
קורות חיים
גדעון ספיר הוא פרופסור למשפטים באוניברסיטת בר-אילן. ספיר למד בישיבת ההסדר 'הר-עציון' ועמד בהצלחה בבחינות הסמכה של הרבנות הראשית. הוא סיים תואר ראשון במשפטים באוניברסיטת בר-אילן, התמחה בלשכת השופטת דורנר בבית המשפט העליון, השלים לימודי תואר שני ושלישי באוניברסיטת נורת'ווסטרן, וכיהן כפרופסור וכחוקר אורח באוניברסיטאות נורת'ווסטרן, טורונטו, מונש ואמורי. מחקריו מתמקדים בתיאוריה חוקתית וביחסי דת ומדינה. ספיר פרסם וערך מספר ספרים ועשרות מאמרים בארץ ובחו"ל. שני ספריו האחרונים הםThe Israeli Constitution: From Evolution to Revolution (Oxford U. Press, 2018); State and Religion in Israel: Philosophical-Legal Inquiry (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) (with Daniel Statman).
עם הצטרפותו לפקולטה למשפטים ייסד בה ספיר את הקליניקה לזכויות אנשים עם מוגבלויות ואת הקליניקה לזכויות זקנים וניצולי שואה והוא משמש כאחראי האקדמי על הראשונה. ספיר כיהן במשך מספר שנים כעורך ראשי של כתב העת מחקרי משפט וכעת הוא מכהן כעורך ראשי של כתב העת Journal of Law, Religion and State
ספיר נמנה על מייסדי פורום קהלת, והוא משמש בפורום כעמית בכיר וכראש תכנית הדוקטורנטים ע"ש הרב איתם הנקין הי"ד.
תחומי מחקר והוראה
משפט חוקתי, עם דגש על תיאוריה חוקתית ודת ומדינה
פירסומים
HEBREW
BOOKS
Religion and State – A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry (2014) (with Daniel Statman)
Constitutional Revolution in Israel - Past, Present & Future (2010)
Essays in Honour of Izhak Englard (D. Barak-Erez & G. Sapir eds.) (2009)
ARTICLES
Halachic Perspective on Legislating Religion: The Rabbinic Controversy regarding the Sabbath Law
of 1961 as a Test Case, 32 Bar-Ilan Law Studies (forthcoming 2019) (with David Aronovsky)
"And Call the Sabbath a Delight" – Work, Trade and Leisure in the Sabbath in Israel - 1948-2016,
31 Bar-Ilan Law Studies 583 (2018)
Halacha and Meta-Halacha in Halachic Authorities' Approach Regarding Security Forces
Activity on Sabbath, 29 Shnaton Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri 1 (2018) (with David Aronovski)
Halachic Authorities' Approach Regarding Security Forces Activity on Sabbath, 31 Dinei Israel
197 (2017) (with David Aronovski)
Popular Constitutionalism, 30 Bar-Ilan Law Studies 161 (2016) (with Shaul Sharf)
In The Wake of the Immanuel Affair: Would it not be Better for Religion to Detach Itself from the
State? 15 Democratic Culture 217 (2013) (With Daniel Statman)
On the Right to a Nation-State, 36 Tel-Aviv University Law Review 507 (2013) (with Aviad
Bakshi)
Minority Religions in Israel, 28 Bar-Ilan Law Studies 185 (2013) (with Daniel Statman)
Justifications of the Duty to Make Employment Adjustments for People with Disabilities, 13 Haifa
University Law Review 411 (2011)
Book Review - Between Liberalism and Multiculturalism, 26 Bar-Ilan Law Studies 311 (2010)
Is a liberal State permitted to Act on the Basis of religious Arguments 25 Bar-Ilan Law Studies
599 (2009) (With Daniel Statman)
Nondelegation, 32 Tel-aviv University Law Review 5 (2009)
Book Review: Outlawed Pigs, 11 Haifa University Law Review 611 (2008)
The Israeli Constitutional Revolution - How did it Happen? 11 Haifa University Law Review 571
(2008)
Three Models of Constitutionalism, 37 Hebrew University Law Review 349 (2007)
Jewish Religious Services Law-A Proposed Framework for Privatization Reform, 23 Bar-Ilan L.
Stud. 117 (2006) (with Hadar Lifshits)
Old v. New: Vertical Balance and Proportionality, 22 Bar-Ilan L. Stud. 471 (2006)
Who Shall Decide Who Is a Jew? On the Proper Role of the Judiciary in a Democratic State, 22
Bar-Ilan L. Stud. 269 (2006) (with Shachar Lifshits)
The Limits of Establishment of Religion, 8 Haifa University Law Review 155 (2005)
Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Religion and the Protection of Religious Feelings, 21 Bar-lan
L. Stud. 5 (2004) (with Daniel Statman)
The Constitutional Judicial Proceeding as a Political Proceeding, 19 Bar-Ilan L. Stud. 461 (2003)
Two Learned Scholars among Us, 25 Tel-Aviv U. L. Rev.189 (2001)
Drafting Yeshiva Students in Israel: A Proposed Framework of the Relevant Normative
Considerations, 9 Plilim 217 (2001)
BOOK CHAPTERS
On the History and Development of Roads closure on the Sabbath, Yaakov Weinroth Memorial
Book (H. Zicherman at all, eds.) (forthcoming 2020)
Prison Privatization, Essays in Honor of Dorit Beinisch (I. Bar-Siman-Tov ed. 2018) 275
Is the Law of Return (Still) Justified? Edmond Levi Memorial Book (E. Hayut, E. Rubinstein, I.
Amit & E. Gordon eds. 2017) 279
Professor Englard and Justice Englard - Complition or Contradiction? Essays in Honor of Izhak
Englard (D. Barak-Erez and G. Sapir eds. 2009) 305
Proportionality and Compromise, Dorner Book (S. Almog ed. 2009) 397
ENGLISH
BOOKS
State and Religion in Israel: Philosophical-Legal Inquiry (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) (with Daniel Statman)
The Israeli Constitution: From Evolution to Revolution (Oxford U. Press, 2018)
Israeli Constitutional Law in the Making (G. Sapir, D. Barak-Erez & A. Barak eds., 2013)
ARTICLES
Law, Religion, and Immigration; Building Bridges with Express Lanes, 32 Emory International
Law Review 201 (2018) (with Mark Goldfeder)
The Protection of Holly Places, 10 Law & Ethics of Human Rights 135 (2016) (with Daniel
Statman)
Non-Jewish Religions in Israel, 30 Journal of Law & Religion 65 (2015) (with Daniel Statman)
Religious Arguments in the Public Sphere vs. the Freedom from Religion, 3 Law, Religion &
State 242 (2013) (With Daniel Statman)
Popular Constitutionalism - The Jewish Version, 7 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 49 (2013)
Constitutional Revolutions - Israel as a Case Study, 5 International Journal of Law in Context
355 (2010)
Religious Marriage in a Liberal State, 30 Cardozo L. Rev. (with Daniel Statman) (2009)
Book Review - Yakobson & Rubinstein: Israel and the Family of Nations, 11 Democratic Culture
295 (2007)
How Should a Court Deal with a Primary Question That the Legislator Seeks to Avoid? 39
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1233 (2006)
Why Freedom of Religion does not Include Freedom from Religion, 24 Law and Philosophy 467
(2005) (with Daniel Statman)
Can an Orthodox Jew Participate in the Public Life of the State of Israel? 20 Shofar 85 (2002)
Law or Politics: Israeli Constitutional Adjudication as a Case Study, 6 UCLA J. of Int'l L. &
Foreign Aff. 169 (2001)
Religion and State in Israel - The Case for Reevaluation and Constitutional Entrenchment, 22
Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 617 (1999)
Religion and State - A Fresh Theoretical Start, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 579 (1999)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Popular Constitutionalism and Constitutional Dialogue, Deliberative Constitutionalism (Ron
Levy et al eds.) Cambridge U. Press, (2018) 311
Religion and State in Israel, Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies (N. Seidman Ed.) (2015)
Religious Marriage in a Liberal State, Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival
(M. Rosenfeld & S. Mancini eds., 2014) 269 (with Daniel Statman)
Israel as a Nation State in the Supreme Court Rulings, The Israeli Nation-State 164 (F. Oz-
Salzberger and Y. Stern eds.) (2014) (with Aviad Bakshi)
Why a Constitution-in General and in Particular in the Israeli Context? Israeli Constitutiona
Law in the Making (Gideon Sapir, Daphne Barak-Erez & Aharon Barak eds.) (2013) 9
A Jewish Nation-State: A Discussion in Light of the Family Reunification Case Israeli
Constitutional Law in the Making 487 (Gideon Sapir, Daphne Barak-Erez & Aharon Barak
eds. 2013) (with Aviad Bakshi)