Prof. Moshe Cohen-Eliya 
Moshe Cohen-Eliya is an associate professor and the dean of the law school at the Academic Center of Law and Business. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Law & Ethics of Human Rights (Berkeley Electronic Press) http://www.bepress.com/lehr.
Prof. Cohen-Eliya graduated from the Hebrew University, magna cum laude (1993); earned his LL.D. from the Hebrew University (direct track) (2000); did his post-doctorate at Harvard law school as a fellow with the Human Rights Program (2002-2003); and was a faculty fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2009-2010). Prior to joining the faculty (2000), he worked as a lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (1994-1999) during this period he appeared before the Israeli Supreme Court in constitutional cases.
Among his publications: PROPORTIONALITY AND CONSTITUTIONAL COHERENCE (under contract, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012) (with I. Porat); Proportionality and the Culture of Justification, forthcoming in 59(2) American Journal of Comparative Law (2010) (with I. Porat) American Balancing and German Proportionality: The Historical Origins forthcoming in I.CON – International Journal of Constitutional Law (2010) (with I. Porat) (this article was also chosen to be presented in the inaugural meeting of the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (October 2008); The Hidden Foreign Law Debate in Heller: Proportionality Approach in American Constitutional Law, 45 San Diego Law Review 367 (2009) (with I. Porat); Probability Thresholds as Deontological Constraints in Global Constitutoinalism, 49 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 75 (2011) (with G. Stopler); Discrimination against Arabs in Israel in Public Accommodations 36 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 717 (2004); Self Defending Democracy and Democratic Education in Ultra-Orthodox Jews Schools 11 Law and Government 367 (2008) (Hebrew); Advertisements, Stereotypes and Freedom of Expression Journal of Social Philosophy, June 2004, vol. 35, iss. 2, pp. 165-187(23) (with Y. Hammer).
Areas of Interests
Judicial Review in Deeply-Divided Societies; Global Constitutionalism; Human Rights; the Right to Education; Antidiscrimination Laws; Freedom of Expression; Multiculturalism.
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Email: mcohen@clb.ac.il