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Prof. Hanoch Dagan is a Senior Fellow at IDI, where he heads the project on Human Rights and Judaism together with Professors Yedidia Stern and Shahar Lifshitz. He is also a full professor in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University, where he served as Dean from 2006–2011, and was the founding director of the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies (2007–2011). He teaches and writes in the areas of property law, unjust enrichment, jurisprudence and the theory of private law.

Prior to his appointment as Dean of the Tel-Aviv University Law School, Prof. Dagan was the Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law and was the Editor in Chief of Theoretical Inquiries in Law. He was also a visiting professor and an Affiliated Overseas Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. In the forthcoming academic year, he will serve as a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale University and the University of Toronto.

After receiving his LL.B. Summa Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University, Prof. Dagan received an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.  He is the recipient of the Zeltner Award (2005) as well as the Zeltner Young Investigator Award (1996). Prof. Dagan is also a member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Prof. Dagan has published over 40 articles in leading legal journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the California Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the University of Toronto Law Journal, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Books:

  • Hanoch Dagan, Property: Values and Institutions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

  • Hanoch Dagan, The Law and Ethics of Restitution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

  • Hanoch Dagan, Unjust Enrichment: A Study of Private Law and Public Values, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

  • Hanoch Dagan, Property at a Crossroads, Tel Aviv: Ramot, 2005 (Hebrew).

 

Articles:

  • Hanoch Dagan and Roy Kreitner, "The Character of Legal Theory," Cornell Law Review, 96: 671–691 (2011).

  • Hanoch Dagan, "Political Money," Election Law Journal, 8:349–368, 2009.

  • Hanoch Dagan, "The Realist Conception of Law," University of Toronto Law Journal, 57:607–660, 2007.

  • Hanoch Dagan, "Property and the Public Domain," Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 17:84–93, 2006.

  • Hanoch Dagan, "Restitution and Slavery: On Incomplete Commodification, Intergenerational Justice, and Legal Transitions," Boston University Law Review, 84:1139–1176, 2004.

  • Hanoch Dagan, "Restitution in Bankruptcy: Why All Involuntary Creditors Be Preferred," American Bankruptcy Law Journal, 78:247, 2004.

  • Hanoch Dagan and Carolyn J. Frantz, "Properties of Marriage," Columbia Law Review, 104:75–133, 2004.

  • Hanoch Dagan and James White, "Governments, Citizens, and Injurious Industries," New York University Law Review, 75:354–428, 2000.

  • Hanoch Dagan, "The Distributive Foundation of Corrective Justice," Michigan Law Review, 98: 138–166, 1999.