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Prof. Shahar Lifshitz

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03-5318414
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Shahar.Lifshitz@biu.ac.il
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Building 305, Room 121
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ביוגרפיה קצרה

Professor Shachar Lifshitz earned an undergraduate degree in law and psychology with honors and a Ph.D. in law summa cum laude from Bar-Ilan University.  Since completing his doctoral degree, Prof. Lifshitz has served as the dean of the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, founded the Center for Jewish and Democratic Law (“CJDL”) as a branch of the faculty, and jointly established the Israeli Congress for Judaism and Democracy (“ICJD”) as a project within the CJDL for creating national consensuses.  His fields of research include Family Law, Contract Law, Jewish Inheritance Law, Multiculturalism, and Human Rights & Judaism. Prof. Lifshitz was a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (“IDI”), was a partner in the IDI’s project for a “Constitution of Consensus”, and was the author of the Knesset Bill: Couple’s Covenant. Additionally, he’s been a major partner in the IDI’s project for “Human Rights & Judaism”.  

Prof. Lifshitz has been a visiting professor at various law faculties including at Columbia University, UPenn, University of Siena in Tuscany, YU, and Emory-Atlanta.  He has published three books, written numerous articles, and worked jointly on assorted books and journals within his fields of research (a full list is attached below).  Many of his ideas have even been adopted into legislation and caselaw. He has been a partner in assorted Knesset legislative committees in his areas of expertise, establishing jointly with retired Supreme Court justice, Dorit Beinish, a forum for cooperation between academia and the Israeli Supreme Court, and served as the president of the Israeli Society for Private Law.  

Prof. Lifshitz is a sought-after lecturer in Israel and abroad and has been a participant in numerous academic conferences oriented towards judges, lawyers, and the general audience.  He has also been a member of the Court for Standardized Contracts. Over the course of his career, Prof. Lifshitz has received many awards including the Elon Scholarship, the Rothschild Prize, the Fulbright Scholarship, the Behat Prize for Best Book, and the Rector Prize for Exceptional Lecturer."

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מחקר

Theory of Contract Law ; Theory of Family Law; History of western Family Law

באמצעי התקשורת

מרץ 2010- הארץ - רפורמה פמיניסטית תכריח קרנות פנסיה וגמל לשלם לגרושות
פברואר 2010- המבשר - היום יינעל כנס העיון לדייני ועובדי בתי הדין הרבניים
דצמבר 2009- מעריב - ברית הזוגיות היא פיתרון שדתיים וחילוניים יוכלו לחיות עימו
דצמבר 2009- ידיעות אחרונות - מבט אישי אל האנשים העומדים בחזית המחקר הישראלי
יולי 2009- אתר בר אילן - האקדמיה מכריזה על טיפוח מצויינות בהוראה
נובמבר 2008- חדשות 2- ריאיון עם עודד בן עמי- חוק יחסי ממון                                                                      יוני 2008- ידיעות אחרונות - החופש מנישואים
דצמבר 2007- חוקרים מן הפקולטה למשפטים נבחרו ע"י העתון גלובס כמובילים בישראל 
אוגוסט 2007- גלובס - עד שהמוניטין יפריד בינינו

פרסומים

Prof. Shahar Lifshitz -שחר ליפשיץ

List of Publications

Books:

  1. Hanoch Dagan, Shahar Lifshitz & Yedidia Stern eds., Religion and the Discourse of Human Rights (Israel Democracy Inst. 2014).

  2. Shahar Lifshitz & Ronah Shotz eds., Marriage Culture and Minority Rights, The Family in Law Review Vol. 5, (2011).

Articles & Peridocals:

  1. Shahar Lifshitz, Agreements to waive paternity, 63 Fam. Ct. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).

  2. Shahar Lifshitz & Ram Rivlin, Reimagining Marital Property at Death, 32 Elder L.J. 353 (2025).

  3. Shahar Lifshitz & Ram Rivlin, Marital Contracts on the Fault Lines: A Liberal Inquiry, 37 Can. J.L. & Juris. 1 (2024).

  4. Shahar Lifshitz, Unbundling Marriage Law, 62 Fam. Ct. Rev. 877 (2024).

  5. Elad Finkelstein & Shahar Lifshitz, The Tension Between the Real and the Paper Deal Concerning "No Oral Modification" Clauses, 81 Cambridge L. J. 460 (2023).

  6. Shahar Lifshitz, Co-coordinating family expectations, 15 Int’l J.L. in Context 223 (2019).

  7. Shahar Lifshitz & Elad Finkelstein, A Hermeneutic Perspective on the Interpretation of Contracts, 54 Am. Bus. L.J. 519 (2017).

  8. Shahar Lifshitz, Neither Nature nor Contract: Toward an Institutional Perspective on Parenthood, 8 Law & Ethics Hum. Rts. 297 (2015).

  9. Shahar Lifshitz, The Liberal Transformation of Spousal Law: Past, Present and Future, 13 Theoretical Inquiries L. 15 (2012).

  10. Yuval Feldman & Shahar Lifshitz, Behind the Veil of Legal Uncertainty, 74 Law & Contemp. Probs. 133 (2011).

  11. Shahar Lifshitz & Rhona Shotz, Marriage, Multi-Culturalism, Minority Rights and Constitutional Law, 5 Fam. L. 11 (2011) (Int’l Symp.).

  12. Shahar Lifshitz & Elad Finkelstein, Bargaining in the Shadow of the Mediator: A Communitarian Theory of Post-Mediation Contract, 25 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 667 (2010).

  13. Shahar Lifshitz, Married Against Their Will? Toward a Pluralist Regulation of Spousal Relationships, 66 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1565 (2009).

  14. Shahar Lifshitz, A Potential Lesson from the Israeli Experience for the American Same-Sex Marriage Debate, 22 BYU J. Pub. L. 359 (2008).

  15. Shahar Lifshitz, Distress Exploitation Contracts in the Shadow of No Duty to Rescue, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 315 (2008).

  16. Shahar Lifshitz, Oppressive-Exploitative Contracts: A Jewish Law Perspective, 23 J.L. & Religion 425 (2008).

  17. Shahar Lifshitz, The External Rights of Cohabiting Couples in Israel, 37(2) Isr. L. Rev. 346 (2003).

    Articles & Chapters in Books:

  18. Ori Aronson & Shahar Lifshitz, A Jewish and Democratic State: Intra-Jewish Perspective, in The Oxford Handbook of the Israeli Constitution (Aharon Barak, Barak Medina & Yaniv Roznai eds., forthcoming 2024).

  19. Shahar Lifshitz, Civil Regulation of Religious Marriage in Israel from the Perspectives of Liberal Pluralism, Human Rights, and Political Compromise, in Institutionalizing Rights and Religion 206, (Leora Batnitzky, Hanoch Dagan eds., Cambridge Univ Press, 2016)

  20. Shahar Lifshitz, The Pluralistic Vision of Marriage, in Marriage at the Crossroads 260 (Elizabeth Scott & Marsha Garrison, eds., Cambridge Univ Press, 2012).

  21. Shahar Lifshitz, Spousal Rights and Spousal Duties The Liberal Case for Privileging Marriage, in The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships 165 (Scott Fitzgibbon, Lynn D. Wardle & A. Scott Loveless eds., William S. Hein & Co. 2010).

  22. Shahar Lifshitz, A Liberal Analysis of Cohabitants Law, in Family Finances 305 (Bea Verschraegen ed., Jan Sramek Verlag Vienna 2009).

  23. Shahar Lifshitz, The Best Interest of the Child and Spousal Laws, in The Case for the Child: Towards a New Agenda 45 (Ya'ir Ronen & Charles W. Greenbaum eds., Intersentia 2008).

Hebrew Publications

Books:

  1. Sahar Lifshitz, Spousal property (Bar-Ilan Univ. Press 2016).

  2. Shahar Lifshitz, The Spousal Registry (Israel Democracy Institute, 2006).

  3. Shahar Lifshitz, Cohabitation Law in Israel in Light of a Civil Law Theory of the Family (Univ. of Haifa 2005).

Articles: Selected Publications

  1. Shahar Lifshitz & Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or, Beyond the Deceased's Presumed Wishes: Toward a New Model for Regulating Posthumous Reproduction, 47 Tau. L. Rev. 595 (2024).

  2. Shahar Lifshitz, From Public Petition to Social Consensus-Building: Promoting Social Agreements on Controversial Public Issues through the Legal System, 35(2) Bar Ilan L. Stud. )forthcoming 2024(.

  3. Shahar Lifshitz & Ronen Avraham, The Supreme Court’s Rulings on National Identity versus Reasonableness: Differences and Future Perspectives, 19 Tau. J.L. & Soc. Change )2025(.

  4. Shahar Lifshitz, Afterword: What We Have Learned from the Betrayal Case, 35(1) Bar Ilan L. Stud. )forthcoming 2024(.

  5. Shahar Lifshitz, Who Is a Spouse: Comments on the Definition of a Spouse in the Draft Inheritance Bill, 46 Tau. L. Rev. (2022). https://www.taulawreview.sites.tau.ac.il/_files/ugd/6a76e2_007439a3f6f6470d9ca4e703db0c5c44.pdf

  6. Shahar Lifshitz, Sex Couple’s Right to Parenthood in Light of the Ethics of Parenthood, 34(2) Bar Ilan L. Stud. 865 (2022).

  7.  Shahar Lifshitz, Civil Regulation of De Facto Divorce, 45(5) Tau. L. Rev. (2022). https://law.tau.ac.il/sites/law.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/law_heb/Article/Lifshitz.pdf

  8. Shahar Lifshitz, Consensual paternity denial, 51 Isr. L. Rev. 231 (2021).

  9. Shahar Lifshitz & Ori Aronson, Jewish and Democratic' as a Methodology, 19 Democratic Culture 9 (2020).

  10. Shahar Lifshitz, Moral judgment of sexual behavior in marriage, autonomy and governance, 43 Tau. L. Rev. 5 (2019).

  11. Shahar Lifshitz & Anat Lifshitz, Child support in Israel: Between religious and civil law, 32(2) Bar Ilan L. Stud. 545 (2019).

  12. Shahar Lifshitz, Liberal Political Multiculturalism as a Remedy for Religion and State Relations, 40(3) Isr. L. Rev. 887 (2011).

Chapters in Books:

  1. Shahar Lifshitz & Orit Gan, The Law of Duress: Evolution or Preservation of the Status Quo, in Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Sinai Deutsch 75 (Moshe Gelbard & Ruth Plato-Shinar eds., 2024).

  2. Shahar Lifshitz, Ariel Bendor & Yaron Kaner, Toward an Israeli Covenant: The Tree, the Trunk, and the Branches, in Israeli Convent 257 (2023).

  3. Shahar Lifshitz, The Ethics of Parenting and the Right to Joint Parenthood for Same-Sex Couples, Justice Salim Joubran Book 621 (Aharon Barak eds., 2023).

  4. Shahar Lifshitz, Conflicts between Creditors and Debtors’ Spouses under the Shadow of Marital Property Law, Justice Edna Arbel Book 673 (Shelly Dorit Beinisch eds., 2022).

  5. Shahar Lifshitz, The Last Mohican - on Humanism, Global Jewish Responsibility, and Civic Unity in the Views of Justice Rubinstein, Elyakim Rubinstein Book 135 (Aharon Barak eds., 2019).

  6. Shahar Lifshitz, Modifying a contract by behavior, Essays on Contract Law and Theory in Honor of Gabriela Shalev 567 (Yehuda Adar, Aharon Barak & Efi Zemach eds., 2021).

  7. Shahar Lifshitz, Oppressive contracts: Possible inspiration from Jewish law, The Tirkel Festschrift: Studies in Theory, Philosophy and the Law 157 (Aharon Barak, Karin Carmit Yefet & Elyakim Rubinstein eds., 2020). 

     

 

 

פרסומים בהכנה

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

 

HEBREW  

BOOKS (AUTHOR)

1. Economic Relationship Between spouses.

2. The Regulation of Contractual Relations in Israel (with Elad Finkelshtein)

 

ENGLISH

ARTICLES

1. Fault, Marriage and Contract Law

2. The Pluralist Vision of Marriage

3. The Rise and Fall of the Contractual Account of Marriage

4. Freedom From Marriage

Last Updated Date : 04/02/2026