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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: [email protected]
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
[Omitted]