ד"ר איילת הופמן ליבזון
קורות חיים
Academic Positions
Talmud Department, Bar Ilan University, Senior Lecturer, March 2024—
Affiliated Scholar, Brody Center for Jewish and Israeli Law, Yale Law School, Spring 2025—
Reichman University, Harry Radzyner Law School, Senior Lecturer, October 2018-January 2024
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Jurisprudence, Fall 2021
Harvard Law School, Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Jurisprudence, 2017-2018
Hebrew University Law Faculty, Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2017
Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2015
Education
New York University, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Ph.D, 2014
New York University, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, M.A., 2010
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, coursework towards MA degree, 2004-2006
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish Thought, B.A., magna cum laude, 2005
Academic Activity
A. Journal and Grant Referee
Journal Referee: Jewish Quarterly Review; Association of Jewish Studies Review; Jewish Studies; Journal of Law and Religion; Law and History Review; International Journal of Constitutional Law.
Referee, Israel Science Foundation, 2019—
Referee, Mandel Scholion Center, 2023.
B. Editorial Positions
Editorial Board, Oqimta: Studies in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature
Advisory Committee, New Perspectives on Jewish Law, eds. Suzanne Last Stone and Yonatan Brafman, forthcoming, De Gruyter.
C. Conference and Workshop Organizer
Organizer, Conference in Honor of Suzanne Last Stone, March 2025
Organizing Committee, Israeli Association of Law and History Conference, March 2024
Organizing Committee, Jewish Law Association International Conference, July 2023
Organizer, International Conference on Law, Humor and Play in the Talmud, Reichman University, June 2023
Organizer, Workshop on Religion and State with the Minister of Religious Affairs, Matan Kahana, Reichman University, June 2022.
Organizer, International Workshop on Eric Nelsen’s The Theology of Liberalism, IDC, June 2021
Organizer, Lecture Series on Law and the Bible, Reichman University, Fall 2020
Co-organizer, Law and the Humanities Workshop, Reichman University, 2018—2023
Organizing Committee, The Israeli Law and History Association Conference, October 2019
Organizer, Book Launch, Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud, Reichman University, December 2018
D. Research Fellow
Research Fellow, The Van Leer Institute, 2014—present
Researcher, Research Group on “Law as Religion, Religion as Law,” Hebrew University, 2015-2017
Research Fellow, The Shalom Hartman Institute, 2016-2017
Researcher, Israel Democracy Institute, 2011—2014
E. Other Service to the Field
Faculty, Advanced Summer School for Graduate Students in Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, 2025
Founder, Young Researchers Forum, 2024—present
Founder, Forum for Women Scholars of the Talmud, 2022—present
Instructor, Academic Study of the Talmud Daf Yomi group, 2020—present
Instructor, Hadran: Talmud for Women, Introductions to each tractate of the Bavli, 2020—present
Consultant, Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, 2020-2021
Lecture Series, Beit Avi Chai, 2021
F. Fellowships and Honors
Israel Science Foundation Grant, 2024-2027.
Beit Shalom Research Grant, 2024.
Fattal Prize for Excellence in Legal Research, 2023.
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, International Fellowship, 2021-2022 (declined).
Fulbright Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017-2018 (declined).
Mandel Scholion Fellowship, Finalist, 2017.
The Institute for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Grant in Support of Book Publication, 2016.
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017.
The Minerva Center for Human Rights, Tel Aviv University, Research Grant, 2014-2015.
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Special Doctoral Scholarship Grant, 2013-2014.
The Israel Democracy Institute, Judaism and Human Rights Fellowship, 2011-2014.
Henry MacCracken Doctoral Fellowship, New York University, 2007-2012.
Cardozo Law School, Jewish Law and Legal Theory Fellowship, 2008-2009.
Provost's Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006.
B.A. magna cum laude, 2004.
Dean’s List, 2002-2003.
Fellowship for Excellence, Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2001-2002.
מחקר
תלמוד בבלי, הלכה תנאית, התפתחות ההלכה.
קורסים
ראיית פני האל: בבלי חגיגה
סוגיות במחשבת חז"ל
סוגיות במסכת סנהדרין: משפט וממשל
אחרים וזרים בספרות חז"ל
פירסומים
Publications
Books
- Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Reviews:
Sarah Wolf, AJS Review
Yishai Kiel, Shnaton Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri [Yearbook of Jewish Law]
Shana Strauch Schick, Jewish Law Association Studies
Tomer Persico, tomerpersico.com
- Co-editor, Diné Israel volume in honor of Suzanne Last Stone (forthcoming 2024).
- Guest editor, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies Symposium on Eric Nelson’s The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God, December 2022.
Articles
- “The Hermeneutics of Mishnah Interpretation,” in: What is the Bavli? (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2024).
- “Is the Talmud Law?” in New Perspectives in Jewish Law, eds. Suzanne Last Stone and Yonatan Brafman (De Gruyter, forthcoming 2024).
- “Jewish Law as Comparative Law: Copyright as a Test Case,” Shnaton Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri, with Adi Libson (forthcoming 2024) [Hebrew].
- “Talmud Torah: The Value of Study in the Rabbinic Academy and Courthouse,” in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law, eds. Roberta Kwall and Chaim Saiman (forthcoming 2024).
- “The Authority of the Talmud and Palestinian Narrative Traditions in the Book of the Sheiltot,” in Shapir Amar Nahmani: Rabbinic Courts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. Noah Bickart (forthcoming 2024) [Hebrew].
- “Zealotry and Satire: Revisiting the Talmudic Discussion of Human Dignity,” Diné Israel 38 (2024), 95-120 [Hebrew].
- “Originality and Creator’s Intent in Anglo-American and Israeli Copyright Law,” with Miriam Bitton-Marcovitz, European Intellectual Property Review 45 (2023), 385-399.
- “Havurah in Tannaitic Literature,” with Orit Malka, Zion 89 (2023), 7-50 [Hebrew].
- “Liberalism in the Shadow of Theology,” Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 26.1 (2022), 178-188.
- “Commandments and the Community of Law in Tosefta Berakhot,” Jewish Quarterly Review (2021), 155-184.
- “‘A People’s Multitude is a King’s Splendor:’ Communal Practices Beyond Prayer,” in Torah from the Plague, ed. Erin Leib Smokler (2021), 131-141.
- “Replacing God with Big Data: Personalizing Copyright,” with Adi Libson, Boston University International Law Journal 37 (2021), 181-205.
- “In the Shadow of Doubt: Expertise, Knowledge and Systematization in Rabbinic Purity Laws,” AJS Review 44:1 (2020), 1-20.
- “’Not My Fault’: Morality and Divorce Law in the Liberal State,” Tulane Law Review 93 (2019), 1-45.
- “Grounds for Divorce as Values: Revisiting Rabbinic Law,” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 5 (2016), 510-531.
- “The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness: Authority, Self and the Origins of Patient Autonomy in Early Jewish Law,” American Journal of Legal History 57 (2016), 1-23.
- “Authority, Autonomy and the Value of Life: A Talmudic Study,” Judaism, Sovereignty and Human Rights 1 (2016), 17-40 [Hebrew].
Other Publications
- Review of Jewish Justice: The Contested Limits of Nature, Law and Covenant by David Novak, Political Theology 19:6 (2018).
- Co-author with Elhanan Naeh and David Atzmon, Tractate Sanhedrin Chapter 4: Studies on Man and Law, Yesodot, 2007.
תאריך עדכון אחרון : 23/02/2025
