POSTPONED - The Future of the Rule of Law in Israel

POSTPONED - Due to the conflict in Iran, two of our speakers are unable to fly to the US for this event. We will update with the new date as soon as we have it.

In Israel, the relationship between law, religion, civil society, and state power is evolving. Join us for a timely conversation of lies ahead for constitutional governance and democratic resilience as our panel examines the legal, political, and cultural forces that are reshaping Israel's democratic foundations. 

Speakers:

Roy Peled: Roy Peled is a professor of Constitutional and Administrative law at the Haim Striks School of Law at the College of Management, and teaches Freedom of Expression at Tel-Aviv University. He formerly taught at Columbia and Berkely Law Schools as well as the Hebrew University. Roy heads the Media Lab at the Tel-Aviv University Center for Applied Research on Risks to Democracy and is a member of the Israeli Law Professors Forum for Democracy. He was the Chairperson of the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel where he still serves as a board member. 

Masua Sagiv: Masua Sagiv is a senior faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute and a senior fellow at the Helen Diller Institute at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. Masua's scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel, as a culture, religion, nationality, and as part of Israel's identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law, state actors, and civil society organizations in promoting social change across diverse issues: shared society, gender, religion and state, and Jewish peoplehood. Her book Radical Conservatism (Carmel, 2024) examines the use of law in the Halachic Feminist struggle in Israel. 

Avi Bell: Avi Bell is a Professor of Law at San Diego University Law School. Bell clerked for Justice Mishael Cheshin of the Supreme Court of Israel and for the High Court of Justice Department within the Israeli State Attorney’s office. He was a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut Law School and Fordham University Law School. He is a member of the faculty of law at Bar Ilan University. Professor Bell joined the USD School of Law faculty in 2009.

Moderator: Tarek Masoud, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School

This event is part of the Carr-Ryan Center 2026 Israel/Palestine Series.