Professor Tsachi Keren-Paz

Title: Professor of Private Law
Phone: +44(0)1782 734358
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CBC 2.015
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Role: Law School - Research Director and Head of Centre of Law, Ethics and Society (CLES)
University - Academic Misconduct Panel, Member
Law School - Deputy Academic Misconduct Officer
University - Senate Member (representing the H&SS Faculty)
Society of Legal Scholars Law School's representative in Council
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Before joining Keele Law School on August 2007, Tsachi has been a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the College of Management, School of Law, Israel between 2001 and 2007. Tsachi has taught in the past in Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan and Montreal universities and visited at Cornell University. He has obtained his LL.B from Tel Aviv University (Magnum cum Laude) in 1995, his LL.M from University of Toronto in 1998, his D.Jur from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in 2001, and his Professorship of Private Law in 2013.

Tsachi has practiced law in Herzog Fox & Neeman in 1995-96 and has been, and is involved in advising NGOs and governmental bodies on human trafficking. Tsachi received several prizes and research grants for his scholarship. His first book, Torts, Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice (Ashgate 2007) was shortlisted for both the 2008 Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, and the 2008 Hart/Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize for Early Career Scholars and is now being translated to Spanish and will be published by Marcial Pons as part of their Philosophy & Law series

Tsachi's current main teaching subject is torts. He teaches on several courses including health care law, law and economics, critical torts, and law gender & sexuality. He is the course director of Law & society LL.M. and he teaches and supervises in MEL and other post graduate programmes.

Tsachi’s main research interests are: tort law, private law theory, egalitarianism in private law, medical negligence, private law responses to the problem of sex trafficking, the law of restitution and the law of remedies. His work explains law as a social construct, understands it in its social context and inculcates egalitarianism into private law theory and doctrine. Some of these themes are developed in depth in his books Torts, Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice (Ashgate 2007) and Sex Trafficking: A Private Law Response (Routledge 2013). His major current research interest lies with the effect of tort law on medical innovation, the relationship between tort law and restitution, the dividing line between restitution for wrongs and restitution by subtraction, the relationship between gain- and loss-based remedies, and between non/legal sanctions.

Tsachi would be happy to supervise students in the areas of private law theory, torts, restitution, and human trafficking.

Selected Publications

  • Keren-Paz T. 2013. Sex Trafficking: A Private Law Response. Routledge.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2012. Risks and Wrongs’ Account of Corrective Justice in Tort Law: Too much or Too Little?. review Diritto & questioni pubbliche, vol. 12, 75-107.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2010. Liability regimes, reputation loss, and defensive medicine. Med Law Rev, vol. 18(3), 363-388. link> doi>
  • Keren-Paz T and Levenkron N. 2009. Clients' strict liability towards victims of sex-trafficking. Legal Studies, vol. 29(3), 438-463. doi>
  • KEREN-PAZ T. 2007. Torts, Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice. Ashgate.

Full Publications List show

Books

  • Keren-Paz T. 2013. Sex Trafficking: A Private Law Response. Routledge.
  • KEREN-PAZ T. 2007. Torts, Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice. Ashgate.

Journal Articles

  • Keren-Paz T. 2012. Risks and Wrongs’ Account of Corrective Justice in Tort Law: Too much or Too Little?. review Diritto & questioni pubbliche, vol. 12, 75-107.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2010. Liability regimes, reputation loss, and defensive medicine. Med Law Rev, vol. 18(3), 363-388. link> doi>
  • Keren-Paz T. 2010. Poetic Justice: Why Sex-Slaves Should be Allowed to Sue Ignorant Clients in Conversion. LAW AND PHILOSOPHY, vol. 29(3), 307-336. link> doi>
  • KEREN-PAZ T. 2010. AT v. Dulghieru – Compensation for Victims of Trafficking, but Where is the Restitution?. Torts Law Journal, vol. 18, 87-106.
  • Keren-Paz T and Levenkron N. 2009. Clients' strict liability towards victims of sex-trafficking. Legal Studies, vol. 29(3), 438-463. doi>
  • Keren-Paz T. 2008. Is the reasonable person the efficient person? The role of efficiency in israeli standard of care jurisprudence. Bar-Ilan University of law review, vol. 23, 793-853.
  • KEREN-PAZ T. 2007. Compensating Injury to Autonomy: Normative Evaluation, Recent Developments and Future Tendencies. College of Management of Law Review, vol. 11, 187-226.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2006. Israel's no profiting from literary account of crime: It's not the content It's the notoriety. Israel Bar Law Review, vol. 48, 459-498.
  • KEREN-PAZ T. 2005. Private Law Redistribution, Predictability and Liberty. McGill Law Journal, vol. 50(4), 327-356.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2005. On mothers, babies and bathwater: Distributive justice, tort law and prenatal duties. SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES, vol. 14(2), 179-196. link> doi>
  • Keren-Paz T. 2005. Compensating injury to autonomy: recent developments and future tendencies. Colman Law Review, vol. 20, 67-75.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2004. How does compensation law render the poor even poorer? (And why does the supreme court give inconsistent interpretation to the compensation victims of road accidents act?). Tel-Aviv University Law Review, vol. 28(1), 299-327.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2004. 'It costs me more'. Rejecting the arguments of illegitimacy and excessive cost brought against the promotion of equality in private law. Haifa University Law Review, vol. 7(2), 541-622.
  • KEREN-PAZ T. 2003. An Inquiry into the Merits of Redistribution through Tort Law: Rejecting the Claim of Randomness. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence , vol. 16(1), 91-128.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2003. Egalitarianism as justification: Why and how should egalitarian considerations reshape the standadr of care in negligence law. Theoretical inquiries in law, vol. 4, 275-337.

Chapters

  • Keren-Paz T. 2014. ‘O, Sacred Dogmatism!’: A Response to Jacob Nussim’s Scepticism Regarding Redistribution through Regulation. In Regulation. Blank Y, Kreitner R, Levi-Faur D (Eds.). Tel Aviv: Nevo.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2014. Clients’ Demand-Based Contribution to Trafficking: Overcoming Causation and Attribution Difficulties”. In Uncertainty and Mass Torts: Causation and Proof (forthcoming 2014). Martin Casals, M and Papayannis D (Eds.).
  • Keren-Paz T. 2011. Moral and Legal Obligations of the State to Victims of Sex Trafficking: Vulnerability and Beyond. In Regulating the International Movement of Women: From Protection to Control. Routledge.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2009. An essay on banalization of slavery, devaluation of sex-workers' labor and deprivation of victims of trafficking. In Concord Research Institute for Integration of International Law in Israel.
  • Keren-Paz T. 2007. A feminist distributive analysis of maternal prenatal duty: Ideology, symbolism and pragmatism. In Studies in law gender and feminism. Barak-Erez (Ed.).
  • Keren-Paz T. Moral and Legal Obligations of the State to Victims of Sex Trafficking: Vulnerability and Beyond. In , Regulating the International Movement of Women: From Protection to Control. (Routledge).

Undergraduate Teaching:


Torts 1 - Foundations (10023) (L1, module leader)
Torts 2 – Development (10024) (Level 1, module leader )
Critical Torts (Level 3, module leader)
Law and Economics (L2)
Health Care Law (L3)
Gender Sexuality and Law (L3)

Postgraduate Teaching:

Law and Society LL.M. - Course Director
Gender, Sexuality and Law
Medical Ethics and Law
Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice

Tsachi would be happy to supervise students in the areas of private law theory, torts, medical negligence, restitution, economic analysis of law and human trafficking.

External Professional Activities

2013   Knowledge Transfer to Israeli State Lawyers, Ministry of Justice, The CPD Institute: private law responses to sex trafficking (300 state lawyers) October 16.
2013   Knowledge Transfer to members of the Israeli Inter-Departmental Anti Human Trafficking Group (civil servants), October 17.
2012   Nominated as a the member of the American Law Institute
2010   Israeli Scientific Fund, Peer Reviewing of funding proposal
2010   Consultant to POPPY & Anti-Slavery on compensation to victims of trafficking.
2009- Anti-Trafficking Legal Project, UK, Member. 2008 Co-organiser of "Conversation about Trafficking" workshop in Westminster University under the auspices of AHRC Centre of Law Gender & Sexuality.
2006  Member, Governmental Task-Force Fighting Human Trafficking (Israel).
2006  "Mandatory Compensation to Victims of Trafficking in Criminal Proceedings", Oral Presentation, Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, The Knesset, Jerusalem, August 1st.
2006  "The Anti-Trafficking Statutory Fund: Its Goals, The Priority Between Them, and the Way It Is Funded" Opinion Paper, Hotline for Migrant Workers, Tel Aviv, July 26th.
2005  Adviser, Hotline for Migrant Workers in Israel.
2003  Adviser, the Israel Consumer Council.