Dr. Ori Lev is a senior lecturer in the Public Policy and Administration Department and the Dean of Academic Affairs. Ori’s research interests are at the intersection of political theory, public policy and bioethics.
Ori’s research interests are at the intersection of political theory, public policy and bioethics. His work focuses on ethical issues pertaining to informed consent, biomedical enhancements, the scope of reproductive rights, the dual use research challenge and on the question of whether the state should fund the arts.
Ori’s work has been published in journals such as Bioethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Public health Ethics and the American Journal for Bioethics.
“Science in the Risk Society: Policy of Biological Research in Israel through the Lens of its Entailed Dangers to the Public”, Program for Developing Scientific and Technological Infrastructure, The Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (400k N.I. shekels) (With Dr. Limor Darash, Hebrew University, Prof. Bracha Rager, BenGurion University)
Lev, O., Keren, A., Two Kinds of Ignorance and Their Implications for Informed Consent, The American Journal of Bioethics (2025). Forthcoming
Lahat, L., Sharony, C., Abraham, V., Lev, O., Avigur-Eshel, A., The Effect of Values, Institutional Trust, and Risk Perceptions on Support for Policy Tools in the Area of Immunisation against Covid-19: A Comparative Study, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (2024). Published online 12/12/2024: https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2024.2424571
Lev, O., Keren, A. Addressing the risks of dual use research: who is responsible? Research Ethics (2024). Published online 31/7/2024: https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161241268685
Keren, A., Lev, O. The Patient’s Rights Law, Informed Consent, and the Knowledge Requirement: A Critical Review. Forthcoming in Mishpat UMimshal (2023) (V- Hebrew).
Keren, A., Lev, O. Informed Consent, Error and Suspending Ignorance: Providing Knowledge or Preventing Error? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 25/2 (2022). Published online 26/2/2022: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-022-10277-w
Keren, A., Lev, O. Uncertainty, error and informed consent to challenge trials of COVID-19 vaccines: response to Steel et al, Journal of Medical Ethics (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106793
Lev, O. Regulating dual-use research: Lessons from Israel and the United States, Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity 1/2 (2019): 80-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobb.2019.06.001
Lev, O. Biomedical Cognitive Enhancements: Coercion, Competition and Inducements, Law and Ethics of Human Rights (Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2015).
Lev, O., Rager, B. Protecting Public Health at the Age of Emerging Infections, Israel Medical Association Journal 16/11 (2014): 677-682
Lev, O., Darash, L., Biosecurity Policy in the US: A Critical Assessment, Frontiers in Public Health 2:110 (2014). doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00110
Lev, O., Wilfond, B., McBride, C. Enhancing Children against Unhealthy Behaviors – an Ethical and Policy Assessment of Using a Nicotine Vaccine, Public Health Ethics 6/2 (2013): 197-206.
Lev, O. Enhancing the Capacity for Moral Agency, The American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 3/4 (2012): 20-22.
Lev, O. Ethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancements, Salute e Società (“Health and Society”), 2, (2012).
Lev, O., Keren, A. The Right to Parenthood and Advanced Reproductive Technologies in a Jewish and Democratic State: The Case of the Ova Donation Law. Journal of Health Law and Bioethics [Heb] 4 (2011): 37-79.
Lev, O. Will Biomedical Enhancements Undermine Solidarity, Responsibility, Equality and Autonomy? Bioethics 25/4 (2011): 177-184.
Lev, O., Miller, FG., and Emanuel, EJ. The Ethics of Research on Enhancement Interventions. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 20/2 (2010): 101-113.
Lev, O. Should Children Have Equal Access to Neuroenhancements? The American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1/1 (2010): 21-23.
Lev, O. Assessing the Importance of Maintaining Soldiers' Moral Responsibility—Possible Trade-Offs, The American Journal of Bioethics, 8/2 (2008): 44-45.
Lev, O. Moral Issues in the Distribution of Organs for Transplantation, Israel Law Review, 38/3 (2005): 170-184.
Monograph
Why a Liberal State Should Fund the Arts – A Normative Justification, Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy, University of Tel-Aviv (2006).
Book Chapters
Samimian-Darash, L., Lev, O. Biosecurity in the life sciences. In The Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species. (Routledge, 2021)
Lev, O., Keren, A. The Israeli Ova Donation Law – an Ethical Assessment. In Siegal G. (ed.). Bioethics Blue and White. (The Bialik Institute Publishing House, 2015).
Scientific reports
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
Lev, O., Keren, A., The danger of paper mills and predatory journals, Gahlilit, https://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/column/firefly (online 8/2021).
Lev, O., Davis D. Dual Use Research and the Societal Responsibility of Researchers, Newsletter of the Office of Research Integrity 19/2 (2011): 1.
2019 The Legacy of G. A. Cohen: Ten Years On, International Workshop, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Comments on Igor Shoikhedbrod, University of Toronto,
"Market Socialism and the Normative Relevance of Adaptive Preference
Formation”
2016 Human Enhancement and the Law Conference, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, UK.
‘Biomedical Enhancements: would it be permissible to coerce, require or induce
persons to use them?’
2016 Commentator, Human Rights and the Rights of Non-humans International Researchers’ Workshop, Academic Center
of Law & Business, Israel
2015 Moderator, Society of Applied Philosophy
Annual Conference, Edinburgh.
2015 Science in the Risk Society International Conference, Jerusalem. ‘Scientists, the State and
the Regulation of Dual Use Research.’
2015 Oxford-Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, Zafat. ‘Assisted Reproductive
Technologies and Parenting Rights in A Jewish Democratic State: The Case of the
Ova Donation Low.’
2015 10th World UNESCO Bioethics, Medical Ethics
& Health Law Conference, Jerusalem. ‘Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Parenting
Rights in A Jewish Democratic State: The Case of the Ova Donation Law’.
2014 International Conference on Cognitive Enhancement, Delft University
of Technology, Netherlands. ‘Cognitive Enhancements: Coercion, Competition and
Inducements’.
2014 Bioethics and Human Enhancement Workshop, University of
Granada, Spain. ‘Cognitive Enhancements: Coercion, Competition and
Inducements’.
2014 Israel Political Science Association Annual Conference, Ben Gurion
University, Israel. ‘Biosecurity Policy in the US: A Critical Assessment’
2014 3rd International Conference on Healthcare System Preparedness and
Response to Emergencies and Disasters, Tel Aviv,
Israel, ‘Dual Use Research and its challenges’.
2014 The Human Mind and Human Rights Conference, Academic Center
of Law & Business, Israel, ‘Cognitive Enhancements: Coercion, Competition
and Inducements’.
2012 Council of Science Editors Annual Conference, ‘Communicating
Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern’.
2009 The
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annul Meeting, ‘Will Biomedical Enhancements Undermine
Solidarity and Personal Responsibility’.
2008 Just
Health: Current Debates Conference, Harvard Program in Ethics and Health,
‘Biomedical Enhancements and Equality of Opportunity’ response to Shlomi
Segall’s ‘Just Health: Between Fair Opportunity and Opportunity for Welfare’.
2008 The
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annul Meeting, moderator,
‘Building Better Humans: Ethical Issues in Enhancement Research’.
2008 Equality
- International Conference, Law and Philosophy Forum, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, ‘Is Reasonable Avoid-ability Plausible?’ response to Shlomi Segall’s
‘Equality, Desert and Reasonable Avoid-ability’,.
2006 New
England Political Science Association Annual Conference, ‘Liberal
Perfectionism: should the arts be promoted?’.
2004 New
England Political Science Association Annual Conference, ‘The Arts and Fostering
Liberal Dispositions’.
2002 Sociology,
Politics and Philosophy Conference, New York University: ‘The Arts and Fostering
Liberal Dispositions’.