Iddo Porat is a Senior Lecturer at the Academic Center for Law and Business. He received his J.S.D. (2004) and LL.M. (2000) from Stanford Law School under the supervision of Thomas Grey, Kathleen Sullivan, and Barbara Fried. He received his LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, magna cum laude (joint program with the Department of Philsophy) (1998) and was a law clerk for Justice Dalia Dorner at the Supreme Court of Israel (1998-1999). He was a visiting professor of law at San Diego Law School in the year 2008-2009, and is a recurring visiting professor since for short term intensive courses. He co-organized two international conferences for the journal Law and Ethics of Human Rights: on “Rights, Balancing, and Proportionality” (2009) and on “Rights and Reciprocity” (2011).

Publications:
Proportionality and the Culture of Justification, 59(2) American Journal of Comparative Law (2010) (with Moshe Cohen-Eliya); American Balancing and German Proportionality: The Historical Origins 8(2) I.CON – International Journal of International Law 263 (2010) (with Moshe Cohen-Eliya) (this article was also chosen to be presented in the inaugural meeting of the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (October 2008);The Plural Applications of Value Pluralism 46 San Diego Law Review 909-924 (2010); Sixty Years of Balancing: On the Transformation from Instrumental to Substantive Balancing in Israeli Law, 10 Law and Business (2010) (Hebrew); The Hidden Foreign Law Debate in Heller: Proportionality Approach in American Constitutional Law 45 San Diego Law Review 367 (2009); (with Moshe Cohen-Eliya); What is the Difference Indeed?: a Response to David Enoch’s Article “What is the Difference Between Terrorist Acts and Targeted Killings?” in David Enoch, Iddo Porat, On Intending and Foreseeing Harm, an Answer to David Enoch’s “What’s the Difference Between Terrorist Acts and Targeted-killings?” in Mordechai Kremnitzer (Ed.) Terrorism and Anti Terrorism, (Hebrew) (2007); The Dual Model of Balancing: A Model for the Proper Scope of Balancing in Constitutional Law, 27 Cardozo Law Review 1393 (2006); On the Jehovah Witnesses Cases, Balancing Tests, Indirect Infringement of Rights and Multiculturalism: a Proposed Model for Three Kinds of Multicultural Claims 1 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 429-450 (2007); Who is Afraid of Channel 7? (co-authored with Issi Rosen-Zvi), 38 Stanford Journal of International Law 79-95 (2002)