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Amichai Magen
Degrees: BA; LLM; JSD
Dr. Amichai Magen is Director of the Institute for Democracy, Law and Diplomacy and an Associate Fellow at the Department of Government, Law and Diplomacy at the Shalem Center. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Between 2005 and 2009, Dr. Magen was a Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School, and was a Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Stanford University. In 2008 he was made a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2002 he received the Yitzhak Rabin Fulbright Award to pursue doctoral studies at Stanford University, which he completed in May 2008. Between 1999 and 2002 he served as a legal and policy adviser at the Ministry of Justice, Israel. Amichai Magen was admitted as a member of the Israel Bar Association in 2001. He is also a Member of the American Society of International law (ASIL); the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), and serves on the Advisory Boards of The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) and Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA).
Current Research
Jewish Republicanism; democratic quality and the rule-of-law in Israel; comparative political development; international law, international relations and the challenges of governance in areas of problematic sovereignty.
Bibliography
Books
Select Publications
“The Rule of Law and Its Promotion Abroad: Three Problems of Scope” Volume 45, Issue 1, Stanford Journal of International Law (2009)
"Land of the Clenched Fist: With Hamas in charge, Gaza will never escape its ideological prison", Hoover Digest (2009) No. 3
"Where Hard Power Meets Soft" Hoover Digest (2009) No. 1
“Evaluating External Influence on Democratic Development: Transition” Working Paper, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University (2009)
“The Globalization of Class Actions: The Case of Israel” Volume 622, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 244 (2009) (with Peretz Segal)
“Transformative Engagement Through Law: The Acquis Communautaire as an Instrument of European Union External Influence” Volume 9, Issue 3 The European Journal of Law Reform, 361 (2007)
“To Catch a Ballot Thief” Volume 9, Issue 1, International Studies Review 110 (2007) (Book Review)
“The Shadow of Enlargement: Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Achieve Compliance?” Volume 12, Issue 2, Columbia Journal of European Law 384 (2006)
“Building Democratic Peace in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Inevitably Ambitious Agenda” in The CSCE as a Model to Transform Western Relations with the Greater Middle East (Andreas Marchetti ed., 2004)
“Towards A Comprehensive Security Approach in the Middle East: Lessons from the European Experience in Justice and Home Affairs Cooperation” Research Paper, The Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel-Aviv University (2003) (with Shlomo Shpiro)
Courses Taught
The Law and Policy of the European Union, Stanford Law School
Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University |
