Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley; Associate Professor, Law School and Health Management Program, Peres Academic Center
Professor Eyal Katvan is a jurist, legal ethicist, bioethicist, and historian of law and medicine. He is an Associate Professor at the Peres Academic Center, where he founded and directs the Institute for the Study of the Professions and previously led the M.A. Program for Non-Lawyers. He serves as president of the Israeli Association for Law and Society. He has authored two doctoral dissertations—one on compulsory examinations and social/gender oppression, and another on medical examinations of immigrants to Mandatory Palestine—and has published widely in leading journals in law, history, gender studies, and medicine. He has held visiting appointments at Radboud University Medical Center, Brandeis University, the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati), the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, and Georgetown University. He has been a member of the Israel Bar since 1998.
His research focuses on medical, physical, and psychological examinations; the ethics and history of organ transplantation; the histories of the medical professions (dentistry, midwifery, medicine) and of women in these fields; the professionalization and history of the legal professions; the professional ethics of lawyers and judges; the publication and dissemination of legal knowledge; and cultural concepts of kavod (honor/respect).
Professor Katvan edited a book on judicial ethics; founded the Virtual Center for the History of the Legal & Medical Professions; co-founded and chairs the steering committee of Law & History (Hebrew); serves as Co-Editor of Refuah u-Mishpat (Law & Medicine); and chairs the “Histories of the Legal Professions” (subgroup of the International Working Group for Comparative Studies of Legal Professions).
He chaired the Public Committee on Age Limits for Organ Transplantation and the Forum on Regulation of Organ Donor Treatment. He served as a member of: (1) the National Transplantation Steering Committee; (2) the Research Committee of the National Transplant Center; (3) the institutional ethics committee for live organ donation; and (4) the National IRB Committee (Genetic Experiments).
