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Prof. Alon Harel

Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

LLB (Hebrew University), LLM (Hebrew University), LLM (Yale), PhD (Balliol College, Oxford)

msalon@mscc.huji.ac.il

t: +970 0 5882582
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Research Interests

Moral and political philosophy
Philosophy of law
Criminal law
Law and economics
Behavioral law and economics

Subjects Taught

TBD

Representative Publications

Articles

1. Alon Harel, The Economics of Stigma: Why More Detection of Crime May Result in Less Stigmatization (forthcoming in 36 Journal of Legal Studies, 2007) (with Alon Klement).

2. Alon Harel, Why Only the State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions: The Argument from Moral Burdens 28 Cardozo L. Rev. 2629-2645 (2007) (In a Symposium dedicated to George Fletcher's The Grammer of Criminal Law). 

3. Alon Harel, The Right to Judicial Review 92 Va. L. Rev. 991-1022 (2006) (with Yuval Eylon).

4. Alon Harel, Matching Probabilities: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Repeated Behavior 72 University of Chicago L. Rev. 1197-2005 (2005) (with Ehud Guttel).

5. Alon Harel, Ex-Post Egalitarianism 21 Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 57-75 (2005) (with Zvi Safra & Uzi Segal)

6. Alon Harel, Is There an Autonomy - Based Right to Do Wrong? Ragion Practia 39-57 (2005) (in Italian).

7. Alon Harel, Theories of Rights Blackwell's Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, 191-206 (eds. Martin P. Golding & William Edmundson, 2005).

8. Benign Segregation: A Case Study of the Practice of Gender Separation in Buses in the Ultra-Orthodox Community 20 South African Human Rights Law Journal, 64-85 (2004)

Comments & Reviews

1. Alon Harel, Notes on Waldron's Law and Disagreement: Defending Judicial Review 39  Israel Law Review 13-21 (2007)

2. Alon Harel, In Defense of an Involuntary Polity: Comments on Otsuka Vision of the Consensual Polity 55 Iyun, 310-316 (2006) 

3. Alon Harel, Lecture: Uriel as a Metaphor 36 Mishpatim 3-12 (2006) (Speech delivered at the retirement ceremony of Professor Uriel Procaccia) (in Hebrew)

4. Alon Harel, Victims and Perpetrators: The Case against a Unified Theory of Comparative Liability in Criminal Law in Criminal Law 8 Buffalo Criminal Law Rev., 489-502 (2005).

5. Alon Harel, Skeptical Reflections on Judicial Opimism 4 Katharsis: A Critical Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences 22-50 (2005) (in Hebrew); Published also in English: 39 Israel L. Rev.  261-283 (2006)