The Hebrew University
Fields of interest:
Constitutional law; administrative law; economic analysis of law; contract law.

Ph.D. (economics), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999
LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1996

M.A. (economics), Tel-Aviv University, 1992

LL.B., Tel-Aviv University, 1991

M.A. (economics), Tel-Aviv University, 1990

Prof. Medina Worked as an associate lawyer in the law offices of Dr. J. Weinroth & Co. in Tel-Aviv. He then studied at Harvard Law School, where he earned his LL.M., and at the Hebrew University economics department, where he earned his Ph.D. in economics. Prof. Medina was a faculty member in the Law School of the College of Management Academic Studies from 1996 to 2003, and in the summer of 2003 he was appointed as a senior lecturer in the Hebrew University law faculty.

Prof. Medina received the Ellis and Alma Birk Scholars Prize for 2004. He served as the co-editor-in-chief of the Israel Law Review and as the secretary of the Israeli Association of Public Law. He is currently the Vice Dean of the law faculty.

Recent Publications: Recent publications in English include: Regulating Contract Formation: Pre-Contractual Reliance, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure (with Ofer Grosskopf) 39 Connecticut Law Review 1977 (2007); Drennan Revisited: Rationalizing Implied Irrevocability of Price Offers (with Ofer Grosskopf), 3 Review of Law and Economics (forthcoming, 2007); Less Crime, More (Vulnerable) Victims: The Distributional Effects of Criminal Sanctions (with Ehud Guttel), 3 Review of Law and Economics (forthcoming, 2007); A Revised Economic Theory of Disclosure Duties and Break-Up Fees in Contract Law (with Ofer Grosskopf), 13 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance (forthcoming, 2007); and Law, Morality, and Economics: Integrating Moral Constraints with Economic Analysis of Law (with Eyal Zamir), 95 California Law Review (forthcoming, 2008). Recent publications in Hebrew include: Forty Years to the Yeredor Decision: The Right to Political Participation, 22 Mehkerey Mishpat (Bar-Ilan University Law Review) 327-383 (2006); Critical Evaluation of the Provisions on Impossibility and Frustration of Contract in the Proposed Israeli Civil Code, 36 Mishpatim (Hebrew University Law Review) (2007); Legal Aspects of the Privatization of the Supply of Goods and Services (with Yoav Dotan), 37 Mishpatim (Hebrew University Law Review) (2007); and On the Freedom of a Knesset Member to Oppose the Occupation (following HCJ 11225/03 Beshare v. AG) (with Ilan Saban), 37 Mishpatim (Hebrew University Law Review) (forthcoming, 2007)

EMail: msbmedina@mscc.huji.ac.il