Prof. Baruch Bracha

Baruch Bracha was a full professor at the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and Haifa University.

In 1971 he received a bachelor’s degree in law (with distinction) at Tel Aviv University. In 1972 he was accepted as a member of the Israel Bar Association. In the years 1971-1974 he studied in the direct track for a doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he continued his studies in this track at Tel Aviv University, in 1977 he received a doctorate, for work under the guidance of Prof. Amnon Rubinstein. In the years 1972-1974 he was editor-in-chief of the legal journal “Legal Studies”. In 1976-1977 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Law School and received a Fulbright scholarship.

In 1977 he was appointed a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University. In 1981 he was promoted to the rank of senior lecturer, in 1986 he was appointed associate professor and in 2000 he was appointed full professor. At the same time, in the years 1979-1987 he was a visiting teacher at the Faculty of Law of Bar-Ilan University. He was also a visiting professor at several universities in the United States.

In the years 1992-1997 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa.

His main research areas were administrative law, constitutional law, human rights during emergencies and comparative administrative law. The first volume of his book, Administrative Law, earned him the Sussman Award for Law (1987), and the second volume earned him the Zeltner Award (1996). In 2000 he received the Rector’s award for an outstanding teacher at the Faculty of Law.

In the years 1980-1997, he was editor-in-chief of PD, the official publication of the judgments of the Supreme Court.

He was a member of several committees, including the committee to examine the structure of the courts in Israel and the committee to examine the opening of the courts to electronic communications, appointed by the Minister of Justice. In the years 1986-1997 he was a member of the Press Council. Until 1995 he was a member of the board of directors of the New Israel Fund. In 1992 he was placed 102nd on the Meretz list for the Thirteenth Knesset.