Brief Bio

Alon Harel is the Mizock professor of law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He wrote numerous articles in moral, political and legal philosophy. He also published articles on law and economics, criminal law and constitutional theory. His recent book Why Law Matters (Oxford University Press, 2014) argues that legal institutions and procedures are not only means to secure independently specifiable ends. They are constituent aspects of a just society and the contribution they make to it is not contingent but necessary.

Courses taught at CTLS

• Constitutionalism and Democracy (Fall 2025)
• Core Course: Transnational Legal Theory (Spring 2009)
• Populism and Law (Fall 2025)
• Theories of Constitutional Law (Spring 2015)