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Prof. Boaz Sangero is a leading authority on criminal law and the head of the Criminal Law & Criminology Department at the Academic Center of Law & Business. He obtained his LL.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994. He has written over 40 articles and books for leading law journals - in Israel, England and the United States. His recent book, Self-Defense in Criminal Law has been cited many times and reviewed in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the Cambridge Law Journal.

Education

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law, Jerusalem, Israel
Doctorate in Law, 1994 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law, Jerusalem, Israel
LL.B., 1988
Cum Laude

Experience

The Academic Center of Law & Business, Ramat Gan, Israel
Head of the Department of Criminal Law & Criminology

2002 - 2012

The Academic Center of Law & Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Law lecturer
Courses: Criminal Law; Criminal Law Defenses;
Finality of Proceedings and Miscarriages of Justice;
Criminal Sentencing; Sexual Offenses;
Interpretation in Criminal Law;
Convicting the Innocent – Causes and Possible Solutions


1997 - 2012

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law, Jerusalem, Israel
Law lecturer
Course: Sexual Offenses

1994 - 2001

Attorney at Law & Arbiter Jerusalem, Israel

1989 - 2002

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law, Jerusalem, Israel
Teacher Assistant
Course: Criminal Law

1988 - 1994

The Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Judicial Clerk, Justice Gabriel Bach

1988 - 1989


Additional information

  • Bar Admission: Member of the Israeli Bar, admitted 1989.
  • Military Service: Major in the Education Corps.

 


List of Publications


(H = Hebrew)
1. A New Defense for Self-Defense 9 Buffalo Crim. L. Rev. 475 (2006).
2. SELF- DEFENCE IN CRIMINAL LAW (Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon, 2006).
[See also:
Fiona Leverick, Defending Self-Defence , 27 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 563-579 (2007); ) (a)
(b) Antje du Bois-Pedain, Book Reviews: 1. Self-Defence In Criminal Law, By Boaz Sangero [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006]; 2. Killing in Self-Defence, By Fiona Leverick [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006], The Cambridge Law Journal 227 (2009)
[The author compares between the books];
(c) Faiza Qureshi, A Review of Self-Defence in Criminal Law, 80 The Police Journal 187 (2007);
(d) Judy Broder and Arnold Enker, Book Review: Self-Defence in Criminal Law, 10 New Crim. L. R. 690 (2007);
(e) Jesse Elvin, Review: Self-Defence in Criminal Law, 19 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 376 (2008).]
3. Are All Forms of Joint Crime Really ‘Organized Crime’? On The New Israeli Combating Criminal Organizations Law and Parallel Legislation in the U.S. and Other Countries  29 Loyola International and Comparative L. Rev. 61 (2007).
4. Miranda Is Not Enough: A New Justification For Demanding “Strong Corroboration” To A Confession28 Cardozo L. Rev. 2791(2007).
5. Why a Conviction Should not be Based on A Single Piece of Evidence: A Proposal for Reform (co-author: Dr. Mordechai Halpert) 48 Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science and Technology 43 (2007).
6. In Defence of Self-Defence in Criminal Law; and on Killing in Self-Defence – A Reply to Fiona Leverick  6 Criminal L. Bulletin 3 (2008).
7. From a Plane Crash to the Conviction of an Innocent Person: Why Forensic Science Evidence Should Be Inadmissible Unless it has been Developed as a Safety-critical System(co-author – Dr. Mordechai Halpert) 32 Hamline L. Rev. 65 (2009).
8.  Comment, "Self-Defense and the Psychotic Aggressor ": What About Proportionality? (In the book Criminal Law Conversations, edited by Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Oxford University Press, 2009) 372.
9. Heller's Self-Defense 13 The New Criminal Law Review 449 (2010).
10. Proposal to Reverse the View of a Confession: From Key Evidence Requiring Corroboration to Corroboration for Key Evidence co-author – Dr. Mordechai Halpert , 44 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 511 (2011).
11. A Safety Doctrine for the Criminal Justice System (co-author - Dr. Mordechai Halpert, forthcoming, Michigan State Law Review).
12. Solicitation by Omission – Is it Indeed Impossible? 16 MISHPATIM 482 (1987) (H).
13. Will The ‘Purposes’ in Criminal Offenses Become ‘Motives’? And is the ‘Dolus Indirectus’ Moving in a New Direction? (More on ‘with Intent to Injure” as an Element of the Criminal Offense of Defamation and on the Interpretation of the Criminal Law) 18 Mishpatim 337 (1988) (H).
14. Interpretational Acrobatics in Criminal Law? And a Quiet Death to the Rule of Restrictive Interpretation? (More on ‘With Intent to Injure’ in the Offense of Defamation) 29 Mishpatim 723 (1998) (H).
15. Retrial – Reality or Dream? Defeat of  Justice by Finality of Proceedings (co-author: Mordechai Kremnitzer) 1 Alei Mishpat 97 (1999)(H).
16. SELF DEFENSE IN CRIMINAL LAW (2000) (H).
17. On Capital Punishment in General and on the Death Penalty for Murder Committed During a Terrorist Act in Particular 2 Alei Mishpat 97 (2002) (H).
18. Where There Is No Suspicion There is no Real Investigation: “The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Disappearance of the Children of Jewish Yeminite Immigrants to Israel” 21 Theory & Criticism 47 (2002)(H).
19. Broad Construction in Criminal Law?! On the Supreme Court Chief Justice as a Super Legislator and Eulogizing the Strict Construction Rule  3 Alei Mishpat 165 (2003)(H).
20. Book Review: Yuval Karniel, Breach of Trust in Corporations (Civil and Criminal Law) 3 Alei Mishpat 353 (2003) (H).
21. The Necessity of Corroboration to Confession 4 Alei Mishpat 245 (2005) (H).
22. Do We Need More Incarceration? On the Proposed Amendment to the Penal Law for Guiding Judicial Sentencing Discretion 5 Alei Mishpat 247 (2006) (H).
23. Judge Uri Kitai Book: Collection of legal articles in his honor (2007) (H). (Editing the book).
24. An Exclusionary Rule for Evidence Obtained Unlawfully as Established in the Yissacharov Ruling – Good or Bad Tidings? 19 IDF L. Rev. 67 (2007) (H).
25. Can the Abuse of Process Defense do Justice? (Following the inclusion of the defense in the Criminal Procedure Law), 125 The Defense Attorney (Ha’Sanegor) 4 (2006) (H).
26.  Why A Conviction Should not be Based on a Drug Test Alone (co-author: Dr. Mordechai Halpert) 37 Refua ve’Mishpat 123 (2007) (H).
27. The Disengagement from Gaza Strip as a Test for the Israeli Democracy – on the Treatment of the opposition to the Disengagement by the Law Enforcement Authorities (in Judge Uri Kitai Book: Collection of legal articles in his honor, 2007) 193 (H).
28. Nevertheless, No single Drug Test for Conviction (co-author: Dr. Mordechai Halpert) 38 Refua ve’Mishpat 166 (2008) (H).
29. Amendment No. 39 of the Penal Law Tested by the Patience of Law Enforcement Officials – the Combating Criminal Organizations Law (forthcoming, in Eli Lederman, Keren Shapira-Etinger & Shai Lavi, ed., A Decade to Amendment No. 39 of the Penal Law) (H).
30. External Supervision on the Prosecution, 145 The Defense Attorney (Ha’Sanegor) 4 (2009) (H).
31. The Danger of a Conviction Based on a Breathalyzer Test (on the breathalyzer purporting to identify drunken driving), (co-author: Dr. Mordechai Halpert)  Ha'Praklit (David Wiener Book on Criminal Law and Ethics, 2009) 313 (H)).
32. Nevertheless, No single Breathalyzer Test  for Conviction (co-author: Dr. Mordechai Halpert)  Ha'Praklit (David Wiener Book on Criminal Law and Ethics, 2009) 373 (H)).
33. The Testimony of an Accomplice: Efficiency versus Truth – On the Reversal of the Kinsey Ruling (Forthcomming in a book honoring Justice Gabriel Bach on his eightieth birthday, Editor: Dr. David Hahn, Bar-Ilan University Publications) (H).
34. A Conviction – Only Unanimously (co-author: Dr. Itay Lipschits) 8 Alei Mishpat 337 (2010) (H). 
35. Misconduct of Police, Negligence of Prosecution, Optimism of Judges and Conviction of Innocent persons, 158 The Defense Attorney (Ha’Sanegor) 4 (2010) (H).
36.  I Accuse also the Judges, 159 The Defense Attorney (Ha’Sanegor) 5 (2010) (H).
37. The Need for Regulation of Scientific Evidence (co-author – Dr. Mordechai Halpert , forthcoming in the book Convictions of Innocents in Israel, eds. Ronit Peled, Efrat Shoham & Meir Carmon) (H).
38. From the Fallacy of the Transposed Conditional to Wrongful Convictions based on Confessions (co-author – Dr. Mordechai Halpert , forthcoming, Bar-Ilan Law Studies) (H).
39. Nevertheless, Reversing the View of a Confession (co-author – Dr. Mordechai Halpert , forthcoming, Bar-Ilan Law Studies) (H).
40. Using Tricks and Cover Agents for Extracting Confessions (forthcoming, Alei Mishpat) (H).
41. Rethinking Self-Defense Following the Dromi Verdict and the New Israeli Law (forthcoming, Mishpat u-Mimshal) (H).


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