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The Israel Matz Institute for
Jewish Law was established in
1963 by Prof. Menachem Elon,
who was later appointed as
deputy to the President of the
Supreme Court of Israel.
The institute is located on Mount
Scopus, in one of the original
buildings of the Hebrew University,
built in 1925.
The institute is dedicated to promoting
the research and teaching of Jewish
(Halakhic) law.
Special emphasis is given to making
Jewish law challenging and relevant to
modern legal discourse, in Israel and
abroad.
The Institute for Jewish Law is part of the Faculty of
Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which is
the flagship of judicial education and research in
Israel.
Among the faculty alumni are nearly every Justice in
Israel’s Supreme Court, past and present, as well as
the heads of the judicial system in Israel.
This gives special importance to the ascription of the
Institute for Jewish Law to the Faculty of Law, as
being the leading academic institution in the world to
the research of Jewish law.
1. Training a generation of first-rate scholars, now
occupying key positions in Jewish Law research
and teaching at universities all over Israel.
2. Many leading publications in Jewish law.
3. Publishing 25 volumes of The Hebrew Annual of
Jewish Law: Shenaton haMishpat haIvri.
The Institute’s main achievements
The Institute’s main achievements (Cont’d)
4. Established library with a unique, rich and varied
collection of volumes in all areas of Jewish Law.
5. Organizing international academic conferences and
seminars, and enhancing international cooperation
and exchange programs.
The Institute’s Current activities:
1. Instruction of courses of Jewish law at the Faculty of
law.
2. Collaboration with The Sacher Institute for Legislative
Research and Comparative Law, in order to promote
the publication of research books in Jewish law.
3. Continuation of publishing volumes of The Hebrew
Annual of Jewish Law: Shenaton haMishpat haIvri.
4. English Publication of the Jewish Law Annual.
The Institute’s Current activities (cont’d):
5. Organizing Jewish Law and Jurisprudence (Israel, 2010)
and Jewish Law and Criminal Law (Israel, 2011)
conferences.
6. Jewish Law Workshop, held its sixth year.
7. Ongoing collaboration of researchers.
The Center for Advanced Studies in Jewish Law will
significantly leverage the position of Jewish law with
regard to the legal discourse in Israel, including the
following activities:
• Develop a master degree program in Jewish law.
• Establish a framework for writing doctoral dissertations in Jewish Law
• Develop and implement international conferences for leading scholars in Israel and abroad.
• Continue research collaboration between Jewish law scholars and researchers in other legal fields.
• Host foreign researchers and create a framework for post-doctoral students.
• Establish scholarships for advanced studies abroad.
Research Collaboration
Library
Exchange Programs
International
Conferences
Courses Developmen
t
Graduate Student
Scholarships
The Institute
for Jewish Law
Fund Allocations
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