Michael Karayanni
Michael (Mousa) Karayanni (, ; born 1964) is an Arab-Israeli professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Bruce W. Wayne Chair in International Law. Biography. He was educated at Bar-Ilan University (LL.B 1990); George Washington University National Law Center (LL.M 1994); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LL.D, summa cum laude, 2000), University of Pennsylvania (S.J.D., 2003). His doctoral supervisors were Celia Wasserstein Fassberg (at Hebrew University) and Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. (at Penn). Karayanni was the Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights (2004-2006); Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law  (2006-2008) and the Director of the Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law (2008 – 2012). Among his prizes and awards: The Israeli Arab Scholarship Program, awarded by the United States Embassy in Tel-Aviv for Graduate Studies in the United States (1992-1994); Allan Bronfman Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in the Humanities and Law (2000); Zeltenr Award for Young Scholar (2002); Fulbright Fellowship (2002-2003); Rothschild Fellowship (2002-2003); Ma’of Fellowship (2003-2006); Israel Science Foundation Grant (2005-2009) (with Celia Fassberg); Michael Bruno Memorial Award (2007); Rector's Prize (2011); Israel Science Foundation  Grant (2012 – 2014); Karayanni held visiting positions University of Melbourne Law School (Senior Fellow, The Melbourne Law Masters, 2013); Stanford Law School (Visiting Professor of law, 2012-2013); Stanford University (Visiting Associate Professor, Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies, Stanford University, 2012-2013); Yale Law School (Senior-Fellow, Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights, 2008 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Member, 2007-2008); The Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg (visiting Scholar, 1997, 2000). Karayanni's research interest are private international law (conflict of Laws); civil procedure, multiculturalism. Karayanni is a  Palestinian-Arab, was born to a Christian Greek-Orthodox family in Kafr Yasif, a village in the Western Galilee in Israel. He is married to Inas, a computer analyst, and the father of three children. He resides today in Neve Shalom – Wahat el-Salam, a joint Jewish-Arab village located midway between Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. To view the above bibliography