The Supreme Court of Israel.
This is the first webinar in the Center's series "Key Legal Issues in Israel."
Join us on March 11th for a webinar with Professor Yishai Blank, the Dean of Tel Aviv University Law School, who will address religious, national and cultural tensions in Israel, the way local governments are managing these tensions, and how local governments can mitigate them.
Wednesday, March 11, 202611:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)Webinar
11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern / 19:00 UK / 21:00 Israel–Palestine
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Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. Co-sponsored by the International & Comparative Law Program at UCLA School of Law.
About the Program
Unlike the American system of federalism, Israel lacks an embedded, constitutionally defined structure of national-local governance. Please join us for an interesting and important discussion with Professor Yishai Blank, the Dean of Tel Aviv University Law School, who will address religious, national and cultural tensions in Israel, the way local governments are managing these tensions, and how local governments can mitigate them. This is the first program in a new collaboration between the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and Tel Aviv University Law School regarding key legal issues in Israeli society. Additional programs in this series will be offered in the coming weeks and months.
About the Speakers
Professor Yishai Blank is the Dean of Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann Faculty of Law. His research and teaching areas include Local Government Law, Administrative Law, Global Cities, Urban Legal Policy, Law and Secularism, and Legal Theory. Professor Blank obtained his LL.B. and an additional B.A. in Philosophy (both magna cum laude) from TAU and clerked for the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, before practicing law in a top law firm in Israel. He continued his studies at Harvard Law School, where he was a Byse Fellowship recipient and where he received his LL.M. and his S.J.D. He is a three-time recipient of prestigious fellowships from the Israeli Science Foundation. Yishai was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Cornell Law School, University of Toronto Law School, Queen’s University Law School, Sciences Po Law School (Paris), Brown University, University of Hamburg, and the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain). Professor Blank’s research has been published in top law journals in the United States and Israel, including the Stanford Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of International Law. Prof. Blank was the Chairperson of the Israeli Association of Public Law, and he is currently a member of its Board.
Jon D. Michaels (moderator) is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Advisor to the Dean on Civic Engagement. His scholarly and teaching interests include constitutional law, administrative law, national security law, the separation of powers, presidential power, regulation, bureaucracy, privatization, political extremism, and political violence. A two-time winner of the American Constitution Society’s Cudahy Award for scholarly excellence in administrative law and an elected member of the American Law Institute, Michaels has written essays for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, the Forward, Foreign Affairs, Time Magazine, American Prospect, and the Guardian. He is a frequent legal affairs commentator for national and local media outlets. Michaels is a graduate of Williams College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and Yale Law School, where he served as an articles editor for the Yale Law Journal.
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.
Sponsor(s): International & Comparative Law Program (ICLP) at UCLA School of Law, The Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University