Faculty of Law · Hebrew University of Jerusalem
AlonHarel
Philosophy of law, political philosophy, constitutional law, criminal law, law and economics, and human rights.
Alon Harel is the Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works at the intersection of legal and political philosophy, law and economics, constitutional law, criminal law, human rights, and the ethics of privatization.
Biography
He holds a D.Phil. in the philosophy of law from Balliol College, Oxford, and LL.B. and LL.M. degrees, both with distinction, from the Hebrew University. He has held visiting appointments at NYU, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the University of Chicago, Toronto, Harvard, and Columbia.
His books include Reclaiming the Public (Cambridge, 2024) and Why Law Matters (Oxford, 2014), translated into German and Spanish, alongside some sixty articles in leading law and philosophy journals.
Education
D.Phil., Philosophy of Law
Balliol College, Oxford
LL.M., with distinction
Hebrew University
LL.B., with distinction
Hebrew University
Fields
- Legal philosophy
- Political philosophy
- Constitutional law
- Criminal law
- Law and economics
- Human rights
- Privatization
Books
View publications2024 · Cambridge University Press
Reclaiming the Public
Forthcoming in Spanish translation (Comares Press).
2021 · Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Handbook on Privatization
Edited with Avihay Dorfman.
2014 · Oxford University Press
Why Law Matters
Translated into German (Kosmopolis, Karl Albers, 2018) and Spanish (Marcial Pons, 2018).