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Prof. Sapir Gideon

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Telephone: 
03-5317092
Email: 
Gideon.Sapir@biu.ac.il
Office: 
Room 302, new wing
Reception hours: 
Meetings should be coordinated in advance

Research

Research interests: 

Constitutional law, with a concentration in religion-state issues and constitutional theory

Publications

HEBREW

BOOKS-AUTHOR

  • 1. Constitutional Revolution in Israel - Past, Present & Future (2010) (Hebrew)
  • 2. Religion and State - Legal-Philosophic Inquiry (forthcoming 2013) (with Daniel Statman)

BOOK-EDITOR

Essays in Honour of Izhak Englard (D. Barak-Erez & Gideon Sapir eds.) (2009) (Hebrew)

 

ARTICLES

  • 1. On the Right to a Nation-State, Tel-Aviv University Law Review (forthcoming, 2013) (with Aviad Bakshi)
  • 2. The Non-Jewish Religions in Israel, Bar-Ilan Law Studies (forthcoming, 2013) (with Daniel Statman)
  • 3. Justifications of the Duty to Make Employment Adjustments for People with Disabilities, 13
    Haifa University Law Review 411 (2011)
  • 4. Book Review - Between Liberalism and Multiculturalism, 26 Bar-Ilan Law Studies
    311 (2010)
  • 5. Using Religious Arguments to support legislation - Is it Legitimate? 25 Bar-Ilan Law Studies
    599 (2009) (With Daniel Statman)
  • 6. Nondelegation, 32 Tel-aviv University Law Review 5 (2009)
  • 7. Book Review: Outlawed Pigs, 11 Haifa University Law Review 611 (2008)
  • 8. The Israeli Constitutional Revolution - How did it Happen? 11 Haifa University Law Review 571 (2008)
  • 9. Three Models of Constitutionalism, 37 Hebrew University Law Review 349 (2007)
  • 10. Jewish Religious Services Law-A Proposed Framework for Privatization Reform, 23 Bar-Ilan L. Stud. 117 (2006) (with Hadar Lifshits)
  • 11. Old v. New: Vertical Balance and Proportionality, 22 Bar-Ilan L. Stud. 471 (2006)
  • 12. Who Shall Decide Who Is a Jew? On the Proper Role of the Judiciary in a Democratic State, 22 Bar-Ilan L. Stud. 269 (2006)(with Shachar Lifshits)
  • 13. The Limits of Establishment of Religion, 8 Haifa University Law Review 155 (2005)
  • 14. Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Religion and the Protection of Religious Feelings, 21 Bar-Ilan L. Stud. 5 (2004) (with Daniel Statman)
  • 15. The Constitutional Judicial Proceeding as a Political Proceeding, 19 Bar-Ilan L. Stud. 461 (2003)
  • 16. Two Learned Scholars Among Us, 25 Tel-Aviv U. L. Rev.189 (2001)
  • 17. Drafting Yeshiva Students in Israel: A Proposed Framework of the Relevant Normative Considerations, 9 Plilim 217 (2001)

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • 1. Professor Englard and Justice Englard - Complition or Contradiction? Essays in Honor of
    Izhak Englard     (D. Barak-Erez and G. Sapir eds. 2009) 305 (Hebrew)
  • 2. Proportionality and Compromise, Dorner Book (S. Almog, D. Beinish and Y. Rotem
    eds. 2009) 397 (Hebrew)

ENGLISH

 

BOOK-EDITOR

Israeli Constitutional Law at a Crossroads (Gideon Sapir, Daphne Barak-Erez & Aharon Barak eds.) (forthcoming 2013)

 

ARTICLES

  • 1. Popular Constitutionalism - The Jewish Version, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies (forthcoming, 2013)
  • 2. In The Aftermath of the Immanuel Affair: Would it not be Better for Religion to Detach Itself from the State? Democratic Culture (forthcoming, 2013) (With Daniel Statman)
  • 3. Religious Arguments in the Public Sphere vs. the Freedom from Religion, 3 Law, religion & State (forthcoming, 2013) (With Daniel Statman)
  • 4. Constitutional Revolutions - Israel as a Case Study, 5 International Journal of Law in Context 355 (2010)
  • 5. Religious Marriage in a Liberal State, 30 Cardozo L. Rev. (with Daniel Statman) (2009)
  • 6. Book Review - Yakobson & Rubinstein: Israel and the Family of Nations, 11 Democratic Culture 295 (2007)
  • 7. How Should a Court Deal with a Primary Question That the Legislator Seeks to Avoid? 39 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1233 (2006)
  • 8. Why Freedom of Religion does not Include Freedom from Religion, 24 Law and Philosophy 467 (2005) (with Daniel Statman)
  • 9. Can an Orthodox Jew Participate in the Public Life of the State of Israel?,20 Shofar 85 (2002)
  • 10. Law or Politics: Israeli Constitutional Adjudication as a Case Study, 6 UCLA J. of Int'l L. & Foreign Aff. 169 (2001)
  • 11. Religion and State in Israel - The Case for Reevaluation and Constitutional Entrenchment, 22 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 617 (1999)
  • 12. Religion and State - A Fresh Theoretical Start,,75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 579 (1999)

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • 1. Why a Constitution-in General and in Particular in the Israeli Context? Israeli Constitutional Law at a Crossroads (Gideon Sapir, Daphne Barak-Erez & Aharon Barak eds.) (forthcoming 2013)
  • 2. Israel as a Nation State in the Supreme Court Rulings, The Israeli Nation-State (Oz-Salzberger and Stern eds.) (forthcoming 2013) (with Aviad Bakshi)

Resume

 

Prof. Gideon Sapir received his law degree from Bar-Ilan University, an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Northwestern University, and Rabbinical Ordination from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. His teaching and research areas of interest are constitutional law (with concentration on religion and state) and constitutional theory. He was a Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University Law School, and visiting professor at the Universty of Toronto and Monash University School of Law. He is the author and editor of several books and of many articles in Israel, England and the United States. His book (with Daniel Statman), Religion & State - Legal & philosophic Inquiry, is scheduled for publication in 2013.  

 

In addition to his academic work, Prof. Sapir is involved in social causes. In this capacity, he is the founder and academic supervisor of two legal clinics, under the auspices of Bar-Ilan Law Faculty: Disability Rights Clinic and Elderly Rights Clinic.

 

Courses

99-263-01-02  Human Rights for People with Disabilities

99-549-01 Human Rights for People with Disabilities

99-917-01 State and Religion

99-944-01 Rights of Elderly and Holocoust Survivors