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Trubowicz - Law building , room 328
Tel:  (972)-3-6408259
Fax: (972)-3-6409576
Email: slavi@post.tau.ac.il

Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

Research Interests:

 

Sociology of Law, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence, Bioethics

 

Shai Lavi is a senior lecturer and the director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Tel Aviv Faculty of Law. 
He received his Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California Berkeley. His book The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States (Princeton University Press) won the 2006 Distinguished Book Award in sociology of law from the American Sociological Association.
He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Berkeley, California, a visiting professor at Toronto University and a Humboldt fellow at the Dubnow Instittue for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig and at the faculty of law at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He is currently working on the history of Jews and Muslims in Germany focusing on the debate on animal slaughter rituals.


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Homepage: http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/law/researcher.asp?id=adjmdeccd

Courses taught

Introduction To Jurisprudence
Law And Political Thought
The Philosophy And Ethics Of Biotechnology
Conservation And Civil Spaces: Law, Society And Politics
Law And Literature
Jewish Law Workshop