Pozen Visiting Professors

Michael Karayanni

Michael Karayanni is a legal scholar and the Bruce W. Wayne Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in private international law and inter-religious law, multiculturalism and civil procedure. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law and before that was the founding director of the Center of the Study of Multiculturalism and Diversity and the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights and the Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law. He has held visiting positions at Georgetown University Law Center, University of Melbourne Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School and the University of Chicago Law School, University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He also serves as a member of the executive editorial board of the American Journal of Comparative Law and was elected as an associate member of the Institut de Droit International as well as Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.