Dr. Ronit Levine

Faculty of Law
מנהלת הפקולטה למשפטים סגל אקדמי בכיר

Biography

Ronit Levine-Schnur is a Senior Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. Ronit’s areas of research and teaching include Property Law, Administrative and Political Decision-Making, Territorial Conflicts, Democratic Institutions and Procedures, and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Levine-Schnur obtained her LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Following her studies she joined the Division of the Legal Advisor to the West Bank, IDF, and served as an Associate Advisor for land-related matters. During her term she led a reform on the IDF’s treatment of land disputes in the West Bank, and with respect to land registration norms and procedures. Dr. Levine-Schnur continued her studies at the Hebrew University, where she was a recipient of many scholarships, and where she received her Masters’ degree in Law and Urban and Regional Planning (magna cum laude), and her LL.D. (Ph.D.), in 2015. Dr. Levine-Schnur was awarded the prestigious Rothschild Post-Doctoral Award to conduct her post-doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, where she served as the Halbert Post-Doctoral Fellow cross-affiliated with the Faculty of Law; the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the Centre for Ethics. Before joining Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law she was a faculty member at the Reichman University Law School. Dr. Levine-Schnur served as a visiting professor or visiting scholar at a various institutions, including the University of Copenhagen, the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Dr. Levine-Schnur’s published or edited so far six books, and over 30 articles, which have been published in journals such as Journal of Legal Studies, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, Regulation and Governance, and others. As an active academic, Ronit co-founded and led or lead the Israeli Law Professors’ Forum for Democracy and the Day After the War Forum.

 

Full CV

Representative Publications

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

A. BOOKS PUBLISHED

 

  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2013. Law, Contracts, and Urban Planning: Legal Aspects of Development Agreements Between Local Authorities and Private Developers (Floersheimer Studies, Hebrew University) [Hebrew]. 120 pages
    • Cited by the Israeli Supreme Court
  2. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2013. Regulating Bedouin Settlement: A Disengagement Plan for the Negev (Israel Democracy Institute) [Hebrew]. 80 pages
    • Cited by the Israeli Supreme Court
    • Featured in Jerusalem Post; Jewish Star; Galey Israel Radio
  3. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2012. Land Registration Law: Registration and Settlement, and their Implications, in Israel and the West Bank (Bursi Law Books) [Hebrew]. 544 pages including bibliography
    • Moshe Doukhan Award for Excellent Study on Property Law
    • Cited by the Israeli Supreme Court and other courts
    • Featured in Makor Rishon

 

B.1. ARTICLES PUBLISHED

 

English:

  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2023. “Is the Government Exhausting its Powers? An Empirical Examination of Eminent Domain Exercises in New York City Pre- and Post-Kelo”, 17 Regulation & Governance 449-468.
  2. Levine-Schnur, Ronit, Moran Ofir. 2023. “Who Shares the Sharing Economy?”, 32 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 593-641.
  3. Ginzburg, Amit, Deborah Barda, Orly Manor, Ronit Levine-Schnur, Ora Paltiel, Hagai Levine. 2023. “Public Health Measures in the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel and Other Countries: Timing, Extent, Determinants, and Outcomes”, 12 Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 1-19
  4. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2022. “Political Divide, Weak Property Rights, and Infrastructure Provision: An Empirical Examination of Takings Decisions in Jerusalem”, 47 Law and Social Inquiry 821-856.
    • Inaugural International Society of Public Law Israeli Chapter Best Paper Award in Public Law for Young Researchers – Honorable Mention
    • Featured in Nation Review
  5. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2019. “Contracts, States, and Obstacles of the Imagination”, 20 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 120.
  6. Malcai, Ofer, Ronit Levine-Schnur. 2017. “When Procedure Takes Priority: A Theoretical Evaluation of the Contemporary Trends in Criminal Procedure and Evidence Law”, 30 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 187.
  7. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2017. “Private Property and Public Power in the Occupied West Bank”, 6 European Property Law Journal 122
    • Cited by the Israeli Supreme Court
    • Featured in Just Security Blog, Intractable Podcast
  8. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2017. “Revitalizing Land Use Law: Introductory Notes”, 27 Journal of Law & Social Policy 29
  9. Levine-Schnur, Ronit, Gideon Parchomovsky. 2016. “Is the Government Fiscally Blind? An Empirical Examination of the Effect of the Compensation Requirement on Eminent Domain Exercises”, 45 Journal of Legal Studies 437.
    • Moshe Doukhan Award for Excellent Study on Property Law
    • IDC Herzliya Award for Excellence in Academic Research
    • Featured in Calcalist
    • Reviewed by:

- Nicole Stelle Garnett, “Does Compensation Deter Takings? New (and Surprising) Evidence”, JOTWELL—Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (September 28, 2016)

- Yifat Holzman-Gazit, “Why Tel Aviv Takes Less Property than it Can?”, TheMarker (February 24, 2017)

  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit, Avigail Ferdman. 2015. “On the Just Distribution of Land Use Rights”, 28 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 317.
  2. Malcai, Ofer, Ronit Levine-Schnur. 2014. “Which Came First, the Procedure or the Substance? Justificational Priority and the Substance-Procedure Distinction”, 34 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1.

 

Hebrew:

  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2023. “Property Rights in the West Bank: Recognition and Protection Norms and Procedures”, 52 Hebrew University Law Journal 52.
    • Mentioned by the Israeli Supreme Court
  2. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2023. “Takings and the Israeli City: An Empirical Perspective”, 34 Bar Ilan University Law Review.
  3. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2021. “Towards a New Paradigm: On the Collective Rights of the Negev Bedouin”, 43 Tel Aviv University Law Review 689.
  • Replied by: A. Kedar, A. Amara, O. Yiftachel. 2021. 43 Tel Aviv University Law Review 731
  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2020. “On ‘Market Overt’ in Land in Judea and Samaria”, 50 Hebrew University Law Journal 307.
  • Cegla Award for Best Paper Published in Hebrew by Young Faculty
  • Cited by the Israeli Supreme Court and other courts
  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit, Adam Shinar. 2020. “The National Value of Jewish Settlement: Following Article 7 of the Basic Law: Israel – The Nation State of the Jewish People”, 20 Democratic Culture 23.
  • Featured in IDC Academic Podcast
  1. Procaccia, Yuval, Ronit Levine-Schnur, Assaf Jacob. 2020. “Remedies for Uncertain Harm to Property”, 22 IDC Law Review 301.
  2. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2020. “On Professor Weisman’s Contribution to Israel’s Land Law”, 15 Hebrew University Law Journal Online 1
  3. Levine-Schnur, Ronit, Yuval Procaccia. 2019. “On Rental Laws in the Age of Protest: Following the Lease and Borrowing Law (Amendment), 2017 (“Fair Rental Law”)”, 49 Hebrew University Law Journal 79. Ranking: A
  • Reprinted in Perspectives on the Theory of Contracts – G. Shalev Book 843 (Y. Adar, A. Barak, E. Zemach, eds.) (2021)
  • Featured in TheMarker; MAKO; Channel 7; 103FM Radio; Mostly Economics Blog
  • Commented by: MK Roy Folkman, “The Reason why the Landlord Can’t Take More Money from You”, MAKO 27.8.2018
  • Responded by: Ronit Levine-Schnur and Yuval Procaccia, “Fair Rental Law: The Reason Why the Landlord Can Take More Money from You”, MAKO 29.8.2018
  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit, Yuval Procaccia. 2019. “Comments on the Fair Rental Law”, 12 Hebrew University Law Journal Online 203
  2. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2018. “On the District Court Decision in the Matter of Mitzpe Kramim”, 86 Human Rights Case Reviews 4
  • This paper was the basis for an expert opinion that was partially adopted by the Israeli Supreme Court
  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2018. “On the Supreme Court Decision in the Amona Case: The Duties of the Custodian for Abandoned Properties in the West Bank”, 73 Human Rights Case Reviews 30
  • Cited by the Israeli Supreme Court
  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2011. “Privatization, Segregation, Discrimination: The Cessation of Land Settlement in East Jerusalem”, 34 Tel Aviv University Law Review 183. Ranking: A
  • Cited by the Israeli Supreme Court
  • This paper was the basis for a governmental change of policy

     

C.1. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS – PUBLISHED

 

English:

  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2022. “Land, Law, Politics: Israel’s Past Designates its Future”, in Dissensus Exhibition Catalog (Meira Yagid, ed.; Tel Aviv Museum of Arts) (in English/Arabic/Hebrew)
  • Featured in Haaretz
  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2020. “From Blackstone to Blockchain: Theorizing Property Law in the Age of Cryptography”, in Disruptive Technology, Legal Innovation and the Future of Real Estate 29 (A. Lehavi and R. Levine-Schnur eds., Springer)
  2. Camanho, Nelson, Ronit Levine-Schnur, Tal Farber. 2020. “Dealing with an Anchoring Bias in the Mortgage Market: Regulatory Approach”, in Measuring the Effectiveness of Real Estate Regulation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 191 (R. Levine-Schnur, ed., Springer)
  3. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2017. “Revitalizing Land Use Law: The Burdens-Benefits Ratio Principle”, in 100 Years of Zoning and the Future of Cities 201 (Amnon Lehavi, ed., Springer)

 

Hebrew:

  1. Malcai, Ofer, Ronit Levine-Schnur. 2014. “Procedure and Substance: An Analytical Perspective and Some Possible Normative Applications”, In Procedures 93 (Talya Fisher and Issi Rosen-Zvi, eds., Tel Aviv University Press).

 

D. EDITED BOOKS – PUBLISHED

  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit (ed.). Forthcoming. Collection of Position Papers Regarding the 2023 Changes to the Israeli Legal Regime (Nevo & Haifa University Law School) [Hebrew]
  2. Levine-Schnur, Ronit (ed.). 2020. Measuring the Effectiveness of Real Estate Regulation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Springer). 218 pages
  • Among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (November 2020)
  1. Lehavi, Amnon, Ronit Levine-Schnur (eds.). 2020. Disruptive Technology, Legal Innovation and the Future of Real Estate (Springer). 181 pages

 

D. OTHER

  1. Levine-Schnur, Ronit. 2016. “How to Compare and Measure Different Levels of Law Enforcement: Observing Differences in Legislation is Not Enough”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 10.1073/pnas.1606123113
  • Replied by: le Polain de Waroux Y., Garrett RD, Heilmayr R., Lambin EF. 2016. “Reply to Levine-Schnur: Decisions to deforest illegally are influenced by fines and their perceived enforcement probability”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 10.1073/pnas.1606123113

 

 

 

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