Dan Priel

Dan Priel is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, where he joined the full-time faculty in 2011 after serving as a Visiting Professor during 2010-11. His prior academic appointments include Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick (UK) and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow-in-Law at Yale Law School (2005-2007). He also clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court and co-edited the Hebrew University Law Faculty's student journal.

His educational credentials include:

• LLB (Hebrew University)
• BCL (Oxford)
• MPhil (Oxford)
• DPhil (Oxford)

Professor Priel's research centers on legal theory and private law, with specialized focus on tort law and restitution. He integrates legal history and social sciences—particularly psychology—into his analysis of legal frameworks, while examining intersections between law and the welfare state. His work investigates historical evolution of legal concepts and their contemporary applications.

His scholarly contributions have been recognized through the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow-in-Law award and publication in premier journals including Law and Philosophy, Legal Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and Texas Law Review.

He supervises graduate research (LLM/PhD) in legal theory, private law doctrine/theory, welfare state jurisprudence, and legal intellectual history. Currently on leave, he is not accepting new students but reviews preliminary proposals from qualified candidates in his research domains prior to formal applications.