Avihay Dorfman is a professor of law at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He works in the theoretical foundations of private law with particular emphasis on torts and property. He has written articles on various basic questions in private law theory and doctrine as well as on the morality of public orderings (including research on why privatization may sometimes be impermissible and on what makes political authority legitimate). In each of these studies, Dorfman focuses on the non-instrumental ideas that underlie key legal institutions. In that, his studies elaborate on the non-contingent implications of the law for the possibility of establishing forms of valuable interactions between, and among, persons.
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Center for Private Law