Prof. Assaf Likhovski

Assaf Likhovski is the Danielle Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He is the author of Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), and Tax, Law, and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel (Cambridge University Press, 2017), as well as articles on Israeli, American and English legal history. He is co-editor of a number of collections of articles on legal history including "Histories of Legal Transplantations" Theoretical Inquiries in Law (with Ron Harris). He was visiting professor at Yeshiva University, the University of Toronto, UCLA, Georgetown University, and the University of Bordeaux. He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University and Harvard Law School, where he was a Fulbright and Rothschild fellow. He was later a Golieb fellow at the NYU School of Law, and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. He was co-founder of the Israeli Legal History Association, and served as the director of the TAU Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, the director of the TAU David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History, and the Associate Dean for Research at the TAU Faculty of Law.

Education

Academic Appointments

“A Colonial Legal Laboratory? Jurisprudential Innovation in British India,” American Journal of  Comparative Law (2021).

“Peripheral Vision: Polish–Jewish Lawyers and Early Israeli Law,” Law and History Review 36 (2018): 235–266.

“The Intellectual History of Law,” in The Oxford Handbook of Legal History (Markus Dubber and Christopher Tomlins eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 151–69.

Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

"Argonauts of the Eastern Mediterranean: Legal Transplants and Signaling," Theoretical Inquiries in Law 10 (2009): 619-651.

"'Training in Citizenship': Tax Compliance and Modernity," Law and Social Inquiry 32 (2007): 665-700.

Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

“The Duke and the Lady: Helvering v. Gregory and the History of Tax Avoidance Adjudication,” Cardozo Law Review 25 (2004): 953-1018.

“Czernowitz, Lincoln and Jerusalem and the Comparative History of American Jurisprudence,” Theoretical Inquiries in Law 4 (2003): 621-657.

"Protestantism and Radical Reform of English Law: A Variation on a Theme by Weber," Law and Society Review 33 (1999): 365-391.