Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer was born in Fuert, Germany, on November 16th, 1948. He is the Ivan C. Rand Professor of Criminal Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was formerly Dean of the Faculty. He teaches Criminal Law and Constitutional Law. Since 1994, he has been a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. He was the chairperson of the Israeli Association of Public Law.
Professor Kremnitzer was a chairperson of many committees: a committee nominated by the Minister of Police on the use of force by the police (1994); a committee appointed by the Minster of Education on Education Towards Good Citizenship (1996); a committee nominated by the Minster of Finance and the Minister of Justice to examine methods to deal with offences and misconduct of public employees (1998).
Professor Kremnitzer served as President of the Israeli Press Council (2000-2003) and as the academic head of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University (2001-2003).
In 1989, he received the Pinchas Rozen award for legal research and in 2003, he was awarded the Zeltner Prize for excellence in research.
Professor Kremnitzer has published extensively in the fields of criminal, military, and public law. He is co-author of the proposal for a new general part of the penal code for Israel (a proposal which has been adopted by the Knesset). His books, in Hebrew, deal with judicial activism, Basic Law: The Army, the offence of sedition, libel, official secrets, disqualification of parties and lists, and targeted killings.