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January 29, 2007
Full CV
Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Office: Voice 972-3-6408278 Fax 972-3-6405349
E-Mail: harrisr@post.tau.ac.il
Homepage: http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/law/researcher.asp?id=agihecicf
A. CURRENT POSITION
2003- Vice Dean and Associate Professor of Law and Legal History, School of Law, Tel Aviv University
B. EDUCATION
1994 Ph.D., History, Columbia University
1991 M.Phil., History, Columbia University
1989 M.A., History, Tel Aviv University
1987 B.A., History, Tel Aviv University
1987 LL.B., Law, Tel Aviv University
PhD Dissertation Title: Industrialization without Free Incorporation: The Legal Framework of Business Organization in England, 1720-1844
Supervisor: David Cannadine (History Department)
Committee Members: Eben Moglen ( Law School), Michael Edelstein (Economics)
C. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Academic Positions
2006- Vice Dean, School of Law, Tel Aviv University
2003- Associate Professor (3 rd of 4 ranks), Tel Aviv University
2003-2004 Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law and JSP Program, UC-Berkeley
1999-2003 Senior Lecturer (Tenured, 2 nd of 4 ranks), Tel Aviv University
1997-1998 Visiting Scholar, Center for Study of Law and Society, UC- Berkeley
1996-1998 Hanadiv Fellow, Rothschild Foundation
1994-1998 Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
1993-1994 Instructor, Tel Aviv University
1991-1992 Teaching Assistant, Columbia University
1990-1991 Research Assistant, Columbia University
1987-1989 Teaching Assistant, Tel Aviv University
Additional Teaching Positions
2002-2003 School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
1999-2000 Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University
1998-1999 School of Law, Hebrew University
1995-97, 1999-2003 School of Law, College of Management
Short Term Visits
2005 Faculty of Law, Oxford
2002 University of Southern California
2000 Max Plank Institutes, Hamburg, Heidelberg
1996, 2001 Nuffield College, Oxford
1991, 1993, 1994 Institute for Historical Research, University of London
Academic Service (representative)
2005 Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, First Annual Meeting, Israeli History and Law Organization, Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem
2005 - Co-Founder, Israeli History and Law Organization
2005 Co-Organizer, "Global Trends in Personal Bankruptcy" Conference
2003 - 2005 Member, Editorial Board, Theoretical Inquiries in Law
2002 - 2003 Member, Program Committee, 2003 Annual Meeting, American Society for Legal History
2002 Co-Organizer, "Writing Legal History" Conference
2002 Organizer, Debtor - Creditor Law Symposium
1998 - Co-Founder and Co-Organizer, History and Law Workshop
1998 - Member, Membership Committee, American Society for Legal History
1999 Co-Organizer, "Judicial Biographies" Conference
1997 - 1998 Faculty Editor, Tel Aviv University Law Review
1997 Co-Organizer, Israeli Legal History, International Conference
Law School Service (representative)
2006 - Academic Director, TAU - Northwestern, Executive LL.M. in Public Law
2006 - Chair, Faculty LLB Curriculum Committee
2004 - 2006 Faculty Promotions Committee
2002 - 2005 Academic Committee, The Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law
2002 - 2006 Chair, LLM Program
2000 - Curriculum Committee
2000 - 2003 Faculty Recruitment Committee
2000 - 2002 Consulting Committee, The Minerva Center for Human Rights
2000 - 2002 Chair, Graduate (with Thesis) Program Committee
1999 - 2000 Graduate Program Committee
1994 - 2000 Information Systems (Library & Computers) Committee
1995 - 1997 Admissions Committee
University Service
2006 Member, Search Committee for Law School Dean
2005 Member, University Senate
2005 - 2006 Member, University Master Programs Committee
2004 - Chief Judge, Students’ Disciplinary Tribunal
2000 - 2002 University Information Technologies Committee
Public Services
2002 - 2004 Israel State Archives, Member of Advisory committee on preservation of legal documents
2000 - 2001 Ministry Of Justice, Public Committee on Children Rights, Member of Welfare Rights Subcommittee
1999 - Member of NGO’s lobby for protection of debtors’ rights
Professional Experience
2000 - 2003 Academic Advisor, Law and Welfare Clinic, Tel Aviv University, School of Law
1988 -1989 Yigal Arnon & Co., Law Firm
1987 - 1988 Tel Aviv District Court, Law Clerk of Judge J. Levite and of the President, Judge H. Evenor (six months each)
1984 -1985 Golan, Nir & Co., Law Firm, Student Law Clerk
1978 -1982 Military Service (Major - Reserves)
D. ACADEMIC AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2005 - 2009 Israel Science Foundation, Four Years’ Grant for the project: "Business Organization Choice and Economic Development: The Case of Britain, 1844- 2000"
2004 - 2005 Cegla Center Research Grant
2002 University Research Fund, Tel Aviv University
2000 Cegla Institute Research Grant
1999 Minerva Center Research Grant
1998 University Research Fund, Tel Aviv University
1996 -1998 Hanadiv Fellowship, Rothschild Foundation, Young Historians’ Program
1994 University Research Fund, Tel Aviv University
1993 British Council - F.C.O., Chevening Fellowship for Research in Britain
1991 Coss Memorial Prize, Department of History, Columbia University
1990 -1993 President's Fellowship, Columbia University
1989 -1990 Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University
1988 Dean of Students Award, Tel Aviv University
1987 Aran Fellowship, School of History, Tel Aviv University
E. COURSES TAUGHT
Legal History:
Law and Economic Change: Historical Perspectives
Legal History, Methodological Introduction
Israeli Legal History, Research Seminar
Israeli Legal History, Introduction
History of Anglo-American Business Law
History of Business Associations
History and Law Workshop
Law:
Corporations (US)
Corporations ( Israel)
Legal Systems (Comparative Law)
Introduction to Anglo-American Law
The Israeli Welfare State
Law and Welfare (Clinic)
Debtor - Creditor Law
Economic History:
The Industrial Revolution
F. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Israel Bar
Economic History Association (US)
Economic History Society ( UK)
American Society for Legal History
Israeli Law and Economics Association
Israeli History and Law Organization
G. REFEREEING
The Journal of Economic History
Economic History Review
Law and History Review
National Science Foundation (US)
Israel Science Foundation
Various Israeli legal periodical
Various Israeli history journals
H. PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
2006
American Society for Legal History, "The Institutional Dynamics of Early Modern Eurasian Trade: A Cross-Civilizational Comparison"
Israeli Economic Association, Annual Meeting, "The Formation of the East India Company as a Cooperation-Enhancing Institution"
Washington and Lee University, School of Law, Understanding Corporate Law through History Conference, "The Transplantation of the Legal Discourse on Corporate Personality Theories: From German Codification to British Political Pluralism and American Big Business"
Hebrew University, Department of Economics, "Who came first? The Corporate Share or the Share market? The distinct paths of the Dutch and the English East India Companies"
2005
Antwerp University, Conference: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Commercial Institutions in Pre-Modern Europe, Paper: "The Formation of East India Company as a Cooperation Enhancing Institution"
IDHE, CNRS, Paris, and Univ. Paris 1, Conference: Making markets through the law: Legal claim and economic possibility, Paper: "Who came first? The Corporate Share or the Share market? The distinct paths of the Dutch and the English East India Companies"
Tel Aviv University, Global Trends in Personal Bankruptcy Conference, "Bankruptcy Policy in Light of Manipulation in Credit Advertising"
Ben Gurion Research Institute, "Arab Politics and the Israeli Supreme Court in the Second Decade"
Harvard Business School, "Who came first? The Corporate Share or the Share market? The distinct paths of the Dutch and the English East India Companies
Tel Aviv University, Law School, "The Formation of the East India Company as a Deal between Entrepreneurs and Outside Investors"
Yad Ben-Zvi Research Institute, "Arab Politics and the Israeli Supreme Court in the Second Decade"
2004
UCLA, Department of Economics, Roundtable: "Economic History and the Evolution to Business Law: The Case of Private Companies"
Association of American Law Schools, Conference on Educating Lawyers for Transnational Challenges, Oahu, Hawaii, "Teaching Corporation Law in a Transnational Era"
Stanford University, Department of Economics, Social Science History Seminar, "Institutional Innovation, Theories of the Firm and the Formation of the East India Company"
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School, Economic History Workshop, "Institutional Innovation, Theories of the Firm and the Formation of the East India Company"
Boston University, School of Law, Legal History Seminar, "Corporate Personality Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century: Germanic Clans, British Trade Unions, and American Big Business"
Northwestern University, Department of Economics, Economic History Seminar, "Institutional Innovation, Theories of the Firm and the Formation of the East India Company"
University of Michigan, School of Law, "Corporations and unincorporated companies in the history of English law"
UC Berkley, School of Law, Law and Economics Workshop, "Institutional Innovation, Theories of the Firm and the Formation of the East India Company"
UCLA, Economics Department, Economic History Seminar, "Institutional Innovation, Theories of the Firm and the Formation of the East India Company"
UC Berkeley, Center for the Study of Law and Society, "Corporate Personality Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century: Germanic Clans, British Trade Unions, and American Big Business"
2003
George Mason University, School of Law, Levy Workshop, "Institutional Innovation, Theories of the Firm and the Formation of the East India Company"
Oxford University, All Souls College, Oxford Economic and Social History Seminar, "Property Rights and the Industrial Revolution"
2002
University of Southern California. School of Law, Joint Law, History and Culture and Law, Economics and Organization Workshop, "The Uses of History in Law and Economics"
University of Southern California. School of Law, History of Corporations Roundtable, "Transplantation, Historical Narration and Contextualization in the turn of the 20th century Legal Personality Discourse"
Bar Ilan University, School of Law, Faculty Seminar, "Arab Politics in a Jewish State, El - Ard Movement and the Supreme Court"
2001
The Cambridge Economic History of Britain Conference, London, "Government and the Economy"
Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, Budapest, "Israeli Legal History: Past and Present"
Economic History Society, 75 th Annual Meeting, Glasgow, "Entrepreneurship and the Law of Business Organization, 1660 - 1800"
Israeli Legal History Lectures Series, Tel Aviv University, "Arab Politics in a Jewish State, El - Ard Movement and the Supreme Court"
2000
American Society for Legal History, Annual Meeting, Princeton, "Drifting Apart? Legal History, Economic History, Law & Economics"
Hebrew University, School of Law, "From Imprisonment to Discharge: Setting an Agenda for Reform in Debtor - Creditor Law"
Tel Aviv University, School of Law, "From Imprisonment to Discharge: Setting an Agenda for Reform in Debtor - Creditor Law"
Israeli Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, "Sociologists and Creditor- Debtor Law"
Israeli Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, "Who is Setting the Agenda in Creditor - Debtor Law?"
1999
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, "Drifting Apart? Legal History, Economic History, Law & Economics"
1998
Harvard University, Law School, "The Unincorporated Company, a Study in Autonomy and Functionality in English Law".
Boston University, School of Law, "The Unincorporated Company, a Study in Autonomy and Functionality in English Law".
Columbia University, Law School, "Evolution and Path Dependency in the History of the Joint-Stock Company".
Stanford University, Department of Economics, "Industrialization without Free Incorporation".
American Society for Legal History, Annual Meeting, Seattle, "Exclusion and Dependence in the Early Israeli Welfare Legislation"
Yad Ben-Zvi Research Institute, Conference on State and Church in Israel, 1948-1967, "Jewish Law and the Formation of the Israeli Legal System, New Options and Absent Minded Misses"
1997
Haifa University, Faculty of Law, "The Israeli Supreme Court Decisions, Quantitative Analysis"
International Conference - Israeli Legal History, "The Early Social Legislation, between Socialism, Nationalism and Liberalism".
The Israeli Judiciary School, "Debtor-Creditor Law, Social and Economic Analysis".
UC Berkeley, Center for the Study of Law and Society, "Partnerships, Trusts and the Unincorporated Company".
1996
Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, "Citation Practices of the Israeli Supreme Court".
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, "Discourse and Dissent in Israel’s Supreme Court".
Interdisciplinary Center, School of Law, "Citation Practices of Israel’s Supreme Court".
Bar Ilan University, Faculty of Law, "The Israeli Supreme Court Decisions, Quantitative Analysis"
1995
Hebrew University, Department of Economics "Laissez-Faire and State Intervention in Mid-19 th Century Britain".
Israeli Historical Association, "The Israeli Labor Movement and Imprisonment for Debt".
1994
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, "The Passage of the Bubble Act".
I. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720 - 1844 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Reviewed in: Michigan Law Review, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal, American Journal of Legal History, Ius Commune, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review, Netherlands Economic History Archive Bulletin, EH Net Book Reviews (Economic History), EH Net Book Reviews (Business History), Business History Review, Business History, Enterprise & Society, Technology & Culture, Journal of Modern History, American Historical Review.
EDITED BOOKS and Theme Issues
"Personal Bankruptcy in the 21st Century: Emerging Trends and New Challenges", A Theme Issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2003) Guest Ed.
Writing Legal History, A Theme Issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law - devoted to new methodological trends in the writing of legal history (2003) Guest Ed. With Laura Kalman, Pnina Lahav and Assaf Likhovski
The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society: Israel, 1917-1967 (Ashgate Publishing, 2002) Ed. With Sandy Kedar, Pnina Lahav, Assaf Likhovski
Reviewed in: Haaretz Books Section, Legal History, Politika
Haim Zadok: A Jurist and a Statesman (The Israel Democracy Institute, 2002) Ed.
Reviewed in: Haaretz Books Section
ARTICLES
"Bankruptcy Policy in Light of Manipulation in Credit Advertising", Theoretical Inquiries in Law Vol. 7 No. 2 (2006) With Einat Albin
"The English East India Company and the History of Company Law" in VOC 1602-2002 - 400 Years of Company Law, Series Law of Business and Finance, Volume 6, Eds. Ella Gepken-Jager, Gerard van Solinge, Levinus Timmerman, Kluwer Legal Publishers 2005. p. 219-247.
"Government and the Economy, 1688 - 1850" in Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson Eds. The Cambridge Economic History of Britain since 1700, Volume I, 1700 - 1850 (2004, Cambridge University Press)
"The Uses of History in Law and Economics" Theoretical Inquiries in Law Vol. 4 No. 2 659 - 696 (2003).
"The Encounters of Economic History and Legal History" Law and History Review Vol. 21 No. 2, 297 - 346 (2003).
"Between Law and History: on the Historiography of Israeli Law" Tel Aviv University Law Review vol. 26 No. 2, 351 - 389 (2002) (in Hebrew)
"Haim Zadok: Minister of Justice, Legislator and Jurist" in Haim Zadok: A Jurist and a Statesman 15 - 31 (The Israel Democracy Institute, 2002) (in Hebrew)
"Arab Politics in a Jewish State: El - Ard Movement and the Supreme Court", Plilim, The Multi-Disciplinary Journal of Public Law, Society and Culture Vol. 10, 107 - 155 (2001) (in Hebrew)
"Absent Minded Misses and Historical Opportunities: Jewish Law, Israeli Law and the Establishment of the State of Israel" in Mordechai Bar-On and Zvi Zameret Eds. On Both Sides of the Bridge: Religion and State in the Early Years of Israel 21 - 55 (2002). (in Hebrew)
"Legitimizing the Imprisonment of Poor Debtors: Lawyers, Legislators, Judges" in Ron Harris, Sandy Kedar, Pnina Lahav, Assaf Likhovski Eds. The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society: Israel, 1917-1967 217 - 271 (2002)
"Israeli Legal History: Past and Present" in Ron Harris, Sandy Kedar, Pnina Lahav, Assaf Likhovski Eds. The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society: Israel, 1917-1967 1 - 34 (2002) with Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Assaf Likhovski and Pnina Lahav
[A Revised German version of this article was published as:
"Israelische Rechtsgeschichte: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" in Zeitschrift fur Neuere Rechtsgeschichte 70 - 94 Vol. 25 Nr. 1 / 2 (2003)
"Rethinking the Rationale for Teaching Comparative Law in Israel" (2001 in Tel Aviv University Law Review) Vol. 25, No. 2, 443 - 465 (2001). (in Hebrew)
"The Law as Reflecting and Transforming in the Second Decade" in H. Yablonka & Z. Zamereth eds. Israel in the Second Decade: 1958 - 1968 125 - 148 (Jerusalem, 2000). (In Hebrew)
"From Imprisonment to Discharge: Setting an Agenda for Reforms in Debtor - Creditor Law" Tel Aviv University Law Review Vol. 23, No. 3, 641 - 696 (2000). (in Hebrew)
"Why wasn't Imprisonment for Debt Abolished during the Era of Domination of the Labor Movement?" in M. Mautner & D. Gutwein Eds., Law and History. 423 - 440 (Jerusalem, 1999). (in Hebrew)
"Political Economy, Interest Groups, Legal Institutions and the Repeal of the Bubble Act in 1825", Economic History Review, Vol. L, No. 4, 675-696 (1997).
"Israeli Law, the Formative Years 1948-1958", in H. Yablonka & Z. Zamereth Eds. The First Decade of Independence 244-262 (Jerusalem, 1997). (In Hebrew)
"The Fall and Rise of Imprisonment for Debt", Tel Aviv University Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, 439-509 (1996). (in Hebrew)
"Citation Practices of Israel's Supreme Court: Quantitative Analysis", Mishpatim, Hebrew University Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, 119-217 (1996). (in Hebrew) With Yoram Shachar and Meron Gross
"Anatomy of Discourse and Dissent in Israel's Supreme Court" Tel Aviv University Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, 749-795 (1996). (in Hebrew) With Yoram Shachar and Meron Gross
"The Bubble Act: Its Passage and Its Effects on Business Organization",The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 54, No. 3, 610-627 (1994).
[Reprinted in Ross B. Emmett ed. Great Bubbles (Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2000)]
Submitted
"The Transplantation of a Legal Discourse: Corporate Personality Theories from German Codification to British Political Pluralism and American Big Business", Washington and Lee Law Review
"The Formation of the East India Company as a Cooperation Enhancing Institution"
In Revisions
"A Case Study in the Banning of Political Parties: The Pan-Arab Movement El Ard and the Israeli Supreme Court"
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of "Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850" By Robin Pearson, American Historical Review (Forthcoming)
Review of "Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism" By Charles Perrow, Economica (Forthcoming)
Review of "Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American independence" by Bruce H. Mann, American Historical Review (2004)
Review of "The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780 - 1850" By Robert E. Wright, History (Forthcoming)
Review of "The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688 - 1914" Edited by Donald Winch and Patrick K. O'Brien, The Journal of Economic History (2004)
Review of "Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias" by Peter M. Garber, Economica (2003)
Review of "Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860" by Stuart Banner, The Journal of Economic History Vol. 60, p. 277 (2000)
Review of "Conceiving Companies: Joint Stock Politics in Victorian England" by Timothy L Alborn, The Journal of Economic History Vol. 59 p. 511 (1999)
"From Chicago to Jerusalem, Interviews and Narratives" Review of Pnina Lahav, Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century, H-Law, H-Net Reviews, November, 1998.
URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi? path=23083910378716
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
"El Karbuteli v. The Minister of Defense in its Historical Context", in The Courts of Law, Fifty Years of Adjudication in Israel (1999). (in Hebrew)
"The Preservation of Legal Traditions in Post-Colonial Societies: A Comment" in Yehoshua Ben-Arieh ed. Jerusalem and the British Mandate: Interaction and Legacy (2003) p. 287. (in Hebrew)
"The Bubble Act of 1720" in Joel Mokyr Ed. in Chief The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (2003)
"Roundtable: Israeli Constitutionalism" Yale Israel Journal No. 6 (Spring 2005)
In Press
"Law and Economics" in Stanley Katz Ed. in Chief The Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History (forthcoming)
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Who came first? The Corporate Share or the Share market? The distinct paths of the Dutch and the English East India Companies"
"Historical Narration in the Turn of the 20th Century Legal Personality Discourse"
"Business Organization in the Long Run: Private Limited Companies Rule!" With Timothy Guinnane, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,
