Prof. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
Short Biography
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov is Professor of law, Head of the BIU Lab for Law, Data-Science and Digital Ethics and co-director of the dual degree program in law and political science at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law. He serves as General Editor of the international journal The Theory and Practice of Legislation, member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Legislation and Co-Chair of the Israeli Association of Legislation. He also serves as member of the Executive Board of the University’s Data-Science Institute and Senior Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Digital Governance (DIGOV).
Before joining Bar Ilan, Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School in New York. He has previously served as a senior law clerk for Justice Dorit Beinisch at the Supreme Court of Israel, and as research assistant to Professor Menahem Elon, former deputy Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov obtained his J.S.D. and LL.M. (summa cum laude- James Kent Scholar) from Columbia Law School, where he was Fulbright Scholar, Fischman Scholar, and Morris Fellow. He received his LL.B., magna cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov received multiple awards, including, among others, the Giandomenico Majone Prize, awarded by the European Consortium for Political Research’s Standing Group on Regulatory Governance; the Gorney Prize for Outstanding Research in Public Law, awarded by the Israeli Association of Public Law; the Cheshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Law; the Rector Prize for Scientific Innovation; and the University Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also received numerous research grants, including, inter alia, from the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF); the Israel Science Foundation (ISF); the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST); the Volkswagen Foundation; the Israel Institute; the National Institute for Health Policy Research; and the Fulbright program. Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov was also named one of the Most Inspiring Professors in Israel by The National Union of Israeli Students.
Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov's research areas include legisprudence, parliamentary studies, legislation and regulation; constitutional law and constitutional theory; and law and data science/ artificial intelligence. His scholarship has been published, inter alia, in the Georgetown Law Journal; Boston University Law Review; William & Marry Law Review; Political Studies; American Journal of Comparative Law; International Journal of Constitutional Law; and Regulation & Governance. He also edited two books, most recenly Comparative Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation (Springer Nature's Legisprudence Library, 2021), and four special issues.
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Research Interests and Teaching
Research interests include legisprudence, legislation and regulation; constitutional law and constitutional theory; and the interactions between law and big data/ data science.
Some of Dr. Bar-Siman-Tov's current research projects can be viewed here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ittai_Bar-Siman-Tov/projects
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Publications
Edited Books:
Essays in Honor of Chief-Justice Dorit Beinisch (Festschrift) (Bar-Ilan University Press & Nevo) (main editor, along with Aharon Barak, Shahar Lifshitz & Keren Azulay) (2018)
Comparative Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation (Springer Nature's Legisprudence Library, 2021)
Edited Special Issues:
Special issue on “Mending the Legislative Process” for The Theory and Practice of Legislation vol. 3(3) (2015)
Special issue on “Legislated Rights – Securing Human Rights through Legislation” for the Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies vol. 21(1) (2020) (with Yaniv Roznai)
Special issue on “Legislatures in the Time of Covid-19” for The Theory and Practice of Legislation vol. 8(1+2) (2020) (with Ronan Cormacain)
Special issue on “Global Legislative Responses to Coronavirus” for The Theory and Practice of Legislation vol. 8(3) (2020) (with Ronan Cormacain)
Publications in journals and refereed peer-reviewed collective volumes:
Legislative Supremacy in the United States?: Rethinking the Enrolled Bill Doctrine, 97 Georgetown Law Journal 323 (2009)
Lawmakers as Lawbreakers, 52 William and Mary Law Review 805 (2010)
The Puzzling Resistance to Judicial Review of the Legislative Process, 91 Boston University Law Review 1915 (2011)
Semiprocedural Judicial Review, 6 Legisprudence 271 (2012) (lead article in the special issue on courts as regulatory watchdogs)
(reviewed in Alberto Alemanno, The Emergence of the Evidence-based Judicial Reflex: A Response to Bar-Siman-Tov's Semiprocedural Review, 1 The Theory and Practice of Legislation 327 (2013); and in Mark Kende, Can "Semi-Procedural Review" Help Solve the Problems of Constitutional Theory?, Jotwell (2013))
Time and Judicial Review in Israel: Tempering the Temporal Effects of Judicial Review, in The Effects of Judicial Decisions in Time 207 (Cambridge, Intersentia, P. Popelier, S. Verstraelen, D. Vanheule and B. Vanlerberghe eds., 2013) (peer-reviewed collective volume)
John Hart Grunis? The Jurisprudence of Chief Justice Grunis in Light of Ely's Constitutional Theory, 9 Haifa Law Review ("Din Udvarim") 67 (2015) (Hebrew)
[Reprinted in Asher Grunis Book (Keren Weinshall et al., 2023)]
Mending the Legislative Process – The Preliminaries, 3 The Theory and Practice of Legislation 245 (2015)
The Role of Courts in Improving the Legislative Process, 3 The Theory and Practice of Legislation 295 (2015)
The Law of Lawmaking, 37 Tel Aviv University Law Review ("Iuney Mishpat") 645 (2016) (Hebrew) (special issue on parliamentary law)
The Dual Meaning of Evidence-based Judicial Review of Legislation, 4 The Theory and Practice of Legislation 107 (2016) (lead article in the special issue on Evidence-based Judicial Review) (awarded the Gorney Prize by the Israeli Association of Public Law)
Introduction, in Essays in Honor of Chief-Justice Dorit Beinisch 7 (Keren Azulay, Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Aharon Barak & Shahar Lifshitz, eds.) (Bar-Ilan University Press & Nevo, 2018) (Hebrew), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2890277
Procedural Review and Substantive Review: Can the Two Be Combined? Towards a Semiprocedural Model in Israel, in Essays in Honor of Chief-Justice Dorit Beinisch 299 (Keren Azulay, Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Aharon Barak & Shahar Lifshitz, eds.) (Bar-Ilan University Press & Nevo, 2018) (Hebrew) (peer-reviewed collective volume), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2775410
Temporary Legislation, Better Regulation and Experimental Governance: An Empirical Study, 12 Regulation and Governance 192-219 (2018) (awarded the Giandomenico Majone Prize by the European Consortium for Political Research’s Standing Group on Regulatory Governance; the Gorney Prize by the Israeli Association of Public Law; selected to Israel’s Junior Faculty Law Workshop for Excellent Scholarship)
Revolution or Continuity? Bank Hamizrachi’s Role in the Development of Judicial Review Models in Israel, 19 Law and Government 271 (2018) (special issue on 20 Years to Bank Hamizrachi) (Hebrew), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3054214
Legisprudence and the Limits of Legislation, 11 Hukim - journal on legislation 51 (2018) (invited article for the special issue on the limits of legislation) (Hebrew), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3050846
The Lives and Times of Temporary Legislation and Sunset Clauses, 66 American Journal of Comparative Law 453 (2018) (book review), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2955995
Quantinsky v. the Knesset in the Matter of the Third Apartment Tax: A Necessary Decision or an Unjustified "Major Deviation" From the Case Law? 32 Bar-Ilan University Law Review 877 (2019), available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3050539 (Hebrew)
Unsupervised Topic Extraction from Privacy Policies. In Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW’19 Companion), May 13–17, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3308560.3317585 (with David Sarne, Jonathan Schler, Alon Singer, Ayelet Sela)
The Global Revival of Legisprudence: A Comparative View on Legislation in Legal Education and Research, in Conceptions and Misconceptions of Legislation 275 (A. Daniel Oliver-Lalana, ed, 2019), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3179579
[Spanish translation published as "El resurgimiento global de la legisprudencia: una aproximación comparada al papel de la legislación en la educación e investigación jurídica" in La legislación en serio: Estudios sobre derecho y legisprudencia 525 (A. Daniel Oliver-Lalana, ed, 2019)]
Temporary Legislation’s Finest Hour?: The Rise of Temporary Legislation in Israel and Principles for its Improvement, 41 Tel Aviv University Law Review ("Iuney Mishpat") 539 (2019) (with Gaya Harari-Heit) (Hebrew)
The Legisprudential and Political Functions of Temporary Legislation, in Time, Law and Change: An Interdisciplinary Study 227 (Sofia Ranchordas & Yaniv Roznai, eds., 2020) (with Gaya Harari-Heit)
Legislatures and Rights, 21 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 112 (2020)
Beyond Neglect and Disrespect: Legislatures in Legal Scholarship, in Handbook of Parliamentary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legislatures 141 (Cyril Benoît & Olivier Rozenberg eds., 2020), available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3494920
Legislatures in the Time of Covid-19, 8(1) Theory and Practice of Legislation 3 (2020) (with Ronan Cormacain)
Covid-19 Meets Politics: The Novel Coronavirus as a Novel Challenge for Legislatures, 8(1) Theory and Practice of Legislation 11 (2020)
Global Legislative Responses to Coronavirus, 8(3) Theory and Practice of Legislation 239 (2020) (with Ronan Cormacain)
Israel: Legal Response to Covid-19, in J. King & O. Ferraz (eds), The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19 (Oxford University Press, 2021) (with Einat Albin, Aeyal Gross & Tamar Hostovsky-Brandes)
The Knesset Legal Advisor and its Role in the Separation of Powers in the Legislative Process, 44 Tel Aviv University Law Review ("Iuney Mishpat") 267 (2021) (with Keren Horowitz) (Hebrew)
Measuring Legislative Activity during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Introducing the ParlAct and ParlTech Indexes, 1 International Journal of Parliamentary Studies 109 (2021) (with Olivier Rozenberg, Cyril Benoît, Israel Waismel-Manor & Asaf Levanon)
Temporary Legislation in Times of Covid-19, 24 Law and Government 69 (2021) (with Daniel Shtauber and Gaya Harari-Heit) (Hebrew)
An Introduction to the Comparative and Multidisciplinary Study of Omnibus Legislation, in: I. Bar-Siman-Tov (ed), Comparative multidisciplinary perspectives on omnibus legislation (Springer Nature, Cham, 2021)
The Changing Role of Judicial Review during Prolonged Emergencies: The Israeli Supreme Court during Covid-19, 1 Legal Policy and Pandemics: The Journal of the Global Pandemic Network 273-279 (2021) (with Itay Cohen & Chani Koth)
Should I stay (open) or should I close?: World legislatures during the first wave of Covid19, 72 Political Studies 200 (2024) (with Israel Waismel-Manor, Olivier Rozenberg, Asaf Levanon, Cyril Benoît & Gal Ifergane)
Legislation, Legisprudence and Comparative Law, in Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Jan M. Smits et al., ed., 2023) (with Helen Xanthaki)
Sunset Legislation in Israel during the Covid-19 Pandemic, 19 Taiwan Journal of Democracy 55 (2023) (with Daniel Shtauber & Gaya Harari-Heit), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4582056
Parliamentary Studies: Studying Parliaments, Improving Parliaments, 4 International Journal of Parliamentary Studies 1 (2024)
Procedural Norms for Enacting Basic Laws and Knesset Committee Initiatives, 48 Tel Aviv University Law Review ("Iuney Mishpat") (forthcoming 2024) (with Ori Aronson, Eden Israely Levy, Ronit Levine-Schnur, Doreen Lustig, and Issachar Rosen-zvi) (Hebrew), available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4566393
Scholactivism in the Service of Counter-populism: The Case of the Constitutional Overhaul in Israel, International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming) (with Tamar Hostovsky Brandes, Eliav Lieblich, Yaniv Roznai and Adam Shinar), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4606912
Publications in Bar Journals, Reports and Online Publications (partial list):
In Defense of Neutral and Blind Legislative Rules, 21 Israel Bar Association Journal ("Orech Ha-Din") 37 (2013) (Hebrew)
New Study Explores Relationship Between Temporary (Sunset) Legislation, Better Regulation, and Experimentalist Governance, Oxford Business Blog, Jul 10, 2017, at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2017/07/new-study-explo…
In Wake of Controversial Enactment Process of Trump’s Tax Bill, Israeli SC Offers a Novel Approach to Regulating Omnibus Legislation, I-CONnect: International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog, Dec. 13, 2017, at: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2017/12/in-wake-of-controversial-enactment-…
Parliamentary Activity and Legislative Oversight during the Coronavirus Pandemic - A Comparative Overview (2020), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340091555_Parliamentary_Activi…
Covid-19 and legislative activity: A cross-national study (2020) (with Israel Waismel-Manor, Olivier Rozenberg, Asaf Levanon, Cyril Benoît & Gal Ifergane). Draft available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342514148_Covid-19_and_Legislative_Activity_A_Cross-National_Study
Online Supplement for Covid-19 and Legislative Activity: A Cross-National Study. Draft available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342666341_Online_Supplement_for_Covid-19_and_Legislative_Activity_A_Cross-National_Study
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, ‘Legislatures in the COVID-19 Crisis’ IACL-AIDC Blog (21 September 2021) https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/covid19-future-constitutionalism/2021/9/21/legislatures-in-the-covid-19-crisis/.
Works in Progress (partial list):
Sunsets and Emergencies: Temporary Covid Laws in Israel (under review) (with Daniel Shtauber, Gaya Harari-Heit & Gonen Ilan), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4782954
When Computers Speak Laws: Legislative Engineering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (under review) (with Elhanan Schwartz & Roy Gelbard), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4698512
Design Principles for Integrated Legislation Drafting Environment (under review) (with Elhanan Schwartz & Roy Gelbard), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4556959
Judicial Review in Israel: Typology, Developments and the Theory and Practice of Judicial Activism (April 3, 2024) (under review), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4782873
Legal HeBERT: A BERT-based NLP Model for Hebrew Legal, Judicial and Legislative Texts (June 27, 2022), available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4147127 (with Avihay Chriqui & Inbal Yahav)
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Last Updated Date : 02/05/2024
