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Dr. Kedar Nir

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Telephone: 
03-5317097
Email: 
Nir.Kedar@biu.ac.il
Office: 
Room 307, new wing
Reception hours: 
Meetings should be coordinated in advance

Research

Legal History, Comparative Law, Israeli, History Legal Theory ,Israeli History

Publications

HEBREW

BOOKS (AUTHOR)

  1. Nir Kedar, Ben-Gurion and the Constitution: on Constitutionalism, Democracy and Law in David Ben-Gurion's Policy (Hebrew). In academic referral. 
  2. Avi Bareli and Nir Kedar, Israeli Republicanism, Israel Democracy Institute 2011 (Hebrew). 

  3. Nir Kedar, Mamlakhtiyut: David Ben-Gurion Political-Civic Ideas (Ben-Gurion University Press & Yad Ben-Zvi, 2009).  ). The book won the Shapiro Prize for best book on Israel for 2009 from the International Association for Israel Studies (AIS).

ARTICLES

  1. Gideon Katz & Nir Kedar, "Israeli Intellectuals on Judaism" to be published in 14 Democratic Culture (2011) (in Hebrew and English).
  2. Nir Kedar, "The Israeli Early Voting System Battle: A Story of Democracy, Civic Culture and Law", 33.3 Tel Aviv University Law Review (2011) pp. 555-591) 
  3. Nir Kedar, "The Cultural Roots of Civil Codification in Israel", 7 Law & Business (2007), 169-201.
  4. Nir Kedar, "New Perspectives on the Foundation of the Israeli Legal System" 11 Israel (2007) 1-30.
  5. Nir Kedar, "The Educating Legal Formalism of the Early Israeli Supreme Court", 22 B.I.U. L. Rev. (2005) 385-423.
  6. Nir Kedar, "The Republicanism of the Ben-Gurion and the Early Israeli Justices" 14 Yiunim Bitkumat Yisrael (2004) 131-151.
  7. Nir Kedar, "Ben-Gurion and the Sephardi Judge" 19 B.I.U. L. Rev. (2002), 515-540.
  8. Nir Kedar, "Interpretive Revolution: The Rise of Purposive Interpretation in Israeli Law," 26(2) T.A.U. L. Rev. (2002) 737-772.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1.  Gideon Katz & Nir Kedar, "The Jewishness of the Jewish State in the Eyes Jewish Secular Intellectuals" to be published in When Judaism Meets a State (Yedidia Z. Stern et al. eds.).
  2. Nir Kedar, "The Rule of Law and the Sovereign State ", in Ilan Rahum (ed.) B ack to Politics: The Modern State, Nationalism and Sovereignty and, Jerusalem : Shazar Center 2009, pp. 305-328.
  3. Nir Kedar, "Equality and Partnership in Ben-Gurion's Political Thought in the 1950s and 1960s," in Society and Economy in Israel (T. Friling, D. Gutwein & A Barelieds., Sde-Boker: Ben-Gurion University Press & Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2005), p. 741-771.

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Assaf likhovski, Law and Identity in Mandatory Palestine, in Cathedra 129 (2008).
  2. Colin Schindler, The Triumph of Military Zionism: Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right (to be published in Shofar - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies).
  3. Joseph Raz, Value, Respect and Attachment, in Canadian Journal of Law and Society 17 (2002), p. 170-173.
  4. Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900, in Canadian Journal of Law and Society 18 (2003) 163-166.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

ARTICLES

  1.  Nir Kedar, "'We Need the Messiah so that He May Not Come' On David Ben-Gurion's Use of Messianic Language" Will be printed in Israel Affairs (2012). 
  2. Nir Kedar, "Democracy and Judicial Autonomy in Israel's Early Years", 15.1 Israel Studies (2010), p. 25. 
  3. Nir Kedar, "A Civilian Commander in Chief: Ben-Gurion's Mamlakhtiyut , the Army and the Law" 14:2 Israel Affairs (2008), 202-217.
  4. Nir Kedar, "Law, Culture and Civil Codification in a Mixed Legal System" 17 Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2007) 177.
  5. Nir Kedar, "Jewish Republicanism," 26:2 Journal of Israeli History (2007) 179-199.  
  6. Nir Kedar, "Ben-Gurion's Mamlakhtiyut: Etymological and Theoretical Roots", Israel Studies 7 (2002) 117-133.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Nir Kedar, "Israeli Law as a Lieu de mémoir e (et d'oubli ): Remembering and Forgetting Jewish Law in Modern Israel" in Oliver Drupbacher et al. (eds.), Erinnern und Vergessen / Remember and Forget, Munich: Meidenbauer Verlag, 2007, p. 196-229.
  2. Nir Kedar, "The Political Origins of the Modern Legal Paradoxes" in Oren Perez & Gunther Teubner (eds.) Paradoxes and Inconsistencies in Law (London: Hart, 2005), 101-119.

Resume

Education:

2000 S.J.D. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1997 LL.M. (waived) Harvard Law School.

1994 LL.B. Magna Cum Laude, Tel-Aviv University.

1994 B.A. in History, Tel-Aviv University (With Distinction, Summa Cum Laude, Ranked Number 1 in The History Department).

Teaching and Visits (Including Post-Doctorate) in Academic Institutes Abroad:

2000 Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law. Teaches Legal History, Comparative Law And Jurisprudence.

2000 Fellow, Ben-Gurion Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev.

Other Professional Experience:

1995-1996 Law Clerk, The Hon, Chief Justice Aharon Barak, President of The Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem.

Teaching Fields:

Law and Legal History, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence.

Professional And Academic Affiliations:

2000 Researcher, Ben-Gurion Research-Center, Ben-Gurion University, Sde-Boker, Israel.

Awards, Scholarships And Grants :

2009 ISF - Ben-Gurion and the Rule of Law 1948-1963. Grant no. 761/07 

2007 Research Grant from the Israeli Science Foundation.

2001 Research Grant in Canadian Studies.

2001, 2002 Research Grant, Ben-Gurion Foundation.

Conferences, Workshops and Talks Organized:

2007 The European Forum for Young Legal Historians, The University of Sevilla, Spain, September 2007.

2006 The Annual Conference of the Israeli Association of History and Law, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, September 2006.

2005 "The Influence of the Schoolof Lawand Economics on Israeli Law". Together With Dr. Oren Perez and Assaf Hamdani, Bar-Ilan University, November 2005.

2005 "The Law during the British Mandate over Palestine". Together With Dr. Avital Margalit, Bar-Ilan University, November 2005.

Participation in Others' Conferences, Workshops and Invited Lectures

I. International Academic Conferences

2008 Histories of Legal Transplantations, Hebrew University & Tel-Aviv University, June 11-13 2008. Commentator.

2008 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Israel Studies, New-York University, May 19-21, 2008: "From Service to Governance: The Transformation of the Israeli Legal Elite".

2007 The 13th European Forum for Young Legal Historians, University of Seville, September 2007, "Crossing Legal Cultures".

2007 13th Biennial JerusalemConference in Canadian Studies, "The Changing Role of Courts in Modern Parliamentary Society: A Look on Canada and Israel", The Hebrew University of Jerusalem July 2006.

2006 The 12th European Forum for Young Legal Historians, "Remembering and Forgetting Jewish Law in Israeli Law", Goethe University, Frankfurt & Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, May 2005 The European Forum of Young Legal Historians, "Remembering and Forgetting Jewish Law in Israeli Law", Goethe University, Frankfurt & Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt.

2005 The Nation-State and Other Political Traditions of the Jewish People, "Jewish Republicanism in Palestine, the ‘Mamlkhtiyut' and the Rule of Law", Tel Aviv University, 28-30 November 2005.

2005 The Interplay Between Real and Imagined Places in Judaism, "Zion: Land or Vision? The Complex Meaning of ‘Zion' in Zionism", Potsdam University, Germany from 26 to 29 June 2005.

2005 Canadafrom the Outside in Images, Perceptions, Comparisons "The Canadization of Israeli Law: Historical and Cultural Analysis", University of Ottawa, May 25-27, 2005.

2003 Annual Conference, American Society of Legal History, Washington DC, November 2003.

2002 Self-References, Paradoxes and Inconsistencies in Law, "The Political Paradoxes behind the law", Goethe University, Frankfurt / Main, November 2002.

2002 9th Biennial JerusalemConference in Canadian Studies, "The Historical Context of the Canadian Impact on Israeli Law", The Hebrew University in Jerusalem June 2002.

2001 13th World Congress For Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University In Jerusalem, July 2001: "‘The History of History': On The Rise of Israeli Legal Historiography in The 1990s".

II. Israeli Academic Conferences

2008 32nd Annual Conference, The Israeli Society For History: "On the Unique History of Israel as a Mixed Jurisdiction," Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem, July 14-15 2008.

2008 60 Years of Israeli Law: "Zionism in Law - the Quest for Original Israeli Law", Interdiciplinary center, Herzelia, May 11-12 2008.

2007 Academic Conference in Honor of Justice Gabriel Bach: "The Legal Elite: Authority or Servitude?", Bar-Ilan University, November 22 2007.

2007 The 3rd Annual Conference of the Israeli Association of History and Law, "The Historical Roots of Israel as a Mixed Jurisdiction", Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, September 2007.

2007 Elites in Israel: Continuity and Revitalization. "The Legal Elite and the Legalification of Public Life in Israel". Tel Aviv University, February 2007.

2006 Towards Codification - Culture, Society and History, "The Cultural and Historical Background of Modern Civil Codification in Israel and the World", Bar-Ilan University, January 2006.

2005 10 Years for the Assassination of Prime Minister Rabin - an Academic Conference, "Tolerance is not only Couscous and Gefilte-Fish", Bar-Ilan University, November 2005.

2005 The 1st Annual Conference of the Israeli Association of History and Law, "'Rechtssicherheit muss sein': The Foundation of the Israeli Legal System and the Rule of Law", Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, October 2005.

2005 The Revolution of Hazal. Academic Workshop, "The Revolutions of Chief Justice Aharon Barak", Bar-Ilan University, July 2005.

2005 The Codification Of Israeli Civil Law, The Interdisciplinary Center, "The Cultural Roots of Civil Codification in Israel and the West", Herzeliya, May 16-17, 2005.

2005 Heading a Panel, 75 Years for the Establishment of Mapai, Tel Aviv University, May 3-4, 2005.

2004 28th Annual Conference, The Israeli Society for History: Back To Politics - The Modern State And Sovereignty, "The Sovereign State And The Rule of Law", Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem, 2004.

2003 Oriental Jews in Eretz-Israel From The Late Ottoman Period Until Early Statehood, Ben-Zvi Institute. "The Attitude of Ben-Gurion toward Oriental Jews", May 1, 2003.

2001 Israeli Supreme Court, Ben Gurion, "The Yemenite Chief of Staff And The Sepharadi Justice", Bar-Ilan University, March 2001.

Involvement In National/International Academic Committees/Prize Committees

2002-2004 Israel National Archives. Member of the National Committee for the Examination of the Policy of Preservation of Legal and Administrative Documents in the Knesset, the Courts and the Ministry of Justice.

Supervision of Research Students:

Supervision of Research LL.M. & Ph.D Students.

Referee Of Academic Projects/Articles/Books:

Referee of Books & Articles.

Courses

99-665-01/02 Introduction to Israeli Law