Amos Israel-Vleeschouwer lives in Jerusalem, where he raises 4 children with his partner, is a senior lecturer at Sapir Academic College, School of Law and heads the Legal innovation Lab.
After learning at the Tel Aviv University interdisciplinary program for fostering excellence, he earned his M.A. in Social Psychology (2001) and LL.M (2008) and Ph.D. (2012) at the faculty of law, all at Tel Aviv University.
His areas of research are Jewish law (research methodology, its interactions with other legal systems), Jewish and international law, digital/computational legal studies, law and psychology, legal and academic pedagogy.
Amos volunteers at the public committee against torture in Israel (PCATI), and at the Rape crisis center.
Amos serves as the vice-chair of the Jewish law association and as deputy editor of the Journal of Law, Religion and State.
Amos is currently writing a book on "The Attitudes of Jewish Law Towards International Law 1907-1967". He conducts research on Jewish law and torture, economic analysis of norms in religious communities and academic teaching.
He is part of initiatives to promote computational legal studies in Israel, and in Jewish law.
He is the vice-chair of the Jewish law association and promotes research in Jewish law.
1. First International Legal Hackathon, Israeli Section – The Potential Social Impact Prize
of the Israeli Ministry Of Justice (with Eli Livshitz) - 2017.
2. Support for Publication in Jewish law - Bar Ilan law faculty - 2017-2019.
3. Rabbi Shaul Israeli award – best article in Jewish law – 2014.
4. Cegla award for best student article – 2011.
5. Rosen-Zvi award for supporting graduate studies – 2006-7.
Edited Book / Special Journal Issue
THE INTERACTION OF JEWISH AND OTHER LEGAL SYSTEMS (Jewish Law Association Studies XXV), co-editor Christine Hayes, Yale University (2014) [359 p.].
Articles in Refereed Journals
1. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “Ultra Orthodox Critique of Sovereignty, Individualism and the Concept of Human Rights: the Legal Thought of Rabbi Dr. Isaac Breuer” in 15 HAMISHPAT : COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT LAW JOURNAL 607-646 (2011). [Hebrew]. Awarded the 2011 Cegla Prize for best student article.
2. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “Jewish law in the Age of Globalization: Conceptual Impacts, Multi-player Interaction and Halachic Re-organization of the Jewish 'Community'” in 18 EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY 57-67 (2011) (republished in book (see below)).
3. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer & Dafna Bezalel-Horev, “The Redemption of Man, Israel and the world: Local Leadership and Transnational Legal views of Rabbi Chalfon Moshe HaCohen From Gerba”, 29 DINEI ISRAEL 217-259 (2013) [Hebrew].
4. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “Il privato e il pubblico nel diritto ebraico e nello spazio: il caso della recinzione simbolica (eruv) e della presenza pubblica (parhesia)” (english version: “The Private/public in Jewish law and Space: The case of symbolic fencing (Eruv) and public presence (Parhesia)”, in DAIMON. ANNUARIO DI DIRITTO COMPARATO DELLE RELLIGIONI (Bologna: Il Mulino) 2013.
5. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “A structural, dynamic and complex analyses of Interaction of Jewish and Other Legal Systems” in 25 JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION STUDIES 1-29 (2014).
6. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “Endangering Soldiers and Protecting Innocents in Battle: An Analysis of Jewish Legal Attitudes and a Process Oriented View”, 17 MISHPAT VEASAKIM (LAW AND BUSINESS) 605-662 (2014). (Awarded the Rabbi Shaul Israeli prize, 2014) [Hebrew].
7. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, "The Mandate System as a Messianic Alternative in the Ultra-Religious Jurisprudence of Rabbi Dr. Isaac Breuer", 49(3) ISRAEL LAW REVIEW 339–363 (2016).
8. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, "Introducing Jews' Laws through the Study of Genocide and Rape", 26 JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION STUDIES 70-108 (2016).
9. Tammar Arieli & Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, "Borders and Bordering in Jewish Geopolitical Space", GEOPOLITICS (2018) (20 pages).
10. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer & Tammar Arieli , "Interpretations of Borders in Jewish Law and Society", 31(3) MEHKAREI MISHPAT - BAR ILAN LAW REVIEW 749-786 (2018).
11. Yishai Ofran & Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, "Authority crisis in the era of information flood: A challenge shared by Rabbis and Physicians", JLAS 27/28 (forthcoming, 2019) (14 pages).
12. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, "From Political Hebraism and Jewish law to the Comparative Paradigm", 36 Touro Law Review 263-297 (2020).
Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (refereed)
12. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “When the World Changes: International Law in the (Philosophy of) Jewish Law”, Avinoam Roznak (ed.) NEW FRONTIERS IN PHILOSOPHY OF JEWISH LAW 151-186 (Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2011) [Hebrew].
(Republishing of 6 above): Jewish law in the Age of Globalization: Conceptual Impacts, Multi-player Interaction and Halachic Re-organization of the Jewish 'Community'” in: Sander Gilman and Cathy Gelbin (eds.), JEWISH CULTURE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (Routledge 2014).
13. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “Engaging Religious Laws, Players and Communities: Confronting Religious Dis-Empowerment”, Topidi Kyriaki & Lauren Fielder (eds.), RELIGION AS EMPOWERMENT: GLOBAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVES 149-181 (Routledge, 2016).
14. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, "Psikat Halacha (Jewish legal decision making) as a Cognitive Event" Avinoam Roznak (ed.), HALAKHA AS AN EVENT 96-133 (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Van Leer Institute, 2016) [Hebrew].
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “Engaging Religious Laws, Players and Communities” in 104 ASIL PROCEEDINGS 58-61 (2011).
Other Scientific Publications
1. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “Modesty and sinful thoughts: a critical discussion of male sexual fantasies and its regulation by religious Jewish law” in 3 TO BE A JEWISH WOMAN 213-230 (2005).
[Hebrew] refereed, semi-academic
2. Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer, “Jewish legal Plurality and Diversity – De Jure and De facto” 42 MISHLAV 1-40 (2010). (not refereed).
3. “Migrating from Home to Homes: Adapting to Complex Contexts and Changing to Healthier Modes of Communication” Tania Reytan-Marincheshka (ed.), MIGRATION, HOME AND COMMUNICATION: JEWISH TRADITION, CHANGE & GENDER IN A GLOBAL WORLD 16-40 (LIK Publishing, 2011) (not refereed).
4. "Jewish Communities coping with Sexual Violence: Stress Testing our Communities", Tania Reytan-Marincheshka (ed.), MIGRATION, HOME AND COMMUNICATION: JEWISH TRADITION, CHANGE & GENDER IN A GLOBAL WORLD 106-125 (LIK Publishing, 2011) (not refereed).
International Conferences.
1. When The World Changes: International Law in Jewish Law, 2nd Int. Conf.: Philosophy of Jewish Law, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel Jan. 2005.
2. International Law and Religion in the wake of World War II. 60 years since World War II, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2005.
3. Globalization and Halacha: Conceptual challenges, multi-player systems and re-organization of the Jewish community, Judaism in the age of Globalization, Manchester UK, July 2008.
4. Methodological notes researching coping with new phenomena in contemporary Jewish Law: The Case of International Law, Jerusalem Graduate student Methodological Workshop in Jewish Law Nov. 2008.
5. Engaging Religious Laws, Communities and Players, American Association of International Law (ASIL) Washington, DC., March 2010.
6. Jewish Legal Decision Making as a Cognitive Event, Israel 4th int. conf.: philosophy of Jewish Law, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Dec. 2010.
7. Rabbi Dr. Isaak Breuer, Lauterpacht and Beyond: Jewish/German Authorship and the History of International Law, Humboldt University, Berlin, September 2011.
8. Introduction to Jewish law and space: The Private/public in symbolic fencing (Eruv) and public presence (Parhesia), Religious Perspectives on the Public Sphere: Neutrality, Pluralism and the Secular, Tsuba, Israel, December, 2011.
9. A structural, dynamic and complex analyses of Interaction of Jewish and Other Legal Systems, Jewish Law Association International Conference, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 2012.
10. Potential Contributions of Religious Law to Comparative Legal History, European Society of Comparative Legal History, Free University, Amsterdam, July 2012.
11. Three early Jewish legal responses to International law: 1900-1940.” Annual conf. of the American society of Legal History, St Louis MO Nov. 2012.
12. Introducing the Law of Jews: Examples from Genocide and Rape, Jewish Law in Europe, Berlin 2013.
13. (Poster) Digital Jewish Legal Studies
Jewish Law Association, Antwerp, Belgium 2014.
14. Human Cognition as the Meeting Point Between Normativity and Pragmatism: Legal Complexities demonstrated in Jewish law, International Young Scholars In Law, Tel Aviv University. Nov. 2014.
15. Digital Tempo-Geo-Positioning of borders, events and research. Borders and Bordering in the middle east and Africa, Ben Gurion University December 2014.
16. The Mandate system as a Messianic Alternative in the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Dr. Isaac Breuer, The Past, Present, and Future of the Palestine Mandate in International Law. Hebrew U.. Jerusalem 2015.
17. Social Psychology and Jewish Law: Another Paradigm. Jewish Law, technology and science, JLA international conference, Tel Aviv University, July 2016.
18. "Preliminary Thoughts about Human Rights in the Post-Liberal Era", International workshop: Human Rights in the Post-liberal age Brandies University April 2017.
19. Invited Welcoming speech 20th Int. conference of the Jewish Law Association Moscow State University July 2018.
20. The need for Jewish law and its needs, 20th Int. conference of the Jewish Law Association, MSU, Russia July 2018.
21. The Israeli Contribution to International Law Jewish Contributions to International Law Nuremberg, Germany July 2018
22. Jewish Perspectives on Torture: Pain, Authority and God. Jean Amery and Torture, Tel Hai Academic College Sep. 2018.
23. The right to have property in Jewish law Tzuba conference for Jewish law Tzuba Sep. 2018.
Israeli Conferences
1. With Adi Koll and Nourit Zimmerman, Democratization of Knowledge as a Way to Empower Individuals and Communities: The Case of Street Law. Hebrew U. Jerusalem, 2003.
2. Jewish Law and the Jewish Community in Multiplayer Interaction and its Influences on Jewish Legal Attitudes towards Jewish Law, Israeli Law and Society Association, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Dec. 2008.
3. The Decision Taker, Jewish Law and the World: An Analysis Based on Jewish Rulings Regarding International Law, Rabin Young Scholars Workshop in Political science, Hebrew U.,Jerusalem Dec. 2008.
4. A Jewish Ultra-Religious Critique of Nationalism, Individualism and Rights-Based Regimes: The Alternative Model and Thought of Yitzhak Breuer, Israeli Law and Society Association, Tel Aviv University, Dec. 2009.
5. Three early Jewish legal responses to International law: Concepts and principles, Israeli Society of Law and History, Hebrew U. Jerusalem 24 Oct. 2011.
6. Religious law in the web of civil society: Communal law that internalizes its costs, Israeli Law and Society Association, Bar Ilan University 2011.
7. Teaching Jewish Law: preliminary results from national survey, Ramat Gan Academic College Jan. 2015.
8. With Shai-Li Ziv Lidror & Ben Shimol The impacts of Clinical legal Education, Israeli Law and Society Conference, Haifa University Nov. 2015.
9. The Idea of the Mandate: some New reflections. Dr. Rabbi Isaac Breuer: 70 years Bar Ilan University, 2016.
10. The right to Property Hebrew U., TAU & BIU Zuba conference on Jewish and Israeli law Sep. 2018.
Organization of Conferences or Sessions
1. Academic committee Teaching Jewish Law Ramat Gan Academic College Teaching Jewish Law Jan. 2015.
2. Organizing team - Religion and Equality, international conference, Bar Ilan University, June 2015.
3. Co-organizer. Academic committee. Jewish Law Association Tel Aviv University Jewish Law and Technology July 2016.
4. Organizing team – Rule of Law – Religious Perspectives. International Conference November, 2016.
5. Organizer IDC, Herzeliya The Future of Jewish Law: in Memory Of Prof. Aaron Kirschenbaum 2017.
6. Organizing team – member Journal of Law Religion and State Bar Ilan University Religious Extremism and violence May 2018.
7. Co-organizer. Academic committee. Jewish Law Association Moscow State University 100 Years of Jewish Law July 2018.