Global & Senior Global Research Fellows
2007-2008 Academic Year
Dr. Ronen Perry
Global Research Fellow
Dr. Perry is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Haifa where he has received two awards for excellence in teaching. Dr. Perry received his LL.B. magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 1996. He was admitted to the special program for excellent students (top 0.5% of undergraduate students in all disciplines), and the IDF academic reserve (top undergraduate students in select disciplines). In 1997, he completed with distinction his LL.M. studies, as part of the direct doctoral track requirements, at the Hebrew University. He then served for three years in the IDF JAG Corps. He received his LL.D. summa cum laude from the Hebrew University in 2001. In addition, Dr. Perry is one of the founding editors, and a senior editor (one of six) of the Journal of Tort Law, a University of California-Berkeley Publication, and the editor-in-chief of the Haifa Law Review. Dr. Perry has published more than twenty articles on tort, insurance, remedies, jurisprudence, and legal education and his book, Economic Ricochets, discusses the problem of relational purely economic loss from historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives. His research proposal is entitled "A Critical Study of the Consequential/Relational Economic Loss Dichotomy in Tort Law."