Alex Stein אלכס שטיין
Distinguished legal scholar, formerly a professor at Brooklyn Law School and Cardozo School of Law in New York, who returned to Israel to join the Supreme Court in 2018. Brings an internationally recognized expertise in evidence law, civil procedure, and law-and-economics to the bench.
רקע
Born in the Soviet Union, Stein immigrated to Israel as a young man, served in the IDF, studied law at the Hebrew University, and completed a doctorate at the London School of Economics. He spent more than two decades teaching in the United States, at Cardozo and Brooklyn, and is the author of internationally cited works on evidence and procedural law, before his 2018 appointment.
פועל בולט
- Has brought rigorous law-and-economics and evidentiary analysis to opinions across the docket
- Joined the conservative wing in the 8-7 reasonableness dissent, drawing on comparative constitutional materials
- Frequently engages with American and European judicial scholarship in his writing, a useful comparative perspective in a Court that operates within a uniquely Israeli constitutional framework
כיום
Continues as one of the bench's most prolific writers, with a steady stream of substantive opinions on commercial, evidentiary, and constitutional questions.
למה זה חשוב
His trajectory, Soviet immigrant, Israeli soldier, American legal academic, Israeli Supreme Court justice, embodies the global reach and intellectual depth of Israeli legal life, and the country's continued draw for accomplished Jews from across the diaspora.
ציטוט הדף הזה
Alex Stein, Justice of the Supreme Court. מדינת ישראל. https://thestateofisrael.com/he/justice/alex-stein