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Hanoch Dagan

Hanoch Dagan is an Israeli legal scholar and law professor at Tel Aviv University and the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on private law theory.

born 1963Private law theoryScholarship on property lawDean of Tel Aviv law faculty

Occupation: legal scholar, law professor, lawyer
Education: Yale University, Tel Aviv University, Yale Law School

Hanoch Dagan was born in 1963

Hanoch Dagan was born in 1963. He served in the IDF from 1981 to 1986 and left with the rank of lieutenant after classified roles in the Intelligence Corps.

He earned a law degree from Tel Aviv University in 1988 with highest honors and did his legal internship at the Herzog, Fox and Neeman law firm. He completed a master's degree at Yale University as a Fulbright fellow in 1991. His doctorate, also at Yale, dealt with the law of unjust enrichment from a philosophical view.

In 1993 he joined the Tel Aviv University law faculty as a lecturer and became a full professor in 2004. He was dean of the faculty from 2006 to 2011 and was a visiting professor at universities including Columbia, Yale and Cornell. His work covers property law, unjust enrichment, legal theory and private law theory.

He founded and directed the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies and later headed the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics from 2017 to 2022. In 2023 he joined the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Center for Private Law Theory. He is married to Tsili Dagan, also a law professor.