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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, Ius Commune, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review, EH Net Book Reviews (Economic History), EH Net Book Reviews (Business History), Business History Review, Business History, Enterprise & Society.

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

Haim Zadok: A Jurist and a Statesman (The Israel Democracy Institute, 2002) Ed.

Reviewed in: Haaretz Books Section

In Press

Writing Legal History, A Theme Issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law - devoted to new trends in the methodology of legal history (Forthcoming 2003) Ed. With Laura Kalman, Pnina Lahav and Assaf Likhovski

ARTICLES

“Haim Zadok: Minister of Justice, Legislator and Jurist” in Haim Zadok: A Jurist and a Statesman (The Israel Democracy Institute, 2002)

“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)

“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 German version of this article is to be published in Zeitschrift fur Neuere Rechtsgeschichte in 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)]

In Press

Economic History of Britain since 1700, Volume I, 1700 - 1850 (Forthcoming 2003, Cambridge University Press)

“The Encounters of Economic History and Legal History” Law and History Review vol. 20 no. 2 (forthcoming Summer 2003)

“Between Law and History: on the Historiography of Israeli Law” Tel Aviv University Law Review vol. 26 (forthcoming 2002)

Accepted

“The Uses of History in Law and Economics” Theoretical Inquiries in Law Vol. 4 No. 4 (Forthcoming 2003)

In Preparation

“Exclusion and Dependence in the Formation of Early Israeli Welfare Legislation”

“Transplantation, Historical Narration and Contextualization in the turn of the 20th century Legal Personality Discourse”



BOOK REVIEWS

Review of “Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias” by Peter M. Garber, Economica (Forthcoming 2002)

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)

In Press

“The Bubble Act of 1720” in Joel Mokyr Ed. In Chief The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Forthcoming)