The Buchmann Faculty of Law Magazine December 2019 A Man with a Plan Prof. Ariel Porat, former Dean of the Buchmann Faculty of Law, was recently named the ninth President of Tel Aviv University. We met with him to talk about his plans for Israel′s largest institution of higher education | p. 8 The Environmental Justice Clinic sues 30 Haifa Bay factories | p. 6 Big brother is watching you: Q&A with Mickey Zar | p. 11 Two students talk about their unconventional paths to the Faculty | p. 12 Message News from from the Dean the Faculty Welcome to De Jure, the magazine of the These successes could not have been achieved In the past year the Faculty possible. Also this year, Prof. Roy around the world and competing Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. without the trust and support of our generous signed an academic cooperation Kreitner headed a delegation from in timed lawyering simulations. donors. I would like to take this opportunity to agreement with the Sciences Po Law the Faculty to the PhD candidates′ Over the past year it has been rewarding to extend our most heartfelt thanks to the Faculty′s School in Paris. Last March, a joint week at Sciences Po. Among the Dr. Mickey Zar won the witness the unprecedented achievements on community of donors, and to congratulate Tzipi conference titled ″Migration and delegates were Prof. Michael 2019 Bahat Prize for her the part of the Faculty′s students. The Faculty Roitman, graduate of the Faculty and lay leader of Human Rights″ was held in Paris for Birnhack and PhD candidates Or forthcoming book: ″The Politics of ranked first among law faculties in Israel the German Friends of TAU, who joined our donor the two faculties, in honor of Bettina Cohen-Sasson, Bell Yosef, and Dalit Privacy: The Technological Drama Bar Exam pass rates, with community in March. Roth. Speakers at the conference Flaiszhaker. in the Information Sphere″, as an impressive 97 percent. included Prof. Yishai Blank and Prof. well as the Cegla Young Faculty Many of our undergraduate This issue offers a mix of news Issi Rosen-Zvi. A benefit was held A team from the Faculty Prize for her article: ″People students attained prestigious and features on a wide variety in June to support the collaboration. won the 32nd edition of who read this article also read…: clerkships, including at the of subjects reflecting the depth The Faculty is grateful to Mr. the Jean-Pictet Competition for Between privacy and profiling″. Supreme Court of Israel. A and breadth of our activities. François Heilbronn, president of the international law, in France. The Dr. Zar is a post-doctoral fellow team of students won first To begin with you can read French Friends of Tel Aviv University, team – Tomer Levinger, Dina at the Edmond J. Safra Center for place in the prestigious about the Environmental Justice Danielle Schemoul, and Adv. Odile Wecker, and Layan Yassin – came Ethics. She completed her master′s Jean-Pictet Competition and the Protection of Animal Cohen, without whose efforts the in first place out of 50 teams degree and PhD at the Zvi Meitar for international law, and Rights Clinic, which filed an collaboration would not have been representing universities from Center for Advanced Legal Studies, De jure graduates of the Zvi Meitar important class action lawsuit established thanks to the generous The Magazine of the Center for Advanced Legal against industrial polluters donation of the Zvi and Ofra Meitar Buchmann Faculty of Studies earned important in the Haifa Bay. This year the Family Fund. Law at Tel Aviv University awards. These achievements Clinic will receive a generous Chief Editor: are a testament to the donation from the Jeremy 23 students recently began Shay Aspril Faculty′s vision, mission and Coller Foundation and another studying in the Parasol Translation: commitment to excellence. philanthropic foundation. Foundation International LL.M. Tamar Cohen You will also find a series of Program. This group of students Graphics: Another exciting development for the Faculty fascinating interviews: with Professor Ariel Porat, came from 16 countries, including Michal Gizbar is the opening of the new LL.M. Program. The former dean of the Faculty, in which he lays out his the United States, China, the United Translation editing: one-year academic master′s degree has been plans as the new president of Tel Aviv University; Dr. Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Kenya, Erica Goldberg in great demand, admitting a first class of 160 Mickey Zar, a graduate of the Zvi Meitar Center; and and Nepal. The program was Ruth Almog students. Another achievement is the opening two students who tell us about the unconventional established thanks to the generous Cover photograph: of the new class of the Parasol Foundation paths that brought them to the Faculty. donation of Ms. Ruth Parasol. Yoram Reshef International LL.M. Program, bringing 23 https://en-law.tau.ac.il | students from 16 different countries to Tel Aviv! Happy reading! The Faculty opened an [email protected] The undergraduate program has also seen a Professor Sharon Hannes academic track in the field significant increase in enrollment. Dean of the Faculty of animal rights. In addition to The new class of the Parasol the Environmental Justice and Foundation International Credit: Yair Landler LL.M. Program. Students 2 De jure | December 2019 from 16 countries. December 2019 | De jure 3 News from the Faculty Prof. Arye Edrei, Justice Neal Hendel and the students from the Faculty who participated in the historical trial. and human rights in the global age.″ Rosen-Zvi and Prof. Yishai Blank The Tel Aviv Northwestern Group. Courses include trainings (Regionality as a Legal Concept); Prof. LL.M. in Public Law Program for mediators and arbitrators, Prof. Ehud Kamar won Ehud Kamar and Dr. Kobi Kastiel (An continues to attract many of courses in business negotiation, the 2019 Fattal Prize for Empirical Study of the Relationship the country’s most prominent and medical law. The Institute′s Excellence in Legal Research. The between Independent Directors judges, prosecutors, regulators, courses are given by judges, prize, awarded by the Law Faculty and Controlling Shareholders); Dr. private sector lawyers, and others. leading lawyers, academics, and of Haifa University, was granted Natalie Davidson (How Domestic The one-year degree deepens business leaders. this year for academic excellence Violence has Turned into Torture: A its participants knowledge on and meaningful contribution to Socio-Legal Study); Dr. Eliav Lieblich issues related to human rights, Prof. Menachem Mautner, a the advancement of legal discourse (Laws of Occupation in International globalization, privatization, and leading Israeli legal scholar, and knowledge in the field of Law in Light of the Characteristics legislation. The program includes retired this summer from the commercial law. of Control in Today′s International two semesters in Tel Aviv and a Faculty after decades of teaching Credit: Noam Hefez System). summer semester in Chicago. generations of legal scholars. Prof. Alon Klement, Prof. With completion of their studies, A two-day retirement conference, the Protection of Animal Rights trial, apparently held in 1759 in Assaf Jacob, and Dr. Yuval This year, Prof. Ronen students receive an LL.M. degree held in his honor, was attended Clinic, a new course was introduced the Imperial Court in Vienna, Procaccia received the Aaron Avraham, the academic from both universities. by senior judges, lawyers and this past year into the program, centered around an inheritance Polonsky Prize for an outstanding supervisor of the Human Rights Clinic, academics. Mautner joins Professors under the auspices of the Jeremy dispute among Jews from Frankfurt article in the field of tort law. founded the ″social accountability Various practical courses José Brunner, Elimelech Westreich Coller Foundation, providing an on the matter of the estate and taskforce″, which today numbers are held in the Institute and Eyal Benvenisti, who retired overview of the socio-economic last will and testament of a Dr. Doreen Lustig won nearly 80 members. Members of the for Legal Arts, headed by former recently from the Faculty after and ideological contexts of animal wealthy, childless Jewish man. the 2019 Zeltner Prize for group, senior executives from the district court judge Dr. Daphna many years of teaching. We wish welfare legislation. The participants stepped into the distinguished junior legal scholar. Israeli business arena, have organized Avnieli, sponsored by the ILDC him the best of luck! shoes of the lawyers of both parties to express their opinions on important Tzipi Roitman, a graduate of and discussed fascinating legal Dr. Lena Salaymeh won public interest issues in Israel, and the Faculty and lay leader of questions such as: whether the case a prestigious Guggenheim they recently signed a petition the German Friends of TAU, joins should be discussed in the Jewish fellowship. As a Guggenheim fellow, expressing their opposition to the the Faculty′s donor community. court or the civil court; whether Salaymeh will continue her present passing of ″personal″ legislation and it should be heard under Jewish research project, examining historical processes that are eroding the rule of This year, the Faculty hosted or Roman law; as well as the very precedents and legal justifications law in Israel. a reenactment of a historical validity of the will. The panel of in Islamic law. In addition, she will trial, led by Prof. Arye Edrei, in judges was led by Israeli Supreme conduct a collaborative research in The Faculty launched a new collaboration with the University Court Justice Neal Hendel. decolonial comparative law. master′s program headed by of Vienna Faculty of Law, Cardozo former Supreme Court justice, Prof. Law School at Yeshiva University, Prof. Daphna Hacker won the Five out of fourteen grants given Yoram Danziger.