Prof. Alon Harel, Law School, Hebrew University

Education:

LL.B., Hebrew University, (1983) (with distinction).
LL.M., Hebrew University (1985) (with distinction).
D. Phil. (Philosophy of Law) (1988) (Balliol College, Oxford).

Employment:

Lecturer in Law, Hebrew University 1990-1996.
Senior Lecturer in Law 1996.
Professor in Law 2000.

Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, 2003.

Visiting positions:
Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School 1998-9.

Visiting Professor at University of Toronto Law School, Sep. 2000. Faculty Fellow - 2002-3, Center of Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University.

Research interests include moral and political philosophy; philosophy of law; criminal law; law and economics, behavioral law and economics.

Recent publications include: Alon Harel, Ex-Post Egalitarianism (forthcoming in Journal of Law, Economics and Organization) (with Zvi Safra & Uzi Segal); Alon Harel, Matching Probabilities: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Repeated Behavior (forthcoming in University of Chicago L. Rev., 2005) (with Ehud Guttel); Alon Harel, Theories of Rights in Blackwell’s Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, 191-206 (eds. Martin P. Golding & William Edmundson, 2005); Alon Harel, The Virtues of Uncertainty in Law: An Experimental Approach 89 Iowa L. Rev. 443-494 (2004) (with Tom Baker and Tamar Kugler); Alon Harel, Rights-Based Judicial Review: A Democratic Justification 22 Law and Philosophy 247-276 (2003).  Oren Bar-Gill and Alon Harel: "Crime Rates and Expected Sanctions: The Economics of Deterrence Revisited", 30  Journal of Legal Studies 485-502 (June, 2001);  "On Hate and Equality" 107 Yale L.J. 507-539 (1999) (with Gideon Parchomovsky); Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime 1 American Law and Economics Review, 276-312 (1999) (with Uzi Segal).

Email: msalon@mscc.huji.ac.il