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

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Full CV (PDF) Anglo-American Legal and Economic History, History of Business Organizations, Israeli Legal History, Consumer Bankruptcy, Comparative Law

Ron Harris is a Professor of Law and Legal History at Tel-Aviv University. He earned an LL.B. and B.A. and M.A. in history from TAU and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He joined the Tel Aviv University Law School in 1993, served as its Vice Dean 2006-8 and is a full professor since 2008. He was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and USC, a short term visiting professor at ENS Paris and spent extended research periods in Oxford and London. Harris works on the intersection of legal history and economic history. His main research fields are the history of the corporation and of other forms of business organization, the history of bankruptcy and consumer credit, and Israeli legal history. Harris is the author of Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720 - 1844 (Cambridge UP, 2000), the editor of two other books, and the author or co-author of numerous articles in economics, business, history and law journals. He is currently working on the legal-economic organization of early modern Eurasian trade; on the comparative history of Private Limited  Companies in France, Germany, Britain, and the US (with Naomi Lamoreaux,  Timothy Guinnane and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal); and on the transplantation of company law in the British Empire with particular focus on British ruled Palestine (with Michael Crystal). Harris is a co-founder of the Israeli Legal History Association, Director of the David Berg Institute for Law and History, recipient of fellowships from Columbian University, Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild Foundation), the British Council, and the Israel Science Foundation.

Homepage: http://www.tau.ac.il/law/members/ron-harris/

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