Oren Gazal Ayal

Oren Gazal-Ayal is a law professor and former dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa. He served as the dean between 2016-2022. Currently, he is a visiting fellow at All-Souls College at the University of Oxford. He heads the Center for the Study of Crime, Law, and Society at the University. He is an expert in criminal law and procedure, sentencing law, and economic analysis of law. He is regularly published in leading journals, including Duke Law Journal, The Journal of Law & Economics, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and all the leading Israeli legal journals. His papers are frequently cited in decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court.

He serves as the vice chair of the public committee for the prevention of false convictions (headed by the former Supreme Court Justice, Yoram Danziger) and as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Minister of Justice for Criminal Procedure and Evidence Law (headed by the former Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel). Formerly, he served as the head of the committee for the examination of drug offenses in the Israel Defense Forces and later as the head of the committee for assessing prosecutorial policies regarding unauthorized absence from service. Gazal-Ayal was also a member of several other public committees, including the Public Committee for the Examination of the Punishment and Treatment of Convicted Offenders (the Dorner Committee), as the coordinating member. He also held other public advisory positions, such as advising the Knesset, the Attorney General, and the Military Advocate General. He initiated a reform in alternatives to criminal proceedings, which was subsequently legislated by the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) in 2012.

Gazal-Ayal has won several prizes for his research, including the Minister of Public Security Prize (twice: 2002, 2008), the Dusty and Ettie Miller Prize for Outstanding Young Scholar (2008), the Cegla Prize (2008), the Fatal Prize for Excellence in Research, The Prize of The Institute for Applicable Criminal Law for excelling researcher (2022) and the prize of the Israeli Association for Criminal Law for the best article in the field (2022). He also won several prestigious and competitive research grants from, among others, the Israel Science Foundation (ISF, four times) and the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF). Gazal Ayal was a member of the Israel Young Academy (2014-2018) and the Global Young Academy (2010-2014). Gazal-Ayal has been a visiting scholar and visiting professor in universities around the globe, including Oxford University, Worcester College (2019), NYU Law School (1999), Connecticut Law School (2004), Michigan Law School (with Fulbright, 2004-5), the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg (2007) and Aix-Marseilles (with Erasmus Mundus Grant, 2008). He is also the former president of the Israeli Law and Economics Association president (2009-2010).

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