Issachar (Issi) Rosen-Zvi Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law Email: issirz@post.tau.ac.il ACADEMIC POSITIONS Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel Associate Professor 2012-Present Senior Lecturer 2008-2012 Lecturer 2005-2008 Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY Visiting Professor Fall 2007 International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain Visiting Professor of Law & Sociology Feb. 2006 & 2007 Haifa University Faculty of Law, Haifa, Israel Lecturer 2003-2005 EDUCATION Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA J.S.M., 1999; J.S.D., 2002 LL.M. (law and sociology) summa cum laude, 1998 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel LL.B. magna cum laude, 1996 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY Associate (general corporate) 2002-2003 Dr. J. Weinroth & Co., Tel Aviv Associate (litigation, white collar crimes) 1996-1997 Hon. Chief Justice Aharon Barak, Supreme Court of Israel Law Clerk 1995-1996
PUBLICATIONS Books THE CIVIL PROCESS (Saker Institute: Hebrew University Press, 2015) (Hebrew) 704 pp. TAKING SPACE SERIOUSLY (Ashgate Publishing, 2004) Articles (English) He Paid, She Paid: Exploiting Israeli Courts' Rulings on Litigation Costs to Explore Gender Biases, 13 JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 536 (2016) with Talia Fisher and Tamar Kricheli-Katz Attorney s Fees in a Loser Pays System, 162 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 1619 (2014) with Ted Eisenberg & Talia Fisher The Persistence of the Public/Private Divide in Environmental Regulation, 15 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 199 (2014) with Yishai Blank When Courts Determine Fees in a System with a Loser Pays Norm: Fee Award Denials to Winning Plaintiffs and Defendants, 60 UCLA LAW REVIEW 1452 (2013) with Ted Eisenberg & Talia Fisher Group Decision Making on Appellate Panels: Presiding Justice and Opinion Justice Influence in the Israel Supreme Court, 19 PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC POLICY AND LAW 282 (2013) with Ted Eisenberg & Talia Fisher The Geography of Sexuality, 90 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 955 (2012) with Yishai Blank Actual Versus Perceived Performance of Judges, 35 SEATTLE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 695 (2012) with Ted Eisenberg & Talia Fisher An abbreviated version reprinted in 49 COURT REVIEW 124 (2013) Does the Judge Matter? Exploiting Random Assignment on a Court of Last Resort to Assess Judge and Case Selection Effects, 9 JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 246 (2012) with Ted Eisenberg & Talia Fisher You Are Too Soft! What Can Corporate Social Responsibility Do For Climate Change? 12 MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF LAW SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 527 (2011) Climate Change Governance: Mapping the Terrain, 2011 CARBON & CLIMATE LAW REVIEW 234 Signaling Virtue? A Comparison of Multinational Codes of Conduct in the Fields of Labor and Environment, 12 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 603 (2011) with Guy Mundlak reprinted in Israel s Supreme Court Appellate Jurisdiction: An Empirical Study, 96 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 693 (2011) with Ted Eisenberg & Talia Fisher The Spatial Turn in Legal Analysis, 10 HAGAR: STUDIES IN CULTURE, POLITY AND IDENTITIES 37 (2011) with Yishai Blank Just Fee Shifting, 37 FLORIDA STATE U. LAW REVIEW 717 (2010) Overcoming Procedural Boundaries, 94 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 79 (2008) with Talia Fisher Selected for the 2007 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum The Confessional Penalty, 30 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 871 (2008) with Talia Fisher Selected for the 2008 Harvard/Stanford Int l Junior Faculty Forum 2
Who s Afraid of Channel-7: Ideological Radio and Freedom of Speech in Israel, 38 STANFORD JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 79 (2002) with Iddo Porat Constructing Professionalism: The Professional Project of the Israeli Judiciary, 31 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 760 (2001) Illegal Fictions: Mystery Novels and the Popular Image of Crime, 48 UCLA LAW REVIEW 1411 (2001) with Lawrence M. Friedman Book Chapters (English) Case Selection and Dissent in Courts of Last Resort: An Empirical Study of the Israel Supreme Court, in EMPIRICAL LEGAL ANALYSIS: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF LEGAL INSTITUTIONS 181 (ROUTLEDGE, 2013) with Ted Eisenberg & Talia Fisher Israel, in CLIMATE CHANGE LIABILITY: TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND PRACTICE 272 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) The Economic Development of the Bedouins in Israel: A Boon or a Bane, in IMAGINING A SHARED FUTURE: PERSPECTIVES ON LAW, CONFLICT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST 89 (CMP Publishing, 2011) Pigs in Space : Geographic Separatism in Multicultural Societies, in CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES: LAW AND SOCIOLOGY 225 (Oxford University Press, 2006) Articles (Hebrew) Defendant Initiated Litigation IYUNEY MISHPAT TEL-AVIV U. LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2016) (with Sharon Hannes) The Decentralization of the Israeli Judicial System: The Hidden Role of Procedure, MISHPATIM - HEBREW U. LAW JOURNAL (forthcoming 2016) The Clean Air Act: Between Centralization and Decentralization, 7 HUKIM JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION 175 (2015) The Municipalities Bill: Present Without Past, Reform with No Future, 1 HUKIM JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION 49 (2009) with Yishai Blank The Nature of Local : Reflections on Localism Following H.C. 10104/04 Peace Now v. Yossef, 12 MISHPAT UMIMSHAL 333 (2009) Beyond the Civil and the Criminal, 38 MISHPATIM HEBREW U. LAW JOURNAL 489 (2008) with Talia Fisher Whose Garbage Is It Anyway?! Refuse Disposal and Environmental Justice, 23 BAR-ILAN LAW STUDIES 487 (2007) Winner of the 2007 Cegla Award for the best article written by a young scholar. From Localism to Regionalism: Towards A New Agenda for Local Government Law 2 HAIFA LAW REVIEW 159 (2005) Are Judges Human? The Construction of the Image of the Professional Judge in Light of Judicial Disqualification Rules, 8 MISHPAT UMIMSHAL 49 (2005) The Place of Justice: Local Government Law and Social Injustice, 28 TEL AVIV U. LAW REVIEW 417 (2004) The Subject, Community and Legal Pluralism, 23 TEL-AVIV U. LAW REVIEW 539 (2000) 3
Book Chapters (Hebrew) Memory and Forgetfulness in Procedure, in NILI COHEN BOOK (Shai Lavie & Ofer Grosskopf eds., forthcoming 2016) Procedure and Substance: A Fresh Look at Old Concepts, in PROCEDURES 45 (Law, Society & Culture Series, 2014) Environmental Justice in the City of Tomorrow, in CITIES OF TOMORROW (Kav Adom - Hakibutz Hameuhad, 2014) Confession and Avoidance: Can the Doctrine be Saved?, in SHLOMO LEVIN BOOK 227 (Sacher Institute, 2013) The Sacred and the Secular in MULTICULTURALISM IN A DEMOCRATIC AND JEWISH STATE 29 (M. Mautner, A. Sagi & R. Shamir eds., 1998) with Ishay Rosen-Zvi Other A Redundant and Damaging Reform: A Critique of the Proposed Draft Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 THE LAWYER 68 (June 2015) Reporter on Israel for the International Academy Comparative Law's Cost and Fee Allocation in Civil Procedure General Report (M. Reinman ed., 2010) with Talia Fisher A History of the Present: A Comment on Amalia Kessler, Deciding Against Conciliation, 10 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW FORUM 43 (2009) The Boundaries Are Dead, Long Live the Boundaries!, 94 VIRGINIA IN BRIEF 85 (2008) with Talia Fisher Entry Law and Geography in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES (Sage Publications, 2007) Edited Books & Journals Co-Editor, PROCEDURES (Law, Society & Culture Series, 2014) with Talia Fisher Co-Editor, THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW, special volume on "Mapping the Hard Law/Soft Law Terrain" (2011) with Guy Mundlak Co-Editor, HAGAR: STUDIES IN CULTURE, POLITY AND IDENTITIES special volume on "The Spatial Turn in the Social Sciences" (2011) with Yishai Blank Work in Progress Procedure and Distributive Justice (article in English) Localized Bureaucracies (article in English) Sue Me Now or Never: Defendant Initiated Litigation (article in English) 4
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL GRANTS AND AWARDS INTERNAL GRANTS YEAR FOUNDATION TITLE SUM CO- RESEARCHERS 2007-2008 2009-2011 2010-2011 2010-2011 2015-2017 EXTERNAL GRANTS Vice President for Research Fund Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law Laws of Democracy Program The Paulina Goldberg Fund The Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center The Civil/Criminal Divide in procedure Civil Procedure: Between Theory and Practice The Clean Air Act and Local Governments The Efficacy of Soft Law Mechanisms in Combating Climate Change Smart Cities Cyber Security NIS 10,000 NIS 12,000 P.I. PI PI $1,000 PI $1,000 PI $150,000 Prof. Michael Birnhak Dr. Tali Hatuka Dr. Eran Toch YEAR FOUNDATION TITLE SUM CO- RESEARCHER S 2007-2008 2007-2008 2009-2010 2010-2011 2010-2011 Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Citizens' Empowerment Center in Israel Citizens' Empowerment Center in Israel Dan Dinner Fund, Cornell Law School Minerva Center for Human Overcoming Procedural Boundaries: The Civil/Criminal Divide in Procedure Reconsidered Environmental Justice in Israel PI P.I. $13,000 Dr. Talia Fisher PI $2,500 Dr. Yishai Blank PI The Municipalities Bill $3,500 Dr. Yishai Blank PI Attorney Fees in Israel: An Empirical Study Procedure and Human Rights $10,000 PI $2,500 PI 5
2011-2014 2014-2018` Rights Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Israel Science Foundation (ISF) 2015 Federation of Local Authorities in Israel Attorney Fees in Israel: An Empirical Study After the LL.B.: An Empirical Study of the Israeli Legal Profession Examination of the State's Policies toward the Arab Local Governments in Israel $100,000 Dr. Talia Fisher PI $160,000 Prof. Neta Ziv PI $46,440 Prof. Rasem Hamaisi Prof. Itai Sand FELLOWSHIPS 1998-2000 Fulbright Fellowship, The United States-Israel Educational Foundation ($24,000) AWARDS 2005 Haifa University award for excellence in teaching for academic year 2004-2005 2007 Cegla Award for the best article written in Hebrew by a young scholar BAR ADMISSIONS New York (since 2002) Israel (since 1996) 6
PAPER & PANEL PRESENTATIONS Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany Participation in Workshop in the Institute for Criminological Research Tel Aviv University & Hebrew University, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel Co-organized and presented the paper "Decentralization of the Israeli Judicial System" in a Conference in Honor of Chief Justice Asher Grunis SciencesPo University Paris, France Participated in the Doctoral Week and the TAU/SciencesPo What's Left of Sovereignty? conference Co-organized and presented the paper "He Paid, She Paid" at the TAU/Cornell conference in memory of the late Professor Ted Eisenberg Israeli Institute for Democracy, Jerusalem, Israel Participated in a workshop about governmental corruption with the Israeli police high command and presented the subject Corruption in Local Governments Presented the chapter "Equality in Civil Procedure" at the faculty seminar Co-organized and presented a paper at the Reform in the Civil Procedure Rules conference Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel Presented the paper "He Paid, She Paid" in the IDC law School's faculty seminar Duck Key, Florida Participated in LEC workshop on the economics of litigation and civil procedure August 2015 June 2015 June 2015 June 2015 June 2015 March 2015 March 2015 March 2015 February 2015 TIL Conference January 2015 Neve Ilan, Israel Lecture to judges on the roles and competences of local governments in Israel December 2014 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota Presented the paper "Attorney Fees in a Loser Pays System" ---------------------------- Presented a paper at the Housing as a Human Right conference Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY Presented the paper "The Persistence of the Public/Private Divide in Environmental Regulation" at the Public and Private: Beyond Distinctions? conference Roundtable Discussion "Governance Without a State? Localities, Corporations, June 2014 December 2012 September 2012 June 2012 7
Families, and Individuals" at the Governance Without a State? Governmentality in a Global World Conference Presented a paper at the Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions workshop (TAU & Max Planck) Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Keynote Speaker "The Geography of Sexualiuty" at the Stanford Law and Society Forum Peking University, Beijing, China Presented the paper "You Are Too Soft! What Can Corporate Social Responsibility Do For Climate Change?"at the Soft Law symposium Academia Sinica, Taipe, Taiwan Presented the paper "Case Selection and Dissent in Courts of Last Resort: An Empirical Study of the Israel Supreme Court" at the Second International Conference on Empirical Studies of Judicial Systems conference International Research Group on Climate Change Litigation, London, UK Presented the paper Climate Change Liability in Israel at the Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice workshop Hong Kong University & UCL, Hong Kong Presented the paper "You Are Too Soft! What Can Corporate Social Responsibility Do For Climate Change" at the Climate Change Governance after Copenhagen conference XVII World Congress of Sociology, Guthenberg, Sweden Presented the paper "Detective Stories and the popular image of crime and illegality A Postscript" Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Israel Participant in the international conference on The Future of Legal Theory, Presented the paper "Israel's Supreme Court: An Empirical Study" Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Israel Organizer of and participant in the international conference Mapping the Hard Law/Soft Law Terrain: Labor & Environmental Protection in Corporate Codes and Public-Private Initiatives. Presented the paper "Signaling Virtue? A Comparison of Multinationals Codes of Conduct in the Fields of Labor and Environment" Participant in a panel about Social and Environmental Justice in the City at the Cities of Tomorrow conference Ethics Center, Mishkenot Sha ananim, Jerusalem, Israel Delivered a speech about the ethical obligations of mayors Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Presented the paper Municipalities Bill: Present without a Past, Reform with no Future at the Municipal Corporations Bill conference June 2012 May 2012 July 2011 June 2011 December 2010 November 2010 July 2010 June 2010 June 2010 May 2009 January 2009 November 2008 8
Stanford Law School, Stanford, California Presented the paper The Confessional Penalty at the 2008 Harvard/Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum Tel Aviv U. Law Faculty, Law & Environment Program, Tel Aviv, Israel Organizer of the conference Commercial Break?: Billboards in the Public Sphere and presented the paper Billboards: Law and Politics. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Commentator at the conference Histories of Legal Transplantations Tel Aviv U. Law Faculty, Law & Environment Program, Tel Aviv, Israel Organizer of and a commentator at the colloquium Environmental Protection: Between the Local and the National. Tel Aviv U. Law Faculty, Tel Aviv, Israel Comment on a paper at an international conference on Convergence and Divergence of Law: German and Israeli Perspectives. Cardozo Law School, New York, NY Presented the paper The Confessional Penalty at the Future of Self Incrimination conference. Cornell Law School, Faculty Legal Studies Workshop, Ithaca, New York Presented the paper "Overcoming Procedural Boundaries" Law and Society Association, Berlin, Germany Presented a paper at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Stanford Law School, Stanford, California Presented the paper Overcoming Procedural Boundaries at the 2007 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, Jerusalem Presented a paper at the Fast Justice conference. Virje Universiteit, Faculty of Law, Brussels Presented a paper at the Law and Economic Development: Towards Constructive Engagement in the Middle East conference. Tel Aviv U. Law Faculty, Law & Environment Program, Tel Aviv, Israel Organizer of and commentator in the International Colloquium Law and the Environment Reconsidering the Basics. The Open University, Ra anana Campus, Israel Presented a paper at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Presented a paper at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Israeli Geographical Association. International Sociological Association, Paris, France Presented a paper at the meeting of the Research Committee on Law & Society. October 2008 June 2008 June 2008 April 2008 March 2008 March 2008 September 2007 July 2007 May 2007 May 2007 February 2007 December 2006 June 2006 January 2006 July 2005 9
Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel Participant in a panel on The Environment, Planning and Human Rights. University College London, London, England Presented a paper at the Law and Society Colloquium. Law and Society Association, Chicago, Illinois Presented a paper at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Haifa University, Faculty of Law, Haifa, Israel Moderated a panel and presented a paper at the Class Actions after A.Sh.T v. State of Israel conference. University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California Participated at the Law and Society Association's Summer Institute. Law and Society Association, Miami, Florida Presented a paper at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and participated in the Graduate Workshop. Law and Society Association, Chicago, Illinois Presented a paper at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and participated in the Graduate Workshop. January 2005 September 2004 May 2004 March 2003 July 2003 June 2000 May 1999 10