Hanoch Dagan
Justin D'Atri Visiting Professor of Law, Business, and Society (Fall 2012)
Assistant Info
Areas of Teaching and Research
- Private law
- Property law
- Restitution
Education
- Yale Law School, J.S.D.
- Yale Law School, LL.M.
- Tel Aviv University, LL.B. (summa cum laude)
BiographyHanoch Dagan is a former dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (2006–2011) and the founding
director of the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies (2007–2011).
He is also a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and a member
of the American Law Institute and of the International Academy of Comparative
Law. Dagan received an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School, where
he held a Fulbright award after receiving his LL.B. summa cum laude from
Tel Aviv University. Prior to becoming dean, he was the director of the
Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law and the editor in chief of
Theoretical Inquiries in Law. Dagan has published more than 50 articles in leading legal journals such as the
Yale Law Journal, the
Columbia Law
Review, the
New York University Law Review, the
California Law Review, the
Virginia
Law Review, the
Michigan Law Review, the
Cornell Law Review, the
Texas Law Review,
the
University of Toronto Law Journal, the
Boston University Law Review, the
American
Bankruptcy Law Journal, the
American Journal of Comparative Law, and the
Yale Journal
of Law & the Humanities. Professor Dagan has also written five books
: Unjust
Enrichment: A Study of Private Law and Public Values (Cambridge University
Press, 1997),
The Law and Ethics of Restitution (Cambridge University Press,
2004),
Property at a Crossroads (Ramot, 2005) (in Hebrew),
Property: Values
and Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2011), and
Properties of Property
(with Gregory S. Alexander; Aspen, 2012). He is also currently working
a new book:
American Legal Realism Reconsidered (Oxford University Press,
forthcoming 2013). In recent years, Dagan served as a visiting professor
at Yale, Michigan, Cornell, and Toronto.
