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Michael Karayanni

Michael Karayanni is an Arab-Israeli professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who served as dean of its Faculty of Law from 2016 to 2019.

born 1964Research in private international lawDean of Hebrew University law facultyPresident of ACRI

Occupation: legal scholar, jurist
Education: Bar-Ilan University, George Washington University Law School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Michael Karayanni was born in 1964 in Kafr Yasif

Karayanni was born in 1964 in Kafr Yasif, a village in the Western Galilee, to an Arab Greek-Orthodox family. His father, Dr. Mousa Karayanni, taught at the University of Haifa's Faculty of Education.

He began studying mathematics and economics but moved to law, earning an LL.B. from Bar-Ilan University in 1990. He joined the bar in 1991 and earned an LL.M. at George Washington University in 1994. He completed a doctorate at the Hebrew University in 2000 and a second one at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.

He joined the Hebrew University law faculty in 2001 and became a full professor in 2014. He holds the Bruce W. Wayne Chair in International Law and headed the Sacher Institute from 2008 to 2012. His research covers private international law, civil procedure and multiculturalism.

He has held visiting posts at Stanford, Georgetown, Chicago, Melbourne and other schools. He is president of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He is married to Inas, has 3 children and lives in Neve Shalom.