Keynote Speakers
Lord Hoffmann
Lord Hoffmann was educated at Cape Town and Oxford Universities. He practised at the bar for many years, specialising in corporate and commercial law. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1992 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1995.
Professor Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv)
Prof. Dagan is the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. He received an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School (where he held a Fulbright award) after receiving his LL.B. Summa Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University.
Professor Dagan is widely published in both English and Hebrew. His books include Unjust Enrichment: A Study of Private Law and Public Values (Cambridge University Press, 1997), The Law and Ethics of Restitution (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Property at a Crossroads (Ramot, 2005) (in Hebrew). His articles on restitution, property, and private law theory were published in the leading law reviews in Israel as well as in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and Yale Law Journal. Prof.
Dagan is a member of the American Law Institute and of the ongoing Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar. Prior to becoming Dean he was the Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law and the Editor in Chief of Theoretical Inquiries in Law. Prof. Dagan was also a visiting professor and an Affilated Overseas Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Click to see more ...
Professor Stephen R. Perry (Penn Law)
Professor Perry is the John J. O’Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, and the Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He received the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and the degrees of B.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford University. Prior to coming to Penn he taught at NYU Law School and at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
Professor Perry teaches and has published widely in the general areas of torts, jurisprudence, political philosophy, and theoretical aspects of private law. He is particularly interested in the methodology of jurisprudence, the general nature of authority and obligation in law, the role of corrective justice in tort law, the morality of risk imposition, and the relationship between legal and moral responsibility. Click to see more ....
