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Curriculum Vitae

Michal Alberstein

Law faculty Bar – Ilan University http://www.law.biu.ac.il/English/main.php?id=74

JCR Collaboratory: http://jcrlab.com/

Education

1997 – 2000 Harvard Law School SJD

1996 - 97 Harvard Law School LLM (waived)

1989 – 93 Tel - Aviv University LLB, Magna Cum Laude

1990 – 93 Tel - Aviv University B.A., Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude

Clinical Education – Dispute Resolution

1999 – 2000 Harvard Law School:

The Program On Negotiation - Dispute Resolution Forum (DRF)

Spring 2000 Harvard Law School - Harvard Mediation Program (HMP) training

Winter 1999 Harvard Law School - The Program On Negotiation (PON) Winter

Workshop

Spring 1997 Harvard Law School - Mediation Seminar, Prof Frank. E. Sander

1996 - 1997 Harvard Law School, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business

School - Interdisciplinary seminar on dispute resolution for graduate students

Fall 1996 Harvard Law School - Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Prof. Frank E.

Sander

Honors, Awards and Competitive Grants

2017 Pathal prize for distinguished legal scholar under the age of 50 in Israeli

academia.

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2015 – 2016 The Bar - Ilan University Rector Award for significant academic

achievement.

2016 ISF workshop Grant 2179/16 “Trends in Formalism and The Judicial

Role: Jurisprudence Meets Empirical Legal Studies” 67,000 NIS.

2016 – 2021 ERC Consolidator Grant 647943/14 “Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR):

Examining Hybrids of non - adversarial Justice” ; 1,272,534 Euro

2012 – 2015 Israel Science Foundation. Individual Research Grant 1397/12

“Formalizing Formalism: An Empirical Study of the Rhetoric of

Formalism in Israeli Supreme Court Opinions over Time” 350,000 NIS

2001 – 2004 Alon scholarship for the "excellent scientist," given by the higher council for

academic studies in Israel for young scholars, fully sponsoring their

university positions for three years

1999 – 2000 Byes Fellowship, Harvard Law School, for excellent doctoral students

17,000$

1989 – 1992 Tel - Aviv University, The Faculty of Law. Dean's List 1989 - 90, 1991 - 92

Academic Employment

2015 Whittier Law School - Adjunct Professor: ADR in Israel

2015 Monash University Prato, Italy - Adjunct Professor: Law and Alternatives to

Law in Israel

2013 Fordham Law School - Visiting International Professor. Non Adversarial

Justice

2012 Monash University Prato, Italy - Adjunct Professor, Mediation and Law:

From Problem Solving to Narrative Building

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2011 Heidelberg University, Hochsule pur Judishe Studies - Adjunct Professor:

Law and Alternatives to Law in Israel

2009 Tel Aviv University International Program Dispute Resolution and

Mediation - Adjunct Professor: Alternative Dispute Resolution

2008 University of Puerto Rico School of Law - Adjunct Professor. Mediation and

its Multi - Cultural Aspects

2007 – present Whittier Law School - Adjunct Professor: ADR in Israel

2006 Cardozo Law School - Adjunct Professor. Multicultural Dispute Resolution

seminar.

2005 – 2006 Fordham Law School - Visiting Associate Professor. Alternative Dispute

Resolution; Multicultural Dispute Resolution.

2000 - present Bar - Ilan University, The Faculty of Law - 2009 - current Associate

Professor, 2005 - 2009: Senior Lecturer, 2000 - 2005 Lecturer

2000 – 2006 Law School, academic studies at the College of Management, Israel -

Adjunct Lecturer in dispute resolution

Lead seminars on Alternative Dispute Resolution; Interdisciplinary Aspects

of Negotiation in a Multicultural Society

Teach course on Theoretical Perspectives of Dispute Resolution

Member of the steering committee of The Israeli Academic Research

Institute of Conflict Resolution and Mediation (ICRM)

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1999 – 2000 Harvard Law School - Byes Fellow

Teach colloquium on "Theory in Action: 'Law and...' Interdisciplinary

Reflections"

1999 Harvard Law School - Teaching assistant

1997 – 98 Law School, academic studies at the College of Management, Israel -

Lecturer:

Year courses in Jurisprudence and Administrative Law;

Elective course in Dispute Resolution;

1st - year legal writing workshop

1993 – 96 Tel - Aviv University, Faculty of Law - Teaching assistant:

Jurisprudence (93 - 95);

Administrative law (95 - 96), including tutorials

Research assistant in jurisprudence

1994 – 96 Law School, academic studies of the College of Management, Israel -

Teaching assistant:

Jurisprudence; Administrative law; Criminal law

Grade exams, teach tutorials

Other Employment

1994 – 95 Supreme Court of Israel - Clerkship in the chamber of Justice Dalia Dorner

1993 – 94 Attorney General’s Office - Tel - Aviv District - Clerkship, included

handling own files and appearing in court

1987 - 89 Israeli Defense Force - Nature Guide of the Society for Protection of Nature,

at Sderot – developed town in the Negev desert.

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Teaching

Jurisprudence, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Intercultural Negotiation, Mediation,

Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Theories of Law, Judicial Conflict Resolution, Legal Formalism

Research Students

Finished their PhD:, Omer Shapira (BIU president scholarship), Elad Finkestein (BIU

president scholarship) , Karni Perlman (BIU president scholarship), Orit Rabbi, Elad

Finkelstein (BIU president scholarship), Ran Kuttner (with Prof. Yaccov Raz) (BIU

president scholarship), Rachel Kaplan, Nerit Ferenz (with Prof. Jaad Neeman) (BIU

president scholarship), Golan Luzon (BIU president scholarship, Israel - Switzerland

Philosophy foundation), Aviad Igra (with Prof. Ariel Bendor)(BIU president scholarship),

Hanan Mandel, Anat Friedman, Gahl Silverman, Carmit Klar - Chalamish.

Einat Ronen, Iris Netz, Gilad Weiner (BIU president scholarship, The Ernst Ehrlich

Studienwerk (ELES) Doctoral Grant), Daniela Assraf, Talia Yehuda

Professional and Academic Activities

January 2017 Council for Higher Education of Israel (malag) - Evaluator for postdoc

fellowships

May 2016 Haifa University - Prize committee Pathal Prize for outstanding academic

achievements in law 2016

Council for Higher Education - Evaluator of a Conflict Resolution MA

program

March 2016 – present

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Givat Chaviva European Union grant for coexistence - Leading a dialogue

group on restorative practices between Arab and Jewish groups in Israel

February 2016 European Research Council - Evaluator for the European Research Council

(ERC) of highly competitive research proposals submitted to the 'ERC

Consolidator Grant - 2016', step 2.

December 2015

Israel Law and Society Association - Member of the managing board

January 2015 – present

Bar Ilan University - Sexual Harassment Commissioner

January 2015 Bar Ilan University - Organizing Committee: Merging Theory and Practice

in Creative conflict Engagement

October 2014 University College Dublin (UCD) Sutherland School of Law - Visiting

Researcher

July 2014 College of Management, Israel - Organizing Committee: Law and Therapy

June 2014 – present

International Mediation Institute (IMI) - Member of Stirring Committee

for establishing a middle east branch of IMI

February 2014 – present

International Mediation Institute (IMI) - Member of Ethics Committee

September 2013 Ministry of Justice, Israel - Legislation committee mediation

regulation (Takanot hagishur (reshimat megashrim))

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May 2013 Bar Ilan University - Organizing Committee: Evaluating Success and

Failure in Conflict Engagement

January 2012 – Present

Bar Ilan University And ELEVEN publishing - Editor of The

International Journal of Conflict Engagement and Resolution

January 2012 Bar Ilan University - Organizing Committee: Regulating Dispute

Resolution in Israel

December 2011 Bar Ilan University - Organizing Committee: The Fourth Israeli Law

and Society Conference

2011 – Present Stirring Committee International Network On therapeutic

Jurisprudence

October 2011 - Present

Bar Ilan University - Head of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

of Conflict Management and Negotiation

2011 – 2014 European Union Brussels. Research Executive Agency - FP7

Evaluator for the topics "conflict resolution and mediation" and

"social polarizations"

June 2010 – Present International Law and Society Association - Dissertation Prize

Committee

May 2010 International Law and Society Association - Organizing Committee:

The 2010 LSA in Chicago. Conference Theme: "After Critique"

2010 - Present Law and Society Review - Reviewer of articles – ad hoc

Law, Culture and Humanities Review

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2010 – Present ICC Dispute Resolution Services Paris - Judge at the International

Commercial Mediation Competition

February 09 Bar Ilan University - Organizing Committee: The Second "Gender

and Discourse in Israel" conference

December 08 Hebrew University – Israeli Law and Society - Organizing

Committee: The First Israeli Law and Society Conference

2008 – 2010 Bar ilan University - Co - director of a Dialogue program "Know the

Other" between Palestinian teachers and Jewish Orthodox Israeli

teachers.

2007 – 2011 Bar Ilan University - Member of the university discipline committee

2007 – preset The Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University - Member of the recruitment

committee and scholarship committee

2006 – present Bar Ilan University - Advisory board of The Israeli Journal of

Conflict Resolution and Negotiation.

2002 – present Bar - Ilan University, The Faculty of Law - Conduct a clinical

program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution for third - year

students

2001 – 2005 Bar Ilan University - Member of the university scholarship committee

2001 – 2004 The Israeli Institute for Democracy - Member of the Young Forum

for Constitution through Consent

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2000 - present Bar Ilan University, The Faculty of Law - Director of the Florence

Unger and Samuel Goldenstein M. D. Interdisciplinary Center for

Law, Rationality, Ethics, and Social Justice

2000 - present Bar Ilan University - Member of steering committee of an

interdisciplinary graduate program in conflict management

2000 – 2001 Bar Ilan University - Participate in conducting a post - M.A.

academic program for social workers in mediation

1995 – present The Israeli Bar Association - Legal Attorney, member of the Israeli

Bar Association

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Publications

BOOKS (AUTHOR)

1. ALTERNATIVE JUSTICE: MEDIATION, RESTORATION AND THERAPY THROUGH LEGAL

MECHANISMS (University Meshuderet, forthcoming Modan Publishing, 2015) (in

Hebrew)

2. JURISPRUDENCE OF MEDIATION (University of Haifa Press and Magnes) 2007. (in

Hebrew)

3. PRAGMATISM AND LAW: FROM PHILOSOPHY TO DISPUTE RESOLUTION (Ashgate,

2002).

BOOKS (EDITOR)

1. TRAUMA'S OMEN: ISRAELI STUDIES IN IDENTITY, MEMORY AND REPRESENTATION

(Michal Alberstein, Nadav Davidovitch, Rakefet Zalashik, eds.) Bar Ilan Law

University Press and Hakibutz Hameuchad (Forthcoming 2016)

2. TRAUMA AND MEMORY: READING, HEALING AND MAKING LAW (Michal Alberstein,

Nadav Davidovitch & Austin Sarat eds.) (Stanford University Press, 2007).

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. The Measure of Formalism in Traumatic Cases: The Court as a Therapeutic Agent

in: TRAUMA'S OMEN: ISRAELI STUDIES IN IDENTITY, MEMORY AND REPRESENTATION

(Michal Alberstein, Nadav Davidovitch, Rakefet Zalashik, eds.) Bar Ilan Law

University Press and Hakibutz Hameuchad (Forthcoming 2016) (in Hebrew)

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2. (with Avital Margalit) Reconciliation in the Courtroom: On the Power and

Limitations of Apology forthcoming in IN SEARCH OF SOLIDARITY: AN ISRAELI

JOURNEY (Yedidia Z. Stern AND Benjamin Porat, eds.) The Israel Democracy

Institute (2014) 402 (in Hebrew).

3. The Measure of Formalism: Justice Dorner's Writing as a Case Study in Dorner's

Book (Shulamit Almog, Yaad Rotem and Dorit Beinish, eds., Nevo Publishing,

2009) 57. (in Hebrew)

4. Israeli - Jewish Cultural aspects of an Event of Violence: Between Biblical Codes

and Zionist Ideology, in RESTORING JUSTICE AFTER LARGE SCALE VIOLENT

CONFLICTS 252 (Ivo Aersten, Jana Arsovska, Holger - C.Rohne, Marta Valinas eds.,

Willen Punlishing, 2008).

5. Forgiveness across Cultures: Genocide in the West and elsewhere (El Perdon a

traes delas culturas: Genocidio en Occidente y en otro lugares) in MEMORIA Y

RECONSTRUCCION DE LA PAZ: ENFOQUES MULTIDISCIPLINARES EN CONTEXTOS

MUNDIALES 59 (Rosa M Medina Domenech, Beatriz Molina Rueda, Maria Gracia -

Miguel eds., Universidad de Granada, Catarara, 2008) (in Spanish)

6. Trauma and Memory: between collective and subjective experiences" (Trauma y

Memoria: entre la experencia individual y colectivia), MEMORIA Y

RECONSTRUCCION DE LA PAZ: ENFOQUES MULTIDISCIPLINARES EN CONTEXTOS

MUNDIALE 41 (Rosa M Medina Domenech, Beatriz Molina Rueda, Maria Gracia -

Miguel, eds., Universidad de Granada, Catarara, 2008) (in Spanish) (with Nadav

Davidovitch)

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7. The Secrets of Mediation and Trauma in Contemporary film: A Search from the

Perspective of Restorative Justice, TRAUMA AND MEMORY: READING, HEALING AND

MAKING LAW 263 (Austin Sarat, Nadav Davidovitch, Michal Alberstein, eds.,

Stanford University Press, 2007)

8. Trauma and Memory: Between Individual and Collective Experiences, TRAUMA

AND MEMORY: READING, HEALING AND MAKING LAW 3 (Austin Sarat, Nadav

Davidovitch, Michal Alberstein, eds., Stanford University Press, 2007) (with Austin

Sarat and Nadav Davidovitch)

9. Mediating Paradoxically: Complementing the Paradox of 'Relational Autonomy'

with the 'Paradox of Rights' in THINKING MEDIATION, IN PARADOXES AND

INCONSISTENCIES IN LAW 225 (Hart Publishing, Oren Perez & Gunther Teubner eds.,

2006)

10. On Biases, Bounded Rationality and Other Voices: Cultures of Mediation and

Law, in TRIALS OF LOVE 657 (Orna Ben Naftali, Hannah Naveh, eds., Ramot, 2005)

(in Hebrew)

ARTICLES

1. (with Nourit Zimerman) “Constructive Plea - Bargaining: Towards Judicial Conflict

Resolution” forthcoming in OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION

2. “Judicial Conflict Resolution: Towards a Jurisprudence beyond Dispute”,

forthcoming in DIN UDVARIM 2016

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3. (with Yuval Sinai) “Expanding Judicial Discretion: Between Legal and Conflict

Considerations” forthcoming in HARVARD NEGOTIATION LAW REVIEW 2016

4. (with Yuval Sinai) “Court Arbitration by Compromise: Discretion, Hybridity and

Legal Pluralism” 13 CARDOZO PUBLIC LAW, POLICY & ETHICS JOURNAL (2015) 739.

5. “Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR): A New Jurisprudence for Emerging Judicial

Practice” 16 CARDOZO LAW JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION (2015) 1.

6. “The Success–Failure Anxiety in Conflict Resolution: Between Law, Narrative and

Field Building” forthcoming in International JOURNAL OF CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT

AND RESOLUTION 2014.

7. “The Law of Alternatives: Conflict Resolution as The Art of Reconstruction”

forthcoming in 70 STUDIES IN LAW POLITICS AND SOCIETY (2016) 149 - 180.

8. “Experimenting with Conflicts Constructively: In Search of Identity for the Field of

Conflict Resolution” in 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT AND

RESOLUTION (2013) 135.

9. "The Mediation Revolution in Israel: Current Mapping of Intersections of Conflict

Resolution and Law", forthcoming in THE ISRAEL JOURNAL ON CONFLICT

RESOLUTION 2013 (in Hebrew)

10. (with Jay Rothman) "Individuals, Groups, Intergroups: Theorizing about The Role

of Identity in Conflicts", 28 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL. 631 2013

11. “Measuring Legal Formalism: Reading Hard Cases with Soft Frames” 57 STUDIES

IN LAW, POLITICS AND SOCIETY ( 2012 ) 2003.

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12. (with Amy Cohen) Progressive Constitutionalism and Alternative Movements in

Law, 72 OHIO ST. LAW JOURNAL 1083 (2011)

13. The Measure of Legal Formalism: Cultures and Frames of Israeli Legal Writing

27 BAR ILAN LAW STUDIES (2012) 349 (in Hebrew)

14. Fast Justice v. Sublime Justice: Anatomy of Practice Theory Relationship in

Conflict Resolution ALEI MISHPAT (forthcoming, 2011) (in Hebrew)

15. (with Nadav Davidovitch) Apologies in the Health Care System: From Clinical

Medicine to Public Health 74 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 151 (2011)

16. ADR and Transitional Justice as Reconstructing The Rule of Law 2011 JOURNAL

ON. DISPUTE RESOLUTION 127 (2011)

17. (with Nadav Davidovitch) Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Public Health: Israeli

Perspectives, 26 BAR ILAN LAW STUDIES (2010) 549. (in Hebrew)

18. "On Hastiness and Procedural Justice at Tel Aviv Labor Court: Observations of

Mediations and Litigations" 7 MAAZANEI MISHPAT (2010) 119. (in Hebrew)

19. The Jurisprudence of Mediation: Between Formalism, Feminism and Identity

Conversations 11 CARDOZO JOURNAL OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION 1 (2009).

20. Measure of Legal Formalism in Traumatic Cases: Stylistic Analysis HAMISHPAT

(2009) 6. (in Hebrew).

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21.(with Nadav Davidovitch) The Traumatic Memories of Nazi Medical Atrocities:

Moving Toward a More Focused Analysis, 19 KOROT: THE ISRAEL JOURNAL OF

THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE (2008) 105.

22. ADR and Collective Trauma: Constructing Healing Forums, 10 CARDOZO

JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION 11 (2008)

23. (with Nadav Davidovitch) Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Public Health: A Broad

Perspective on Dialogue, THOMAS JEFFERSON LAW REVIEW, 2008; 30: 507 - 533

24. Resistance to mediation: Rights, Legal Consciousness and Multiculturalism, 24

BAR - ILAN L. STUDIES 1 (2008). (in Hebrew)

25. Restorative Justice as Internalization of the Role of Law: Combining Restoration

with Retribution in the Film Festen 8 CARDOZO JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION

(2007) 405.

26. Forms of Mediation and Law: Cultures of Dispute Resolution, 22 OHIO STATE

JOURNAL ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION 321 (2007)

27. (with Shulamit Almog) Law and the Humanities and Legal Education: Poetics of

Interpretation, 3 HAIFA UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW - DIN UDVARIM 21 (2007). (in

Hebrew)

28. The Pragmatic Idea in Law and Conflict Resolution: Anatomy of Evolving

Jurisprudential Theories, 5 MISHPAT VE'ASAKIM 55 (2006). (in Hebrew)

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29. Therapeutic Keys of Law: Reflections on Paradigmatic Shifts and the Limits and

Potential of Reform Movements” A Book Review of: Judging in a Therapeutic

Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and The Courts (Bruce J. Winick and David B.

Wexler, eds.), 39 (1) ISRAEL LAW REVIEW 301 (2006)

30. Victim - Offender Mediation in the Film ‘Festen’: Anatomy of a Community

Making Law: Strengths and Limitations, 22 BAR - ILAN LAW STUDIES 81 (2005) (in

Hebrew)

31. Negotiating for Justice, Fighting for Law: The Dialectic of Promoting and Settling

Disputes in the Current Global Era, 31 STUDIES IN LAW POLITICS AND SOCIETY 45

(2004)

32. On The Place Of The Law and Agnon as an Interpretive Style: Reviewing

Shulamit Almog’s Book: City, Law, Story, 9 HAMISHPAT 525 (2003) (in Hebrew)

33. From Ringer to Barda and the Aporethic Condition, 19 BAR - ILAN L. STUDIES 633

(2003) (in Hebrew)

34. Negotiating through Paradoxes: Rationality, Practicality, and Naive Realism, 22

STUDIES IN LAW POLITICS AND SOCIETY 197 (2001).

35. Getting to Where? On Peace Making and Law Teaching at Harvard Law School,

10 LAW & CRITIQUE 323 (1999)

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Other publications

1. “Forms of Mediation and Law: Cultures of Dispute Resolution” in: Relationship -

centered lawyering : social science theory for transforming legal practice / edited by

Susan L. Brooks & Robert G. Madden. Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Pr. (2010)

2. "Negotiation" & "Pragmatism", in The Encyclopedia of Law and Society:

American and Global Perspectives (Sage Publications, 2008)

3. "Saying "I'm Sorry": The Role of Apology in Public Health" 35 JOURNAL OF LAW,

MEDICINE & ETHICS 132 (2007) (with Nadav Davidovitch, Paul Lombardo and

Charity Scott)

Presentations and invited Lectures

June 2017 “Religious Identity Conversations: Between Compromise and

mediation” invited lecture at Humboldt University, Berlin

December 2016 “Legal Formalism and the Shadow of the Shadow of the Law” ISF

workshop on Legal Formalism, Bar Ilan University

“Formalisms of Law: The Fluctuating Paths of Legal Rhetoric” ISF

workshop on Legal Formalism, Bar Ilan University

October 2016 “Formalisms of Law: The Fluctuating Paths of Legal Rhetoric and

Reconstructions of The Judicial Role” Judicial Behavior Workshop,

University of Chicago School of Law

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“Judicial Conflict Resolution: Merging Theory and Practice in

Dispute Processing” Legal Scholarship workshop, University of

Chicago Law School

“Judicial Conflict Resolution: Merging Theory and Practice in

Dispute Processing. Exploratory projects.” Ohio State University

Moritz College of Law (2016)

“Constructive Plea Bargaining: Towards Judicial Conflict

Resolution” Fordham University School of Law (2016)

September 2016 “What Courtroom Observations Can Teach Us about What Judges

do to Settle Cases” AALS Dispute Resolution Section, WIP,

Marquette University

June 2016 “Expanding Judicial Discretion: Between Legal and Conflict

considerations” Law and Society Conference at New Orleans

"Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR): Methodological and

Comparative Challenges Judicial Conflict" Law and Society

Conference at New Orleans

“Mediating in and outside the courtroom: Empirical Findings and

Theoretical Insights”, celebrating a decade for the mandatory pre -

mediation process in Israel, Hebrew University Faculty of Law

June 2016 (with Yuval Sinai) “Expanding Judicial Discretion: Between Legal

and Conflict Considerations” Interdisciplinary Center Herzelia,

Faculty Seminar.

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April 2016 “Judicial Conflict Resolution: Merging Theory and Practice in

Dispute Processing” IRSIG - CNR The Research Institute on Judicial

Systems, Bologna

“Judicial Conflict Resolution: a New Jurisprudence for an Emerging

Judicial Practice” European University Institute (EUI) Fiesole, Italy

“Judicial Conflict Resolution: Examining Hybrids of Non -

Adversarial Justice” Legal Sciences Department, University of

Firenze

March 2016 (with Yuval Sinai) “Expanding Judicial Discretion: Between Legal

and Conflict Considerations” Bar Ilan University Faculty Seminar.

January 2016 “Constructive Processing of The Criminal Conflict: towards Judicial

Conflict Resolution” The First International Conference on Positive

Criminology and Positive Victimology: Towards a New Paradigm in

Law Enforcement, Sentencing and Rehabilitation, Bar Ilan

University

June 2015 “Progressively repetitive: narratives of transgression and

reconstruction in legal theory and institutional alternatives in law”

Contemporary Legal Thought Track within Institute for Global Law

& Policy (IGLP) Harvard Law School

May 2015 “Judicial Conflict Resolution” Law and Society conference in Seattle

February 2015 “Criminal Formalism: Values, Policy Considerations and Personal

Expressions in Criminal Appeal Cases” The Israeli Association for

Law and Society (ILSA) Annual Conference, Haifa University

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January 2015 "Judicial Conflict Resolution: From Practice of Settlement to Theory

of Conflict Resolution" International Conference on Bridging Theory

and Practice of Creative Conflict Engagement, Program on Conflict

Management, Resolution and Negotiation, Bar Ilan University

December 2014 “Divorce in the shadow of Law and outside its boundaries: The

Collaborative Divorce Approach in light of language of alternatives”

The Israeli Bar Association, Jerusalem

November 2014 "The Paradox of mediation between consent and coercion: A

Comparative study of mandatory mediation programs in the EU,

USA and Israel” CLE for Lawyers, Bar Ilan University and the

Israeli Bar Association

November 2014 “In Favor of Settlement: Structuring Court’s Discretion in

Compromise Consent Verdicts” The Yale Dispute Resolution

Workshop, Yale Law School

October 2014 “The Language of Alternatives” CLE for Lawyers, Bar Ilan

University and the Israeli Bar Association

October 2014 “Changes in formalism and values in Israeli Supreme Court decisions

in Criminal Cases” Irish Jurisprudence Society at Trinity College,

Dublin, Ireland

October 2014 “Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR)” University College Dublin

(UCD) Sutherland School of Law

June 2014 “Conflict Resolution as a Relational Practice” Fordham University

Law and Religion Workshop, Loppiano, Italy

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June 2014 “Apologies, Mediation and Restorative Justice in Public Health, and

Law: Institutionalized Mechanisms to Process Conflicts” Manheim

University, Stuttgart Germany

May 2014 (with Yuval Sinai) “In Favor of Compromise”, Law and Society

Annual Conference 2014 Minneapolis

May 2014 “Problem Solving in Courts as a Mainstream Conflict Resolution

Activity”, A Conference for Launching The first Community Courts

in Israel” Tel Aviv University

January 2014 “Judicial Conflict Resolution: A New Paradigm for The

Understanding of Judges Activities in The Courtroom.” Neveh Ilan

Advanced Study for Israeli Judges

December 2013 “Apology, Mediation and Restorative Justice in The Health Care

System: Institutionalized Alternatives in Medicine and Law”, The

Israeli Ministry of Health, Forum for Decision Making for senior

medical experts.

November 2013 “Problem Solving Courts for Domestic Violence: The Next Phase of

Feminism”, conference at the Israeli Knesset (Parliament)

October 2013 “The Law of Alternatives: Conflict Resolution as The Art of

Reconstruction" New York Law School

October 2013 "The Law of Alternatives and Non Adversarial Justice: In Search of

Identity for The Field of Conflict Resolution" Cardozo law School

October 2013 "Experimenting with Conflicts Constructively: in Search of Identity

for The Field of Conflict Resolution" Earth Institute, Columbia

University

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September 2013 "The Law of Alternatives: Conflict Resolution as The Art of

Reconstruction" Fordham Law School

June 2013 "Justice in Criminal Law: Legal Regulation of Apology and

Reconciliation" Reconciliation Conference, Bar Ilan University

May 2013 (with Jay Rothman) "Individuals, Groups, Intergroups: Theorizing

about The Role of Identity in Conflicts" Law and Society Annual

Conference, Boston

May 2013 "Defining Success while Building a Field: Theories of

Experimentations in Conflict Engagement" Conflict Resolution

International Conference, Bar Ilan University

April 2013 (with Jay Rothman) "Individuals, Groups, Intergroups: Theorizing

about The Role of Identity in Conflicts" Bar Ilan Faculty of Law

March 2013 "Broken Consent in ADR: From Informed Consent to Identity Work

in Second Generation Models" The Changing Role of Consent in

ADR Conference, Haifa University

March 2013 "The Decline of Formalism and the Rise of Values: Between

Overcoming and Measuring", Tel Aviv University

December 2012 "Integrated Domestic Violence Courts in Israel: Lessons from

Clinical Education," Israel Law and Society Conference, Ramat Gan

College

November 2012 "Non - adversarial Justice in Israel: Therapeutic Innovative Practices

for Judges and Lawyers" Non Adversarial Justice Conference, Bar

Ilan University

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October 2012 “The Law of Alternatives: In Search of Identity in Dispute

Resolution”, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George

Mason University

September 2012 “The Law of Alternatives: In Search of Identity in Dispute

Resolution”, Cardozo School of Law

December 2011 “Restorative Justice and The Language of Alternatives”, Israel Law

and Society Conference, Bar Ilan University

July 2011 "Collective Trauma in light of Israeli films" Heidelberg University,

Hochsule pur Judishe Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

July 2011 "Apologies in the Health Care System: From Clinical Medicine to

Public Health" (with Nadav Davidovitch) Therapeutic Jurisprudence

International Conference, Berlin, Germany

December 2010 "Transitional Justice as Promoting the Rule of Law: Applying the

Framework of Alternatives" – Israeli Law and Society Conference,

IDC Herzelia

December 2010 "Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Youth Delinquency: an

Introduction" – From Retributive to Restorative Justice: International

and Multicultural Perspectives, IDC Herzelia

October 2010 "Managing the Emanuel Conflict: between Mediation and Law" –

Between Sacredness and Law: Following the Case of the Emanuel

School. The Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University

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October 2010 "Facing the intercultural allure: Trapped Bedouin women in the film

Yellow Asphalt"— The status and Rights of Arab Women in Israel,

University of Haifa

October 2010 "ADR and Transitional Justice as Reconstructing The Rule of Law"

– ADR and The Rule of Law, University of Missouri School of Law,

Missouri

October 2010 "Apologies in the Health Care System: From Clinical Medicine to

Public Health" – Annual Symposium See You Out of Court? The

Role of ADR in Healthcare, Duke University, USA

May 2010 "Making law after critique: Jurisprudence of Reconstruction" Law

and Society 2009 annual conference in Chicago

April 2010 "Forms and Frames of Formalism in Israeli Supreme Court Decision

Making" Faculty Seminar at ICC Herzelia Law School.

January 2010 "On Hastiness and Procedural Justice at Tel Aviv Labor Court:

Observations of Mediations and litigations" – Worlds of Mediation

conference: Mediation and the Courts: Regulation and New

Regularities", at the Program on Conflict Management and

Negotiation at Bar Ilan University.

December 2009 "Possible Intersections between Law and Medicine and ADR –

Preliminary mapping – Worlds of Mediation conference: Health,

Law and Conflict Management, at the Program on Conflict

Management and Negotiation at Bar Ilan University.

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December 2009 "Apologizing in the courtroom in a "post legalistic" culture" – Israeli

Law and Society Conference, Tel Aviv University

June 2009 "Justice of Regimes in Transitions" – an Israeli Perspective Between

the Public and Private" – Transitional Justice in Israel: Paths to

Reconciliation, Bar Ilan University

May 2009 "Measures of Legal Formalism: Cultures of Jurisprudence in Legal

Cases" – Law and Society 2009 annual conference in Denver

December 2008 "Measures of Formalism in Israeli 'Traumatic' Supreme Court

Decisions" – The Israeli Law and Society first conference at the

Hebrew University.

November 2008 "The Measure of Formalism: Cultures of Israeli Legal Writing" –

Faculty Seminar, Tel - Aviv University.

October 2008 "Multicultural Israel: from Pragmatism, to Rights Discourse toward

Identity Conversations" – Jewish Studies Department Colloquium,

UIC University.

October 2008 "Institutionalized Methods to Incorporate Victim's Therapy into the

Criminal Justice System: The Case of Problem Solving Courts for

Domestic Violence" – Criminology Department Colloquium, UIC

University.

October 2008 "Measures of Legal Formalism: Readings in Jurisprudence and in

Legal Cases" – Faculty Seminar, Loyola university at Chicago.

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June 2008 "ADR, TJ and Collective Trauma: Constructing Healing Forums" –

Therapeutic Jurisprudence International Conference, San Juan,

Peurto - Rico

May 2008 "Alternatives in Law: Public Health, Mediation and Conflict

Resolution" – Symposium on Rethinking Public Health Law and

Ethics, The Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University

April 2008 "The measure of Formalism: Cultures of Jurisprudence from Israeli

and Global Perspectives" – European University Institute, Law

Department, Florence, Italy

March 2008 "Cultures of Mediation and Law: Images and Languages of

Alternatives to Adjudication" – Israeli Institute for Democracy,

Jerusalem

July 2007 "Legal Education and the Humanities: Poetics of interpretations" –

Law and Society Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin (with

Shulamit Almog)

June 2007 "Mediation after Institutionalization: Between Relationship,

Procedure and Narrative" – Colloquium on The Next Phase on

Mediation: New Directions and Multicultural Challenges, Haifa

University

June 2007 "Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Public Health: The Potential for a

Dialogue" – Therapeutic Jurisprudence International Conference,

Padua, Italy

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May 2007 "The Dialectic of the Dissatisfaction with the Administration of

Justice" – Therapeutic Jurisprudence conference, The Faculty of

Law, Bar Ilan University

May 2007 "Institutionalized Methods during Corporate the Victims Therapy

into the Criminal Justice System: The case of Problems Solving

Courts for Dramatic Violence" – Victimology and the Law

conference, Keynote speaker, Bar Ilan University

April 2007 "Fast Justice v. Devine Justice: Anatomy of practice - theory

dialectics in conflict resolution" – Symposium on Fast Justice,

Hebrew University, Jerusalem

March 2007 "Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Hierarchies"—Symposium

on Law and the Humanities, University of Haifa

January 2007 "Mediation and Law in the Film Festen: Mixed Borders" –

Symposium on Mediation and Art, The Program on Conflict

Management and Negotiation, Bar Ilan University

October 2006 "ADR and Collective Trauma: Constructing Healing Forums" –

Symposium on ADR and Social Justice, Fordham University, New

York

June 2006 "Genocide in the west and elsewhere: forgiveness across cultures" –

Conference on Traumatic Memory, Granada University, Spain

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June 2006 "Apologizing Across Cultures: Regulating Apology and Public

Health" – CDC (Center for disease control and prevention)

Conference, Atlanta

March 2006 "Mediation Going Public: Cultures of Mediation and Law" – Law

and Humanities Conference, Syracuse, New York

May 2005 "Forgiveness across cultures: Genocide in the west and elsewhere" –

Conference on WWII and its Influence on The Law, Haifa University

May 2005 "Law in Flux which Follows Reality v Reality which Follows the

Law: a Review of Justice Barak Book on a Judge in a Democratic

State" – A Symposium on Justice Barak Book, Bar Ilan University

February 2005 “Mediation Going Public: Cultures of Mediation and Law” – Faculty

Legal Theory Colloquium, Cardozo School of Law, New York

October 2004 "The EU in Regional Conflict Resolution", Interdisciplinary center

(IDC) Herzlia, Israel. Paper presented: "Multicultural Europe: coping

with conflicts through identity conversations."

June 2004 "Mediation and trauma in contemporary film" – The Law and

Society Conference, Chicago

December 2003 “The secrets of Mediation and Trauma in Contemporary Film: A

Search from the Perspective of Restorative Justice” - - International

Conference on Trauma and Memory: Subjective & Collective

Experiences: Legal, Medical and Cultural Perspectives, Bar - Ilan

University, Israel. (Co - organizer with Nadav Davidovitch).

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October 2003 "Anatomy of a Community Making Law: Readings in Festen and

Contemporary Mediation" – Faculty Legal Theory Colloquium,

Birkbeck College, London

June 2003 The Law and Society 2003 Conference, Pittsburgh PA, USA. The

author in an "author meets readers" panel, discussing the book:

"Pragmatism and Law: From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution"

An additional presentation at a panel on conflicts: "Advancing

Through Paradoxes: Complementing the Paradox of Self -

Determination with the Paradox of Rights in Thinking Mediation

May 2003 "Victim - Offender Mediation in The Film Festen: Anatomy of a

Community Making Law: Strengths and Limitations" – Faculty

Legal Theory Colloquium, Haifa University

June 2002 The Law and Society: 2002 Conference in Vancouver, British

Columbia. Presented paper: "Negotiating for Justice, Fighting for

Law: The Dialectic of Promoting and Settling Disputes at Once in the

Current Global Era"

June 2001 The Law and Society 2001 Conference in Budapest, Hungary.

Presented paper: "A Jurisprudence of Dispute Resolution: An Inquiry

from an Israeli Perspective"

May 2000 The Law and Society 2000 Conference in Miami.

Presented paper: "Alternative Hierarchies: The Changing Role of

Dispute Resolution in Contemporary Society - In Search of a

Progressive Mediation"

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September 1999 Critical Legal Studies 2000 - Retro and Prospect. Conference at

Birkbeck College, London.

Presented paper: "Getting to Where? On Peace Making and Law

Teaching at Harvard Law School"