Brief Bio

Edwin A. Goodman Professor for Public Law and former Dean at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His research interests are administrative law, comparative public law, judicial review, regulation, the study of government lawyers, and law and society.

Professor Dotan received his LL.M from the University of California at Berkeley Law School and his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University. He conducted a doctoral training at the University of Paris I and completed his post-doctoral studies at Worcester College, Oxford.

He has lectured at institutions outside Israel including Columbia Law School, Fordham Law School and University of Miami Law School.  Prof. Dotan was awarded the Shneior Zalman Cheshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Law (2012) and served as a Non-residential fellow at Edmond J. Safra Research Lab at Harvard University (2012-13).  He was awarded the Gorni Prize for distinguished contribution for public law (2019) and the Aharon Barak Prize for Excellence in Legal Scholarship (2025). He served as the President of the Israeli Association for Law and Society (2012-14).

He published in journals such as Law & Society Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Public Law, Administrative Law Review and American Journal of Comparative Law. His book Lawyering for the Rule of Law: Government Lawyers and the Rise of Judicial Power in Israel (2014) was published by Cambridge Un. Press. His recent book Judicial Review of Administrative Discretion (2023) is cited extensively by the Israeli Supreme Court.

Courses taught at CTLS

• Comparative Judicial Review (Fall 2015)