Avital Margalit is a senior lecturer at the School of Law, Sapir College. She is a graduate of Tel Aviv University in Law (LL.B.) and in Sociology &
Psychology (B.A.), and a graduate of Boalt Hall School of law, University of
California at Berkeley (LL.M., J.S.D.). Her teaching and research focuses on social and cultural aspects of property relationships (e.g. housing, urban renewal, cultural property and commons), sports law, and on the legal history of the Kibbutz. She is the academic supervisor of the Sapir law school's public housing legal aid clinic. She is one of the founders and a board member of the Israeli Association for Distributive Justice.
Current Research Projects:
1. Criminals and Consumers: The Legal Construction of Football Fans
2. Owners of Sports Clubs: Regulating Identity and Regulating Behavior.
3. Between Family and Markets: The Legal Order of Family Businesses
4. Urban Renewal and Property Relations
5. Migration and Housing between Inclusion and Exclusion
6. Sport and Commodification
Research Grant, The Raya Strauss Family Business Research center, 2015.
Kibbutz Research Award for the year 2013.
Fellowship, The Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization, NYU (2009-2010)
2008 Best Article Award, Cegla Center, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Research grant, Lavon Institute for Labour Movement Research
Research grant, Cegla Center, Tel Aviv University
The Samuel Award – Israeli Bar (for academic achievements and contribution to society)
A. Law Reviews
In Hebrew
1. Community and/or Corporation? State Law and the Transition to the Renewed Kibbutz, BAR ILAN LAW STUDIES (2016).
2. Inheritance and Land in the Moshav: Past Ideals and Current Law, 1 WEALTH MANAGEMENT LAW REVIEW 79- 104 (2014).
3. (with Tsilly Dagan) Taxes and Communities: Taxing the Kibbutz, 36 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 461- 508 (2013).
4. The Kibbutz and State Law: The Construction of Legal Estrangement, 5 HAIFA LAW REVIEW 265-305 (2010).
5. The Kibbutzim Constitution: Political and Social Struggles, 25 BAR ILAN LAW STUDIES 143- 178 (2009).
6. The Law of Cohabitation from a Law & Society Perspective, 23 BAR ILAN LAW STUDIES, 903 – 925 (2007).
7. Law, Organization and Corporate Structure in the Workers’ Society, 26 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 451 – 510 (2002).
In English
8. (with Tsilly Dagan) Tax, State and Utopia, 33 VIRGINIA TAX REVIEW 549-578 (2014).
9. You’ll Never Walk Alone: On Property, Community and Football Fans, 10 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 217 – 240 (2009).
10. (with Nadav Davidovitch), Public Health, Racial Tensions, and Body Politics: Mass Ringworm Irradiation in Israel 1949 – 1960, 36 JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE AND ETHICS 522-529 (2008).
11. The Value of Home Ownership, 7 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 467 – 491 (2006).
B. Book Chapters
In Hebrew
12. The Cooperative Challenge to Israeli Law, in THE BOOK OF COOPERATIVES (Menachem Tofel et al, eds.)(to be published in 2019).
13. (with Nadav Davidovitch), State's Coping with its Traumatic Past, in TRAUMA: PERSPECTIVES ON IDENTITY, MEMORY AND REPRESENTATION (Michal Alberstein et al, eds.) 211-262 (2016).
14. (with Michal Alberstein), Reconciliation in the Courtroom: On the Power and Limitations of Apology, in TOWARDS SOCIAL SOLIDARITY (Yedidia Stern, ed) 402-436 (2014).
In English
15. Commons and Legality, in COMMUNITY AND PROPERTY 141 -163 (Gregory S. Alexander and Eduardo M. Peñalver, eds.)(Oxford University Press)(2010).
16. (with Nadav Davidovitch), Public Health, Law and Traumatic Collective Experiences: The Case of Ringworm Mass Irradiation in Israel, in TRAUMA AND MEMORY: READING HEALING AND MAKING LAW 119 – 167 (Austin Sarat et al, eds)(Stanford University Press )(2007).
1. "Lex Sportiva Property Law", EU and Sport, Edge Hill University UK, July 2018.
2. "Check In v. Check Out: Communities and their Members' Property", Communities and the Law, Bar Ilan U., June 2108.
3. "Localism: Inclusion v. Exclusion (with Shai Stern), Association on Planning Law and Property Rights, U. Novi Sad Serbia, February 2018.
4. "Private Ownership in Sports Clubs: In Whom we trust?", Association for Law, Property and society, Queen's U. Belfast, May 2016.
5. "Urban Renewal and the Properties of Property Rights" (with Shai Stern), Association on Planning Law and Property Rights, U. of Bern Switzerland, February 2016.
6. "Kibbutz and State Law: Social Change and Decision Making", European Association for Israel Studies, Sardinia September 2015.
7. "Social Change and the incorporated Commons", Association for Law, Property and society, U. Of Georgia May 2015.
8. "Teaching Law & Society Scholarship of Property", Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis May 2014.
9. "Open Membership but not for Everyone: The Case of the Moshav Olim", European Association for Israel Studies, SOAS London, September 2013.
10. "Co-operative Societies in Mandate Palestine: legal and Cultural Transplantation", Law, Spaces, Cultures & Empire, National University, Singapore, 2012.
(Same), Annual Meeting, American Society for Law and History, St. Louis, November 2012.
11. "Labor Movement Co-operatives in Mandatory Palestine: Legal Transplants and Cultural Implants" Firm Governance: Law in History (2010)(Tel Aviv University)
12. "Privatizing the Kibbutz Communal Housing: The Changing Meaning of Home" , Association of Law, Property and Society (2010) (Georgetown Law Center, Washington DC )
(Same), Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, (2009)
13. "Football Fans and their Club: On Property as Belonging", Community and Property (2008)(Tel Aviv University)
14. "Kibbutz and State Law", Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal (2008).
15. "Commons and Legality", Techniques of Property, London School of Economics (2007)
16. "Repertoire of Domination: The Case of the Moshav Olim", Israel Studies Association Annual Meeting, Banf Canada (2006).
17. "Subsidizing the Unaffordable: State Subsidies and Mortgage Foreclosure", Bankruptcy in the 21st Century (2005)(Tel Aviv University)
18. "Communal Identity, Private Property: State Law and the Privatization of Housing in the Kibbutz", International Conference on Property Law, (2005) (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
19. "Injurious Medicine, Injurious Remedy: Public Health, Law and Ringworm Mass Irradiation in Israel (with Nadav Davidovitz) Trauma and Memory, Bar Ilan University 2003.
Presented also at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago (2004)