About

Issachar (Issi) Rosen-Zvi is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Edmond J. Safra for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. Between 2018 – 2022 he served as the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and between 2014-2018 he served as the Director of the Elga Cegla Legal Clinics. He obtained his LL.B. (magna cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University, and his LL.M. in law, sociology and politics from Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude). He continued his studies at Stanford Law School, where he received his J.S.D. in 2002. He clerked for the Honorable Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court and practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP in New York. Rosen-Zvi is a four-time recipient of research grants from the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) and his papers were selected for the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and the Harvard/Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum. He was a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, SciencesPo Law School (Paris), Goethe University (Frankfurt), and the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain). His areas of research and teaching include public law, local government law, law and society, law and geography, environmental law, and civil procedure. His works have been published in prestigious law journals in the United States and in Israel, including Stanford Law Review, U. Penn Law Review, Virginia Law Review, UCLA Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Law & Society Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Tel-Aviv University Law Review.