Jonathan Yovel

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

Mount Carmel

Haifa, 31905

Israel

NYU School of Law - Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice

Straus at-large fellow

New York

United States

Yale Law School

P.O. Box 208215

New Haven, CT 06520-8215

United States

  • University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

  • NYU School of Law - Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice

  • Yale Law School

    • Email
    • Tel: 203.435.5911
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“  I'm currently working on several projects involving law, language and cognition, as well as connections between algorithmic law and the philosophy of technology. My book "Languages of Justice: What Law does when it Talks (and when it Doesn't)" was recently published by Tel Aviv University Press.  ”

  • University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

  • NYU School of Law - Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice

  • Yale Law School

    • Email
    • Tel: 203.435.5911

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1.

An Overview of Israeli Contract Law

THE INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT MANUAL, 2014
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2014
Jonathan Yovel and Ido Shacham
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and Israel Bar Association
Downloads 2,930 (9,482)

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Israeli Law, Contracts, Source and Nature of Israeli Law, Arbitration, Freedom of Contract, Good Faith, Contract Formation, Interpretation of Contract, Estoppel, Remedies for Breach of Contract, Specific Performance, Damages, Termination, Unjust Enrichment, Contracts of Adhesion (Standard contracts)

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The Seller's Right to Avoid the Contract in International Sales

AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE SALE OF GOODS, John Felemegas, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2007
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2010
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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contract law, remedies for breach of contract, international sales, termination, rescission, cancellation, PECL, CISG, UCC

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The Buyer's Right to Avoid the Contract in International Sales

AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE SALE OF GOODS John Felemegas, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2007
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,591 (25,012)

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International transactions, Buyer, contract, Avoidance, CISG, CESL, PECL, Termination, Self-Help

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Metalinguistic Awareness

HANDBOOK OF PRAGMATICS, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert, Chris Bulcaen, eds., Kluwer, 2003 , HANDBOOK OF PRAGMATICS HIGHLIGHTS, Jef Verschueren & Jan-Ola Östman, eds., Kluwer, 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Elizabeth Mertz and Jonathan Yovel
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,513 (26,999)

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Metalinguistic awareness, Metalanguage, Metaparagmatics, Linguistic performance, Language aquisition

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The Seller's Right to Cure a Failure to Perform in International Sales

Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, pp. 1-19, 2005
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2014
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Contracts, Sales, International Sales, Cure, Breach of Contract, Remedies for Breach of Contract, Sales, CISG, CESL, PECL, UCC

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The Role of Social Science in Legal Decisions

HANDBOOK OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Austin Sarat, ed., Blackwell, 2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Dec 2006
Jonathan Yovel and Elizabeth Mertz
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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adjudication, law and social change, law and knowledge, law and science, law and social science, Daubert, evidence, philosophy of social sciences

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An Analysis of Market-Based Damages for Breach of Contract in the CISG and PECL

AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE SALE OF GOODS, John Felemegas, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2007
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Contract, CISG, PECL, Price Damages, Current Price and Risk

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What is Contract Law 'About'? Speech Act Theory and a Critique of 'Skeletal Promises'

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 94, pp. 937-962, 2000
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Jun 2006
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 708 (78,484)
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Contract Law, Standard Speech Act Theory, Atiyah's Critique, contracts and promises, tort law

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How Can a Crime Be Against Humanity? Philosophical Doubts Concerning a Useful Concept

UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Vol. 11, 2007, University of Haifa Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 963463
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2013
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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International law, Arendt, political philosophy, crime against humanity, legal realism, legal pragmatism, Barbie, the Rome Treaty, ICC, ICTR, ICTY

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Courtroom Narrative

ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NARRATIVE THEORY, David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan, eds., Routledge, 2005
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 24 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2013
Elizabeth Mertz and Jonathan Yovel
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 606 (95,733)

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law and language, litigation, narrative theory, empirical legal studies, coherence, legal rhetoric, courtroom narrative

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In the Beginning Was the Word: Paradigms of Language and Normativity in Law, Philosophy, and Theology

Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 5, 2001
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Dec 2006
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 502 (121,071)
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legal language, rhetoric, performativity, theology, representationalism, linguistic turn and law, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, law and magic

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Rights and Rites: Initiation, Language and Performance in Law and Legal Education

Stanford Agora: An Online Journal of Legal Perspectives, Vol. 3, 2002
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2012
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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legal language, legal pedagogy, legal education, rhetoric, performance, law and language, language and theology, deconstruction

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Imagining Territories: Space, Place, and the Anticity

University of Haifa Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Feb 2020
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Political geography, cultural geography, critical art history, Pharmakon, deconstruction, colonialism, territories, space, place, no-place, anticity, state of exception, Derrida, Auge, Political theology

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Gay Science as Law: An Outline for a Nietzschean Jurisprudence

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 24, pp. 635-662, 2003, HALF-WRITTEN LAWS: NIETZSCHE AND LEGAL THEORY, Peter Goodrich and Mariana Velvedere, eds., Routledge 2005
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2021
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Nietzsche, Jurisprudence, Kafka, Borges, Marx, Freud, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis, modernity/postmodernity

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Analogical Reasoning as Translation: The Pragmatics of Transitivity

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 13, pp. 1-27, 2000
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Dec 2006
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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legal theory, legal reasoning, analogy, analogical reasoning, transitivity, decision-making, quantitative logic, Strawson, Greimas, Wittgenstein

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From Status to Contract: The Unhappy Case of Johann Sebastian Bach

27 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 501-519 (2014), NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-21
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2022
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Contracts, Legal history, JS Bach, Early modernity, Relational contracts, Musical biography

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Legal Formalism, Institutional Norms, and the Morality of Basketball

Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 8, pp. 34-67, 2008
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2016
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Law and Sports, Interpretation, Courts, NBA, Sportsmanship, Economic analysis of sports law, Social analysis of sports law, Legal Formalism, Norms, Institutional norms

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Law as Metaphor and Morality in Milton's Samson Agonistes

Law, Culture and the Humanities, Vol. 2, pp. 440-469, 2006
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2022
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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metaphor, modernity, secularism, Milton, Law & literature, law & language

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The Creation of Language and Language without Time: Metaphysics and Metapragmatics in Genesis 1

Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches vol. 20 issue 3 pp. 205-225 (July 2012)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2019
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Biblical creation, Genesis, Metaphisics and language, Biblical Hebrew, Atemporality, Mimesis, Translation, Omnipotence, Metalanguage, Metapragmatics, Linguistic performativity, Grammatical aspects, Aorist aspect, Perfective aspect, Aktionsart

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Quasi-Checks: An Apology for a Mutation of Negotiable Instruments

DePaul Journal of Business and Commercial Law, Vol. 5, pp. 579-603, 2007
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2009
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Banks, Uniform Commercial Code, negotiable instruments, Check 21, legal formalism

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Running Backs, Wolves, and Other Fatalities: How Manipulations of Coherence in Legal Opinions Marginalize Violent Death

Law and Literature, Vol. 16, pp. 127-159, 2004
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2014
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 262 (249,238)
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Rhetoric, narrative, narration, coherence, decision-making, interpretation, reader-response

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Two Conceptions of Relevance

Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 34, pp. 283-315, 2003
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Dec 2006
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Relevance, relevance logic (RL), modal logic, metarelevance, practical relevance, conversational relevance, causal relevance, minimal relevance, evidence, exclusionary reasons, normative relevance, legal algorithms

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Relational Formalism and the Construction of Financial Instruments

American Business Law Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 371-407, 2011, Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship Series No. 33
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 May 2011 Last Revised: 31 May 2012
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 170 (375,197)

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Commercial Law, Negotiable Instruments, Relational Contract Theory, Legal Formalism, Adjudication, Speech Act Theory, Pragmatice, Performativity, Linguistics, Jurisprudence, Law & Society

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Invisible Precedents: On the Many Lives of Legal Stories Through Law and Popular Culture

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 1265-1293, 2001
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2013
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 152 (412,883)
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Precedent, Legal history, Law reports, Regency England polular culture, Drive for reference, textuality, Citation, Quotation, the Radlett murder, Thurtell/Weare

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What Can Lawyers Learn from Renaissance Drama?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2022
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 117 (508,133)

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Legal language, law and literature, rhetoric, discourse ethics, Milton, Garnier, Medieval drama

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Security or Insecurity?

Haaretz Book Review (English Edition) November 12, 2004
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 27 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2024
Jonathan Yovel
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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National security, Israel, Palestine, Linguistic ideology, Public sphere, Discourse analysis