Guy Davidov is a full professor and the Elias Lieberman Chair in Labour Law. His book A Purposive Approach to Labour Law was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. He has also co-edited two books with Brian Langille, Boundaries and Frontiers of Labour Law (Hart, 2006) and The Idea of Labour Law (Oxford UP, 2011), and has published dozens of articles in peer-review journals, including in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, the University of Toronto Law Journal, Law & Social Inquiry, Industrial Law Journal, and the Comparative Labour Law & Policy Journal.
Prof. Davidov was the founding Chair of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN), from 2011 through 2015. He has also been the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations from 2015 through 2020, and has previously served as editor of several Hebrew journals: Mishpat Umimshal – law and government, Hukim –Legislation (founding editor), and Labour, Society and Law (co-editor).
Among his duties at the Faculty of Law, He is the coordinator of the Labour Law and Social Security Forum. He previously served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty, as the Academic Director of the Clinical Legal Education Center, as the Director of the Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, and as Chair of Graduate Studies.
Prof. Davidov studied at Tel-Aviv University (LLB 1996) and the University of Toronto (LLM 1998, SJD 2002). Before joining the Hebrew University, He was a faculty member at the University of Haifa for several years.
For further information and links to publications, see the personal website.
Eduction
1992-1996 – Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law, LLB Magna Cum Laude
1997-1998 – University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, LLM
1998-2002 – University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, SJD
Publications
Books:
The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work (Oxford University Press, 2024) (co-edited with Brian Langille and Gillian Lester)
A Purposive Approach to Labour Law (Oxford University Press, 2016)
The Idea of Labour Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) (co-edited with Brian Langille)
Boundaries and Frontiers of Labour Law: Goals and Means in the Regulation of Work (Hart, 2006) (co-edited with Brian Langille)
Articles:
Using AI to Mitigate the Employee Misclassification Problem, Modern Law Review (forthcoming)
Freedom of Expression for Employees: Justifications, Limitations and Proposed Rules of Thumb, Nordic Journal of Labour Law (forthcoming)
Employee Status Preconditions: A Critical Assessment, 45 Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law 233-289 (2024) (with Pnina Alon-Shenker)
Consent in Contracts of Employment, 86 Modern Law Review 1134-1165 (2023) (with Maayan Niezna)
Flexibility, Choice and Labour Law: The Challenge of On-Demand Platforms, 73 University of Toronto Law Journal 348-379 (2023) (with Tammy Katsabian)
Improving Compliance with Labor Laws: The Role of Courts, 43 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 71-101 (2022) (with Edo Eshet)
The ABC Test: A New Model for Employment Status Determination?, 51 Industrial Law Journal 235-276 (2022) (with Pnina Alon-Shenker)
Compliance with and Enforcement of Labour Laws: An Overview and Some Timely Challenges, 3/2021 Soziales Recht 111-127 (2021)
Non-waivability in Labour Law, 40 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 482-507 (2020)