Israel Gilead

Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth: November 17, 1951
Place of Birth: Jerusalem

Academic Record:

1979
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
LL.B. with distinction

1983
Dept. of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
B.A with distinction

1984
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
LL.D.

Third degree obtained without LL.M., a special
program for outstanding students

1983-1984
Visiting Scholar and Lecturer-in-law (part-time), Columbia University School of Law

1984-1990
Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1991-1993
Senior Lecturer (with tenure) Haifa University

1992-1996
Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1996 - present
Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Courses Taught:

Tort Law
Product Liability and Strict Liability (elective and seminar)
Negligence
Bills and Notes
Limitation of Civil Actions
Introduction to Law and Economics
Corporate Law

Professional Activity:

1. 1976-77 Editor in-chief, "Mishpatim" student-edited Law Review

2. 1986-1995 Principal researcher on Israeli law of
Limitation of Actions (funded by the Ministry of
Justice)

3. 1992-1995 Member of the Law Reform Committee on the
Israeli Law of Limitation of Actions.

4. 1993-1996 Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew
University

5. 1994-present Member of the Law Reform Committee on the Israeli Law of Torts.

6. 1996-present Member of Codification Committee sessions on Israeli private law.

7. 1998-present Chairmen of the Student Disciplinary Appeal Board

8. 1999 – The Dean-elect of the Law Faculty.

 Recent Participation in International Conferences

1. The 13th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics, Haifa (Israel), 1996 – (see publication no. 26).
2. The 14th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics, Barcelona, 1997 (paper presented).
3. Legal Colloquium Israel – Austria, Jerusalem, 1997 (see publication no. 30).
4. Legal Colloquium Israel – Italy, Milan, 1998 (paper presented).
5. The 15th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Bristol, U.K., 1998 (see publication no. 28).
6. Legal Colloquium Israel – Austria, Vienna, 1998 (see publication no. 31).
7. The biannual meeting of the Tilburg Group of European Tort Scholars, Hamburg (Germany) 1999.

List of publications

Doctoral Dissertation

Economic Analysis of Tort Law and the Defective Product Liability Act 1980. Awarded 1984.
Advisors: Prof. Itzhak Englard, Prof. Eitan Sheshinsky.

 Publications

1 "The Meaning of the Expression 'Accused' in sec. 2(2) of the Law of Extradition", 8 Mishpatim 302-309 (1977) (Hebrew) (case note)

2. "On Linkage and Revaluation", 15 Israel L.R. 79-105 (1980).

3. "Rethinking Causation in Israel Tort Law", 14 Mishpatim 15-47 (1984) (Hebrew).

4. "Coase Theorem, Competitive Market and Product Liability Law", 20 Israel L.R. 39-48 (1985)

5. "Limitation of Actions and Latent Diseases", 14 Mishpatim 500-520 (1985) (Hebrew).

6. "B. Ackerman, Reconstructing American Law", 20 Israel L.R. 581-596 (1985) (book review).

7. "On the Interrelation Between the Factual and the Normative Aspects of Negligence", 15 Mishpatim 446-452 (1986) (Hebrew).

8. "Limitation of Actions and Prescription: Guidelines for Reform in Israel Land Law", 18 Mishpatim 177-244 (1988) (Hebrew).

9. "The Law of Limitations: A Proposal for Statutory Reform in Israel Tort Law", (Part I) 19 Mishpatim 81-142 (1989) (Hebrew).

10. "On the Elements of Negligence in Israel Law of Tort", 14 Tel Aviv U.L.R. 319-370 (1989) (Hebrew).

11. "The Law of Limitations: A Proposal for Statutory  Reform in Israel Tort Law", (Part II) 19 Mishpatim 369-399 (1990) (Hebrew).

12. "Strict Product Liability, Defective Products (Liability) Law 1980", 8 Bar-Ilan Law Stud. 179-254 (1990) (Hebrew).

13. "Issues in the Law of Torts" 24 Israel L.R. (1990) 651-656.

 14. with A. Sever, "Myocardial Infarction as a Work Accident" 40 Hapraklit 241-268 (1992) (Hebrew).

15. "You Shall Honor the Aged" 22 Mishpatim 233-246 (1992) (Hebrew) (case note).

16. "On the Limits of Efficient Deterrence in Tort Law" 22 Mishpatim 421-498 (1993) (Hebrew).

17. "On the Conformity of Liability and Insurance Aspects of Road Accidents Victims Compensation Arrangement", 23 Mishpatim 389-436 (1994) (Hebrew).

18. "Tort Liability of Public Authorities and Public Officials" (Part I), 2 Mishpat Umimshal 339-402 (1994) (Hebrew).

19. "The Evolvement of Israeli Tort Law from its Common Law Origins", European Legal Tradition and Israel (A.M. Rabello (ed.), Jerusalem, 1994) 523-530. Presented at an International Conference held in Jerusalem in 1992.

20. "Tort Liability of Public Authorities and Public Officials" (Part II), 3 Mishpat Umimshal 55-99 (1995) (Hebrew).

21. "Tort Law" in the Law of Israel: General Surveys (University of Haifa, Faculty of Law) edited by I. Zamir and S . Colombo (1995) 275-520. This is a comprehensive survey of all aspects of Israeli tort law.

22. "On Presumptive Liability, Rationality and Intuition in Determining the Scope of Liability for Negligence", 26 Mishpatim 295-324 (1995) (Hebrew).

23. Law of Limitation, 1995, a draft of a proposed bill published and distributed by the Ministry of Justice (50 pages) (1995) (Hebrew).

24. "On the Deduction of Income Tax from the Award of Lost Earnings to Road Accident Victims", 24 Mishpatim 593-603 (1995) (Hebrew).

25. National Report on the Israeli Law of Limitation of Actions. Submitted to the 14th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Athens, Greece, 1994. Published in Extinctive Prescription (E.H. Hondrius, ed.), Kluwer Law International, 207-228 (1995). Also published in a compilation of Israeli Reports to the 14th Congress by Sacher Institute, 75-105 (1994).

26. "Tort Law and Internalization: The Gap Between Private Loss and Social Cost" 17 Int. Rev. Law & Econ. 589-608 (1997).

27. "Signature on a Bill - The Issue of Authorization" Mishpatim (50 pages) (forthcoming).

28. National Report on the Israeli Law of Economic Loss. Submitted to the 15th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Bristol, U.K., 1998. To be published in a compilation of Israeli Reports to the 15th Congress by Sacher Institute (45 pages).

29. "The Evidential Loss Doctrine: Has the Burden of Proof been Rebutted"? Mishpatim (Hebrew) (20 pages) (forthcoming).

30. "Causation, Risk and ‘Evidential Loss’ in Israeli Tort Law " (12 pages) (a joint publication of The Hebrew University and the University of Vienna) (forthcomming).

31. "The Limits of Tort Liability in Negligence and Pure Economic Loss " (15 pages) (a joint publication of The Hebrew University and the University of Vienna) (forthcomming).

32. "Tort Law" – A 250 pages commentary on Israeli tort law. Will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Laws (Kluwer) (in preparation).

June 1999