Michael Karayanni

Michael Karayanni is the Bruce W. Wayne Professor of International Law and 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 held visiting positions at Yale Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, University of Melbourne Law School, Stanford Law School, University of Chicago Law School, 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.

His publications include: “The Private International Law of Class Actions: A Functional Approach,” Recueil des Cours, Vol 422, pp. 17 - 247 (The Hague Academy of International Law, 2021); “A Multicultural Entrapment: Religion & State among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel,” (Cambridge University Press, 2021); “Conflicts in a Conflict: A Conflict of Laws Study on Israel and the Palestinian Territories,” (Oxford University Press, 2014).

He holds graduate degrees from the George Washington University (LL.M, 1994); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LL.D, 2000); and the University of Pennsylvania (S.J.D., 2003).