August 1, 2013

JONATHAN YOVEL

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

I. Curriculum Vitae

Contacts

Address: NYU School of Law, 22 Washington Sq. North, New York, NY 10011, USA

Phones: 646.415.9343; +972.54.480.0201

Email: jyovel@law.haifa.ac.il

1. Higher Education

1992 LL.B. and B.A. (Philosophy) magna cum laude, Tel-Aviv University

1990 Graduate Studies in philosophy, Oxford University (no degree taken)

1994-5 Graduate studies in linguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, University Of Chicago (no

degree taken)

1995 Master of Laws (LL.M.) with honors, Northwestern University School of Law

1998 Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD), Northwestern University School of Law

Member of the Israel Bar since 1994

2. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education

DATES INSTITUTION AND

DEPARTMENT

RANKS

2009 – Present University of Haifa School

of Law

Professor of Law

2013 – 2014 NYU School of Law Fellow, The Straus Institute

for the Advanced Study of

Law and Justice

2013 – 2014 NYU School of Law Berkowitz Fellow, Tikvah

Center for Law and Jewish

Civilization

2009 – 2010 Yale Law School Senior Research Scholar

2

2009-Present

(Summer term)

International Academy for

Human Rights

Implementation, Lucerne

University (Switzerland)

Returning Visiting

Professor

2007 - 2011 Haifa Business School Adjunct Professor

2003 - 2009 University of Haifa

School of Law

Senior Lecturer (tenured)

2006-2007 Columbia Law School Visiting Scholar

Fall 2004 Max Plank Institute for

International &

Comparative Private Law,

Hamburg

Visiting Research Fellow

Fall 2003 University of Toronto

Faculty of Law

Distinguished Visiting

Faculty

2001-2002 Brooklyn Law school and

the Center for Law

Language and Cognition,

NYC

Visiting Professor

Summer 2001 Max Planck Institute for

Comparative Public Law

and International Law,

Heidelberg

Visiting Research Fellow

1998 - 2003 University of Haifa School

of Law

Lecturer

3. Offices in University Academic Administration

A. In the Administration of the University

1998-2000 Member of Rector’s Ad-hoc Committee on Strategic Academic Planning

1999-2000 Member of the Senate, University of Haifa

2005-2006 Member of Final Appeals Panel, University of Haifa Disciplinary Body

2005-2011 Grants Referee, Research Authority, University of Haifa

2003-2009 Member of the University’s Public Tenders Committee

2007-2011 Research Authority Council, University of Haifa

B. In the Administration of the Faculty of Law

(Note: Committee work prior to 2003 omitted).

1998-present Faculty Council

3

2010-2012 Faculty seminar coordinator

2004-present Advisory Committee to the Dean on Hiring & Promotions

2002-2006, 2008 Teaching Committee

2002-2006 First Year Academic Coordinator

2004 Moot Court Coordinator

2004-2009 Advanced Studies Committee

2005 Guest Editor, Law and Government (Mishpat Umimshal)

2005, 2009 Member in three professional promotion committees

2006 Director, Law & M.A. in Philosophy Program

2007-2009 Global Law Program Committee

2007-2011 Research Committee

2008 Acting Director, Law & MBA Program

4. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

Period Body Activity

1992-3 Zadok, Striks, Shahal & Co.,

Attorneys at Law, Tel Aviv

Articled Clerk

1993-4 Honorable Miriam Naor,

Judge & President of the Israel

Antitrust Court (currently

Deputy President, Israel

Supreme Court)

Judicial Clerk

1994 Israel Press Council Legal Counsel and Assistant to the

President

1994 The Movement for Quality

Government in Israel

Legal Counsel

1994 Private practice Civil rights litigation (High court,

military courts), counseling to

various civil rights NGO’s,

commercial practice

1997 American Bar Foundation Visiting Scholar & Associate

Editor, Law and Language in the

Public Sphere

1998-9 UNCITRAL (United Nations

Committee on International

Trade Law), NYC and Vienna

Academic Observer

1999-

present

International Review of Law

and Economics, Law & Social

Referee

4

Inquiry; Law Culture and the

Humanities; Pragmatics and

Cognition; Legal Theory;

Canadian Journal of Law and

Jurisprudence; Political &

Legal Anthropology; Law and

Government; Tel Aviv Law

Journal; Plilim; Bar Ilan Law

Journal; Haifa Law Journal;

Jerusalem Law Review.

2003-

present

European Union’s Erasmus

Mundus LL.M. Program in Law

and Economics

LL.M. Thesis supervisor; External

Examiner (several)

2005-

present

International Law Institute,

Pace University, New York

1. Senior Researcher, United Nations

Convention on the International Sale

of Goods (CISG); 2. Contributor of

online commentaries on various CISG

articles (48, 49, 64, 76); 3. CISG

Israel Academic Editor.

2003, 2005 Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Testifying as a legal expert in front

the Interior Committee (re

citizenship and naturalization);

Finance Sub-Committee (re

funding of political parties). Oral &

written Testimonies presented.

2006 A leading US law school (not

disclosed for reasons of

confidentiality)

Writing a decisive tenure report on the

behest of the promotions committee

(area: law and society).

2006, 2010,

2012, 2013

Israel Science Foundation Grants Referee

2006 Codification Committee,

Ministry of Justice

External researcher submitting invited

advisory papers

2007 Magistrate’s Court of Acre Expert witness on Law Cinema &

Freedom of Expression

(submission of formal written

testimony)

2008 Magistrate’s Court of Haifa Expert witness on International

Arbitration Law (written and oral

testimony)

2011 -

Present

Israel Court of Standard

Contracts

Lay Judge

5

2011 -

Present

Budgeting Committee of the

Israel Higher Education Council

(VATAT)

Member of the National Steering

Committee for Enrichment Studies

2011 -

Present

Budgeting Committee of the

Israel Higher Education Council

(VATAT)

LL.M accreditation consultant

2012 -

Present

Israel Higher Education Council

(MALAG)

Member of the Academic Legal

Studies Oversight Committee

5. Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences

Date Name of Conference Place Subject of

Lecture/Discussion

May 1997

Law & Society

Association Annual

Conference

St. Louis, USA

The Semiotics of Commercial

Law: Where do Promises

Occur? An outline for a

Language- Paradigm

Critique of the External-

Internal Model of Contract

Formation

May 1998

International Conference

on Pluralist Democracy

Bar Ilan

University

The Politics of ‘Protecting

Feelings’

June 1998

International Conference

on Empirical Legal

Research and Legal

Realism

Hagoshrim,

Israel

The Structural Politics of

Cultures of Argumentation of

Nonrepresented Litigants in

Lower Israeli Courts

February

1999

New Israeli

Association of

Philosophy

Annual Conference

Hebrew

University of

Jerusalem

Alienation and Estrangement

as Concerns for Social and

Political Justice

March 2001

International

Conference on Land

and Domination

Harvard Law

School

Theory and Critique: Mutual

Distrust

October 2001

Cognitive Legal

Studies Conference

Center for Law

Language and

Cognition,

Brooklyn Law

School, NYC

Performative Language: the

Clandestine Shaper of

Discourse

6

October 2001

Nietzsche and Legal

Theory

Cardozo Law

School, NYC

How is Normativity

Possible?

June 2002

Conference on Law

and Literature

Bar Ilan

University

Narrative Justice

June 2004

Bicentenary Conference

on the Code Civil, the

Principles of European

Contract Law, and the

Israeli Civil Codification

University of

Haifa

Global Harmonization of

International Commercial

Law as an Intellectual,

Cultural, and Jurisprudential

Challenge

June 2004

Europe and Israel:

What Next?

Bucerius

Institute for

Research of

Contemporary

German History

and Society,

Haifa

A European Israel?

Prospects and Obstacles

June 2004

The New IP Order—A

Global Trade-Off

Interdisciplinary

Center, Herzliya

A History of Ideas

Perspective on the

Harmonization of Private

Law

May 2005

Courts of Law and

Legal Cultures in Past

and Present Muslim

Societies: A Socio-legal

Perspective

Ben Gurion

University

Law and Society in Turkey:

Emerging Scholarship

May 2005 Conference on the new

Civil Codification

Interdisciplinary

Center, Herzliya

Contract Law for the 21st

Century

June 2005 Conference on the new

Civil Codification

Bar Association,

Haifa

The Codification of Contract

Law: New Proposals

June 2005 International Conference

on World War II and its

Impact on the Law - 60

Years After

University of

Haifa How Can a Crime be

Against Humanity?

Philosophical Doubts

Concerning a Useful

Concept

June 2005 Interdisciplinary

colloquium on the

Settlements as

Geographical and Legal

Phenomenon

Ben Gurion

University

The Role of the High Court

in Legitimizing Settlements

7

March 2006 Ecommerce Conference The Haifa

Center of Law

& Technology

Digital Signatures

April 2006

CISG and International

Arbitration Workshop

ICC, Paris Workshop Participant

July 2007

Law & Society

Association Annual

Meeting

Humbolt

University,

Berlin

The Metapragmatics of

Legal Education

Legal Pluralism (Chair)

Theorizing Justice (Chair)

February

2008

Israeli Law and Society

Conference

University of

Haifa

The Polyphony of Argument

in Small Claims Courts

May 2008 Conference on Sixty

Years of Israeli Law

Interdisciplinary

Center, Herzliya

Cure and Remedies for

Breach and Contract

October 2008

Israeli Association for

Legal History

Yad Ben-Zvi,

Jerusalem

Law and the Secularization

of Language in the 17th

Century

September

2008

European Association

for Law and Economics

University of

Haifa

Necessity Contracts

January

2009

International Workshop

on Proportionality in

International Law

Sheraton Hotel,

Tel Aviv

When Arbitrators Talk like

Courts: Proportionality in

International Commercial

Arbitration

June 2009

International

Conference on

Interdisciplinary

Approaches to Contract

Law

Hebrew

University,

Jerusalem

Pre-Contractual Speech

Acts: Nondisclosure as

Misrepresentation

December

2011

Conference on Access

to Justice

Tel Aviv Law

School

Non-mediated legal language

and access to justice

May 2012 Conference on Love

Dignity and the

Political

Tel Aviv

University

Faculty of the

Humanities

Love and the impoverishment

of normative discourse

December

2013

Straus Interdisciplinary

Workshop on Social

NYU Law

School Languages of Justice: The

Structure of Preferentialism

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and Economic

Segregation

6. Invited Lectures (prior to 2003 omitted)

Date Place and Forum Nature of talk Title

April 1998 Annual Meeting.

Association for Family

Planning, Israel, Tel

Aviv

Keynote Lecture Legal Strategies of for

Battling Sexual

Harassment

2002, 2003

(mult.),

2005 (mult.),

2006 (mult.),

2009, 2010

The Institute of

Advanced Judicial

Studies, Neve Ilan

Invited Lectures to

Judges

Unjust Enrichment and

New Topics in Civil Law

Justice and Luck in

Private Law

Law and Literature:

Voice, Perspective, and

Narrative Manipulations

The Constitutive

Metaphors of Information

and High-Tech Law

January 2003

February

2003

June 2003

Israel Bar Association,

Haifa

Invited Lecture

Series on “Law

and Cinema”

Law and Love

Epistemology, Prejudice

and Evidence

Communities, Outsiders,

and the Law of Nature

March 2003 Israel Bar Association,

Haifa

Invited Lecture on

the New Civil

Codification

Contract Resurrected:

Death of Contract&

the Law of Unjust

Enrichment

March 2004 Center for Law,

Culture, and History,

University of Southern

California

Invited Lecture The Subversive Privilege

of Love

9

April 2004 Justice Dept. Annual

Meeting, Tel Aviv

Invited Lecture to

the cadre of the

civil section (300

attorneys)

Unjust Enrichment and

Contract Law: A New

Relationship

June 2004 Technion – Israel

Institute of Technology

Invited Lecture The Legal and

Commercial Structure of

an International Business

Transaction

June 2004 Midreshet Sde Boker Invited Lecture Narrative Justice

March 2005 College of

Management Law

School

Lecture at

Graduate Seminar

Us/Other and Imagined

Communities as Textual

Products

June 2005 Israel Bar Association,

Sefad

Invited Lecture Luck in Tort Law

June 2005 Israel Bar Association,

Nazareth

Invited Lecture Unjust Enrichment and

Contract Law: New

Developments

May 2006 Israel Bar Association

Annual Meeting, Eilat

Keynote Lecture,

main event (in the

presence of the Chief

Justice, Minister of

Justice, Attorney

General, Canadian

Minister of Justice,

President of the Bar)

Law and Luck

July 2007 Law & Society

Association Annual

Meeting, Berlin

Presidential Panel

in honor of Prof.

Stuart Macaulay

Relational Contract

Theory and Empirical

Legal Research

November

2008

Tel Aviv Law School Invited Lecture to

Faculty on Prof.

Mautner’s new

book Law and

Culture

Law and Culture

September University of Haifa Graduation The Overdeterminacy of

Rules, or the Tragedy of

10

2008 Lecture to Judges Orpheus

June 2011 Israel Bar Association

Annual Meeting, Eilat

Invited Lecture Law and Love

January 2012 Center for Law and

Medicine Conference

on the Right to Die

Invited Lecture Death as part of life (and

the backwardness of law)

February

2012

Judicial Conference,

Northern District

Keynote Lecture Law and the seriousness

of humor

May 2012 IDC Invited Lecture

honoring retirement

of Sup. Ct. Justice

Proccacia

The Maverick Judge at

the Intersection of

Individual and History

January 2013 Graduate reading group Yale Law

School

St. Thomas Aquinas and

the methodology of

discourse

November

2013

NYU Law School The Creation of

Language and Language

without Time:

Metaphysics and

Metapragmatics in

Genesis 1

7. Colloquium Talks

Presentation/Comments Name of

Forum

Place of Lecture Date

The Performative Language

of Contract Formation: A

Philosophical Analysis

Faculty Seminar Hebrew University

Faculty of Law

March 1998

Performative Language and

Models of Contract

Formation

Faculty Seminar Fordham University

School of Law, NYC

August 1998

How Understanding

Performative Language Can

Reshape Contract Formation

Doctrine

Legal Theory

Seminar

Tel Aviv University

Faculty of Law

September 1999

Relational Speech: How Lay Faculty Seminar Nova University Law August 2000

11

Litigants Conceptualize Law Center, Florida, USA

Distributive Considerations

in Remedies for Breach of

Contract

Faculty Seminar Brooklyn Law

School & Center for

Law Language and

Cognition, NYC

November 2000

Legal Rhetoric Adjudication

workshop

Open University, Tel

Aviv

January 2001

Invisible Precedents in Law

and Popular Culture

Faculty Seminar Brooklyn Law

School & Center for

Law Language and

Cognition, NYC

February 2002

Law and Love in The Widow

of St. Pierre

Movie

Screening and

Lecture

Open University,

Jerusalem

November

2003

Language and Power in a

Place of Contingencies: The

Polyphony of Legal

Argumentation

Legal Theory

Seminar

Center for Law,

Culture and History,

University of

Southern California

March 2004

Le Droit du Plus Fort: Law

as Metaphor and Morality in

Milton’s Samson Agonistes

Faculty

Workshop

Center for Law,

Culture and History,

University of

Southern California

March 2004

Text and Ideology: Looking

at Legal Discourse

Lecture to

faculty and

researchers

Ben-Gurion

University

June 2004

Remedies for Breach of

Contract: A Theoretical and

Comparative Perspective

Colloquium Max Plank Institute

for Private &

Comparative Private

Law, Hamburg,

Germany

August 2004

Nietzsche’s Philosophy of

Education

Dept. of

Education

Graduate

Seminar

Columbia

University

May 2007

Relational Formalism: a New

Paradigm for Commercial

Relations

Faculty Seminar University of

Connecticut School

November

2009

12

of Law

Holocaust and Modernity Posen Seminar:

Was the Shoa

Different?

Haifa Law School October 2011

Language and Power in

Law’s House: The Polyphony

of Self-Representation

Critical

Analysis of Law

Workshop

Toronto University

Faculty of Law

February 2014

Normativity as Poetic

Quality: Two Instances of

Discourse Ethics

Tikvah

Workshop: The

Exception in

Law, Politics

and Theology

NYU Law School April 2014

8. Research Grants

Period Type of Grant, Granting Body

2000-2002

PI, 3-year Research Grant

Israel Ministry of Science

Total: NIS 170,000 (app. US$46,000)

2000-2001

PI, 2-year Research Grant

Israel Foundation Trustees

Total: US$10,000

2000 PI, Israel Research Foundation (VATAT) Grant

US$4,000

9. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes

1999 Research Prize, University of Haifa

1999 Grant for the Development of Online Teaching,

University of Haifa

1997 Pritzker Fellowship, Northwestern University School of

Law

1994-1996 Machesney Grant, Northwestern University School of

Law

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Sundry Grant, Northwestern University School of Law

10. Teaching

A. Courses taught in recent years

1) At the University of Haifa (teaching prior to 2003 omitted)

Year Name of Course Type of Course

Lecture/Semina

r/Workshop/Hig

h Learn Course/

Intro. Course

(Mandatory)

Degree/

Program

Numbers

of

Students

(app.)

2003-2004,

2009, 2011

Contracts Mandatory LL.B. 90-110

2003-2006,

2008, 2011

International

Business

Transactions

Elective LL.B.& LL.M. 40

2003 Sources of Israeli

Law

Mandatory LL.B. 20

2003 Advanced

Contracts &

Theoretical issues

in Private Law

Seminar LL.B. 23

2003 On Love:

Philosophical

Aspects

Elective B.A.

Faculty of

Humanities

Honors Program

25

2003 International Sales

and Arbitration

Seminar LL.B. 23

2004-2006,

2008-2009

Expanded Contracts Mandatory/

elective

LL.B. 35-40

2004, 2006

2009-2010,

2011

Unjust Enrichment Elective LL.B.& LL.M. 60

14

2004 Modernism/

Postmodernism:

Political Theory

Seminar

Seminar LL.B. 20

2004 The Human

Condition in the

Cinematographic

Expression

Elective B.A.,

Faculty of

Humanities,

Honors Program

30

2005-2008 Jurisprudence Mandatory

LL.M. Program

for Presiding

Judges

20

2005-2008 Law and Society Mandatory

LL.M. Program

for Presiding

Judges

20

2005 Advanced

Jurisprudence

Mandatory 3L LL.B 210

2007 Law and Love Seminar LL.B. & LL.M. 23

2006 Law, Luck and

Tragedy

Seminar LL.B. & LL.M. 21

2008 Codification

Seminar

Seminar LL.M. 7

2008-2009,

2012

International

Business

Transactions

Mandatory

MBA

40

2008 Law and Language Elective LL.B. & LL.M. 40

2008 American Contract

Law

Elective LL.B. & LL.M. 23

15

2009

Contracts Mandatory

M.A. Program

for Patent

Registrars

30

2009

International

Business

Transactions

Mandatory

LL.M. in Law

& Technology

20

2009 Law and Language Online

(Highlearn)

elective

LL.B. & LL.M. 73

2010 Jurisprudence Mandatory LL.B. 105

2010 Unjust Enrichment

and Advanced

Topics in Civil Law

Elective LL.B.\

LL.M

60

2010 Law and Magic Seminar LL.B.\

LL.M

23

2010, 2012 Introduction to

Jurisprudence

Mandatory M.A for Patent

Registrars

30

2010 Contracts Mandatory LL.B. for

MDs

20

2010 Thomas Aquinas'

Summa Theologica

Reading Group

Extra-curricular,

not for credit

N/A 14

2012 Law language and

Myth

Seminar LL.B/LL.M 21

2) In other Institutions

2002 Contracts I & II Mandatory Brooklyn Law

School

LL.B. 120

2002 Negotiable

Instruments &

Banking

Elective Brooklyn Law

School

LL.B. 40

2002 International Sales Elective Brooklyn Law

School

LL.B. 30

2003 Law, Language & Elective University of LL.B. 40

16

Literature Toronto School

of Law

LL.M

SJD

2014 Law and Language Graduate

Reading

Seminar

NYU Law

School

JSD 12

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II. PUBLICATIONS

Notes: 1. All items are single-authored unless otherwise indicated.

2. All items are in English unless otherwise indicated.

3. English publications are available (some in draft form) on Bepress:

http://works.bepress.com/jonathan_yovel or on SSRN:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=283562

A. Ph.D. DISSERTATION

Title: The Language beyond Law: A Study of Performativity in Legal Context. Northwestern University, 1997

Language: English

Number of Pages: 334 + Tables and Bibliography

Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Mertz (Northwestern Law School and the American Bar Foundation)

Dissertation Committee: ● Prof. Richard Bernstein (Philosophy, New School for Social Research)

● Prof. Robert Burns (Law, Northwestern Law School)

● Prof. Michael Silverstein (Linguistic anthropology, University of Chicago)

D. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS A. PUBLISHED

1. Jonathan Yovel, Akhnai’s Oven: Discourse Ethics and Hermeneutics of

Storytelling in Jewish Law and Beyond, 7 HAIFA UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2013)

119-149 (Hebrew)

2. Jonathan Yovel, Language and Power in a Place of Contingencies: Law and the

Polyphony of Self Representation, 5 STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY 27-53

(2013)

3. Jonathan Yovel, Law and the Seriousness of Humor, 2 JOURNAL OF THE ISRAELI

ASSOCIATION FOR HUMOR RESEARCH (2013) (Hebrew, online)

4. Jonathan Yovel, The Creation of Language and Language without Time:

Metaphysics and Metapragmatics in Genesis 1, 20 BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION

205-225 (2012)

5. Jonathan Yovel, Two-tier Management Deadlock Provisions, 9 CORPORATIONS

108-113 (2012) (Hebrew)

6. Jonathan Yovel, Relational Formalism and the Construction of Financial

Instruments, AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 371-407 (2011)

7. Jonathan Yovel and Ido Shacham, Interpretation and Good Faith in the Law of

International Sales, 40 HEBREW UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 731-775 (2011)

(Hebrew)

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8. Jonathan Yovel, Legal Formalism, Institutional Norms and the Morality of

Basketball, 8 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF LAW, SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT 33-70 (2008)

9. Jonathan Yovel, How Can a Crime be Against Humanity? Philosophical Doubts

Concerning a Useful Concept, 11 UCLA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND

FOREIGN AFFAIRS 39-58 (2007)

10. Jonathan Yovel, Quasi-Checks: An Apology for a Mutation of Negotiable

Instruments, 5 DEPAUL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LAW 579-603

(2007)

11. Jonathan Yovel, Le Droit du Plus Fort: Law as Metaphor and Morality in Milton’s

“Samson Agonistes,” 2 JOURNAL OF LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES 440-

469 (2006)

12. Jonathan Yovel, Contract at the Beginning of the Third Millennium: Civil

Codification in the Grips of Relational and Neo-Classical Theories, 4 LAW AND

BUSINESS 241-271 (2006) (Hebrew)

13. Jonathan Yovel, Living Over the Dead: A Critique from Equality of “Targeted

Killings,” 8 LAW & GOVERNMENT 521-551 (2005) (Hebrew)

14. Guy Davidov, Jonathan Yovel Amnon Reichman, Ilan Saban, Family or Country?

The New Israeli Immigration and Naturalization Legislation, 8 LAW &

GOVERNMENT 643-699 (2005). Cited favorably by Chief Justice Barak in HC

7052/03 (2005) and by several justices in HC 466/07 (2011) (Authors’ contribution

equal) (Hebrew)

15. Jonathan Yovel, The Seller's Right to Cure a Failure to Perform in International

Sales, NORDIC JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL LAW 1-19 (2005).

14a. Revised version reprinted as Cure After the Date for Delivery, in: AN

INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS, 480-486

(John Felemegas ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

16. Jonathan Yovel, Running backs, Wolves, and Other Fatalities: How

Manipulations of Narrative Coherence in Legal Opinions Marginalize Violent

Death, 16 LAW AND LITERATURE 127-159 (2004)

17. Jonathan Yovel, Censorship Under Decentralized Technology: The Case of

“Jenin, Jenin,” 28 TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 555-592 (2004)

(Hebrew)

18. Jonathan Yovel, Two Conceptions of Relevance, 34 CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS:

FORMAL APPROACHES TO LEGAL EVIDENCE, 283-315 (2003)

19. Jonathan Yovel, Gay Science as Law: An Outline for a Nietzschean

Jurisprudence, 24 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 635-662 (2003)

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20. Jonathan Yovel, Rights and Rites: Initiation, Language and Performance in Law

and Legal Education, 3 STANFORD AGORA 1-31 (formerly the STANFORD

JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES) (2002)

21. Jonathan Yovel, Narrative Justice, 18 BAR-ILAN LAW REVIEW 283-322 (2002)

(Hebrew)

22. Jonathan Yovel, Invisible Precedents: On the Many Lives of Legal Stories

Through Law and Popular Culture, 50 EMORY LAW JOURNAL 1265-1293 (2001)

23. Jonathan Yovel, Verbal Violence, 10 PLILIM, THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

OF PUBLIC LAW, SOCIETY AND CULTURE 241-275 (2001) (Hebrew). Quoted and

cited in several Israeli judicial opinions (including Supreme Court).

24. Jonathan Yovel, In the Beginning Was the Word: Paradigms of Language and

Normativity in Law, Philosophy, and Theology, 5 MOUNTBATTEN JOURNAL OF

LEGAL STUDIES 5-33 (2001)

25. Jonathan Yovel, Trigger-Happy Courts: Culture and Ideology in Coerced

Adoption Cases, 6 LAW AND GOVERNMENT 259-268 (2001) (review essay)

(Hebrew)

26. Jonathan Yovel, What is Contract Law “About”? Speech Act Theory and a

Critique of “Skeletal Promises,” 94 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW

937-962 (2000)

27. Jonathan Yovel, Analogical Reasoning as Translation: The Pragmatics of

Transitivity, 13 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW 1-27 (2000)

28. Jonathan Yovel, On Immunity and Pardon: An Anatomy of Normative Concepts, 4

LAW AND GOVERNMENT 521-530 (1997) (Hebrew)

29. Jonathan Yovel, Overruling Rules? 4 PRAGMATICS & COGNITION 347-366 (1996)

B. ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

30. Jonathan Yovel, From Status to Contract: The Unhappy Case of Johann

Sebastian Bach, 27 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

(forthcoming Summer 2014)

31. Jonathan Yovel, Jurisprudence, Pragmatism and the Political in St. Thomas

Aquinas’ De Regimine Judaeorum; followed by an annotated translation of St.

Thomas Aquinas, De Regimine Judaeorum [On the Government of Jews] 15 LAW

AND GOVERNMENT (forthcoming Fall 2014, Hebrew)

32. Jonathan Yovel, Can Law Love Us? Judging as Love and Participation, a

Festschrift in Honor of Justice Ayala Prukachia, LAW AND BUSINESS (forthcoming

Fall 2014, Hebrew)

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E. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS WHICH ARE NOT CONFERENCE

PROCEEDINGS PUBLISHED

1. Jonathan Yovel, Legal Formalism, Artificial Intelligence and the

Indeterminacy of Relevance, in EPHRAIM NISSAN, COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

FOR HANDLING LEGAL EVIDENCE, POLICE INVESTIGATION AND CASE

ARGUMENTATION 301-322 (Amsterdam: Springer, 2012)

2. Jonathan Yovel and Joseph Edrey, Israeli Contract Law, in THE INTERNATIONAL

CONTRACT MANUAL 315-351 (New York: West Publications, 2008; revised and

updated version by Yovel and Ido Shacham forthcoming 2014)

3. Jonathan Yovel, The Seller’s Right to Avoid the Contract in International

Sales, in AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE

UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE

OF GOODS, 440-456 (John Felemegas ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2007)

4. Jonathan Yovel, Current-Price and Market-Based Damages for Breach of

Contract in International Sales, in AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO THE

INTERPRETATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR

THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS, 480-486 (John Felemegas ed.,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

5. Jonathan Yovel, The Buyer’s Right to Avoid the Contract in International

Sales, in AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE

UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL

SALE OF GOODS, 397-410 (John Felemegas ed., Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2007)

6. Jonathan Yovel and Victor H. Bouganim, Lex Romana: Archaic Literacy as a

Romantic Yarn, in LAW AND LITERATURE 293-307 (eds. M. Rubinstein et al.,

Tel-Aviv: Ramot 2007) (bulk written by Yovel) (Hebrew)

7. Jonathan Yovel, Gay Science as Law: An Outline for a Nietzschean

Jurisprudence, in Peter Goodrich and Mariana Velvedere eds., HALF-

WRITTEN LAWS: NIETZSCHE AND LEGAL THEORY 23-49 (London: Routledge,

2005)

8. Jonathan Yovel, The Subversive Privilege of Love, in LAW AND LOVE 527-55

(Orna Ben-Naftali and Hana Nave eds., Tel-Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press,

2005) (Hebrew)

9. Jonathan Yovel and Elizabeth Mertz, The Role of Social Science in Legal

Decisions, THE COMPANION TO LAW AND SOCIETY, 410-431 (Austin Sarat ed.,

Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) (authors’ contribution equal)

10. Elizabeth Mertz and Jonathan Yovel, Metalinguistic Awareness, THE

HANDBOOK OF PRAGMATICS 1-26 (J. Verschueren, J-O Östman, J. Blommaert

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& C. Bulcaen, eds., Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000) (authors’ contribution

equal)

11. Jonathan Yovel, The Contingency of Transitivity: a Formal Outline for a

Quantitative Approach to a Puzzle of Analogical Reasoning, THE LOGIC OF

NORMS 153-172 (Antonio. A. Martino ed., Pisa: SEU, 1998)

ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

12. Jonathan Yovel and Ido Shacham, Israel, in THE INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT

MANUAL (New York: West, 2014)

G. Entries in Encyclopedias

1. Elizabeth Mertz and Jonathan Yovel, Courtroom Narrative, THE

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NARRATIVE THEORY (London: Routledge, 2004)

H. OTHER PUBLICATIONS

1. Professional

1. Translation of St. Thomas Aquinas’ De Regimine Judaeorum [On the

Government of Jews], 15 LAW AND GOVERNMENT (forthcoming 2014)

2. In progress: Translation of Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Summa

Theologiae FPSP Questions 90-109), under contract for publication.

3. Israel and the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods,

online running commentary published and occasionally updated, under the

auspices of the Pace International Law Institute, NYC

4. A Defaulting Party's Right to Cure a Failure to Perform, advisory paper

commissioned by the Committee for the Codification of Civil Law, Dept. of

Justice, Israel (2006)

5. Jonathan Yovel, Imagining Territories: Space, Place, and the Anticity. Online

essay available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=950895

(2007) (27 pages).

6. Jonathan Yovel, Discourse Ethics and Interpretative Manipulations from

Akhnai’s Oven, Posen Center Research Publication #4 (2006)

7. Op-Eds, Criticism and Reviews:

A. Op-Eds in HAARETZ and YEDIOT AHARONOT, 2001-present, covering

various legal, political and social issues, including: human rights issues;

naturalization and citizenship; Mideast peace process; rhetorical analyses of

various aspects of public discourse; critiques of the use of private-law

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standards in government-citizen relationships; newly-emerging consumerist

and civic ideologies; analyses and critiques of various governmental bodies

including the Supreme Court, the purported constitutional court, the

presidency, and military justice.

B. Professional and Literary Essays and Reviews

Several longer pieces in HAARETZ LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, HAARETZ SFARIM

(HAARETZ BOOK REVIEW), E-Mago, YEDIOT AHARONOT, including pieces on

the duty to obey the law, law and national security, mimetic prose, Kafka’s

novels The Trial and Amerika, the sociology of love, Peter Hoeg, legal jargon

and legal lexicons.

2. Literary

A. Books Published

1. Verse: Songs of the Homo Urbanus, Tel Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuhad, 2005 (Hebrew)

Reviewed in Haaretz Book Review, Yediot Aharonot Literary Section, Hatsofe,

several online sites. Interviews in Haaretz Book Review, Yediot Aharonot, Israel

Today, as well as TV and radio interviews (channels 2, 10, 34).

2. Prose: Trojan Horse, Tel Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuhad, 2009 (a collection of short

stories) (Hebrew)

Reviewed in Haaretz Book Review, Maariv, Walla, several online sites.

B. Accepted for publication

Songs to My Body (verse, forthcoming from Am Oved)

C. Shorter Prose and Verse Published

Short stories, poems and translations published in dailies and literary journals,

including Haaretz, Yediot Aharonot, Helikon, Iton 77, Aley Ruakh, Carmel, Makaf,

Ktovet, E-Mago.

Literary prizes: First Prize, Haaretz short story competition (1996 and 2000).

C. Literary translations into Hebrew

Verse translation of Milton’s Samson Agonistes (unpublished)

Occasional translations from French, Occitan, Italian: François Villon, Joachim du

Belley, Robert Garnier, Richard I, “minor” French renaissance poets, Tasso, Georges

Brassens, Jacques Brel, Carlo Levi, Ezra Pound and Flann O’Brian.

A partial list of literary publications and reviews is available at the Ohio State

University Library site: http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00681.php

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I. OTHER WORKS AND ACTIVITIES CONNECTED WITH YOUR

SCHOLARLY FIELD

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