Stein, Alex

Alex Stein was born in 1957 in Kishinev, USSR, made Alyiah in 1973, graduated from the Leo Baeck High School in Haifa, and joined the Israel Defense Forces. During his military service, he participated in the Litani and the Peace for Galilee operations and served as a legal officer at the Military Governor’s office in Gaza. He holds an LL.B. and an LL.M. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. from the University of London. During his long academic career he served as a Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as at Cardozo and Brooklyn Law Schools in New York City, and taught as a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Oxford, Toronto and other universities. He is the author of four books, two of which are considered path-breaking in the fields of torts and evidence, and over sixty articles many of which have appeared in the world’s leading journals. His areas of expertise include torts, evidence, medical malpractice, and economic analysis of law. He was invited to speak in these areas in many academic events across the world and his opinions have been cited by international media outlets that included New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Nature. In August 2018 he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel.