Course Archive

2023-2024

Fall 2023 Courses

Religion, Gender, and Law: The Case of Israel

Legal Studies 190 - SEM 003

Masua Sagiv

The course will explore the intersection of gender, religion, and law in Israel, as manifested in social movement activism through law and society. The course will illustrate and reflect upon different strategies and spheres for promoting social change, by examining core issues involving gender, religion and law in Israel: religious marriage and divorce, gender equality...

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2021–2022

Fall 2021 Courses

Law and Social Change: The Case of Israel

Legal Studies 190

Prof. Masua Sagiv, Bar-Ilan University; Shalom Hartman Institute

This course will examine the scope and limits of promoting social change through law in the cultural, religious, and communal spheres in Israel where the “status quo” dominates: conflicts of state and religion in Israel. Issues to be covered include religion-induced segregations, religious marriage and divorce, Jewish dietary laws, gender equality and religion, conversion, and free exercise of...

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2020–2021

Fall 2020 Courses

Minority Rights: The Israeli Balance

Legal Studies 190

Prof. Roy Peled, College of Management – Academic Studies

This course offers an opportunity to look into the forces behind different kinds of ethnic, racial and national hostilities, to understand their sources and to look at how the law in Israel and the US as well as international law deals with them. We will discuss basic concepts of group rights and minority rights in general and will then present some of the choices made...

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2018–2019

Fall 2018 Courses

War in the Middle East

Political Science 124B

Prof. Ron Hassner, Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies, UC Berkeley

This class begins with a historical overview of war in the region. The second part of the class introduces theories that complement and elaborate on theories from PS124A: arguments about the relationship between war and resources, religion, authoritarianism, civil military relations, territorial disputes, sovereignty, and power. In the third part of the course, we will explore...

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2017–2018

Fall 2017 Courses

Comparative Politics: Democracies, Dictatorships, and Hybrid Regimes in the Middle-East and North Africa

Political Science 140Z

Prof. Rami Zeedan, The Open University

This course will provide the students with the knowledge about basic concepts in political science – politics, government, state – emphasizing the fundamental division between liberal democracy, illiberal democracy and dictatorship regimes (fascist, theocratic, communist). The course is set on...

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2015–2016

Fall 2015 Courses

Special Topics in Jewish Studies: A Jewish and Democratic State

Jewish Studies 120

Prof. Ori Aronson, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law

The course will review the central arguments on the meaning, possibility, and legitimacy of a “Jewish and Democratic State,” as Israel is defined in its constitutional documents. We will engage the central debates that have emanated from this constitutional duality, with a focus on their legal incarnations: the design of governing bodies and processes, the status and rights of the Arab...

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2010–2011

2010–2011 Courses

Jewish Law in Comparative Perspective: Comparative Visions of the Legal Enterprise

Law 265.4

Prof. Kenneth A. Bamberger and David Kasher, School of Law

Democracy, Civil Liberties and National Security: Israel in Comparative Perspective

Legal Studies 190.7/Political Science 123H

Prof. Menachem Hofnung, Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Inaugural Visiting Professor, Berkeley Institute...