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Alon Harel

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Mount Scopus, 91905

Israel

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1.

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

3.

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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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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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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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

8.

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
Downloads 332 (57,806)
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privatization, public officials, political legitimation, punishment, war

9.

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

10.

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

14.

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

16.

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

19.

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

26.

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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30.

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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31.

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

32.

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

35.

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

36.

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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37.

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

38.

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, Radzyner School of Law - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), 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

40.

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

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