Dr. Michael Karayanni, Law School, Hebrew Unievrsity

The Edward S. Silver Chair of Procedural Law
Academic Director, The Minerva Center for Human Rights

.J.D. University of Pennsylvania

LL.D (summa cum lauda) The Hebrew University

LL.M, The George Washington University

LL.B. Bar-Ilan University

Visiting Scholar, The Max Planck Institute for International Private and Comparative Law, Hamburg (1997, 2000).

Academic Awards Include: The Israeli Arab Scholarship Program for graduate studies in the United States awarded by the U.S. Embassy in Tel-Aviv (1992-1994), The Alice & Elma Berk prize of academic excellence (1997), The Yaacov Herzog Award for outstanding doctoral research (1999), The Allan Bronfman Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the humanities and law (2000); The Zeltner Prize for a Young Scholar (2002); Rothschild Fellowship (2002-2003); The Fulbright Fellowship (2002-2003).

Member of the Young Scholars Forum at the Israeli Academy for Science and the Humanities

Research Interests: Private International Law and Inter-religious law, Civil Procedure, Multiculturalism

Publications: Books: The Influence of the Choice of Law Process on International Jurisdiction (The Harry and Michael Sacher Institute, The Hebrew University, 2002) (Hebrew); Forum Non Conveniens in the Modern Age (Transnational Publishers, 2004) http://www.transnationalpubs.com/showbook.cfm?bookid=10278

Articles: “The Public Policy Exception to the Enforcement of Forum selection Clauses” 34 Duquesne Law Review 1009 (1996); “Rule 411 of the Rules of Civil Procedure: The Limits of Withholding Appellate Review Regarding Interlocutory Decisions” 29 Mishpatim 139 (1998), “Jewish and Democratic, Multiculturalism and the Greek Orthodox Community” in The Conflict, Religion and State in Israel (N. Langental & S. Friedman ed., 2002), “Forum Conveniens Considerations: The Journey to the end of the Second Millennium and Beyond” 18 Mahkari Mishpat 67 (2002) (Hebrew); “An Ontological Analysis of Diplomatic Immunity”, 33 Mishpatim 63 (2003) (Hebrew); “On the Concept of “Ours”: Multiculturalism with respect to Arab-Jewish Relations 27 Tel-Aviv University Law Review 71 (2003) (Hebrew);”The Myth and Reality of a Controversy: ‘Public Factors’ and the Forum Non Conveniens Doctrine” 21 Wisconsin Int’l L. J. 327 (2003); “Class Actions in Israel - On a Crossroads” 1 Din Udvarim 449 (2004).

Email: michaelk@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il