David Schorr's research interests include environmental and natural-resource law, legal history, and environmental history, and his work has won the support of multiple fellowships and grants, including from the Israel Science Foundation and the US National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Israel Environmental History Forum, and currently heads TAU's Law and Humanities Program.
Research Interests:
History of environmental law and water law
Law in the British Empire
Environmental law
Teaching:
Torts
Environmental Law
Introduction to Israeli Law
Master's Thesis Workshop
Law and History Workshop
| Education | |
|
Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., U.S.A.
J.S.D., May 2005 LL.M., May 2003
Dissertation committee: Henry Smith, Carol Rose, Robert Ellickson Connecticut Title Insurance Attorneys Prize, best paper in real estate law 2003
|
|
|
Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, Jerusalem, Israel |
|
|
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New Haven, Conn. U.S.A. |
|
|
Columbia College, New York, N.Y., U.S.A
B.A., summa cum laude, History, May 1994 John Jay Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa
|
Professional Experience
|
2005-present |
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel |
|
2009-present |
Senior Lecturer (with tenure) |
|
2005-2009 |
Lecturer |
|
2009-2010 |
Cegla Fellow |
|
2005-2007 |
Porter Fellow (School of Envtl. Studies) |
|
2006-Present |
Director of Law and Environment Program |
|
2014-present |
Director, Berg Institute for Law and History |
|
Hiring, Admissions, LL.B., LL.M., Library & Computer, and Berg Center Committees |
|
|
School of Environmental Studies: Masters Degree Committees, NGO Internship Committee |
|
|
Spring 2010 |
Georgetown Univ. Law Center, Washington, D.C., Visiting Associate Professor |
|
Fall 2005 |
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Adjunct Lecturer |
|
2001-02 |
Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem, Justice Eliahu Mazza, Law Clerk |
|
2000-01 |
E.S. Shimron, I. Molho, Persky & Co., Jerusalem, Law Clerk |
(publications in Hebrew here)
American Journal of Legal History (2021)
Nature Versus the Common Law: Nature as a Norm in the Water Law of the British World
Clio@Thémis 20 (2021)
Savagery, Civilization, and Property: Theories of Societal Evolution and Commons Theory
Theoretical Inquiries in Law 19 (2018): 507-531
Historical Analysis in Environmental Law
in Oxford Handbook of Legal History, 1001-1016
(Markus Dubber & Christoper Tomlins eds., Oxford University Press, 2018)
The Tragedy of the Commons at 50: context, precedents, and afterlife (co-editor with Carol Rose)
Theoretical Inquiries in Law, vol. 19, no. 2 (2018)
in Comparative Property Law: Global Perspectives, 280-289
(Michele Graziadei & Lionel Smith eds., Edward Elgar, 2017)
Art and the History of Environmental Law
in Critical Analysis of Law 2 (2015): 322-349
Riparian Rights in Lower Canada and Canada East: Inter-imperial Legal Influences
in Encounters of Empires (Roland Cvetkovski & Volker Barth eds., Bloomsbury, 2015)
Forest Law in the Palestine Mandate: Colonial Conservation in a Unique Context
in Managing the Unknown (Uwe Luebken & Frank Uekötter eds., Berghahn Books, 2014)
A Prolonged Recessional: The Continuing Influence of British Rule on Israeli Environmental Law
Chapter 10 in Between Ruin and Restoration: Chapters in Israel’s Environmental History
(Dan Orenstein, Char Miller & Alon Tal eds., University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013)
The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier
(Yale University Press, 2012)
reviewed in Agricultural History, American Historical Review, Arizona Water Resource, Business History Review, Environmental History, Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy ,Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, University of Denver Water Law Review, Water History, Western Historical Quarterly
