Democratic Pluralism" in Pluralism and Law 133-153 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001)
18) Alon Harel: "Crime Rates and Expected Sanctions: The Economics of Deterrence Revisited" 30 Journal of Legal Studies 485-502 (June 2001) (with Oren Bar-Gill).
19) Alon Harel, "Liberalism versus Jewish Nationalism: A Case for the Separation of Zionism and State" 3 Democratic Culture 89-110 (2000)).
20) Alon Harel, "The Rise and Fall of the Israeli Gay Legal Revolution", 31 Columbia Human Rights L. Rev. 443-471 (2000).
21) Alon Harel, On Hate and Equality 109 Yale L.J. 507-539 (1999) (with Gideon Parchomvosky).
22) Alon Harel, Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime 1 American Law and Economics Review 276-312 (1999) (with Uzi Segal)
23) Alon Harel, The Rule of Law in Israel: Philosophical Aspirations and Institutional Realities in David Dyzenhaus ed. Recrafting the Rule of Law 143-160 (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1999)
24) Alon Harel, The Regulation of Speech: A Normative Investigation of Criminal Law Prohibitions of Speech in Freedom of Speech and Incitement Against Democracy (David Kretzmer and Francine Kershman Hazan ed.) 247-74 (2000). Published also in 30 Mishpatim 69-103 (1999) (in Hebrew).
25) Alon Harel, Revisionist Theories of Rights: An Unwelcome Defense 11 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 227-244 (1998).
26) Alon Harel, The Courts and Homosexuality - Dignity or Tolerance? 4 Mishpat Umimshal: Law and Government in Israel 785-791 (1998) (in Hebrew).
27) Alon Harel, What Demands Are Rights? An Investigation Into the Relation Between Rights and Reasons 17 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 101-114 (1997).
28) Alon Hare! The Economics of the Law of Criminal Attempts: A Victim- Centered Perspective 145 University of Pennsylvania L. Rev. 299-351 (1996) (with Omri Ben-Shahar).
29) Alon Harel, Gay Rights in Israel: A New Era? 1 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 261-278 (1996).
30) Alon Harel, The Boundaries of Justifiable Tolerance: A Liberal Perspective in D. Heyd ed., Toleration (Princeton University Press, 1996).
31) Alon Hare!, Blaming the Victims: Optimal Incentives for Private Precautions Against Crime 11 Journal of Law Economics and Organization 434-455 (1995) (Omri Ben-Shahar).
32) Alon Harel, Efficiency and Fairness in Criminal Law: The Case for a Criminal Law Doctrine of Comparative Fault 82 California L. Rev. 1181-1229 (1994).
33) Alon Harel, Coherence Theories of Law, 18 Tel Aviv University L. Rev. 387-406 (1994) (in Hebrew).
34) Alon Harel, Efficiency and Fairness in Criminal Law 22 Mishpatim 499-531 (1993) (in Hebrew).
35) Alon Harel, Bigotry, Pornography and the First Amendment: A Theory of Unprotected Speech, 65 Southern California L. Rev. 1887-1931 (1992).
36) Alon Harel, The Libertarian Resolution of the Paretian Liberal Paradox, 47 Journal of Economics 337-352 (1987) (with S. Nizan).
B. Comments and Reviews
1) Alon Harel, Cost-Benefit Analysis and National Emergencies 42 Israel Law Review 225-233 (2009) (A comment on Richard Posner, Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in Times ofEmergency)
2)Alon Harel, Notes on Waldron's Law and Disagreement: Defending Judicial Review 39 Israel Law Review (2007)
3) Alon Hare!, In Defense of an Involuntary Polity: Comments on Otsuka's Vision of the Consensual Polity 55 Iyyun, 310-316 (2006)
4) Alon Hare!" Skeptical Thoughts on Judicial Opimism 4 Katharsis: A Critical Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences 22-50 (2005) (in Hebrew)
5) Alon Harel, Victims and Perpetrators: The Case against a Unified Theory of Comparative Liability in Criminal Law 8 Buffalo Criminal L. Rev. 489-502 (2005)
6) Alon Harel, Comments on Pornography and Gender Equality in Trends in Criminology: Theory, Policy and Practice (589-593) eds, Meir Hovav, Leslie Sebba, Menachem Amir (2003) (in Hebrew).
7) Alon Harel, "Economic Culturalism: A Comment on Dennis Mueller: Defining Citizenship" 3 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 167-174 (2002).
8) Alon Harel, Unconscionable Objection to Conscientious Objection: Notes on Sagi and Shapira 36 Israel L. Rev. 219-226 (2002).
9) Alon Harel, Review Essay: Free Speech Revisionism: Doctrinal and Philosophical Challenges 74 Boston U. L. Rev. 687-714 (1994).
10) Alon Harel, Using Hypnosis as an Investigative Technique, 13 Mishpatim 168-178 (1983) (in Hebrew)
B. Popular Pieces
1) Alon Harel, The Anti-Israeli Academic Boycott 11 Correspondence: An International Review of Culture and Society(forthcoming).
2) Alon Harel, Human Rights in Israel Between Universalism and Particularism 11 Filosofie Magazine 8 (February 2002) (in Dutch); published also in Frankfurter Rundschau 6 May, 2002 (in German).
C. Op-Eds
1) Alon Harel, Disengaging from Responsibility, Ha'aretz 5.8.2005 (in Hebrew)
2) Alon Harel, The Right to Srike, Ynet, 4.11.03 (in Hebrew).
3) Alon Harel, Torture or Treatment, Ha'aretz 8.8.2001 B2 (in Hebrew).
4) Alon Harel, Permissible but Illegitimate, Ha'aretz 7.2.2001 B2 (in Hebrew).
5) Alon Harel, The Real Victim, Ha'aretz 6.2.1997 B2 (in Hebrew).
6) Alon Harel Rights as Trivia, Davar Rishon 18.4.1996 (in Hebrew).
7) Alon Harel, Another lesson from the Murder, Ha'aretz 15.11.95 B2 (in Hebrew).