Avihay Dorfman is a law professor at Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law. He is a graduate of Haifa University (B.A. Economics ‘04, LL.B. Law ‘04) and Yale Law School (LL.M. ‘06, J.S.D. ‘08). He clerked for The Honorable Aharon Barak, the (then) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. He is the winner of the 2011 Alon Fellowship (granted by the Council of Higher Education in Israel), the 2011-2012 Cegla prize for best law review article published by junior faculty in Hebrew, and a winner of the 2013 Cheshin Prize in the category of junior legal scholar.
Dorfman’s primary research and teaching interests include private law, the private/public distinction, and theories of political legitimation. Representative publications are:
- The Case Against Privatization, 41 Philosophy & Public Affairs 67 (2013) (w/ Alon Harel)
- Private Ownership and the Standing to Say So, 64 University of Toronto Law Journal 402 (2014)
- Private Law Exceptionalism? Part I: A Basic Difficulty with the Structural Arguments from Bipolarity and Civil Recourse, 35 Law & Philosophy 165 (2016)
- Just Relationships, 116 Columbia Law Review 1935 (2016) (w/ Hanoch Dagan)
- Negligence and Accommodation, 22 Legal Theory 77 (2016)
- Against Privatization As Such, 36 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 400 (2016) (w/ Alon Harel)
- Private Law Exceptionalism? Part II: A Basic Difficulty with the Argument from Formal Equality, 31 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 5 (2018)
- Substantive Remedies, 96 Notre Dame Law Review 513 (2020) (w/ Hanoch Dagan)
- Relational Justice and Torts, in Research Handbook on Private Law Theory 321 (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky eds., 2021)
- The Domain of Private Law, 71 University of Toronto Law Journal 207 (2021) (w/ Hanoch Dagan)
- Law as Standing, Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law (Leslie Green & Brian Leiter eds., vol. 4, forthcoming 2021) (w/ Alon Harel)
- When, and How, does Property Matter?, University of Toronto Law Journal (forthcoming 2021)
- Poverty and Private Law: Beyond Distributive Justice (unpublished manuscript) (w/ Hanoch Dagan)
