human rights organizations and has advised senior politicians and NGOs on issues of law and politics. Barzilai was elected in 2011 as the President of the Association for Israel Studies and served as its President (2011-2013). Gad Barzilai is best known for his critical analysis of law as a dimension in political power, which should be understood through using combined methodologies of socio-political-legal studies. His work emphasizes the importance of legal pluralism, political elite, critical communitarianism, cultural relativism and political power in local, state and global sites. Barzilai has published numerous books and articles on these issues. References External links Professor Gad Barzilai's official home page Gad Barzilai website at University of Haifa The Minerva Center Gad Barzilai's personal home page at University of Washington Gad Barzilai's on twitter Gad Barzilai on RSS feed Prof. Gad Barzilai was named in the WorldWideLearn.com list of the Top 50 Law Professors on Twitter Selected Books Gad Barzilai, 1996, Wars, Internal Conflicts and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the Middle East, Albany: State University of New York Press Gad Barzilai and David Nachmias, 1998, Governmental Lawyering in the Political Sphere: Advocating the Leviathan, Israel Studies 3 (2): 30-46 Gad Barzilai, 2003, Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press Gad Barzilai, 2007 Law and Religion, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing LtD. Gad Barzilai, 2008 Beyond Relativism: Where is Political Power in Legal Pluralism, Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9 (2) Gad Barzilai, 2010 The Attorney General and the State Prosecutor: Is Institutional Separation Warranted?, Jerusalem: The Israel Democracy Institute Selected Articles Law is Politics The Case of Azmi Bishara: Political Immunity and Freedom in Israel Fantasies of Liberalism and Liberal Jurisprudence: State Law, Politics, and the Israeli-Arab-Palestinian Community Courts as Hegemonic Institutions: The Israeli Supreme Court in a Comparative Perspective War, Democracy, and Internal Conflict: Israel in a Comparative Perspective Israel and Future Borders: A Multidimensional Approach to the Assessment of a Dynamic Process Social Protest and the Absence of Legalistic Discourse: In the Quest for New Language of Protest The Ambivalence of Litigation: A Criticism of Power Cultured Technology: Internet and Religious Fundamentalism Culture of Patriarchy in Law: Violence from Antiquity to Modernity The Redemptive Principle of Particularistic Obligations: A Legal Political Inquiry National Security in Courts and Law: A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis Critical theorists Israeli political scientists Israeli political philosophers Social philosophers Living people Israeli