Professor Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar teaches at the Law School at the University of Haifa. He holds a Doctorate in Law (S.J.D) from Harvard Law School. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School as well as a Grotius International Law Visiting Scholar there and a visiting associate professor at the Frankel Institute for Judaic studies in the University of Michigan. His research focuses on law and society, legal geography, legal history, and land regimes in settler societies.
Sandy served as a co-founder and member of the Israeli Legal History Association as well as served as a board member of Association of Israel Studies and of the Research Center of Poverty and Exclusion at the University of Haifa. He served as the editor of Law and Government and the founding editor of Haifa Law Review. His research is supported by several competitive research grants, including three ISF and two GIF grants. He is the co-founder (in 2003) and director of the Association for Distributive Justice, an Israeli NGO addressing these issues. He has been, and is, active in Israeli public life, particularly in issues related to Palestinians’ and minority’s land struggles.
Kedar has been awarded numerous research grants including an Israeli Science Foundation research grant for the period of 2019-2023 on The Land Regime of the Territories Occupied by Israel: A Legal Geography of The West Bank, 1967-2017 and is working on a book and several articles on this subject.