Visiting Professor of Law (fall term)
Cornell Law School
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: yblank@post.tau.ac.il
Yishai Blank is a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University's Law School. He holds an LL.B. and a B.A. in philosophy (both cum laude) from Tel Aviv University, and an LL.M (waived) and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Yishai was a clerk of Aharon Barak, the former Chief Justice of Israel's Supreme Court. He has been a visiting professor in Monash University (the Prato branch), the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oņati), and Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. His main areas of research and teaching include local government law, global cities, administrative law, legal theory and legal geography. Currently, his work focuses on the legal dimensions of the globalization of cities, especially in the U.S., Israel and the European Union. Yishai obtained a prestigious Israeli Science Foundation fellowship for his work in these areas, and he has been a member of the Young Scholars' Forum of Israel's Academy of Sciences (2006-2008). He will teach The City and the World: The Legal Aspects of the Globalization of Cities in the fall term.
