Chaim Gans, Law School, Tel-Aviv University

Chaim Gans received his LL.B. from Hebrew University, B.A. and M.A. from TAU, and D. Phil. from University College, Oxford. He teaches legal, moral and political philosophy. His books are: Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992); The Limits of Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2003); From Richard Wagner to the Right of Return: Philosophical Analysis of Israeli Public Affairs (forthcoming, in Hebrew). His main articles in the last five years are: “National Self-Determination – a Sub Statist Conception”, 13 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2000), 185-205. “The Liberal Foundations of Cultural Nationalism”, 30 Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2000), 441-466. “Historical Rights: The Evaluations of Nationalist Claims to Sovereignty”, 29 Political Theory (2001), 58-79. ”The Palestinian Right of Return and the Justice of Zionism”, 5 Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2004) 269-304. “Right and Left: Ideological Disobedience in Israel, Israel Law Review (summer, 2004), and in Hebrew: Alpaim 27 (2004)

Email: gansch@post.tau.ac.il