פרופ' רועי גילבר

Prof. Roy Gilbar- Curriculum Vitae

Contact Details           E- Mail: [email protected],           [email protected]

Areas of Interests:      Medical law, bioethics, sociological aspects of health care & medicine, tort law

Education

2000 – 2004     Ph.D., Faculty of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

The subject: Doctors’ and patients’ legal and ethical obligations to disclose genetic information to family members. Supervisors: Professors K. O’Donovan & P. Giliker.

1997 – 1999     LL.M., Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

1993 – 1997     LL.B., Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

 

Professional Experience  

1. Full-time appointments

2020- to date                Associate Professor, School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Israel.

2013- 2020                  Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Israel.

2011- 2013                  Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Leicester, UK.

2008- 2011                  Nuffield Foundation Research Fellow, Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

2004- 2008                  Lecturer, School of law, Netanya Academic College, Israel.

 

2. Other appointments

 

2024-               Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel. 

2024-               Visiting lecturer, School of Law, The Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel.

2018-2020       Visiting Lecturer, School of Law, College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel.

2015- 2016      Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel

2013- 2019      Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Leicester, UK.

2009- 2010      Visiting Lecturer, Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

2005 – 2006     Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

 

3. Teaching experience

Undergraduate courses

Tort Law (course convenor & examiner- 2004-2008; 2011- to date)

Medical Law & Bioethics (course convenor & examiner, 2002-08; 2014-18, 2021-2024)

Medical Law & The Family (course convenor & examiner, 2004-2008)

Introduction to Israeli Law (course convenor & examiner, 2005-2008)

Learning Legal Skills (course lecturer & examiner, 2011-2013)

Analysing Law (course convenor & examiner, 2011-2013)

Tort Law & Social Change (course convenor & examiner, 2014-2018)

The Road Traffic Accidents Compensation Act (course convenor & examiner, 2013-to date)

 

Postgraduate courses

Advanced Medical Negligence (course convenor & examiner, 2009-2010)

Medical Law & Bioethics (course convenor & examiner, 2005-2007, 2022- to date)

Health & Law (course co-convenor & examiner, 2006-2007)

Medical Law & The Family (course convenor & examiner, 2005-2007; 2015-2016)

Law & the Beginning of Life (course convenor & examiner, 2025- to date)

 

4. Supervision

Ph.D.

2021- to date    Mr. Ahmad Mahagna, "Judicial intervention in determining medical and functional disability in tort law claims" (with Prof. Sagit Mor, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa).

2015- to date    Mr. Yackov Cohen- “The right of the mental health patient to legal representation” (with Prof. Ariel Bendor, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel).

2012-2013       Mrs. Rita D'Alton-Harrison- “Surrogacy and borders controls” (with Dr. David Bartram, School of Law, University of Leicester, UK).

 

LL.M.

2020- 2021      Mr. Ahmad Mahagna, School of Law, Netanya Academic College. The dissertation: The medical evidence in claims under the Road Traffic Accidents Compensation Act 1976: Legal and insurance-based considerations. Graduated with distinction.

2018- to date    Mrs. Vered Kriheli, School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Israel. The dissertation: Legal, economic and system-based hurdles in applying the Dying Patient Act 2005.

2012-2013       Supervision of 2 students, School of Law, University of Leicester. The dissertations: Termination of Pregnancy: The legal status of the Human foetus in UK; Ownership and donation of reproductive materials under English law.

2010-2011       Supervision of 3 students, department of law, Queen Mary University of London, UK. The dissertations: limited resources in healthcare, children and refusal of medical treatment, legal and bioethical aspects of PGD for social and medical purposes.

 

5. Administration

2023- to date   Dean, School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel.

2021- 2023      Head, Research Authority, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel.

2021- 2023      Head, Teaching Authority, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel.

2021- to date   Head, Institutional research ethics committee, Netanya Academic College, Israel.

2020- to date    Member, Academic Council (Senate), Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel.

2018- 2021      Vice Dean, School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel.

2018- to date   Member, Postgraduate studies committee, School of Law, Netanya Academic College 

2016- 2021      Coordinator for academic conferences, School of Law, Netanya Academic College.

2016- to date   Member, Teaching committee, School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Israel.

2013- 2023      Member, Disciplinary Committee, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel.

2013                Director of Ph.D. Studies, School of Law, University of Leicester, UK.

 

Publications (Total Google Scholar citations: 700)

Books

 

Gilbar R., The status of the family in law and bioethics: The genetic context (Routledge, 2005), Google Scholar citations: 35.

Articles in refereed journals (*since the appointment as associate professor)

*1. Cohen Y., Gilbar R., Bendor A., From opt-in to opt-out: Legal representation in involuntary hospitalization in Israel and the US (2026) 29(1) The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (Forthcoming), (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: B).

 

*2. Shkedi-Rafid S., Raz A., Sabatello M., Prainsack B., Gilbar R., Should recipient parents have access to gamete donors' raw genomic data? Clinical, legal and ethical considerations (2025) 42(11) Journal of Assisted Reproduction & Genetics 3713-3721. SJR journal ranking: Q1.

 

*3. Gilbar R., Tamir R., Surplus embryo donation: Terminology and ethico-legal perspectives (2025) 12(2) Journal of Law & the Biosciences, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaf009, (SJR journal ranking: Q1).

 

*4. Gilbar R., Posthumous use of Sperm- Legal and bioethical reflections on Israeli policy (2024) 52(4) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 878-882, (SJR journal ranking: Q2).

 

*5. Cohen Y., Bendor A., Gilbar R., Cohen O., Khawaled R., Dienstag A., Lotan A., Bone O., The effect of legal representation on clinical measures in involuntarily admitted psychiatric patients: A retrospective study (2024) 13 Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 58-66, (SJR ranking: Q2).

*6. Katz O., Gilbar R., Kaplan A., Autonomy, paternalism and solidarity at the end of life in assisted-living homes in Israel: Legal, bioethical and sociological aspects (2024) 47(2) Tel-Aviv University Law Review 1- 62, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A) [עיוני משפט].

 

*7. Gilbar R., Pery L., An injured person who profits from his personal injury? Deducting pension payments from damages in personal injury claims (2024) Netanya Academic College Law Review, forthcoming), (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: B) [מאזני משפט].

 

*8. Tamir S., Gilbar R., Surplus embryos in IVF units in Israel: Patients' attitude towards various dispositions – a bioethical analysis of empirical findings (2023) 37(1) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, ebad 020,  https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebad020, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A).

 

*9. Karako-Eyal N., Gilbar R., Family involvement in the end-of-life decision-making process: Legal and bioethical analysis of empirical findings (2021) 29(3) Medical Law Review 497-523. (Impact Factor: 1.267), (SJR Ranking: Q1 in Law), (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A). Google Scholar citations: 1.

 

*10. Foster C., Gilbar R., Is there a new duty to warn family members in English Medical law? (2021) 29(2) Medical Law Review, 359-372. (Impact Factor: 1.7), (SJR Ranking: Q1 in Law), (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A). Google Scholar citations: 4.

 

*11. Gilbar R., Present absentees: On the status of family members in the decision-making process regarding competent adult patient (2021) 33 Bar-Ilan Law Studies 179 מחקרי משפט)), (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A).

 

12. Gilbar R., Karako-Eyal N., Withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment in the face of severely limited resources: Ethical and legal analysis of the law in Israel (2020) 20(3) Medical Law International 230-255. (SJR Ranking: Q2 in Law). Google Scholar citations: 3.

 

13. Gilbar R., Family involvement in the medical decision-making process of a mentally competent adult patient: Bioethical and legal aspects (2020) 13 Netanya Academic College Law Review 29 (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: B) [מאזני משפט].

 

14. Gilbar R., Barnoy S., Facing legal barriers regarding disclosure of genetic information to relatives (2020) 39(4) New Genetics & Society 483-501, (Impact factor: 1.8), (SJR ranking: Q1). Google Scholar citations: 5.

 

15. Gilbar R., Ram-Tiktin E., It takes a village to raise a child: Solidarity in the courts: Judicial justification of posthumous use of sperm by bereaved parents (2020) 28(2) Medical Law Review 317, (SJR ranking: Q1 in law), (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A). Google citations: 12.

 

16. Ram-Tiktin E., Gilbar R., Solidarity as a theoretical framework for posthumous assisted reproduction and the case of bereaved parents (2019) 22(2) Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 501-517 (SJR ranking: Q1 in Philosophy). Google Scholar citations: 9.

 

17. Gilbar R., Barnoy S., Disclosing genetic test results to the patient’s relatives: How does the law influence clinical practice? (2019) the University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy 125-167 (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: B).

 

18. Ram-Tiktin E., Gilbar R., Beck-Fruchter R., Ben-Ami I., Fridler S., Shalom-Paz E., Expanding the use of posthumous assisted reproduction technique: Should the deceased’s parents be allowed to use his sperm? (2018) 14(1) Clinical Ethics 18-25, (SJR ranking: Q2), Google Scholar citation: 14.

 

19. Gilbar R., Barnoy S., Companions or patients? The impact of family presence in genetic counselling for inherited breast cancer: Relational autonomy in practice (2018) 32(6) Bioethics 378-387, (SJR ranking: Q1). Google Scholar citations: 21.

 

20. Lucassen A., Gilbar R., Alerting relatives about heritable risks: the limits of confidentiality (2018) 361 British Medical Journal k1409, 1-4, (SJR ranking: Q1). Google Scholar citations: 37.

 

21. Karako-Eyal N., Gilbar R., Peled-Raz M., The Dying Patient Act 2005 ten years on: Law, ethics and medical practice, (2018) 41(1) Tel Aviv University Law Review 185-251 Google Scholar citations: 1, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A) עיוני משפט]].

 

22. 22. Lucassen A., Gilbar R., Disclosure of genetic information to relatives: Balancing confidentiality and relatives’ interests (2018) 55(4) Journal of Medical Genetics 285-286, (SJR ranking: Q1). Google Scholar citations: 11.

 

23. Gilbar R., Foster C., It’s arrived! Relational autonomy comes to court (2018) 26 (1) Medical Law Review 125-133, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A), (SJR ranking: Q1 in law). Google Scholar citations: 17.

 

24. Gilbar R., Karako-Eyal N., Making decisions on artificial ventilation at the end of life: Does law affect medical practice? (2017) 24(2) The Elder Law Journal 293-366. Published by the University of Illinois, USA. (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: B). Google Scholar citations: 3.

 

25. Gilbar R., Foster C., Doctors’ liability to the patient’s relatives in genetic medicine, (2016) 24(1) Medical Law Review 112-123. (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A), (SJR ranking: Q1 in law). Google citations: 16.

 

26. Gilbar R., The passive patient and disclosure of genetic information: Can English tort law protect the relatives’ right to know? (2016) 30(1) International Journal of Law, Policy & the Family 79-104, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A). Google Scholar citations: 6.

 

27. Gilbar R., Shalev S., Spiegel R., et al., Patients’ attitudes towards disclosure of genetic test results to family members: The impact of patients’ socio-demographic background and counseling experience (2016) 25(2) Journal of Genetic Counseling, 314-324, (SJR ranking: Q2). Google scholar: 13.

 

28. Gilbar R., Miola J., One size fits all? On patient autonomy, medical decision-making and the impact of culture (2015) 23(3) Medical Law Review 375-399, (SJR ranking: Q1 in law). (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A). Google citations: 88.

 

29. Gilbar R., Asset or Burden? Informed consent and the role of the family: Law and practice (2012) 32(4) Legal Studies 525-550. (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A). Google citations: 11.
30. Gilbar R., Medical confidentiality and communication with the patient’s relatives: Legal and practical perspectives (2012) 24(2) Child & Family Law Quarterly 199-222. (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: C), Google Scholar citations: 9.

 

31. Gilbar R., Barnoy S., Disclosure of genetic information to relatives in Israel: Between privacy and moral responsibility (2012) 31(4) New Genetics & Society, 391-407. (SJR ranking: Q1), Google Scholar citations: 11.

 

32. Gilbar R., Family involvement, independence and patient autonomy in practice (2011) 19(2) Medical Law Review 192-234. (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A), (SJR ranking: Q1 in law), Google citations: 82.

 

33. Gilbar R., The need for tough decisions in wrongful life and wrongful birth actions in Israeli Law (2010) 7 Netanya Academic College Law Review 442 (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: B), [מאזני משפט].

 

34. Gilbar R., Genetic testing of children for familial cancers: A comparative legal perspective on consent, communication of information and confidentiality (2010) 9(1) Familial Cancer 75-87, (SJR ranking: Q2), Google Scholar citations: 10.

 

35. Gilbar R., Between unconditional acceptance and responsibility: Should family ethics limit the scope of reproductive autonomy? (2009) 21(3) Child & Family Law Quarterly 309-335, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: C), Google Scholar citations: 8.

 

36. Gilbar R., Gilbar O., Medical decision-making process and the family: The case of breast cancer patients and their spouses (2009) 23 Bioethics 183-192, (SJR ranking: Q1 in Philosophy), Google citations: 85.

 

37. Gilbar R., Bar-Mor H., Justice, equality and solidarity: The limits of the right to health care in Israel (2008) 16 Medical Law Review 225-260. (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A), (SJR ranking: Q1 in law), Google Scholar citations: 17.

 

38. Gilbar R., The Doctor v. the Family: Tortious claims in medical misdiagnosis of child abuse (2007) 6 Reichman University Law Review 521, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: B) [משפט ועסקים].

 

39. Gilbar R., Patient autonomy and relatives' right to know genetic information (2007) 26(4) Medicine & Law: An International Journal 677-97 (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: C). Google Scholar citations: 12.

 

40. Gilbar R., Communicating genetic information in the family: The familial relationship as the forgotten factor (2007) 33(7) Journal of Medical Ethics 390-393, (SJR ranking: Q1 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects), Google Scholar citations: 85.

 

41. Gilbar R., All in the family? Medical confidentiality in the genetic information era- legal and ethical aspects (2006) 5 Netanya Academic College Law Review 357-402, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: B) מאזני משפט]].

 

42. Gilbar R., Medical confidentiality within the family: The doctor’s duty reconsidered (2004) 18(2) International Journal of Law, Policy & the Family 195-213, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A), Google Scholar citations: 19.

 

43. O’Donovan K., Gilbar R., The loved ones: Families, intimates and patient autonomy (2003) 23(2) Legal Studies 332-358, (The report of the Israeli ranking committee: A). Google Scholar citations: 26.

 

Chapter in refereed books

*44. Gilbar R., Proxy consent for the elderly: A relational autonomy perspective, in Miola J. and Austin L., Research Handbook on Medical Consent (forthcoming, Edward Elgar, 2025).

 

*45. Gilbar R., Disclosure of genetic information within families and beyond in Fovargue S., Purshouse C., (eds.), Leading Works in Health Law and Ethics (Routledge, 2023).

 

*46. Karako-Eyal N., Gilbar R., Beyond authority and governance in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic: A crumbling of solidarity and the rise of social inequalities, in Germain S., Yong A., (eds.), Beyond the Virus: Multidisciplinary and International perspectives on Inequalities Raised by COVID-19 (Bristol University Press, 2023, pp. 58-76).

 

47. Gilbar R., Withholding and withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment from young children in Israel in Goold I., Herring J., Auckland C. (eds). Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children (Hart, 2020).

 

48. Karako-Eyal N., Gilbar R., The end-of-life decision-making process in Israel: Bioethics, law and the practice of doctors, in Boas H., Hashiloni-Dolev Y., Davidovitch N., Filc D., Lavi S. (eds). Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 240-257. Google Scholar citations: 1.

 

Chapters in Books

49. Gilbar R., Karako-Eyal N., Peled-Raz M., Green Y., Perry S., Plivazky N., Gil E., The Dying Patient Act 2005: Legal and value-based analysis of doctors’ views and conduct, in Hazan H., Lavi S., Cohen-Mansfield, J (eds.), To die in Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad -Sifriat Poalim, 2020) [In Hebrew].

 

50. Gilbar R., Bar-Noy S., Communicating medical genetic information to family members: Initial results from a large multi-centre study in Israel, in Tabak N., Rubinstein D., (edn.) Ethics in Current Nursing (Probook publishing, 2013), 139-163 [In Hebrew].

 

Notes and commentaries

*51. Tamir S., Gilbar R., IVF embryo mix-up – Israel court determines parentage, (2024) Bio.News (2.12.2024), https://www.progress.org.uk/ivf-embryo-mix-up-israel-court-determines-parentage/.

 

*52. Gilbar R., Niv-Yegoda A., The Assuta mixed-up affair: Is it the end? 2023 Legal Talkbacks (The Tel Aviv University Law Review's actual writing project), 17.4.2023, https://www.taulawreview.sites.tau.ac.il/post/gilbar_nivyagoda2023 [in Hebrew].

 

*53. Niv-Yegoda A., Gilbar R., The fetus's mixed-up affair: Should the law give preference to the genetic linkage or to the physiological linkage (2022) Legal Talkbacks (The Tel Aviv University Law Review's actual writing project(, 24.10.2022, https://www.taulawreview.sites.tau.ac.il/post/nivyagoda_gilber [in Hebrew].

 

54. Gilbar R., Margalit Y., On family, medicine and the law between them, (2020) 13 Netanya Law Review 2-11, https://www.netanya.ac.il/law-school-journal/ [in Hebrew].

 

55. Gilbar R., Breathless: On Israeli District Court’s decision to allow doctors to switch off a terminal patient’s ventilator, The Law on the Net: Human Rights http://www.colman.ac.il/research/research_institute/katedra_HumanRights/Psika/Pages/default.aspx

(2015)[In Hebrew].

 

56. Gilbar R., The unbearable lightness of being: On Israeli Family Court’s refusal to accept a parents’ request to switch off their daughter’s ventilator, The Law on the Net: Human Rights http://www.colman.ac.il/research/research_institute/katedra_HumanRights/Psika/Pages/default.aspx (2014) [in Hebrew].

 

Under Review

57. Cohen Y., Gilbar R., The right to legal representation of hospitalized psychiatric patients in Israel: Empirical findings and their normative meaning (revised & resubmitted, 2025)

 

58. Mahajna A., Mor S., Gilbar R., Disability Determination According to the Road Accident Victims Compensation Act: A Normative and Empirical Examination (submitted, 2025).

 

59. Hildesheimer G., Gilbar R., The commissioner for prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace: Learning from the experience in academic institutions (submitted, 2025).

 

60. Gilbar R., Ram-Tiktin E., Tamir S., Parenthood determination in IVF embryo mix-up cases (submitted, 2025).

Work in progress

61. Gilbar R., Wrongful birth claims: Cultural background and informed consent.

Research Grants and prizes

2024                The International Center for health, law and ethics, University of Haifa, Israel.   Co-Chief Investigator with Mr. Yaacov Cohen. The research project: The status of the family and its involvement in the decision-making process regarding involuntary hospitalization of mental health patients their release. The sum: 7,500NIS.

 

2022                The Gender Law Forum, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel. Co-Chief Investigator with Dr. Galya Hildesheimer. The research project: the status of the commissioner for the prevention of sexual harassment in Israeli academia. The sum:  3,500NIS

 

2022                The IDF Widows and Orphans Organization, Research and prizes fund, Israel. The article: Gilbar R., Ram-Tiktin E., It takes a village to raise a child: Solidarity in the courts: Judicial justification of posthumous use of sperm by bereaved parents (2020) 28(2) Medical Law Review 317. The prize: 8,000NIS.

 

2020                The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel. Co-Chief Investigator with Dr. Siva Tamir. The project: Surplus pre-embryos in IVF clinics in Israel: Patients’ views regarding available dispositions. The sum: 25,000 NIS.

 

2018                The Center for Dignified Death, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Co-Chief Investigator with Dr. Nili Karako-Eyal. The project: The decision-making process for adult dying patients in geriatric hospitals: Law, ethics and practice. The sum: $15,000.

 

2014-2016       Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life, Tel-Aviv University. Chief Investigator with Dr. Nili Karako-Eyal. The project: The decision-making process for dying patients: Law, ethics and reality. The sum: 19,700 NIS.

 

2014-2015       Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, USA. Co-Chief Investigator with Prof. Sivia Barnoy. The research project: Family involvement in the medical decision-making process in genetics: The Clinicians’ View. The sum: $5,000.

 

2012-2013       The Academy of Medical Sciences, Daniel Turnberg Travel Fellowship, UK. Chief Investigator. The research project: Family involvement in the medical decision-making process in genetics: The Clinicians’ View. The sum: £3,500.

 

2008- 2011      The Nuffield Foundation, UK, New Career Development Fellowship. Chief Investigator. The research project: The status of the family in the medical decision-making process: Practice and Law. The sum: £179,709.

 2008-2010       Israel Cancer Association (ICA), Israel. Co-Principal Investigator with Prof. Sivia Barnoy. The research project: The case of non-disclosure of genetic information to family members: Practice, law, and ethics in Israel. The sum: 75,000 NIS.

2007-2008       International Society of Nurses in Genetics, USA. Co-Principal Investigator with Prof. Sivia Barnoy. The project: The case of non-disclosure of genetic information to family members: Practice, law, and ethics in Israel. The sum: $1,500.

 

Selected presentations in conferences since 2014

2024    Society of Legal Scholars, annual conference, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Paper: The commissioner for the prevention of sexual harassment: Learning from the experience in academic institutions (with Galya Hildesheimer).

2021    Beyond the Virus: Work-in-progress symposium, City University, London (via Zoom): Authority and Governance in Israel during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Crumbling of Solidarity and the Rise of Social Inequalities.

2019    Healthcare Disparities: Disruptive Healthcare Technologies and the Patient, Manchester, UK: Informed Consent Claims Against Doctors: Should Patients’ Religious Background Matter?

2018    13^th World Congress on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Health Law, Jerusalem, Israel. Paper: Informed consent claims against doctors: Should patients’ religious background matter?

2018    24^th World Congress on Medical Law and Bioethics, Tel-Aviv University. Paper: Companions or patients? The impact of family presence in genetic counselling for inherited breast cancer.

2018    European Society of Human Genetics, annual conference, Milan, Italy. Paper: Contacting genetic relatives: practical implications and ethico-legal issues for healthcare professionals.

2017    Society of Legal Scholars, annual conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Paper delivered: Disclosure of genetic information to family members: Is it possible to warn relatives about increased risks under English law?

2017    Global Health & Bioethics, International Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Paper delivered: Disclosure of genetic information to the patient’s relatives: Can bioethics and law help increase the low rates of genetic testing?

2017    The Forum for Social Policy Research in Israel, Annual conference, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University. Paper delivered: The Israeli Dying Patient Act 2005- Ten Years On.

2017    Israeli Law and Society Association, Annual Conference, School of Law, Netanya Academic College. Paper delivered: Making decisions about withholding and withdrawal of artificial ventilation in dying patients: Practice and law.

2016    Society of Legal Scholars, annual conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Poster delivered: The Israeli Dying Patient Act 2005: Practice, ethics and law.

2016    World Congress of Bioethics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Poster delivered: The passive patient and disclosure of genetic information.

2015    The Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life, Tel-Aviv University. Interdisciplinary Workshop on End of Life: The Dying Patient Act 2005: Practice, ethics and law

2015    Israeli Law and Society Association, University of Haifa, Israel. Paper delivered: The Medical decision-making process and the doctor-patient-family relationship: Culture, law and ethics.

2014    Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference (SLS), Nottingham, UK. Paper delivered: One Size Fits All? On Patient Autonomy, Medical Decision-Making and the Impact of Culture.

 

Refereeing

British Medical Journal (UK)

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (UK)

Bioethics (UK)

BMC Medical Ethics (UK)

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (USA)

Journal of Law and the Biosciences (USA)

Medical Law Review (UK)

Journal of Medical Ethics (UK)

Child and Family Law Quarterly (UK)

Medical Law International (UK)

Clinical Genetics (Canada)

Health Risk & Society (UK)

Palgrave Macmillan publishing, book proposals (UK)

The Hebrew University Law Review (Israel)

Bar-Ilan Law Review (Israel)

Bar Ilan University Press (Israel)

Haifa University Law Review (Israel)

The IDC Law Review (Israel)

Netanya Law Reivew (Israel)

The Academic Center for Law & Business Law Review (Israel)

The Israeli Bar Review (Israel)

Israel Science Foundation (ISF), grant proposals

 

Memberships

2014-   to date             Israeli Law and Society Association (ILSA)

2011-   to date              Society of Legal Scholars, UK (SLS)

2009-   to date              Socio-Legal Studies Association, UK (SLSA)

1998 – to date             The Israeli Bar Association

 

Selected academic roles and activities

2025                 Visiting Fellow, The Hastings Center for Bioethics, New York, USA.

2025                 Advisor, the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), The Arab Society Statistical Report, Israel.

2025- to date     Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Cambridge University Press, USA.

2025- to date     Member, Ministry of Health's committee on anonymous and identifiable sperm donation, Jerusalem, Israel.

2025- to date     Member, Ministry of Health's committee on genetic screening to all newborns, Jerusalem, Israel.

2021- to date     Co-Editor, Legal Enlightenment online journal (He’aara Mishpatit), School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Israel.

2020-to date     Research fellow, The International Centre for Health, Law & Ethics, University of Haifa, Israel.

2020-2023        Co-Convenor, Health Law section, Society of Legal Scholars, UK.

2020                 Guest Editor, Netanya Law Review, Volume 13:  Law, Medicine and the Family.

2019-to date      Member, National Committee for Human Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Israel.

2019                 Invited opinion, Ethics Advisory Committee, Genomics England. ABC v St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust: Analysis and Implications

2018- to date     Member, Helsinki ethics committee, Dorot Geriatric Medical Center, Netanya, Israel.

2017- 2020       Member, Institutional ethics committee, faculty of social welfare and health sciences, University of Haifa, Israel.

2016-2018        Member, The central committee for clinical trials in drugs, Ministry of Health, Israel.

2016- to date     Member & Secretary, The ethics committee, The Israeli Fertility Association (IFA), Israel.

2015- to date    Member, Ethics committee for experiments in animals, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

2015- 2018       Co-Founder & Co-Director, The Gen-ethics Forum, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

2013- to date     Member, The Dying Patient Act Institutional Ethics Committee, Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel.

2015- 2016       Academic supervisor, Israeli Bar Association’s center for continuing education program for lawyers, tort law section.

2014- 2017       Board Member, Steering Committee, The Annual Conference of Law & Society, The Association of Law & Society, Israel.

2014- 2017       Member, Bio-Israel: Bioethics and politics research group, The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

2014- 2015       Member, The disabilities studies research group, The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

2012- 2014       Advisory group member, the research project: consent and confidentiality in genetic medicine. Researchers: Prof. Anneke Lucassen, Dr. Angela Fenwick, Prof. Jonathan Montgomery & Dr. Ingrid Holme, University of Southampton, UK.

2011                 Member, workshops on Solidarity in Bioethics, The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK. For the report see: http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/solidarity-0.

2011                 Invited opinion, the Israeli’s Ministry of Justice committee on wrongful birth and wrongful life claims (headed by the retired Supreme Court Judge Eliahu Matza). For

the full report see: http://www.justice.gov.il/MOJHeb/News/VaadatMatza.htm.

2005 – 2010      Director, The department for genetics, law & ethics, The International Centre for Health, Law & Ethics, University of Haifa, Israel.

2009- to date     Examiner of LL.M. and Ph.D. dissertations in Queen Mary University of London (UK), University of Leicester (UK), University of Haifa (Israel), Bar-Ilan University (Israel), Ben-Gurion University (Israel), and College of Management- Academic Studies (Israel).