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    • Spring 2024, Yad Ben-Zvi, Israel History & Law Association Conference, “How did We reach this Stage? On the Constitutional Dream and its Demise”

    • Spring 2023, Eighth Annual I*CON-S-IL Conference, On the Constitutional Attack against the Common Law

    • Summer 2022, Seventh Annual I*CON-S-IL Conference, Paper titled: “Popular Sovereignty as a Territorial Concept.”

    • Summer 2022, Seventh Annual I*CON-S-IL Conference, Paper titled: “Judicial Review of the Basic Laws: On the Legacy of Hayut

    (President of the Israeli Supreme Court) and Netanyahu.”

    • Winter 2021, Yad Ben-Zvi, Israel History & Law Association Conference. Paper titled: “Inherent Limits on the Override Power in the Israeli Constitution:

     The Story of the Override from Section 4 of Basic Law: The Knesset through Retroactive Amendments to Supra-Constitutional Principles.”

    • Spring 2020, Haifa U, Sixth Annual Israeli ICON-S Conference. Paper Titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath:

    On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Spring 2019, I*CON-S-IL, College of Law & Management. Annual Conference. Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty and

    Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Spring 2018, Reichman U, ICON-S-IL, Fourth Annual Conference. A conversation with Supreme Court Justice Prof. Daphna Barak-Erez on

    Academic vs Judicial Writings.

    • Spring 2018, Reichman U, ICON-S-IL, Fourth Annual Conference. Panel on Boycott. Paper titled: “Revisiting Israel’s Militant Democracy Perception.”

    • Winter 2015, Haifa U Law Faculty, Innovations in the Law in 2015 Conference. Invited talk. Paper titled: “Revisiting Israel’s Militant Democracy Perception.”

    • Winter 2013, Academic Center of Law & Bus, Israeli Law & Society Annual Int'l Conference. Invited. Comments on Moshe Cohen-Eliya & Iddo

    Porat’s Proportionality and Constitutional Culture.

    • Summer 2013, Reichman U, Annual Conference of Int'l Society of Political Psychology, Political Psychology of Global Conflict,

    Protest and Reconciliation. Paper Retitled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Winter 2012, Academic Center of Law & Bus, Israeli Law & Society Ass. Annual Int'l Conference. Member of Organizing Committee & Speaker.

    Panel titled: Basic Law: Legislation and the Override Power. Paper titled: “Hybrid Constitutionalism: The Israeli Case for Judicial Review and Why

    We Should Care.”

    • Fall 2007, Israel History & Law Association Annual Conference, Yad Ben Zvi, Law and History Conference. Paper titled: “Healing the Budget's Ills

    or Budgeting the Healing of the Ill--Is the Constitutional Dilemma.”

    • Summer 2025, Hebrew University Law Review Workshop, On the Publication Process in Law Reviews (expected)

    • Winter 2025, Ministry of Justice Conference: Summary of 2024 in the Field of Administrative Law Conference, Revisiting the

    Draft of Ultra-Orthodox Men to the Israeli Army.

    • Winter 2025, Reichman University, Democracy Day, On the Proposal to Change the System of Appointing Supreme Court Justices.

    • Winter 2024, Israeli Association of Public Law Annual Conference, Revisiting the Draft of Ultra-Orthodox Men to the Israeli Army.

    • Winter 2024, Reichman University, Doctoral Students Seminar, Advice for Graduate Students.

    • Tel-Aviv University, Rule of Law Challenges in Israel Symposium, The Crisis over the Appointment of the Israeli Chief Justice.

    • Spring 2023, Reichman University, Liberty & Responsibility Center, Challenging the Constitutional Status of the Israeli Prime Minister.

    • Winter 2023, Reichman University, Ariel Sharon Research Center, Governability Conference, Panel on Reform of the Police.

    • Winter 2022, Hebrew U Faculty of Law, Symposium in honor of Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein. Paper titled: “Four Comments on

    Justice Alex Stein’s Probabilism in Legal Interpretation Approach.”

    • Spring 2022, Israeli Association of Legislation Annual Conference, Annual Conference on Basic Law: Legislation, Paper titled:

    “On Constitutional Adoption and Amendment and Basic Law: Legislation.”

    • Spring 2022, Tel-Aviv & Reichman Universities, Law, History and Culture in Israel—Conference in Honor of Yoram Shachar (expected).

    • Winter 2021, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Hebrew U & Van Leer Institute, Nationalism and Liberalism, Judaism and Democracy,

    Joint Int’l Conference in Memory of Academy Member Professor Ruth Gavison. Paper titled: “Judicial Review of the Basic Laws: On the Legacy of Hayut

    (President of Israel’s Supreme Court) and Netanyahu.”

    • Spring 2021, Law and Liberty Webinar, An Anniversary to the Yuli Edelstein Decision: Judicial Intervention in Parliamentary Proceedings.

    Paper Titled: “The Yuli Edelstein Decision and the History of the Balance of Power between the Knesset and the Government in Israel.”

    • Winter 2021, Israeli Association of Public Law Annual Conference, Law in Times of Crisis. Paper Titled: “The Yuli Edelstein Decision and the History

    of the Balance of Power between the Knesset and the Government in Israel.”

    • Fall 2020, Tel-Aviv U Law Review, Checks and Balances in the Israeli Constitution Conference. Paper titled: “The Yuli Edelstein Decision and the

    History of the Balance of Power between the Knesset and the Government in Israel.”

    • Spring 2020, Hebrew U Law and Liberty Webinar, From the Deri to the Netanyahu Decision: Past, Present and Future. Paper Titled:

    “From Deri to Netanyahu: On the Gap between the Reasoning and Outcome of the Netanyahu Decision."

    • Spring 2020, Reichman U and Israel’s Ministry of Justice. Paper retitled: “On the Nexus between the Process of Appointments of Senior Civil Service

    Members and the Judicial Protection of Independent Administrative Discretion in Parliamentary Systems.”

    • Fall 2019, Haifa U, The Haifa Annual Conference on Law. Plenary Opening Session. Paper titled: “Is the Judicial Impeachment of the Israeli Prime

    Minister Constitutional?”

    • Summer 2019, Ramat Gan Center of Law & Bus, ICON-S-IL Group Discussion. Reflections on the Israeli Constitutional Crisis. Group Discussion.

    Invited. Paper titled: “How to Address the Israeli Constitutional Crisis?”

    • Summer 2019, College of Law & Management, 50 Years to the Bergman Decision: The Past, Present, and Future of Judicial Review in Israel. Invited.

    Plenary session. Paper titled: “The Inherent Limits on the Override Power in the Israeli Constitution: The Story of the Override from Section 4 of

    Basic Law: The Knesset through Retroactive Amendments to Supra-Constitutional Principles.”

    Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment.”

    • Spring 2018, Reichman U, ICON-S-IL, Fourth Annual Conference, Co-Chair of Plenary Session on Academia’s Role in Social Activity.

    • Spring 2018, Reichman U, ICON-S-IL, Fourth Annual Conference, Plenary Session. Opening Remarks.

    • Spring 2015, Tel Aviv U Law School, Tel-Aviv U Law Review on Constitutional Revolution. Paper titled: “United Mizrahi Bank's Twentieth

    Anniversary: On the Piquant Story of the Hybrid Israeli Constitution.”

    • Winter 2014, National Security College & Reichman U, The Structure of the Military Force and its Operation: Strategic, Moral and Legal

    Considerations in memory of Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak. Discussant. Paper titled: “Revisiting Israel’s Militant Democracy Perception.”

    • Winter 2013, National Security College & Reichman U, The Structure of the Military Force and its Operation: Strategic, Moral and Legal

    Considerations in memory of Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak. Chair. 

    • Fall 2013, Tel-Aviv U Law Faculty, Tel Aviv University Law Review Workshop on the Law of Parliament. Paper titled: “Reviewing Continuity in Legislation.”

    • Summer 2012, Reichman U, Round Table on Research Agendas (with the Lauder School of Government). Research discussion.

    • Winter 2011, Israeli Association of Public Law, Annual Conference. Paper titled: “Healing the Budget's Ills or Budgeting the Healing of the Ill--Is the

    Constitutional Dilemma.”

    • Spring 2011, Reichman U, Proportionality Book Review Workshop in honor of President (ret.) of Israel’s Supreme Court, Prof. Aharon Barak’s

    Proportionality in Law. Organizer, Chair and Speaker. Paper titled: “Did the Lawmaker Shoot a Cannon to Hit a Fly? On Proportionality in Law.”

    • Winter 2010, Reichman U, Coerced Adoption, Book Review Workshop on Mili Mass’s In the Name of the Best Interests of the Child: Loss and Suffering

    in Adoption Proceedings. Invited. Commentator.

    • Spring 2009, Reichman U, Int'l Workshop on Electronic Voting. Paper retitled: “Election Integrity: The Constitutionality of Transitioning to Electronic

    Voting in Comparative Terms.”

    • Spring 2006, Haifa U Law School, The Knesset's Proposed Consensual Constitution Conference. Invited talk. Paper titled: “Shouldn't We seek the

    People's Consent? On the Nexus between the Procedures of Adoption and Amendment of Israel’s Constitution.”

    • Spring 2006, Reichman U Law School, Law and Medicine Conference. Paper titled: “Healing the Budget's Ills or Budgeting the Healing

    of the Ill--Is the Constitutional Dilemma.”

    • Fall 2025, McGill Faculty of Law, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, Using Party Bans to Counter Democratic

    Backsliding (expected).

    • Summer 2024, Madrid, Spain, ICON Conference, Illiberalism and Democratic Backsliding.

    • Summer 2024, Madrid, Spain, ICON Conference, Rethinking the Relationship between Militant Democracy and Unamendability.

    • Summer 2024, Madrid, Spain, ICON Conference, On Israel’s Constitutional Upheaval.

    • Spring 2022, Maryland U, Schmooze Conference. Paper Retitled “On the Nexus Between the Strength of the Separation of Powers and the

    Power of the Judiciary.”

    • Winter 2021, George Washington U Law School, The Twelfth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium. Paper Titled: “Court Packing as an Antidote.”

    • Summer 2021, ICON-S Mundo Conference. Panel titled: Rethinking Constitutional Law and Theory in light of Brexit. Panel Organizer & Speaker.

    Paper Titled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Summer 2021, ICON-S Mundo Conference. Panel titled: Strategic Courts and Democratic Backsliding. Panel Organizer and Speaker.

    Paper Titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Summer 2021, ICON-S Mundo Conference. Panel titled: Comparative Political Process Theory. Invited. Paper titled:

    “Judicial Intervention in Parliamentary Affairs to Prevent a Coup d'état.”

    • Summer 2021, ICON-S Mundo Conference. Panel titled: A Theory of the Executive Branch in honor of Prof. Margit Cohn. Invited. Chair. Paper titled:

    “Introduction: Book Roundtable on Margit Cohn’s A Theory of the Executive Branch: Tension and Legality.”

    • Fall 2020, Loyola U Chicago Law School, Eleventh Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium. Paper titled:

    “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Spring 2020, Texas Law School, 2020 Global Conference on Constitution-Making and Constitutional Change.

    Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Fall 2019, Loyola U Chicago Law School, Tenth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium. Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty

    and Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Summer 2019, Pontifical Catholic U of Chile, I*CON-S Annual International Conference. Panel titled: The Relationship of the Constitution with the Past.

    Panel Organizer and Speaker. Paper Retitled: “Bills of Rights with Strings Attached: Protecting Death Penalty, Slavery, Discriminatory Religious Practices and the Past from Judicial Review.”

    • Summer 2019, Pontifical Catholic U of Chile, I*CON-S Annual International Conference. Panel titled: On Political Parties and the Constitution.

    Panel Organizer & Speaker. Paper titled: “The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side: Proportional Representation vs. Majoritarian Election Systems.”

    • Summer 2019, Pontifical Catholic U of Chile, I*CON-S Annual International Conference. Panel titled: On Constitutional Foundations Panel. Invited.

    Paper titled: “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Spring 2018, Hong Kong U, I*CON-S Annual Int’l Conference, Identity, Security, Democracy: Challenges for Public Law. Paper Retitled:

    “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Spring 2018, Hong Kong U, I*CON-S Annual Int’l Conference, Identity, Security, Democracy: Challenges for Public Law. Paper Retitled:

    “Bills of Rights with Strings Attached: Protecting Death Penalty, Slavery, Discriminatory Religious Practices and the Past from Judicial Review.”

    • Spring 2018, SungKyunKwan U, Seoul, South Korea, The Xth World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law.

    Paper Retitled: “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Spring 2018, SungKyunKwan U, Seoul, South Korea, The Xth World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law.

    Paper Retitled: “Bills of Rights with Strings Attached: Protecting Death Penalty, Slavery, Discriminatory Religious Practices and the Past from Judicial Review.”

    Constitutionalism Notwithstanding: On Judicial Review and Constitution-Making.”

    • Spring 2025, Authority Study Group, Peter Ramsay & Galia Schneebaum organizers.

    • Spring 2024, Maryland Law School, Schmooze Conference, “Israel’s Dangerous Semi-Presidential Constitutional System”.

    • Winter 2022, Reichman University, Int’l Conference on “From Polarization to Civil War.” Paper Titled: On the Nexus Between the Strength of Separation

    of Powers and the Power of the Judiciary.”

    • Winter 2021, Texas Law School, Book Roundtable in honor of Prof. Mark Graber’s forthcoming book on the 14th Amendment. Discussant.

    • Spring 2021, Princeton U, Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop Co-organized by Princeton U, U Penn Law & Illinois College of Law. Held in

    • Princeton (via zoom). Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Spring 2021, Maryland Law School, Comparative Constitutional Law Colloquium Schmooze. Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular

    Sovereignty and Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Spring 2021, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, 4th Annual Legal Conference, The Rule of Law in Times of Crisis Conference. Paper titled:

    “Unique Dimensions of Israel’s Struggle with Covid 19.”

    • Fall 2020, Federalist Society, Court Packing, Term Limits, and More: The Debate over Reforming the Judiciary. Webinar. Paper Titled:

    “Court Packing as an Antidote.”

    • Spring 2020, Cardozo Law School, Israel Supreme Court Project Conference: Courts and Constitutions Under Stress. Plenary Session. Invited.

    Paper titled: “Is the Judicial Impeachment of the Israeli Prime Minister Constitutional?”

    • Spring 2020, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Research Group Conference on Constitutional Transplantations. Paper titled: 

    “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Winter 2019, Hebrew U, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Int’l Workshop on The Principles of Constitutionalism. Organizer and Speaker.

    Paper titled: “Acontextual Constitutionalism and the Relationship between the People, Constituent Power and the State: On Nicholas Barber’s

    The Principles of Constitutionalism.”

    • Winter 2019, Reichman U, Subterranean Challenges in War and Peace Conference & The Inaugural Meeting of the Int’l Working Group on

    Subterranean Warfare. Co-organizer and Speaker. Paper titled: “Exodus: Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Summer 2019, Hebrew U, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies Book Workshop in honor of Prof. Geoffrey Stone’s Sex and the Constitution.

    Organizer & Speaker. Paper titled: “Women’s and LGBTQ Social Movements and Constitutional Change--On Geoffrey Stone’s Sex and the Constitution:

    Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century.”

    • Summer 2019, Reichman U, Sixth Annual Int’l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas. Organizer & Speaker. Paper titled: “The Strategic Common

    Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    Winter 2018, Reichman U, The Constitutional Status and Regulation of Political Parties. Organizer and Speaker. Paper presented: “On the Nexus of

    Eternity Clauses, Proportional Representation and Banned Political Parties.”

    • Winter 2018, Law & Ethics of Human Rights Journal, Democratic Backsliding and Human Rights Conference. Paper titled: “The Strategic Common

    Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Winter 2018, Hebrew U, Empirical Studies Conference. Commentator on Andrew Green & Benjamin Alarie’s Judging the Government: Evidence from

    the Supreme Court of Canada.

    • Spring 2018, Columbia U and Cardozo Law School Int’l Conference, Israel’s Supreme Court in Time of Transition, in honor of the retirement of three

    Justices of the Israeli Supreme Court, President Myriam Naor, Deputy President Elyakim Rubinstein and Justice Salim Joubran. Paper titled: “Between

    • Institutional Survival and Human Rights Protection: Adjudicating Landmark Cases of African Undocumented Entrants in Israel in a Comparative and

    International Context.”

    • Fall 2017, Emory Law School and Reichman U, Sacred/Secular Space Conference. Paper Retitled: “Bills of Rights with Strings Attached: Protecting

    Death Penalty, Slavery, Discriminatory Religious Practices and the Past from Judicial Review.”

    • Fall 2017, Israeli Legislature and Reichman U, Time and Legislation International Conference. Paper titled: “Resurrecting Legislation.”

    • Spring 2017, Reichman U, The Globalization of Constitutional Law: Form, Substance and Critique, International Conference. Paper titled: “On the Nexus

    of Eternity Clauses, Proportional Representation and Banned Political Parties.”

    Proportional Representation and Banned Political Parties.”

    • Winter 2016, Haifa U Law Faculty, Regulating Judges: Technology, History and Separation of Powers. Commentator.

    • Fall 2016, Cardozo Law School, Women at the Wall, on the Bus, and in Front of the Court: Religious Women as Agents of Change Through the Israeli

    Supreme Court. Chair & Discussant. Opening Session. A conversation with the Israeli Supreme Court President Asher Grunis (ret.).

    • Summer 2016, Victoria U, New Zealand, Symposium on Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes. Paper titled: “Exploring Constitutional

    Statutes in Common Law Systems.”

    • Spring 2016, Northwestern/FGV Rio/Reichman Universities Research Workshop on State, Market and Society. Invited. Paper retitled: “Secession and

    the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Spring 2016, Edinburgh, Liberty, Security, and the Common Law Reading Group Workshop. Discussant.

    • Winter 2015, Bar Ilan U, Inaugural Conference of the "Center for Jewish and Democratic Law." Invited talk on Constitutional Design in Fractured Societies.

    Paper retitled: “Revisiting Israel’s Militant Democracy Perception.”

    • Spring 2015, Hebrew U Law School, Joint Israeli-Canadian Research Group Workshop on Constitutionalism in Crisis: Multiple Dimensions. Paper retitled: “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Summer 2015, Reichman U, Fifth Annual Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas. Organizer and Speaker. Paper retitled: “Secession and the

    Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Summer 2015, Reichman U, Research Center for Terrorism. Paper titled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption.”

    • Spring 2015, Hebrew U Law School, Book Workshop on Bruce Ackerman's We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution. Organizer and Speaker.

    Paper titled: “Constitutional Statutes or Overriding the Court—On Bruce Ackerman's We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution.”

    • Winter 2014, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Wolfson College, Oxford U, Workshop on the Future of Ukraine. Invited. Discussant.

    • Summer 2014, Reichman U, Fourth Annual Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas. Organizer and Speaker. Paper titled: “Resurrecting Legislation.”

    • Winter 2014, Tilburg U, Digital Democracy Workshop. Paper retitled: “Election Integrity: The Constitutionality of Transitioning to Electronic Voting in

    Comparative Terms.”

    • Summer 2014, Reichman U, Workshop on Hannah Arendt. Discussant.

    • Summer 2014, Reichman U, Public Law Workshop on Citizenship in honor of Prof. Patrick Weil. Comments on Patrick Weil’s “Can a Citizen be Sovereign?”

    • Winter 2013, Netanya Academic College Law School, Conference in Honor of Prof. Maurice Sunkin. Invited. Paper titled: “Hybrid Constitutionalism:

    The Israeli Case for Judicial Review and Why We Should Care.”

    • Summer 2013, Oxford U, How Constitutions Matter Workshop. Invited. Paper titled: “The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism Notwithstanding:

    On Judicial Review and Constitution-Making.”

    • Summer 2013, Reichman U, Third Annual Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas. Organizer and Speaker. Paper retitled: “The New Commonwealth

    Model of Constitutionalism Notwithstanding: On Judicial Review and Constitution-Making.”

    • Summer 2013, Reichman U, Free Speech, Democracy and Equality: A Telling Story workshop. Organizer and Speaker. Paper titled: “Exodus: Structuring

    Redemption of Captives.”

    • Summer 2012, Reichman U, Symposium on Judicial Oversight of the Government. Organizer & Chair.

    • Summer 2012, Reichman U, Second Annual Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas. Organizer and Speaker. Paper Retitled: “Exodus: Structuring

    Redemption of Captives.”

    • Winter 2011, Reichman U, Int'l Symposium on Boycotts. Organizer & Chair.

    • Spring 2011, Bar-Ilan, Tel-Aviv and Reichman Universities, International Conference on Israeli Constitutional Law in Comparative Perspective.

    Paper titled: “Judicial Review of Constitutional Transitions: War and Peace and Other Sundry Matters.”

    • Winter 2010, Reichman U, First Inaugural Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas. Organizer and Speaker. Paper retitled: “Hybrid Constitutionalism:

    The Israeli Case for Judicial Review and Why We Should Care.”

    • Spring 2010, The Inaugural UCT-Humboldt-Reichman Universities Conference on Comparative Constitutional Law. Invited. Paper titled: “Centennial to the

    Parliament Act 1911: The Manner and Form Fallacy.”

    • Winter 2009, Academic Center of Law & Bus, Int'l Conference on Privatization. Commentator on David A. Sklansky’s Private Policing and Human Rights.

    • Winter 2009, Hebrew U Law School, Book Review Workshop in honor of Prof. Adrian Vermeule. Paper titled: “Can We Reason About Reason? On Adrian

    Vermeule's Law and the Limits of Reason.”

    • Summer 2009, Hebrew U Law School, Judicial Review: Why, Where and for Whom? International Conference. Papers retitled: “Reconciling Parliamentary

    Sovereignty and Judicial Review: On the Theoretical and Historical Origins of the Israeli Legislative Override Power” & “Hybrid Constitutionalism: The Israeli

    Case for Judicial Review and Why We Should Care.”

    • Winter 2009, Reichman U, Law in Times of Crisis Int'l Symposium. Organizer & Speaker. Paper Retitled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Winter 2008, Hebrew U, Law, Politics and Society in Comparative Perspective Int'l Conference. Paper Retitled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of

    Captives.”

    • Spring 2008, Hebrew U Law School, Israel Law Review Workshop in honor of Prof. Mark Tushnet.Paper titled: “Is it the Right Revolution? On Tushnet’s

    The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century.”

    • Spring 2025, Yale Law School, Conscription, Multiculturalism and the Right to Equality in Israel.

    • Spring 2025, The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Military Service of Ultra-Orthodox Men.

    • Spring 2024, Cardozo Law School, Terrorist Kidnapping and the Law.

    • Spring 2024, Yale Law School, Terrorist Kidnapping and the Law.

    • Spring 2024, Mount Sinai University, Terrorist Kidnapping and the Law.

    • Spring 2023, American Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists and J-Plan, Webinar, Israel’s Counter-Constitutional Revolution: Where Does it Stand

    and Where is it Going?.

    • Winter 2023, Yale College, Israel’s Upheaval over Government’s Proposed Constitutional Reform.

    • Winter 2023, NYC HIR-The Bayit, Scholar in Residence Talk. Israel’s Upheaval over Government’s Proposed Constitutional Reform.

    • Spring 2023, Columbia University, Graduate History Seminar, Paper titled: “On the Nexus Between the Strength of the Separation of Powers and the

    Power of the Judiciary.”

    • Winter 2023, Toronto, The Israeli Dialogues Series, “The Clash of Powers: the Knesset vs the Judiciary.”

    • Winter 2023, Law & Liberty Forum, Reichman University, Paper Titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On

    Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Winter 2022, Hebrew U Faculty of Law, Research Workshop on Public Law and Human Rights, Paper Re-Titled: “On the Nexus Between the Strength

    of the Separation of Powers and the Power of the Judiciary.”

    • Summer 2022, Pepperdine U, Brenden Mann Israel Internship Program. Paper Titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its

    Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Summer 2022, Hebrew U, Master Workshop for Graduate and Post-Graduate Students. Paper retitled: “On the Nexus Between the Strength of the

    Separation of Powers and the Power of the Judiciary.”

    • Winter 2021, Hebrew U, Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar. Paper Titled: “Court Packing as an Antidote.”

    • Spring 2021, Pittsburgh Federation, Israel in Depth Series. Webinar. Paper Titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath:

    On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Spring 2021, Reichman U, School of Government, Faculty Seminar. Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional

    Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Spring 2021, American Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists and J-Plan, Webinar. Paper titled: “Unique Dimensions of Israel’s Struggle with Covid 19.”

    • Fall 2020, Bar-Ilan U, Public Law Seminar. Paper Titled: “The Yuli Edelstein Decision and the History of the Balance of Power between the Knesset

    and the Government in Israel.”

    • Spring 2020, American Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists and J-Plan. Paper Titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and

    its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Spring 2020, Tel-Aviv U Law, Faculty Seminar, Paper titled: “The Inherent Limits on the Override Power in the Israeli Constitution: The Story of the

    Override from Section 4 of Basic Law: The Knesset through Retroactive Amendments to Supra-Constitutional Principles.”

    Override from Section 4 of Basic Law: The Knesset through Retroactive Amendments to Supra-Constitutional Principles.”

    • Spring 2020, American Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists and J-Plan, On the Israeli Constitutional Crisis and the Judicial Impeachment of the

    Israeli Prime Minister, Webinar. Invited Talk. Papers titled: “Is the Judicial Impeachment of the Israeli Prime Minister Constitutional?” & “Judicial Intervention

    in Parliamentary Affairs to Prevent a Coup d'état.”

    • Spring 2020, Columbia U, European History & Politics Workshop. Invited Talk. Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty and

    Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Spring 2020, Columbia U, Graduate Student Seminar on Jewish Migration. Invited Talk. Paper Titled: “Between Institutional Survival and Human Rights

    Protection: Adjudicating Landmark Cases of African Undocumented Entrants in Israel in a Comparative and International Context.”

    • Spring 2020, Rockefeller U and Science Abroad. Paper titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led

    Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Spring 2020, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Research Group Conference on Constitutional Transplantations Seminar. Paper titled: “Secession

    and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Winter 2019, NYC HIR-The Bayit, Scholar in Residence Talk. Paper titled: “Is the Judicial Impeachment of the Israeli Prime Minister Constitutional?”

    • Fall 2019, Texas Law School, Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics. Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty

    and Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Fall 2019, Hebrew U, Comparative Constitutional Law Colloquium. Invited. Paper Retitled: “Constitutionalism Reborn: Popular Sovereignty and

    Constitutional Conventions in the U.S. and U.K.”

    • Summer 2019, Pepperdine U, Brenden Mann Israel Internship Program. Paper titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its

    Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Summer 2019, Hebrew U, Law Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led

    Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.”

    • Spring 2018, Yale Law School, Jewish Law Students’ Association. Invited Public Talk. Paper Retitled: “Bills of Rights with Strings Attached: Protecting

    Death Penalty, Slavery, Discriminatory Religious Practices and the Past from Judicial Review.”

    • Spring 2018, Yale Law School, Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar. Guest Lecturer. Paper titled: “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant

    Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Spring 2018, Yale Law School, Faculty Seminar. Paper retitled: “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Spring 2018, Yale Law School, Graduate Program Talk. Preparing for the Market.

    • Fall 2017, UChicago Law School, Works in Progress Faculty Workshop. Paper retitled: “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and

    Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Spring 2017, NYC HIR-The Bayit. Scholar in Residence Talk. Paper titled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Spring 2017, YU, Center for Israel Studies, Inaugural Glatt Lecture. Paper titled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Spring 2016, Cardozo Law School, Faculty Seminar. Paper retitled: “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses

    Worldwide.”

    Clauses Worldwide.”

    • Spring 2015, Reichman U, Research Seminar to LLM Students, Research Guidance.

    • Winter 2014, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Wolfson College, Oxford U, Invited Public lecture. Keynote Speaker. Holey Union: The Constitutional

    Paradox of Secession. Paper retitled: “Secession and the Prevalence of Both Militant Democracy and Eternity Clauses Worldwide.”

    Judicial Review and Constitution-Making.”

    • Winter 2014, St Andrews U, Centre for Global Constitutionalism and Centre for Terrorism and Political Violence. Paper Retitled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Winter 2014, Edinburgh Law School, Constitutional Law Discussion Group. Paper titled: “The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism

    Notwithstanding: On Judicial Review and Constitution-Making.”

    • Winter 2014, Essex Law School, Research Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism Notwithstanding:

    On Judicial Review and Constitution-Making.”

    • Summer 2013, Hebrew U Law Faculty, Public Law Workshop. Paper Retitled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Winter 2012, Tel-Aviv U Law Faculty, Economic Analysis of Law Workshop. Paper Retitled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Winter 2012, Hebrew U Law School, Faculty Seminar. Paper Retitled: “Exodus: Structuring Redemption of Captives.”

    • Summer 2012, Reichman U, Invited Lecture on Research for the Reichman University Law Review.

    • Spring 2012, Tel-Aviv U Law School, Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “Hybrid Constitutionalism: The Israeli Case for Judicial Review and Why

    We Should Care.”

    • Spring 2011, Hebrew U Law School, Public Law Workshop. Paper titled: “Constitutional Transitions: The Role of Lame Ducks and Caretakers.”

    • Winter 2009, Tel Aviv U Law School, Law & Technology Workshop.  Paper retitled: “Election Integrity: The Constitutionality of Transitioning to Electronic

    Voting in Comparative Terms.”

    • Winter 2009, Reichman U, Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “Twilight Time: On the Authority of Caretaker Governments.”

    • Spring 2007, Reichman U, Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “Shouldn't We seek the People's Consent? On the Nexus between the Procedures of Adoption

    and Amendment of Israel’s Constitution.”

    • Spring 2007, Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew U. Paper titled: “Shouldn't We seek the People's Consent? On the Nexus between the

    Procedures of Adoption and Amendment of Israel’s Constitution.”

    • Spring 2004, Columbia Law School, Legal Theory Workshop. Paper titled: “Evolution vs. Revolution: Dueling Models of Dualism.”

    • Spring 2004, Cardozo Law School, Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “Evolution vs. Revolution: Dueling Models of Dualism.”

    • Winter 2003, Reichman U Law School, Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “Evolution vs. Revolution: Dueling Models of Dualism.”

    • Winter 2003, Hebrew U Law School, Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “Evolution vs. Revolution: Dueling Models of Dualism.”

    • Winter 2003, Haifa U Law School, Faculty Seminar. Paper titled: “Evolution vs. Revolution: Dueling Models of Dualism.”

    • Summer 2026, The Holocaust, Antisemitism and the Law, Co-Organizer with Prof. Lior Zemer and Adv. Rachel Levitan (expected).

    • Summer 2025, Reichman University, Constitutional Agendas Symposium, “The Hidden Inevitability of Marbury v. Madison” in honor of Justice Alex Stein,

    Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2025, Reichman University, Constitutional Agendas Symposium, “Challenges in Identifying and Documenting Sexual Crimes Committed during a

    Raid Terrorist Attack” in honor of Prof. Yifat Bitton, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2025, Reichman University, Constitutional Agendas Symposium, “The Properties of Death: A New Approach to Property Law and Continuity” in

    honor of Prof. Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Spring 2023, Critical Review of Administrative Law in honor of Yoav Dotan’s Judicial Review of Administrative Discretion, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Winter 2022, Int’l Conference on “From Polarization to Civil War: History, Politics and Law” in honor of Prof. Mark Graber, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Winter 2022, Int’l Conference on “Trauma, Society and Law” in honor of Prof. Julia Frank’s Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of

    Psychotherapy, Organizer.

    • Summer 2022, Book Roundtable Discussion on Cyber Security in honor of Prof. Scott Shapiro’s Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Organizer.

    • Summer 2021, ICON-S Mundo Conference, Strategic Courts and Democratic Backsliding, Panel Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2021, ICON-S Mundo Conference, Revisiting Constitutional Law and Theory in light of Brexit, Panel Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2021, Reichman U, Basic Law: Israel—The Nation State of the Jewish People Symposium, Organizer & Chair.

    • Winter 2019 , Reichman U, Subterranean Challenges in War and Peace Conference & The Inaugural Meeting of the Int’l Working Group on Subterranean

    Warfare. Co-organizer with Daphne Richemond-Barak & Speaker. (*)First int’l conference ever held on subterranean warfare.

    • Winter 2019, Hebrew U, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies Book Workshop in honor of Prof. Nick Barber’s The Principles of Constitutionalism,

    Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2019, Pontifical Catholic U of Chile, I*CON-S Annual International Conference. On Political Parties and the Constitution, Summer 2019,

    Panel Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2019, Pontifical Catholic U of Chile, I*CON-S Annual International Conference. The Relationship of the Constitution with the Past,

    Panel Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2019, Hebrew U, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies Book Workshop in honor of Prof. Geoffrey Stone’s Sex and the Constitution,

    Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2019, Reichman U, Sixth Annual Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas. Organizer & Speaker.

    • Winter 2018, Reichman U, International Conference on the Constitutional Status and Regulation of Political Parties. Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2018, Reichman U, Fourth Annual I*CON-S Israel Conference, Chair of Organizing Committee. (*)150 speakers; the largest public law

    conference ever held in Israel

    • Summer 2015 , Reichman U, Fifth Annual Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas. Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2015, Reichman U, Invited talk by Yossi Mendelson in honor of the late Prof. Rosen-Zvi, Chair.  

    • Spring 2015, Hebrew U, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies Book Workshop in honor of Prof. Bruce Ackerman's WE the People: The Civil Rights

    Revolution, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2014, Reichman U, Fourth Annual Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2014, Reichman U, Public Law Workshop on Citizenship in honor of Prof. Patrick Weil, Organizer & Discussant.

    • Summer 2014, Reichman U, Public Law Workshop on Affirmative Action, Organizer & Chair.

    • Summer 2013, Reichman U, Third Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2013, Reichman U, Free Speech, Democracy and Equality: A Telling Story workshop, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Winter 2012, Academic Center of Law & Bus, Israeli Law & Society Annual Int'l Conference, What is Wrong with the Legal System, and Where does

    Academia Fit In?, Member of Organizing Committee & Speaker.

    • Summer 2012, Reichman U, Second Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Summer 2012, Reichman U, Symposium on Judicial Oversight of the Government, Chair.

    • Winter 2011, Reichman U, Int'l Symposium on Boycotts, Organizer & Chair.

    • Spring 2011, Reichman U, Proportionality Book Review Workshop in honor of Prof. Aharon Barak, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Winter 2010, Reichman U, First Int'l Symposium on Constitutional Agendas, Organizer & Speaker.

    • Winter 2009, Reichman U, Law in Times of Crisis Int'l Symposium, Organizer & Speaker.

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