Publications

2024

• Reclaiming the Public — Cambridge University Press — Forthcoming in Spanish translation (Comares Press).

2021

• The Cambridge Handbook on Privatization — Cambridge University Press — Edited with Avihay Dorfman.

2014

• Why Law Matters — Oxford University Press — Translated into German (Kosmopolis, Karl Albers, 2018) and Spanish (Marcial Pons, 2018).

2018

• Symposium — James Allan, T.R.S. Allan, Martin Krygier; response by Alon Harel, 9 Jurisprudence 132–168

2017

• Pierre Brunet, Droit & Société (17 Aug 2017) — in French↗

• Symposium — Adam Slavny, Laura Valentini, Jason Brennan; response by Alon Harel, 11 Criminal Law and Philosophy 801–859

2016

• Jacob Weinrib, Book Review: Why Law Matters, 29 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 267–270

• Leonard Kahn, Book Review, 126 Ethics 831–836

2015

• Mark Coombes, Book Review, 73 University of Toronto Law Review

• Book Review Debate — Zucca and Harel, 15 International Journal of Constitutional Law 301–318

• Arie Rosen, Book Review, 34 Law and Philosophy 699–708

• Barbara Levenbook, Book Review, Notre Dame Philosophical Review (6 Oct 2015)

• Rutgers Symposium — Thorburn, Yankaw, Zaibert, Binder, Huigens; response by Alon Harel, 2 Critical Analysis of Law

• Michel Paradis, Dignity Under Law, New Rambler Review (16 Dec 2015)

• Yossi Nehushtan, The Case for Modest Constitutional Instrumentalism, 30 Constitutional Commentary 639–666

• Symposium — Arthur Ripstein, David Estlund, Assaf Sharon, Christopher Essert; response by Alon Harel, 12 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 1–57

2014

• The Washington Post Book Review — Will Baude (6 Nov 2014)

2026

• Constitutionalism and Majoritarianism Reconciled — 18 Journal of Legal Analysis 118–134 (with Avihay Dorfman)

2024

• Can AI-Based Decisions be Genuinely Public? On the Limits of Using AI-Algorithms in Public Institutions — 6 Jus Cogens 47–64 (with Gadi Perl)

• Disobedience as Such — 15 Jurisprudence 497–514

2023

• The Necessity of Institutional Pluralism — Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (with Avihay Dorfman)

• Two Concepts of Constitutional Legitimacy — Global Constitutionalism (with Avihay Dorfman)

• Regulation ex ante, Regulation ex post — 2023 University of Illinois L. Rev. 1587 (with Vincent Chiao)

2022

• Who is to Decide in Theories of International Responsibility Law — p. 92 (ed. Samantha Besson)

• Framing Negligence — 19 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 296 (with Shoham Choshen-Hillel & Ehud Guttel)

2021

• Law as Standing — 4 Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law 93 (with A. Dorfman)

• Hate Speech — Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech (eds. Adrienne Stone & Fredrick Schauer)

• Barak’s Legal Revolutions and What Remains of Them: Authoritarian Abuse of the Judiciary-Empowerment Revolution in Israel — in Towering Judges (eds. Rehan Abeyratne & Iddo Porat)

2020

• Populist Rhetoric, False Mirroring and the Courts — 18 International Journal of Constitutional Law 746

• Taking Internationalism Seriously: Why International Criminal Law Matters — Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law ch. 9 (with M. Gur Arye)

• In Defense of Non-Representational Constitutions — Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Law Legitimacy ch. 2 (ed. Richard Albert)

2019

• Constitutionalism and Justice — Constitutionalism Justified: Rainer Forst in Discourse ch. 10 (eds. Herlin-Karnell & Klatt)

2018

• Alexander’s Constitutionalism: A Qualified Defense — Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities (ed. Heidi Hurd) pp. 221–228

• Why Privatization Matters? The Democratic Case Against Privatization — Nomos LX (eds. Jack Knight & Melissa Schwartzberg) pp. 52–78

• The Real Case for Judicial Review — Elgar Research Handbook on Comparative Judicial Review (with A. Shinar)

• Dignity, Emergency, Exception — The Rule of Crisis (eds. Auriel, Beaud, Wellman) pp. 101–118 (with A. Sharon)

• Torts for Non-Victims: The Case for Third Party Litigation — University of Illinois L. Rev. 1049–1090 (with E. Guttel & Shai Lavie)

• Radical Privatization — 47(1) Mishpatim 287–326 (in Hebrew)

2017

• Embracing the Tension Between National and International Human Rights Law: The Case for Discordant Parity — 15 International Journal of Constitutional Law 36–59

• Why Privatization Matters — Criminal Law and the Authority of the State (eds. du Bois-Pedain, Ulväng, Asp)

2016

• Against Privatization as Such — 36 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 400–427 (with A. Dorfman)

2015

• The Duty to Criminalize — 34 Law & Philosophy 1–22

2014

• Public and Private Law — Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law (eds. Dubber & Hornle) pp. 1040–1063

• Behavioral Analysis of Criminal Law: A Survey — Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law 568–598

• Why Constitutionalism Matters: The Case for Robust Constitutionalism — 1 Critical Analysis of Law 32–50

• Punishment and the State — Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (eds. Gerben & Weisburd)

2013

• The Case Against Privatization — 41 Philosophy & Public Affairs 67–102 (with A. Dorfman)

2012

• Economic Analysis of Criminal Law: A Survey — Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law 10–50 (Edward Elgar; with Keith Hylton)

• Between Judicial Review and Legislative Supremacy: A Cautious Defense of Constrained Judicial Review — 10 International Journal of Constitutional Law 950–975 (with A. Shinar)

• Freedom of Speech — Companion to Philosophy of Law (ed. Andrei Marmor), Routledge 599–617

• On the Optimal Regulation of Unread Contracts — 8 Review of Law & Economics 59–89 (with Y. Procaccia)

• Hate Speech and Comprehensive Forms of Life — The Content and Context of Free Speech (eds. Herz & Molnar) pp. 306–326

• Non-Consequentialist Voting — Journal of Behavioral Economics and Organization 299–313 (with M. Shayo)

2011

• Necessity Knows No Law — 61 University of Toronto L.J. 845–865 (with A. Sharon); reprinted in Emergency Ethics vol. I (Ashgate, 2013)

• The Triadic Relational Structure of Responsibility: A Defence — Crime, Justice, And Responsibility (eds. Cruft, Kramer, Reiff) pp. 103–121

• Commensurability and Agency: Yet Two Unmet Challenges to Law and Economics — 96 Cornell L. Rev. 749 (with A. Porat)

• Outsourcing Violence? — 5 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 396

• Law and Culture: A Critique — 40 Mishpatim 939–981 (in Hebrew; with Y. Loverboim)

2010

• The Easy Core Case for Judicial Review — 2 Journal of Legal Analysis 227–256 (with T. Kahana)

• The Right to Judicial Review: A Liberal Defense — 40 Mishpatim 239–278 (in Hebrew)

2009

• Aggregating Probabilities Across Offences in Criminal Law — 94 Minnesota L. Rev. 261–309 (with A. Porat)

2008

• Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction — 107 Michigan L. Rev. 467–499 (with E. Guttel)

• Theories of Rights — The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory ch. 13

• Social Norms, Self Interest and Ambiguity of Legal Norms: An Experimental Analysis of the Rule vs. Standard Dilemma — 4 Review of Law and Economics

• Why Only the State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions: The Case Against Privately-Inflicted Sanctions — Legal Theory 113–133

• What is Really Wrong with Torture — 6 J. Int’l Criminal Law 241–259

• Philosophical Thoughts in and About the Law — 4 Haifa L. Rev. 17–54 (with David Enoch; in Hebrew)

2007

• The Economics of Stigma: Why More Detection of Crime May Result in Less Stigmatization — 36 Journal of Legal Studies 355–377 (with A. Klement)

• Regulating Modesty-Related Practices — 1 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 213

2006

• The Right to Judicial Review — 92 Virginia L. Rev. 991–1022 (with Y. Eylon)

2005

• Matching Probabilities: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Repeated Behavior — 72 U. Chicago L. Rev. 1197 (with E. Guttel)

• Ex-Post Egalitarianism — 21 Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 57–75 (with Z. Safra & U. Segal)

2004

• The Virtues of Uncertainty in Law — 89 Iowa L. Rev. 443–494 (with T. Baker & T. Kugler)

• Whose Home Is It? Reflections on the Palestinians’ Interest in Return — 5 Theoretical Inquires in Law 333

• Benign Segregation: A Study of the Practice of Gender Separation in Buses in the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel — 20 South African Journal of Human Rights 64–85

2003

• Rights-Based Judicial Review: A Democratic Justification — 22 Law and Philosophy 247–276

2002

• An Economic Rationale for the Legal Treatment of Omissions in Tort Law: The Principle of Salience — 3 Theoretical Inquiries in Law (with A. Jacobs)

2001

• Crime Rates and Expected Sanctions: The Economics of Deterrence Revisited — 30 Journal of Legal Studies 485–502 (with O. Bar-Gill)

• The Boundaries of Democratic Pluralism — in Pluralism and the Law (ed. A. Soeteman) pp. 133–153 (Kluwer Academic)

2000

• The Rise and Fall of the Israeli Gay Legal Revolution — 31 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 443–471

• Liberalism versus Jewish Nationalism: A Case for the Separation of Zionism and State — 3 Democratic Culture 89–110

1999

• On Hate and Equality — 109 Yale L.J. 507–539 (with G. Parchomovsky)

• Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime — 1 American Law and Economics Review 276–312 (with U. Segal)

• The Rule of Law in Israel: Philosophical Aspirations and Institutional Realities — in Recrafting the Rule of Law (ed. David Dyzenhaus) pp. 143–160 (Oxford: Hart)

• The Regulation of Speech: A Normative Investigation of Criminal Law Prohibitions of Speech — in The Limits of Freedom of Expression (ed. David Kretzmer) pp. 247–274; 30 Mishpatim 69–103 (in Hebrew)

1998

• The Boundaries of Justifiable Tolerance: A Liberal Perspective — in Toleration: An Elusive Virtue (ed. David Heyd)

• Revisionist Theories of Rights: An Unwelcome Defense — 11 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 227–244

1997

• What Demands are Rights: An Investigation of the Relations Between Rights and Reasons — 17 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 101–114

1996

• The Economics of the Law of Criminal Attempts: A Victim-Centered Perspective — 145 University of Pennsylvania L. Rev. 299–351 (with O. Ben-Shahar)

• Gay Rights in Israel: A New Era? — 1 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law

1995

• Blaming the Victims: Optimal Incentives for Private Precautions Against Crime — 11 Journal of Law Economics and Organization 434–455 (with O. Ben-Shahar)

1994

• Efficiency and Fairness in Criminal Law: The Case for a Criminal Law Doctrine of Comparative Fault — 82 California L. Rev. 1181–1229

• Coherence Theories of Law — 18 Tel Aviv University L. Rev. 387–406 (in Hebrew)

1993

• Efficiency and Fairness in Criminal Law — 22 Mishpatim 499–531 (in Hebrew)

1992

• Bigotry, Pornography, and the First Amendment: A Theory of Unprotected Speech — 65 S. California L. Rev. 1887–1931

1987

• The Libertarian Resolution of the Paretian Liberal Paradox — 47 Journal of Economics (with S. Nitzan)

2025

• Governing in the Shadow of Indictments↗ — Verfassungsblog (16 Apr 2025)

2024

• The Crown and the Court — 30 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 59–65

2023

• Basic Laws and the Authority of the Courts↗ — Icon-s (in Hebrew)

• The Proposed Constitutional Putsch in Israel↗ — Verfassungsblog (14 Mar 2023)

2022

• Conservativism in Law — Icon-s (in Hebrew)

2021

• Book Review: Seana Shiffrin, Democratic Law — 133 Ethics 248

2020

• Basic Law: Israel as a Nation State of the Jewish People — 8 Nation and Nationalism 475

2019

• Slowing or Stopping the Turn to Authoritarianism in Israel↗ — Verfassungsblog (9 Oct 2019)

• Law and the Leap of Faith: Why and When Law is Virtuous — 19 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 197–203

2017

• Calabresi: The Future of Law and Economics — Review — 16 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 124–128

2016

• Book Review — R.A. Duff et al. (eds.), The Constitution of the Criminal Law — 10 Criminal Law and Philosophy 603–610

2015

• On the Irrelevance of Neuroscience to Moral Theory — 9 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 173–179

• Why (Constitutional) Law Matters: A Reply to Lorenzo Zucca — 13 International Journal of Constitutional Law 311–318

2013

• Human Rights and the Common Good: A Critique — 8 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 115–124

• Book Review: Conscience and Conviction — The Case For Civil Disobedience — Notre Dame Philosophical Review (29 Feb 2013)

2011

• Book Review: Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism — Perspectives on Politics 9(4) 946–947

• Is Pornography a Speech or an Act and Does It Matter? — 3 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 5–14

• Judicial Review and the Value Theory of Democracy — 47 Representation 63–71

2010

• The Vices of Epistemic Institutionalism — 2 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 5–15

• Book Review: Why Not Torture Terrorists? Moral, Practical and Legal Aspects of the "Ticking Bomb" Justification for Torture — 2010 Public Law 628–633

• On Privatization: Notes on Bagaz 2605/05 — Mishpatim-Online (in Hebrew)

• The Torture Lawyers: A Response — 51 Harvard International Law Journal Online (30 Mar 2010)

2009

• The Vices of Institutional Instrumentalism — 42 Israel Law Review 464–471 (Comment on Mark Tushnet)

• Cost-Benefit Analysis and National Emergencies — 42 Israel Law Review 225–233 (Comment on Richard Posner, Not a Suicide Pact)

2007

• Notes on Waldron’s Law and Disagreement: Defending Judicial Review — 39 Israel Law Review 13–21

• Book Review: Property at Crossroads (by Hanoch Dagan) — 30 Tel Aviv University Law Review 435–446 (in Hebrew)

2006

• In Defense of an Involuntary Polity: Comments on Otsuka’s Vision of the Consensual Polity — 55 Iyun 310–316

• Lecture: Uriel as a Metaphor — 36 Mishpatim 3–12 (retirement of Prof. Uriel Procaccia; in Hebrew)

2005

• Victims and Perpetrators: The Case against a Unified Theory of Comparative Liability in Criminal Law — 8 Buffalo Criminal Law Rev. 489–502

• Skeptical Reflections on Judicial Optimism — 4 Katharsis 22–50 (in Hebrew); 39 Israel L. Rev. 261–283 (2006)

2003

• Comments on Pornography and Gender Equality — Trends in Criminology (eds. Hovav, Sebba, Amir) pp. 589–593 (in Hebrew)

2002

• Economic Culturalism: A Comment on Dennis Mueller, Defining Citizenship — 3 Theoretical Inquiries 167–174

• Unconscionable Objection to Conscientious Objection: Notes on Sagi and Shapira — 36 Israel L. Rev. 219–226

1994

• Review Essay: Free Speech Revisionism — Doctrinal and Philosophical Challenges — 74 Boston U. L. Rev. 687–714

1983

• Using Hypnosis as an Investigative Technique — 13 Mishpatim 168–178 (in Hebrew)

2019

• Chief Justice Barak’s Legal Revolutions and What Remains of Them: The Authoritarian Abuse of the Judicial-Empowerment Revolution↗ — IACL-AIDC Blog (22 Mar 2019)

2018

• Private Gain, Public Loss↗ — Aeon

• The Israeli Override Clause and the Future of Israeli Democracy↗ — Verfassungsblog (May 2018)

2017

• Courts in a Populist World↗ — Verfassungsblog (Apr 2017)

2014

• The Dignity and Freedom of Life Prisoners — 204 Hasanegor 4 (in Hebrew)

2012

• The History of a Crime with No Name — 14 Odyssey 60–66 (in Hebrew)

2011

• A Modest Proposal for a Second Constitutional Revolution — (in Hebrew)

2003

• Brief On Behalf of Conscientious Objectors — Submitted to the Israeli Supreme Court

2002

• Human Rights in Israel: Between Universalism and Particularism — 11 Filosofie Magazine 8 (in Dutch)

2026

• The Judge Ruled Against Me↗ — Haaretz (15 Mar 2026, in Hebrew) — translated by Leiter Reports

• The Judge as a Clerk↗ — The Seventh Eye (28 Apr 2026, in Hebrew)

2023

• No Hesitation: Time for Disobedience↗ — Haaretz (26 Jul 2023, in Hebrew)

2018

• The Expulsion of Refugees and the Silence of Yad Vashem — Haaretz (1 Mar 2018, in Hebrew)

2013

• Sheikh Jarrah as a Fable — Haaretz (19 May 2013, in Hebrew)

2012

• Pinkwashing and the Fallacies of Gay Politics

2011

• The Death of Law — Haaretz (24 Nov 2011, in Hebrew); English version "The Death of Law"

• The States’ Attorneys Duties — Haaretz (29 Jul 2011, in Hebrew)

• Time for Legal Rebellion — Haaretz (16 Jul 2011, in Hebrew)

• Compelled To Be a Traitor — YNET (29 Jun 2011, in Hebrew)

• Justice Ltd. — Haaretz (3 Jan 2011, in Hebrew)

2010

• Condemned Homosexuals? Beware — YNET (5 Jul 2010, in Hebrew)

2008

• The Death of Research Universities in Israel — The Marker (17 Nov 2008, in Hebrew)

2007

• A New Conflict with the Court — Haaretz (6 Sep 2007, in Hebrew)

2003

• The Right to Strike — YNET (4 Nov 2003, in Hebrew)

2001

• Torture or Treatment — Haaretz (8 Aug 2001, in Hebrew)

• Permissible but Illegitimate — Haaretz (7 Feb 2001, in Hebrew)

1997

• The Real Victim — Haaretz (6 Feb 1997, in Hebrew)

1996

• Rights as Trivia — Davar Rishon (18 Apr 1996, in Hebrew)

1995

• Another Lesson from the Murder — Haaretz (15 Nov 1995, in Hebrew)