Alon Harel

Alon Harel (born 1957) is a prominent law professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he holds the Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative and Criminal Law. He was educated at the Hebrew University, Yale University, and Balliol College, Oxford (where he earned a D.Phil in philosophy of law with a dissertation supervised by Joseph Raz). He has been visiting professor at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Toronto. He is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Harel writes on political philosophy, jurisprudence, criminal law, constitutional law, and law and economics. His articles often undertake philosophical and legal issues of contemporary political relevance. In a recent article (co-authored with Yuval Eylon), Harel defends judicial review on the grounds of a “right to a hearing”, which, as a participatory right, does not conflict with the right to equal democratic participation.

A leading advocate of human rights in Israel, Harel has served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and submitted a Brief on Behalf of Conscientious Objectors to the Israeli Supreme Court. He often publishes op-ed pieces in Israeli newspapers.

Sources

* [http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/segel.asp?staff_id=50&cat=441 Harel's homepage] at the Hebrew University
*Yuval Eylon and Alon Harel, "The Right to Judicial Review", 92 Va. L. Rev. 991 (2006)