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Guy E Carmi

University of Virginia

• S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science), 2010
• LL.M., 2005
• Lecturer (January Term 2006)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law (Israel)

• Adjunct Lecturer


• Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

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Dr. Guy E. Carmi received his S.J.D. and LL.M from the University of Virginia School
of Law, and his LL.B. from the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. He teaches Comparative
Perspectives on Freedom of Expression at the Heberw University of Jerusalem Faculty of
Law. He previously taught Holocaust and the Law at the Radzyner School of Law of the
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Introduction to American Law at the University of
Haifa Faculty of Law, at the College of Management Law School, and at the University of
Virginia School of Law. 

Dr. Carmi's scholarship principally deals with comparative constitutional law,
focusing on freedom of expression. Among his publications are articles in the McGill Law
Journal, Boston University International Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania
Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Connecticut Journal of International Law. 

Dr. Carmi's doctoral dissertation titled "Dignity and Liberty: Differing
Approaches to Free Speech in Germany, The United States and Israel" won The Gorney
Prize for Young Researchers in the field of Public Law of The Israeli Association of
Public Law. In his dissertation, Dr. Carmi examines the question whether freedom of
expression is primarily based upon the value of human dignity or on the value of liberty,
as well as the question how relying on either of these values affects the perception of
freedom of expression and its protection. The dissertation examines these questions under
three legal systems: Germany, the United States, and Israel. Freedom of expression in
Israel is examined in light of the comparative research. His research indicates that only
after the 1992 Constitutional Revolution, did the Supreme Court establish that human
dignity, as interpreted in Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, includes freedom of
expression. Dr. Carmi reaches the conclusion that the link between freedom of expression
and human dignity, despite the fact that such link was intended to strengthen freedom of
expression, has actually weakened it. He offers ways to buttress freedom of expression in
Israel, including the possibility of anchoring freedom of expression in the value of
liberty of men. 

Dr. Carmi has been practicing law in the litigation department of Lipa Meir & Co.
since 2008. He represents banking corporations, insurance companies, real-estate
entrepreneurs and the like in a variety of complex civil and commercial litigation cases,
in all judicial forums, including the Supreme Court. Dr. Carmi also handles, inter alia,
antitrust, defamation, and administrative petitions (including tenders), as well as
petitions to the High Court of Justice. In addition, Dr. Carmi writes legal briefs and
opinions in the fields of comparative and constitutional law, communications law and
defamation, and provides counseling to the firms' clients on these issues. 

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