Landmark Decisions in Tort Law
On Wednesday, January 8, 2025, we hosted an evening event at the School of Law at Sapir. I was glad to hold a conversation with the now retired Supreme Court Justice and former Deputy President Eliezer Rivlin about landmark rulings and doctrines in tort law. Photo credit: Nicole Mikhno, Sapir Academic College PR
Extracting Information from Legal Proceedings as a Tool to Promote Justice and Improve the Work of Authorities
Amos Israel-Philsauer, Amit Ofir, and Boaz Segal, “Extracting Information from Legal Proceedings as a Tool to Promote Justice and the Accountability of Authorities”, Ma’asei Mishpat 15, 219 (2024).
On Torts and Medicine
The intersection between tort law and medicine creates a wide and complex world, including questions of duty of care, causation, standard of care, informed consent, harm to autonomy, and the relationship between law and clinical reality. I was glad to discuss these legal frameworks with the team in Internal Medicine Department A at Meir Medical […]
Spreading Light Within the Darkness
October 7 will likely be remembered as a landmark in the history of the State of Israel, not only because of the scale of the horror, but because of what it revealed about human beings. My wife and I traveled a few days ago into the darkness of that day. Our first stop was the […]
Tort Law and the Deterrence Goal
Tort law does not aim for maximal deterrence. It aims for optimal deterrence. In other words, not maximum deterrence, but the right level of deterrence. So what is the “optimum point” between under-deterrence and over-deterrence? In one of the most important books ever written on tort law, The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic […]
Sternberg v. Municipality of Bnei Brak
CA 73/86 Sternberg v. Municipality of Bnei Brak dealt with a resident of Bnei Brak who slipped on a sidewalk due to sewage flooding. The court held that the municipality was negligent, and that the burden shifts to the municipality to show that it was not. The municipality did not meet that burden. On one […]
Advanced Topics in Tort Law
This advanced course explores selected issues in tort law, with an emphasis on how legal theory can serve practice, and how real-world legal experience can enrich theory. Topics include: Tort law and public tortfeasors Distributive justice in tort law The duty of care in negligence Factual causation Informed consent and harm to autonomy Defamation law
A Conversation or a Debate
In my lectures and in various roles I hold, I am exposed to intense discussions on different topics. Let me be clear: we are allowed to have intense conversations about things we disagree on. I am not afraid of such conversations, even when I know they may be heated. Here is an important insight: conversations, […]
“Modeling a Life”: The Party That Does Not Exist
When you look at social media, it can seem that life is one big party and everyone is invited to it, because their life looks like that. But in reality, no one’s life looks like that. Just as mannequins model perfect bodies in shopping-mall display windows, polished pictures can seem to model perfect lives in […]
Tort Compensation in the United States and England: Goal or Means?
Tort Compensation in the United States and England: Goal or Means? Boaz Segal, Tort Compensation in the United States and England: Goal or Means? 87 American Journal of Trade and Policy 8 (2021).
