Asaf Wiener

Biography

Asaf is a Ph.D. candidate and a research fellow with the Zvi Meitar Center for advanced legal studies at Tel-Aviv University.

His research, supervised by Justice Prof. Daphne Barak-Erez and Prof. Michael Birnhack, aimes to re-evaluate the accountability of current commercial media agents for public interests, in light of the social-cultural costs of state-regulation over media, and the decline of traditional justifications for media regulation. The research's main argument is that due to the substantive interrelations between media and culture, most of the current media regulation practices cannot be justified within the liberal framework.

Research Interests

Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Media Law, Law and Society and Media Policy.

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Education:

B.A (2012), Communication studies, Faculty of Social Science, Tel Aviv University.

L.L.B (2013), Faculty of law, Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude), appearing on the Dean's List in every year of his studies.

Academic and Professional Experience:

During his studies, Asaf was a research assistant to various professors in the Buchmann Faculty of Law, including: Prof. Daphne Barak-Erez (administrative law, constitutional law), Dr. Amit Pundik (evidence law, criminal law). In addition, Asaf was a member of the editorial board of Volume 36 of the Tel Aviv University Law Review.

After his studies, Asaf served as a law clerk in the chambers of the Honorable Supreme Court Justice Barak-Erez.

Asaf was admitted to the Israeli bar in 2014, and since then served as a regulatory analyst and researcher for the Committee of Commercial Communication Regulation of Israel, and as a teaching assistant at the TAU law faculty for Prof. Aeyal Gross (Constitutional Law) and Dr. Eyal Peleg (Administrative Law).

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Publications

Virtual Crimes, Actual Threats: Deterring National Security Offenses Committed Through Cyberspace, 5 JOURNAL OF LAW AND CYBER WARFARE (forthcoming, 2015).