Role: Associate Professor, Academic Center for Law and Business
Israel

  Contact: ronit@clb.ac.il

  Research Interests:
Legal Philosophy | Corporate Social Responsibility | Contract Law | Privatization

Ronit Donyets-Kedar is an assistant professor of Law at the Academic Center of Law and Business in Israel. She is the Head of the Corporate Social Responsibility Institute at the Academic Center. She teaches Legal philosophy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Contract Law and Privatization. Her areas of research include: legal and moral philosophy, political philosophy, corporate social responsibility and contract theory. She is currently working on a book-project that offers a philosophical analysis of responsibility in morality, politics and law.

She graduated, Summa Cum Laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law. Ronit earned her LLM and SJD degrees from New York University School of Law. Her doctoral thesis in legal philosophy "Owing More to Each Other: Rethinking Contractualism in Ethics" was written under the supervision of Prof. Liam Murphy.  Prior to becoming a law professor, Ronit clerked for the Attorney General of the State of Israel.

Ronit's publications include: "The Unrecognized Dominance of Law in Morality: The Case of Promises", 24(1)  Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence (2011); "Reciprocity in Morality and Law",  6 Law and Ethics of Human Rights (2012); "Abandoning the Public/Private divide: Towards a New Concept of  Responsibility", 42 Mishpatim Law Review (in Hebrew) (Forthcoming 2013); "Aggressive Tax Planning and Corporate Social Responsibility in Israel", Journal of Accountancy Business and the Public Interest (forthcoming, 2013) (with O. Sitbon, M. Harari).

While at Emory, Ronit worked with Martha Albertson Fineman and the participants of the "Contract as Public Law" workshop. She worked on developing her project on rethinking the legal responsibility of private actors.