Current Projects:
I am working on a book for Routledge, examining the role of legal framing and narrative during the last ten years of the British Mandate for Palestine (1939-1948).
Selected Publications:
Author, Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Trials of Palestine (Routledge, 2020)
Author, Victim-as-Defendant, Defendant-as-Victim: Role Reversal Defenses and Departures at Sentencing, 7 Fed. Sent. R. 190 (1995)
Author, Don’t Junk the Guidelines, At Least for Now, 5 Fed. Sent. R. 232 (1995)
Author, Certain Uncertainty: Appellate Review and the Sentencing Guidelines, 66 S. Cal. L. Rev. 621 (1992)
Author, Relevant Conduct and Plea Bargaining, 4 Fed. Sent. R. 223 (1992)
Co-Author, Comparative Fault and Intentional Torts: Doctrinal Barriers and Policy Considerations, 24 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1 (1984), reprinted in 34 Defense L. Journal 383 (1985)
Co-Author, Models of Israeli Social Analysis, 58 Journal of Jewish Communal Service 24 (1981)
Co-Author, Antecedents of Jewish Ethnic Relations in Israel, 42/43 Forum 15 (1981), reprinted in Spanish, 6 Rumbos 61 (1982)
Courses Taught:
History 142AL – US Constitutional History
History 108LT – History of Advanced Technology
History 166LB – American Legal History
Honors and Professional Activities:
Senior Fellow, UCLA Center for Middle East Development
Lecturer, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and UCLA Global Studies Program
Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University Law School
Member, American Law Institute
Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Honorary Trustee, Mexican-American Bar Association
In the Media:
June 2020 –Diaries Reveal Overwhelmed British Officials in Palestine Wanted to Go Home
June 2020 – How to Cancel Annexation? Make a Win-Win Deal That’s Better
January 2020 – Uncovered, Polish Jews’ pre-Holocaust plea to Chamberlain: Let us into Palestine
January 2020 – Revealed: An Arab Prince’s Secret to Sell the Western Wall to the Jews
April 2019 – The Dan Abrams Podcast with Steve Zipperstein on Sirius XM
April 2017 – “Is America in a Cold Civil War?” on KJZZ 91.5