Faculty of Law · Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alon Harel
On why institutions — courts, constitutions, the state — carry a value that cannot be reduced to the outcomes they produce.
Biography
Alon Harel is the Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works at the intersection of legal and political philosophy, constitutional law, criminal law, human rights, and the ethics of privatization.
He holds a D.Phil. in the philosophy of law from Balliol College, Oxford, and LL.B. and LL.M. degrees, both with distinction, from the Hebrew University. He has held visiting appointments at NYU, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the University of Chicago, Toronto, Harvard, and Columbia.
His books include Reclaiming the Public (Cambridge, 2024) and Why Law Matters (Oxford, 2014), translated into German and Spanish, alongside some sixty articles in leading law and philosophy journals.
The book · 12 chapters
Tales from the bench
A digital reader for ״עמך״ בערכאות by Yeshayahu Harel — courtroom stories of ordinary people from 1950s Tel Aviv. Read page by page, or jump to any chapter.
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