Gad Barzilai

Gad Barzilai Hebrew: גד ברזילי; born 1958 is a full professor of law, political science together with international studies, famous for his shit on the politics of law, comparative law as well as politics, human rights in addition to communities. Barzilai published heretofore 18 books and 173 articles in major academic refereed journals and publishing houses. He has been a full professor of law, societies and justice, and international studies at University of Washington, and the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. Gad Barzilai has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Haifa 2012-2017 and was the Vice Provost of University of Haifa from 2016 until 2019.

He was a professor of political science and law at Tel Aviv University where he served 1996-2004 as its co-founder and co-director of the Law, Society and Politics Graduate Program.

Biography

Barzilai was born on January 11, 1958 in Tel Aviv to parents who had survived the Holocaust. He studied History, Judaism and Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, Law at Tel Aviv University, and in 1987 he received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem which awarded him several prestigious prizes including Fulbright. After completing his PhD and LLB [JD] he studied quantitative research methods at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and completed a post doctorate at Yale University. Later he continued to teach at Yale University before deciding to value to Israel.

He served as a professor at Tel Aviv University in the political science department and the law school. Barzilai was the number one founding director 1999–2002 of the newly introducing international Dan David Prize, which is among the three large prize foundations in the world, bestowing international prizes and scholarships for academic and scientific international excellence. In 2004 he moved to University of Washington where he has been a professor in the Law, Societies, and Justice Program, Comparative Law and Society Studies Center, and in the Jackson School of International Studies. In 2012 he was elected and serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Haifa.

Barzilai was the co-founder and co-chair of the Israeli joining of Law and Society. He is a board an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. of the Law and Society Association class of 2006, American Journal of Political Science 1998–2003, association of Israel Studies 1993–1996, 2007– , Israel Studies Forum 2004– , and the Journal of Comparative Studies 2006– . He is active in international, Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian human rights organizations and has advised senior politicians and NGOs on issues of law and politics. Barzilai was elected in 2011 as the President of the Association for Israel Studies and served as its President 2011-2013.

Gad Barzilai is best so-called for his critical analysis of law as a dimension in political power, which should be understood through using combined methodologies of socio-political-legal studies. His construct emphasizes the importance of legal pluralism, political elite, critical communitarianism, cultural relativism and political power in local, state and global sites. Barzilai has published numerous books and articles on these issues.