Gilad Abiri
Gilad Abiri is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he also completed his LL.M. degree in 2016. Before coming to Yale, Gilad earned his LL.M. degree, summa cum laude, from Tel-Aviv University; his Master's thesis developed an account of deliberative democracy based on the moral theory of value pluralism. Gilad is a graduate of the Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel-Aviv University and has served as a research assistant and a teaching assistant in the fields of contract law, law and religion, and political theory.
Gilad's academic interests lie in the intersection of political theory and law, and focus on constitutional law, law and religion, and democratic law. In his J.S.D dissertation, he develops a new theoretical account of the tense relationship between liberal states and religious groups.
Doctoral Committee
Professors Anthony T. Kronman (chair), Paul W. Kahn (reader), and David Singh Grewal (reader)
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2016
LL.M., summa cum laude, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2015