Education - academic degrees

PhD in History, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. Distinction: "très honorable avec félicitations du jury" ("Summa cum Laude"), 1994.
DEA (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 1991.
Master of Arts Summa cum Laude in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1990.
Degree in Law (B.A. LLB) graduated with Honors, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1987.
International Baccalaureate, Lester B. Pearson College, a United World College, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 1983.

Employment

Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese History, and Radcliff Alumnae Professor, Department of History and Affiliated Faculty Member, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, 2013-Present.
Professor, Department of History, Stanford University, 2005-2013.
Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago, 1997-2005.
Profesor asociado, Department of History of Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 1995-1997.
Visiting professor, Department of History, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1995.
Visiting professor, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1995.
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 1992-1994.
Legal training (articles) and Bar examination, 1987-1989. Presently a member of the Israeli bar. Practice as an attorney (Israel), 1990.
Assistant Lecturer of Prof. A.M. Rabello, director of the Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1986-1987.
Research Assistant of Prof. S. Shitreet, professor of Administrative Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1984-1986.

Scholarships and awards

Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012-2013.
Invited scholar, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, 2010.
Invited professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2004 and 2006.
XIV International Prize of  Spanish American Legal History Ricardo Levene, corresponding to the period 2000-2 for the book Ritos de control, prácticas de negociación, 2003.
Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities, 2000 and 2003.
Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2000-2001.
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., USA, 1996-1997.
Visiting Scholar, Center of Latin American Studies and Wolfson College, Cambridge University, UK, 1996.
Post-doctorate fellowship, Yad Hanadiv, Israel, 1995-1997.
"Temporary stay for foreign scholars in Spain," The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, 1992-1994.
Research Scholarship - Department of Education and Science, Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain, 1992.
Scholarship of the "Casa de Velázquez" (Madrid), sponsored by the French Ministry of Education, 1992.
Different scholarships and awards, Hebrew university, Jerusalem, Israel, 1986 and 1988-1990.
Full scholarship, Lester B. Pearson College, a United World College, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 1981-1983.

Collaborative Research Projects and Professional Expert Work

External Advisor, PhD Program “History, Change, and Continuity in Global World,” a collaborative project of the University of Lisbon (Institute of Social Sciences and Faculty of Letters), ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, the Portuguese Catholic University, and the University of Évora, Portugal.
External Expert, Evaluation of Research Quality, National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes, Italy, 2012.
External Expert, Excellence-Initiative/ Institutional Strategies, German Council of Science and Humanities, 2011-2012.
External Expert, Synergy Grants, European Research Council, Brussels, 2011-12.
Panel Member, Advanced Grants, European Research Council, Brussels, 2011-2017.
Consultant, International Project “The Government of Difference. Political
Imagination in the Portuguese Empire,” funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, 2010-2013.
Membre associé, “Américanisation e américanité : dynamiques spatio-temporelles et enjeux multiculturels, ” an international research project based in France.
Member, Spanish Research Project “Las Fronteras del imperio español (1659-1812),” Coordinated by prof. Miguel-Ángel Mellón, of the Universidad de Extremadura (Cáceres), 2010- 2015.
Correspondent, “La Vie des Idées,” a joint-venture of “ La République des Idées” and Collège de France directed by Professor Pierre Rosanvallon, Paris, 2010- present.
Member, Scientific Council, “Revista de Filosofía,” Madrid, Spain, 2011-present.
Member, Editorial Board, “Pasaje América,” a book series dedicated to Latin America, Ediciones Polifemo, 2011- present. 
Member, Scientific International Committee, “Revista de Historia del Derecho,” Buenos Aires, Argentina 2009-present. 
Member, editorial board of the “Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,” 2009-present.
Member, Scientific Council of the journal “Nouveau Monde, Mondes Nouveaux/ Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos,” Paris, France, 2008-present.
Member, editorial board (consejo de redacción), “Studia Historica. Historia Moderna,” 2008-present. 
Redactor-corresponsal of E-Legal History Review (e-LHR), 2005-present.
Co-Director (together with José Javier Ruíz Ibáñez of the Universidad de Murcia, Spain, Pedro Cardim of the Universidade Nova/ Lisbon, Portugal, and Gaetano Sabatini of the Università da Roma III, Italy) of Columnaria, an international research network centered on the Spanish Monarchy with members from various European countries, the USA, Latin America, Asia, and Canada, 2004-present.
Researcher in the international project “Instituciones y justicia: administrar el lazo colonial,” coordinated by Jacques Poloni-Simard, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, with colleagues from France, Ecuador, Mexico and the USA, 2003-present.
Member, Editorial Board, The Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History, 2005-present.
Organizer, “Spain and Portugal: One Kingdom, Two Empires?,” an International Seminar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 2011.
Co-organizer, “The Struggle for Land: Property, Territory and jurisdiction in Early Modern Europe and the Americas.” Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History, Newberry Library, Chicago IL, 2011.
Member, international jury, XVI Premio Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano Ricardo Levene,” 2010-2011. 
Organizer, “Latin America and the Spanish Monarchy,” an International Seminar, Stanford, CA, 2008.
Associated member of Cerma, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and  Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS), 1996- 2009.
Co-organizer, “Citizenship, Revolution and Political Violence in the Formation of Latin American States,” an international conference, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford, 2007.
Member of a working group on political and economic thought in early modern Spain with colleagues from France, Spain, and Italy, 2001-2006.
Founding member of a research group on social networks under the hospices of AHILA, 1999-2005.
Member of a research group on civil society, collective identities and modernity, directed by Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1994-2005.
Member of the editorial board of the review Interpretatio: Revista de Historia del Derecho (Madrid, Spain), 1994 – 2004.
Participated in two French based international projects on comparative colonialism (“Histoire comparative de la justice coloniale des pays européens”), ran by prof. Bernard Duran, Law Faculty, Université Montpellier I, France, and including colleagues from France, Belgium, Tunisia, Senegal, India, Italy, Spain and Portugal, 2003-2007.
Member of the Wilder House Series Editorial Committee, an interdisciplinary editorial board including historians, social scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and jurists, Cornell University Press and Chicago University Press, 1997-2005.
Member of the editorial board of the "Iberian and Latin American Working Papers Series," The University of Chicago, 1996-2005.
Member of a research project of the Max Planck Institut (Frankfurt), Maison des Pays Ibériques (CNRS - Université Bordeaux III),  Université de Toulouse-La Mirail, Universidad Complutense (Madrid), Universidad de Granada and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales concerning the prosopography of 17th to 19th-century Spanish bureaucrats, 1995- 2005.
Member of the board of the review Mar Océana, Madrid, Spain, 1994-2003.
Participant in the project "Las Normas y las Prácticas: Derroteros del Estado y de la Administración Pública en América Latina," Financed by the Universities of Turin, Milan, Padova, Florence and Rome and by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Scientific and Technological Research. The aim of this project was to study the transition from old regime to liberal forms of government, 1995-2000.
Session organizer "Blood, Lineage and Race in the Hispanic Past: A Conversation," The 31st Annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York, N.Y., 1999.
Member of the research group "Relaciones de poder en la historia del Ecuador," AHILA, 1995-1997.
Session organizer, "Collective Identities and Public Spheres in Latin America,"  49th Congress of the Americanistas, Quito, 1997.
Member of a working group on Society and Public Finances in the Early Modern Atlantic World, under the auspices of AHILA, 1995-1997.
Preparation of a new edition of A.M. Rabello. The Gift law, 5728 (1968), Jerusalem, Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, 1978. My work (1986-1987) consisted in revising the jurisprudence on these issues since 1978 and updating the book accordingly.
Researcher, research project on "Judicial Independence" directed by Prof. S.Shitreet, professor of Administrative Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1985-1987.

For a list of publications: see "articles and book chapters" and "book."