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Alon Harel

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Theories of Rights

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Theories of Rights

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Nov 2003
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Rights, legal theory, moral theory

Theories of Rights

BLACKWELL GUIDE TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY, Martin P. Golding & William A. Edmundson, eds., 2004
Posted: 04 Nov 2003
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Rights, legal theory, moral theory

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Rights-Based Judicial Review: A Democratic Justification

Law and Philosophy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Jan 2003
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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rights, judicial review, jurisprudence & legal theory

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The Virtues of Uncertainty in Law: An Experimental Approach

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 89, p. 443, 2004
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Tom Baker, Alon Harel and Tamar Kugler
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Psychology
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Freedom of Speech

COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, Andrei Marmor, ed, Routledge, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Sep 2011
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime

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Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime

Columbia Law School, Center for Law and Economic Studies, Working Paper No. 145
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Dec 1998
Alon Harel and Uzi Segal
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Boston College - Department of Economics
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Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 276-312, 1999
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Criminal Law and Behavioral Law and Economics: Observations on the Neglected Role of Uncertainty in Deterring Crime

American Law and Economics Review, 1999
Posted: 12 Apr 1999
Alon Harel and Uzi Segal
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Boston College - Department of Economics

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Between Judicial and Legislative Supremacy: A Cautious Defense of Constrained Judicial Review

10 International Journal of Constitutional Law 950 (2012) (ICON)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Alon Harel and Adam Shinar
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law
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judicial review, constitutional theory, judicial supermacy, weak judicial review

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Social Norms, Self-Interest and Ambiguity of Legal Norms: An Experimental Analysis of the Rule v. Standard Dilemma

4(1) REVIEW OF LAW & ECONOMICS 82 (2008), 1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 29 May 2007 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Alon Harel and Yuval Feldman
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
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social norms, standards vs. rules, legal ambiguity, uncertainty, legal enforcement

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The Case Against Privatization

Philosophy & Public Affairs (2013 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Avihay Dorfman and Alon Harel
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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privatization, public officials, political legitimation, punishment, war

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The Economics of Shame: Why More Shaming May Deter Less

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 26 Aug 2005
Alon Harel and Alon Klement
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
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Shaming, stigma, criminal law, social norms, deterrence, search

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The Right to Judicial Review

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 5, September 2006
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Alon Harel and Yuval Eylon
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Open University of Israel
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judicial review, constitutional law, democracy

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Matching Probablities: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Repeated Behavior

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Jul 2004
Ehud Guttel and Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Probability matching, rational choice, enforcement, escalating penalties

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Aggregating Probabilities Across Cases: Criminal Responsibility for Unspecified Offenses

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Aggregating Probabilities Across Cases: Criminal Responsibility for Unspecified Offenses

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 390, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 204
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Alon Harel and Ariel Porat
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Product rule, alternative liability, probabilities, repeat offenders, law enforcement, sentencing, deterrence, retribution, communicative theories of punishment

Aggregating Probabilities Across Cases: Criminal Responsibility for Unspecified Offenses

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, 2009
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Alon Harel and Ariel Porat
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Aggregating probabilities, statistical evidence, presumption of innocence, the product rule, sentencing, punishment, deterrence, minimization of adjudication errors, law enforcement, retribution, expressivism, justice-based theories of punishment, plea-bargains

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Randomization in Criminal Justice: A Criminal Law Conversation

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS, Robinson, Ferzan and Garvey, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 471, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 267, Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 09-26
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Bernard E. Harcourt, Alon Harel, Ken Levy, Michael M. O'Hear and Alice Ristroph
Columbia University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Marquette University - Law School and Brooklyn Law School
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punishment, punishment theory, randomization, randomness, chance, luck, lottery, penal lottery, detection lotteries, incapacitation, deterrence, just punishment, moral luck, attempt liability, criminal law, criminal justice, critical theory

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Public and Private Law

Forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law, eds Markus Dubber & Tatjana Hörnle,
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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public law, private law, jurisprudence, corrective justice, liberalism, feminism, legal realism, privatization, formalism, Marxism formalism

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The Real Case for Judicial Review: A Plea for Non-Instrumentalist Justification in Constitutional Theory

Judicial Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Law Center for Transnational Legal Studies Colloquium Research Paper No. 1
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Apr 2009
Alon Harel and Tsvi Kahana
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Queen's University
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judicial review, instrumentalist, constitutional theory

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Embracing the Tension between National and International Human Rights Law: The Case for Discordant Parity

Forthcoming in International Journal of Constitutional Law , Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 15-20
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2016
Eyal Benvenisti and Alon Harel
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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human rights, international law, constitutional law, state sovereignty

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Commensurability and Agency: Two Yet-to-Be-Met Challenges for Law and Economics

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 749, 2011, University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 558, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 354
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Jun 2011
Alon Harel and Ariel Porat
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Law and economics, commensurability, agency, negligence, torture, valuing life, dignity, privatization, punishment, human rights

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The Easy Core Case for Judicial Review

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 24 Sep 2008
Alon Harel and Tsvi Kahana
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Queen's University
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judicial review, constitutional law, constitutional theory

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Whose Home is it? Reflections on the Palestinian Interest in Return

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Jun 2004
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Right of return, historical justice

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Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction

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Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Mar 2008
Alon Harel and Ehud Guttel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Ehud Guttel and Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Uncertainty, Behavioral Law and Economics

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Non-Consequentialist Voting

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Moses Shayo and Alon Harel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Elections, Democracy, Expressive voting, Social preferences, Extended preferences

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An Economic Rationale for the Legal Treatment of Omissions in Tort Law

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Dec 2001
Alon Harel and Assaf Jacob
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and The Interdisciplinary Center Radziner School of Law
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torts, tort law, omissions, multiple injurers, liability, alternative care, negligence

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Necessity Knows No Law: On Extreme Cases and Un-Codifiable Necessities

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Dec 2010
Alon Harel and Assaf Sharon
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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deontology, legal theory, constitutional law, emergency

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Why Law Matters - A Debate

International Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 15-35
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2015
Lorenzo Zucca and Alon Harel
King's College London – The Dickson Poon School of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Constitutions, Entrenchment, Judicial Review, Constitutionalism, Republicanism, Freedom, instrumental justification, right to a hearing

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On the Optimal Regulation of Unread Contracts

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Sep 2009
Alon Harel and Yuval Procaccia
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law
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unread contracts, standard form contracts, boilerplate, reasonable expectations, uniform commercial code, unconscionability

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Why Only the State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions

CLPE Research Paper No. 25/2007
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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criminal sanctions, state agency, private punishment

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Why Only the State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions: On the Incoherence of Privately-Inflicted Criminal Sanctions

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Dec 2006
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Auctioning for Loyalty: Selection and Monitoring of Class Counsel

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 22, No. 69, 2004
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Feb 2004
Alon Harel and Alex Stein
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Brooklyn Law School
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Class action, agency costs, civil procedure, attorney fees, conflict of interests, economic analysis

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Why Constitutionalism Matters: The Case for Robust Constitutionalism

Critical Analysis of Law, Vol. 1, p. 32, 2014 , Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 15-7
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2015
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Punishment and the State

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Jun 2013
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Against Privatization as Such

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 15-29
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Avihay Dorfman and Alon Harel
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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private/public distinction, privatization, shared responsibility, public office

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Which Preferences Can Democracy Serve?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Nov 2011
Alon Harel and Moses Shayo
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics
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On the Economic Effects of Unenforced Regulation in Employment Law

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2016
Alon Harel, Yuval Procaccia and Ilana Ritov
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - School of Education
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Mandatory Regulation, Employment Law, Law Enforcement, Endowment Effect, Experimental Law and Economics, Economic Analysis, Working Hours Restrictions.

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עיון פילוסופי במשפט ועל אודותיו
(Philosophical Discussion of and in the Law)

Din Udvarim 4 (2008), 17-54.
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 May 2015
David Enoch and Alon Harel
Hebrew University - The Philosophy Department and the Law School and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Legal theory, Philosophy of Law, Jurisprudence

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Torts for Non-Victims: The Case for Third-Party Litigation

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2018, No. 3, 2018 Forthcoming, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 17-44
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2017
Ehud Guttel, Alon Harel and Shay Lavie
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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enforcement, third-party standing, cheapest cost avoider

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The Real Case for Judicial Review

Elgar Research Handbook on Comparative Judicial Review (Erin Delaney & Rosalind Dixon, eds.) (2018 Forthcoming), Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 17-22
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 May 2017 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2017
Alon Harel and Adam Shinar
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law
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constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, judicial review, right to a hearing

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Taking Internationalism Seriously: Why International Criminal Law Matters

Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law, ed. Jens David Ohlin, Forthcoming, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 16-21
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 May 2016 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2016
Miriam Gur-Arye and Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Is Pornography a Speech or an Act and Does it Matter?

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Vol. 3, p. 5, 2011
Posted: 31 Oct 2011
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Alon Harel, Pornography, A speech or an act, Sexual Solipsism, Rae Langton

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The Vices of Epistemic Institutionalism

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Vol. 2, p. 5-15, 2010
Posted: 12 Dec 2010
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Alon Harel, Law and the Limits of Reason, Adrian Vermeule

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Book Symposium on Adrian Vermeule’s Law and the Limits of Reason

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 5-47, 2010
Posted: 12 Dec 2010
Alon Harel, Rivka Weill, Ori Aronson and Adrian Vermeule
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law, Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and Harvard Law School

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Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Adrian Vermeule, Law and the Limits of Reason

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What is Really Wrong with Torture?

Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 241-259, 2008
Posted: 09 Jul 2008
Alon Harel and Assaf Sharon
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Matching Probabilities: The Behavioral Law and Economics of Repeated Behavior

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 72, p. 1197, 2005
Posted: 19 Dec 2005
Alon Harel and Ehud Guttel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Ex-Post Egalitarianism and Legal Justice

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 57-75, 2005
Posted: 26 Jan 2005
Alon Harel, Zvi Safra and Uzi Segal
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University - Faculty of Management and Boston College - Department of Economics

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Crime Rates and Expected Sanctions: The Economics of Deterrence Revisited

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Crime Rates and Expected Sanctions: The Economics of Deterrence Revisited

Tel Aviv University: The Eitan Berglas School of Economics Working Paper No. 14-2000
Posted: 14 Aug 2000
Alon Harel and Oren Bar-Gill
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Harvard Law School

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Crime Rates and Expected Sanctions: The Economics of Deterrence Revisited

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, Part 1, Forthcoming
Posted: 15 Oct 2001
Alon Harel and Oren Bar-Gill
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Harvard Law School

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On Hate and Equality

Yale Law Journal, 1999
Posted: 24 May 1999
Alon Harel and Gideon Parchomovsky
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School

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The Economics of the Law of Criminal Attempts: A Victim-Centered Perspective

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 145, No. 2 (1996).
Posted: 06 Nov 1996
Omri Ben-Shahar and Alon Harel
University of Chicago Law School and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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The Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies - Editors' Foreword

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Vol. 1, p. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 21 Aug 2010
David Enoch and Alon Harel
Hebrew University - The Philosophy Department and the Law School and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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The Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Legal, Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem