Biography
Ori Aronson is a professor of law at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law in Israel, where he is also the director of the Manomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law. He received his LLB (2004, summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his LLM (2006) and SJD (2010) from Harvard Law School. He joined the Bar-Ilan Law Faculty in 2010, where he teaches constitutional law and theory, civil procedure and adjudication, legal pluralism, and administrative law. Between 2015 and 2016, he served as the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/Israel Institute Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. Since 2023, Ori has been a leading member of the Israeli Law Professors’ Forum for Democracy, a voluntary organisation providing the Israeli public and policymakers academically informed analyses of the government’s constitutional reforms.
Ori’s scholarship concerns the institutional conditions of adjudication and the organisation of legal power more broadly, with a focus on the ways legal systems accommodate, reflect, mediate, and challenge cultural and ideological difference and polarisation. Using multiple research methods, he has written on the constitutional role of trial courts, theories of judicial review, judicial behaviour on collegial courts, formal and informal judicial hierarchies, the normative implications of algorithmic regulation, jurisdictional politics in religious tribunals, public perceptions of legal institutions, court specialisation, and Israeli constitutional politics.
Ori’s current research focuses on the challenges of constitutional rebuilding in the wake of democratic decline, populism, and crisis. He studies the use of gamification to educate, analyse, and experiment with democratic design and behaviour; the application of AI-driven tools to track and measure parliamentary discourse and statutory development; and the impact of polarisation on democratic resilience.