Ben Ohavi is a lecturer in law, a research fellow at the Brodie Center for Jewish and Israeli Law, and an affiliated research fellow at the Center for Private Law at Yale Law School. His areas of interest include political philosophy, legal philosophy, private law theory, and the philosophy of Jewish law.
Ohavi earned his LL.B. in Law and Philosophy and his Ph.D. in Law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as an LL.M. from the University of Toronto. His doctoral dissertation examined conceptions of private ownership in Talmudic law through the lens of historical and contemporary property law theories. In his broader work, Ohavi investigates the theoretical relationships among various branches of private law and explores the intersections between the Jewish legal tradition and other philosophical, legal, and religious traditions.
