PROF. AMNON LEHAVI APPOINTED NEW PROVOST OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY

Prof. Amnon Lehavi was appointed by the Board of Directors as the new Provost of Reichman University, following a unanimous recommendation by the Higher Academic Committee and Search Committee, chaired by President Prof. Boaz Ganor. Prof. Lehavi, a two-time graduate of Yale University (LLM, 2000; JSD, 2003), started his tenure as Provost on October 1st, 2024, replacing Prof. Varda Liberman

Prof. Lehavi is the Atara Kaufman Professor of Law at the Harry Radzyner Law School and former Dean of the Law School (2016–2021). He also serves as Academic Director of the G City Real Estate Institute at Reichman University and was Co-president of the Law School’s Global League (2018–2021). He is the National Correspondent for Israel at UNIDROIT (The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) and has taught as a visiting professor at numerous universities abroad, including the University of Toronto, University of California, Berkeley, Tilburg University, and Luiss University.

Prof. Lehavi is a leading authority on property, real estate law, land use controls, international economic law, cultural property law & policy, and law and globalization. He is the author of Cultural Property: Law, Policy, Markets (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2025), Property Law in a Globalizing World (Cambridge UP, 2019) and The Construction of Property: Norms, Institutions, Challenges (Cambridge UP, 2013).

Prof. Ganor conveyed his congratulations: “Prof. Lehavi assumes the role of Provost in a highly challenging time, in which academia must deal with national security, economic, and domestic challenges in Israel, as well as with challenges posed by artificial intelligence and the dramatic changes it already brings to the labor market. Such challenges require us to quickly adjust our curriculum and instruction methods. Prof. Lehavi is the right person to successfully address these challenges.”