Eli Salzberger

Prof. Eli Salzberger, University of Haifa

Eli M. Salzbergerwas the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the President of the European Association for Law and Economics. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (1st in class). He clerked for Chief Justices Aharon Barak and Dorit Beinish. He wrote his doctorate at Oxford University on the economic analysis of the doctrine of separation of powers. His research and teaching areas are legal theory and philosophy, economic analysis of law, legal ethics, cyberspace and the Israeli Supreme Court. His latest book (co-authored with Niva Elkin-Koren) is "The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: The Limits of Analysis" (Routledge 2012), preceded by Law, Economic and Cyberspace (Edward Elgar 2004). He was a member of the board of directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel; he is member of the public council of the Israeli Democracy Institute and of a commission for reform in performers' rights in Israel. He was awarded various grants and fellowships, among them Rothschild, Minerva, GIF, ISF, Fulbright, ORS and British Council. Salzberger was a visiting professor at various universities including the Microsoft-LAPA fellow at Princeton, University of Hamburg, Humboldt University, University of Torino and UCLA. Currently he is the director of the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, the director of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions and he is the co-director of the International Academy for Judges at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law.