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.

Portrait of Prof. Alon Harel

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
  • Cover of Reclaiming the Public

    2024 · Cambridge University Press

    Reclaiming the Public

    Forthcoming in Spanish translation (Comares Press).

  • Cover of The Cambridge Handbook on Privatization

    2021 · Cambridge University Press

    The Cambridge Handbook on Privatization

    Edited with Avihay Dorfman.

  • Cover of Why Law Matters

    2014 · Oxford University Press

    Why Law Matters

    Translated into German (Kosmopolis, Karl Albers, 2018) and Spanish (Marcial Pons, 2018).