Rephael G. Stern

Biography

Professor Rephael Stern writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, international law, property, legal history, and comparative law. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Constitutional Commentary, and the peer-reviewed journals of Law and History Review and Comparative Studies in Society and History, among other venues. Stern has received the AALS International Law Junior Scholar Award, the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize for Constitutional Law, the Israeli History and Law Association Best Article Prize, and numerous teaching awards, among other honors.

Before joining BU Law in 2025, Professor Stern held fellowships at Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law and clerked for the late Hon. Bruce M. Selya on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, Ph.D. in History from Harvard University, M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, and B.A. in History from Brandeis University.