Prof. Richardo Ben-Oliel

Ricardo Ben-Oliel is a Full Professor of law (emeritus) at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law.

He was born in 1944 in Portugal, in the former colony Cape Verde, where his German descent mother found refuge during the Nazi period. He is a descendant of the rabbinical, aristocratic family Ben-Atar from his father’s side.

Ben-Oliel is a Classic University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (1966) graduate. He worked as a public prosecutor and later as a private lawyer during his first professional years.

Prof. Ricardo Ben-Oliel
Prof. Ricardo Ben-Oliel
In December 1973, he emigrated to Israel. After presenting his doctoral thesis on banking law in 1977, Prof. Ben-Oliel was invited to teach in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University Faculty of Law.

As a lecturer and a senior research fellow of the Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law in the same school, he became a pioneer in the research and teaching of banking law in Israel. He is the author of five legal books and dozens of articles published in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Israel, including one seminal treatise on Banking Law cited by hundreds of court decisions, including many Israeli Supreme Court ones.

In the preface of his treatise by the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Israel, Professor Aharon Barak, he refers to him as “the leading authority of banking law in Israel.”

•דיני בנקאות: חלק כללי (ירושלים 1996) 612 עמודים.
•דיני בנקאות :ערבות לטובת תאגיד בנקאי ומשכון של נכסים נדים וניירות ערך (תל-אביב 2002) 290 עמודים.
•פורסמו כ-50 מאמרים ועבודות מחקר (באנגלית, עברית, צרפתית ופורטוגזית).