Scholar-in-Residence

Yair Lorberbaum is a Professor at Bar-Ilan University, specializing in Jewish law, Jewish thought, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He has also been a member of the Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem since 1991. Dr. Lorberbaum has been a visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, and Cardozo, and wasa research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is visiting Cardozo in Fall 2007, where he is leading the Graduate Fellows Forum on Interdisciplinary Research and conduct research for CJLCC’s book series The Jewish Legal Tradition.

Daniel Statman, a senior member of the Department of Philosophy at Haifa University, specializes in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of law, and Jewish philosophy. He has numerous publications in English and Hebrew and has lectured at universities in Europe, North America, and Israel. Professor Statman will join Cardozo in Fall 2007 as University Scholar-in-Residence.

Arye Edrei, Professor at Tel Aviv University Law School, teaches courses on Jewish law, law and ideology, and the legal profession. He was a Harry Starr Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University and a Golda Meir Fellow at Hebrew University. He earned his LL.B., LL.M., and Dr. Jur. at Hebrew University, where for three years hewas on the Rector’s List for Excellence in Lecturing. During the Spring 2008 semester at Cardozo, he will teach “Halakhah and Zionism: Law and Ideology.” Dr. Edrei has published numerous articles on Jewish law, including “Law, Interpretation, and Ideology: The Renewal of the Jewish Laws of War in the State of Israel,” Cardozo Law Review; “Spirit and Power: Rabbi Shlomo Goren and the Military Ethic of the Israel Defense Force," Theoretical Inquires in Law; and "Command or Error: On the Duty to Obey in Halakhic Thought," Tel Aviv University Law Review. He is also co-editor of Diné Israel, a journal of Jewish law, published by Tel Aviv University.

The Ivan Meyer Visiting Scholar in Comparative Jewish Law was established at Cardozo in 2004 to honor Dr. Meyer, a lawyer and generous supporter of Jewish education.

Fellows of Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Stuides

Azzan Yadin, Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, specializes in early rabbinic legal interpretation with a special emphasis on the relationship between Midrash and non-interpretive legal traditions in early rabbinic literature. He is the author of Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael’s Midrash (University of Pennsylvania, 2004). Professor Yadin received his B.A. in Philosophy and Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his Ph.D. in Rabbinic Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. He will join Cardozo for the 2007–08 academic year.

David Flatto served as the inaugural Fellow of Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies in 2006–2007. David received a J.D. from Columbia University Law School, as well as ordination from RIETS, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Rabbinics at Harvard University. His dissertation focuses on separation of powers in rabbinic literature.