Assaf Likhovski is the Danielle Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He is the author of Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), Tax, Law, and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Legal Theory in the Colonies: Hindu and Jewish Scholars under British Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2026), as well as numerous articles on Israeli, American, and English legal history. He has served as a visiting professor at Yeshiva University, the University of Toronto, UCLA, Georgetown University, and the University of Bordeaux. He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University and Harvard Law School, where he held Fulbright and Rothschild fellowships. He subsequently held a Golieb Fellowship at NYU School of Law and was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. He co-founded the Israeli Legal History Association and has served as Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Director of the David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History, and Associate Dean for Research, all at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law.
