Prof. Yair Sagy

Yair Sagy is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, Israel. He specializes in legal history, public law, theories of regulation, the administration of courts, courts as organizations, and the regulation of prison labor. His major publications discuss, among others, the intellectual history of regulation in the United States, the history of the Israeli High Court of Justice, and organizational dimensions in the operation of courts. He received an LL.B. and a Master’s Degree in History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas from the Tel-Aviv University, and an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from New York University. He was a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU, a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School, and an Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Hebrew

• Yair Sagy, For the Administration of Justice: On the Establishment of the High Court of Justice, 28 Tel-Aviv U. L. Rev. 225 (2004).
• Yair Sagy, Supreme Authority: On the Establishment of the Supreme Court of Israel, 44 Mishpatim – The Hebrew U. L. Rev. 7 (2013).
• Yair Sagy, Orchestrating the Judiciary? Towards an Organizational Analysis of the Israeli Judiciary, 16 MishpatUMimshal – The Haifa U. L. Rev. 65 (2014).
• Nadia Tzimerman and Yair Sagy, This is Not the Way!: On the Sources of Section 33 of the Petroleum Act, 38 Tel-Aviv U. Law Review 51 (2015) .
• Orna Rabinovich-Einy, Eran Goren and Yair Sagy, Access to Justice in Class Action Settlements: Empirical Insights on the Attorney General’s Role. 8 Hukim 249 (2016).
• A Case That Made History: A Historiographical Inquiry Into The United Mizrahi Bank Case. 19 MishpatUMimshal – The Haifa U. Law Review 325 (2018).
• Guy Lurie, Amnon Reichman & Yair Sagy, The Fall and Rise of Judicial Administration: The Establishment of the Administration of Courts in 1952,169 Cathedra 143 (2018).
• Guy Lurie & Yair Sagy, I Do Solemnly Swear: Organizational-Theologian Inquiry Into Judges’ Oath of Office in Israel, Bar Ilan U. L. Rev. (forthcoming, 2020).

English

• Yair Sagy, A Triptych of Regulators: A New Perspective on the Administrative State, 44 Akron Law Review 425 (2011).
• Yair Sagy, The Legacy of Social Darwinism: From Railroads to the ‘Reinvention’ of Regulation, 11 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 481 (2013).
• Yair Sagy, A Better Defense of Big Waiver: From James Landis to Louis Jaffe, 98 Marquette Law Review697(2015).
• Yair Sagy, The Missing Link: Legal Historical Institutionalism & the Israeli High Court of Justice, 31 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 1 (2015).
• Yair Sagy, A New Look at Public Law Adjudication: A Critical Organizational Analysis & An Israeli Test Case, Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 65 (2015).
• Orna Rabinovich-Einy and Yair Sagy, Courts as Organizations: The Drive for Efficiency and the Regulation of Class Action Settlements, 4 Stan. J. Complex Litig. 1 ( 2016)
• Yair Sagy, Israel’s Unconstitutional Moment? New Historiography of Israel’s Founding Moment. In Founding Moments in Constitutionalism (Richard Albert & Menaka Guruswamy eds., 2019).
• Guy Lurie, Amnon Reichman, & Yair Sagy, Agencification and the Administration of Courts in Israel, Regulation & Governance (2019).
• Shlomi Balaban, Amnon Reichman & Yair Sagy, From a Panacea to a Panopticon: The Use and Misuse of Technology in the Regulation of Judges, 71(3) Hastings L. J. 589-636 (2020).

• LL.B. Tel-Aviv University School of Law (1996).
• M.A. (History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas), Tel-Aviv University School of History (2002).
• LL.M. NYU Law School (2002).
• J.S.D. NYU Law School (2007).