Pnina Lahav
Education
Boston University
M.A. (political science), 1983Yale Law School
J.S.D. 1973Yale Law School
LL.M. 1971The Hebrew University Faculty of Law, Jerusalem, Israel
LL.B., magna cum laude, 1969
Employment
Boston University School of Law
Law Alumni Scholar
Professor of LawInterdisciplinary Center for Law and Technology, Herzlia, Israel
Visiting Professor, Fall, 1996Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France
Visiting Professor, Spring, 1997Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel
Visiting Professor, Spring, 1990University of San Diego Summer Program at Oxford
Visiting Professor, United Kingdom, 1989Harvard Law School Co-teacher (with Prof. Henry Steiner) of course on Israel and its Arab population, Second year
University of San Diego Summer Program in Paris, France
Visiting Associate Professor, 1986University of San Diego Summer Program in Paris, France
Visiting Associate Professor, 1984Rockefeller Foundation Humanities fellow, 1983‑1984, on leave from Boston University
Harvard Law School
Research Fellow, 1979‑1980Harvard University Department of Government
Research Fellow, 1978‑1979The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Lecturer, Faculty of Law, 1974‑1980Yale University
Research Associate, 1973‑1974, Antilles Research ProgramJustice M. Ben‑Porath, Israel Supreme Court
Law Clerk, 1968‑1969, Jerusalem (then District Court Judge, Jerusalem)
Prizes and other Academic Distinctions
Fellow, Insititute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jeursalem, Spring 2008
Class of 1960 Scholar, 2001-2002, Boston University School of Law Recipient, Fellowship at Stanford Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 2000-2001
Recipient, The Lipsitt Faculty, Research Fund, 1999-2000, Boston University School of Law
Keck Lecture, Amherst Program in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, delivered in February, 1999
Recipient, Seltner Award, Israel, 1998, for Judgment in Jerusalem
Recipient, Gratz College Centennial Book Award, 1998, for Judgment in Jerusalem Judgment in Jerusalem offered as selection by the History Book Club
President, Association for Israeli Studies, 1997-1999
Member, Academic Advisory Committee, International Research Institute on Jewish Women, Brandeis University, 1997-
Member, Advisory Board, Mid-East Watch, New York, N.Y., 1992-1997
Member, Governing Council, American Jewish Congress, New England Region, 1995-
Member, Advisory Board, Center for National Security Studies, Washington, D.C., 1989-1993
Recipient, Fulbright Fellowship, April‑May, 1986, under auspices of U.S./Israel Bicentennial Project
Recipient, Bunting Fellowship, 1986 (declined)
Recipient, Rockefeller Fellowship, 1983
Foundation Humanities Recipient, grant to research the comparative dimensions of press law, from the Modern Media Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1979‑1980
Recipient, Irving M. Engel Fellowship for Study and Research in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Yale Law School, 1971‑1972, and 1972‑1973
Publications
"The Contribution of Chief Justice Aharon Barak to Freedom of Expression, Particularly in the Area of Censorship of National Security Matters," in Barak Festschrift, (forthcoming).
"Seeking Recognition: Muslim and Jewish Women's Struggle to Full Citizenship," in Religious Worship, H. Herzog & A. Braude, eds., Palgrave (forthcoming).
"American Moment[s]: When, How, and Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools?" 10 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 653 (2009).
"The Changing Role of the Supreme Court," in Israeli Politics 135, Robert Freedman, ed., Westview (2008).
"An Interview with Justice Miriam Ben Porat (retired)," 26 Ha-Mishpat 73 (2008). [In Hebrew]
"Censoring the Eichmann Abduction: Making History," 98 Zmanim 58 (2007). [In Hebrew]
"A Chandelier for Women - A Tale about the Diaspora Museum and Maurycy Gottlieb's 'Day of Atonement' - Jews Praying on Yom Kippur," 11 Israel Studies 108 (2006).
"The Republic of Choice, the Pledge of Allegiance, the American Taliban," 40 Tulsa Law Review 599 (2005).
"Theater in the Courtroom, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial," 16 Law and Literature 381 (2005).
"History in Journalism and Journalism in History: Anthony Lewis and the Watergate Crisis," 29 Journal of Supreme Court History 163 (2004).
"Archetypal Trials and the Management of Dissent: Some Insights from Marketing Theory," 4 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 763 (2003).
"Facing Occupation: The Relevance of the American History of Slavery to Israel," 16 Bar Ilan Law Studies 561 (2003).
"Professor Ehud Sprinzak, In Memoriam," 19 Israel Studies Forum 148 (2003).
"The Chicago Conspiracy Trial as a Jewish Morality Tale," in Lives in the Law 21, Austin Sarat et al., eds., University of Michigan Press (2002).
The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society: Israel 1917-1967, with Harris, Kedar, & Likhovski, eds., Ashgate (2002).
"Introduction to Israeli Legal Historiography," with Harris, Kedar, & Likhovski, in The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society: Israel 1917-1967 with Harris, Kedar, & Likhovski, eds., Ashgate (2002).
"The Pains and Gains of Writing Biography: Reflections on Writing the Biography of Chief Justice Simon Agranat," with Harris, Kedar, & Likhovski, eds., in The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society: Israel 1917-1967 147, Ashgate (2002).
"A Jewish State...to Be Known as the State of Israel?: Notes on Israeli Legal Historiography," 19 Law and History Review 387 (2001).
"The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Character and Judicial Discretion," 71 University of Colorado Law Review 1327 (2000).
"Up Against the Wall: Women's Legal Struggle to Pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem," 16 Israel Studies Bulletin 19 (2000).
"The First Decade of Israeli Law, The Courts of Law," in The Courts of Law, Fifty Years of Adjudication in Israel D. Heshin, et al. eds., Ministry of Defence (1999).
"Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press," in The Courts of Law, Fifty Years of Adjudication in Israel D. Heshin, et al. eds., Ministry of Defence (1999).
"In Memoriam-Memorial Tributes for Professor Elizabeth B. Clark," 78 Boston University Law Review 236 (1998).
"Law and the Transformation of Israeli Society," 3 Israel Studies 1 (1998). guest editor with an introduction
"Personal and Collective Identity: Judaism and Modernity in the Shalit Case," in Cultural Pluralism in a Democratic and Jewish State Mautner & Sagy, eds., Ramot (1998).
"Who is a Jew: Tales of Fathers and Daughters," in Festschrift for Elie Wiesel A. Rosen, ed., Notre Dame University Press (1998).
"Israeli Military Leadership at the Yom Kippur War, Reflections on the Art of Reflection," in Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion and Government 171, K. Avruch & W. Zenners, eds., SUNY Press (1997).
Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century, University of California Press (1997). Revised and expanded version published as Yisrael Ba-Mishpat, Am-Ovid (1999). [In Hebrew]
"The Legacy of Chief Justice Simon Agranat," 42 Hapraklit 1 (1995).
"Conceptions of Sex Equality in the Debate Over the Women's Equal Rights Law," Zmanim 149 (1994).
"The Jewish Persona in Legal Discourse," 2 Reconstruction 103 (1994).
"The Jewish Perspective in International Law," 87 American Society of International Law Proceedings 331 (1993).
"Rights and Democracy, the Court's Performance," in Israeli Democracy Under Crisis E. Sprinzak & L. Diamond, eds., Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. (1993).
"The Eichmann Trial, the Jewish Question, and the American Jewish Intelligentsia," 72 Boston University Law Review 601 (1992).
"Jurisprudence and Biography: the Case of Simon Agranat," 8 Israel Studies Bulletin 8 (1992).
"Modern Jewish Women: Between the Two Mehizas," 3 S'Vara, A Journal of Philosophy and Judaism 46 (1992).
"National Security and the Media," in Security and Democracy 173, Avner Yaniv, ed,, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. (1992).
"The First Amendment at Home and Abroad," 9 Communications Lawyer 5 (1991).
"The Intellectual Foundations of Civil Liberties in Israel," 24 Israel Law Review 1 (1991). Also appeared in 16 Tel Aviv University Law Review 475 (1991). [In Hebrew]
"Foundations of Rights Jurisprudence in Israel: Chief Justice Agranat's Legacy," 24 Israel Law Review 211 (1990).
"The Press and National Security," 28 Israeli Democracy (Winter 1990).
"Romanticism and the Golden Age," 33 Politika 3 (1990).
"Censorship," in International Encyclopedia of Communications 245, Oxford University Press (1989).
"The Supreme Court of Israel: Formative Years, 1948-1955," 14 Tel Aviv University Law Review 479 (1989). Reprinted in 14 Ha-Ziyonut (1989). [In Hebrew] Also reprinted in 11 Studies in Zionism 45 (1990). [In English]
"A Barrel Without Hoops: The Impact of Counterterrorism on Israel's Legal Culture," 10 Cardozo Law Review 529 (1988). Republished in 33 State, Government and International Relations 19 (1990). [In Hebrew] Also republished as "Military and Politics in the Jewish Democratic State," in 1 Democracy and National Security in Israel 306, B. Neurberger, I. Ben-Ami & A. D. Epstein, eds., Open University of Israel (2007). [In Russian] Hein
"Holmes and Brandeis: Libertarian and Republican Justifications for Free Speech," 4 The Journal of Law and Politics 451 (1988).
"Holmes, Brandeis and the American Jurisprudence of Free Speech," 26 Zmanim, Tel Aviv Journal of History 86 (1987). [In Hebrew]
"The Jurisprudence of Chief Justice Simon Agranat," in Essays in Honor of Shimon Agranat 9, R. Gavison & M. Kremnitzer, eds., Graf-Pres (1986). [In Hebrew]
"'Lion' of the Law -- Chief Justice S. Agranat at 80," The Jerusalem Post Magazine (Aug. 29, 1986).
"Conclusion: An Outline for a General Theory of Press Law in Democracy," ed., in Press Law in Modern Democracies 339, Longman (1985). [Editor]
"Israel's Press Law," in Press Law in Modern Democracies 265, Longman (1985). [Editor]
Press Law in Modern Democracies, ed., Longman (1985).
"The Dilemma of Dual Loyalty," The Jerusalem Post (Feb. 1984).
"The Intellectual Development of the American Doctrine of Judicial Review," 10 Tel Aviv University Law Review 491 (1984). in Hebrew
"Comparative Press Laws," in 1 World Press Encyclopedia 23, Facts on File Publication (1982).
"American Influence on Israel's Jurisprudence of Free Speech," 9 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 21 (1981).
Book Review, J. Lofton, The Press as Guardian of the First Amendment, South Carolina Press (1980), 16 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 561 (1981).
"Comparing Constitutional Systems: Comments on the Methodology of Comparative Constitutional Law," in Symposium on Comparative Constitutional Law, 53 Southern California Law Review 697 (1980).
Book Review, Human Rights, E. Kamenka & A.Erh-Soon Tay, eds,, Edward Arnold (1978), 15 Israel Law Review 457 (1980).
"Golda's Ambiguous Legacy," 6 Lilith 16 (1979). Also published in Jewish Digest 23 (Apr. 1980)
"Israel's Constitution," in Supplement to Constitutions of the Countries of the World Blaustein & Flanz eds., Oceana (1979).
"Governmental Regulation of the Press: A Study of Israel's Press Ordinance," 13 Israel Law Review 230, 489 (1978).
"Freedom of Expression in the Decisions of the Supreme Court," 7 Mishpatim 375 (1977). (Hebrew)
"Raising the Status of Women through Law: the Case of Israel," 3 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 193 (1977). Also appeared in Women and National Development: The Complexities of Change 193, Wellesley Editorial Committee, University of Chicago Press (1977).
"Who's Afraid of 'Absolute Rights'?" 7 Mishpatim 541 (1977). [In Hebrew]
"World Jewry and the Ballot," 12 Israel Law Review 318 (1977).
"A Bill of Rights for Israel: A Step Forward?" with D. Kretzmer, 7 Mishpatim 154 (1976). (Hebrew)
"Political Censorship: Some Reflections on its Validity in Israel's Constitutional Law," 11 Israel Law Review 339 (1976).
"Reflections on the Potential of Draft Basic Law: Rights of the Person," in Lectures to Judges' Colloquium S. Shetreet, ed., Sacher Institute Hebrew University (1976). [In Hebrew]
"The Right to Know, Freedom to Publish and Official Secrets," 6 Mishpatim 562 (1976). [In Hebrew]
"The Chef de Section: Structure and Function of Haiti's Basic Administrative Institution," 4 Occasional Papers (1975). Antilles Research Program, Yale University
"The Division of Legal Labor in Rural Haiti," 8 Verfassung Und Recht in Ubersee 465 (1975).
"The Status of Women in Israel - Myth and Reality," 22 American Journal of Comparative Law 107 (1974).
Freedom of Expression During National Security Crises, Yale Law School (1973). [J.S.D. dissertation]