Issachar Rosen-zvi

Biography

Issi Rosen-Zvi teaches Environmental Law, Local Government Law, Administrative Law and Civil procedure. He obtained his LL.B. (magna cum laude) from Bar-Ilan University, his LL.M. in law and sociology from Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude). He continued his studies at Stanford Law School, where he received his J.S.D. in June, 2002. He clerked for the Honorable Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court and practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP in New York. Before accepting his current appointment at TAU in 2005, he was a faculty at the Haifa University Law Faculty. His research areas include civil and criminal procedure, law and geography, local government law and environmental law. He has recently published a book titled Taking Space Seriously (Ashgate, 2004) that explores the different ways in which a multicultural state deals with various social groups through the mechanisms of space.

Research Interest

Procedure, environmental law, local government law, law & society.