Dr. Orit Malka joined the Faculty of Law and the Department of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2022. She teaches and conducts research in the fields of ancient law and Jewish Halakha from a comparative perspective. Her research interests focus on the development of legal ideas in antiquity and the intellectual history of legal concepts and institutions. Dr. Malka holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University. following her doctoral studies, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy in Jerusalem and at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University, California, as well as a visiting researcher at Berkely University, California. Dr. Malka has received prestigious awards and honors throughout her career and has published in leading journals worldwide.

 

Education

LL.B  in Law, Bar Ilan Univerity 

LL.M in Law, Bar Ilan University

BS.C in Mathematics, Hebrew University

Ph.D, in Law,  Tel Aviv University  

 

Representative Publications

Orit Malka (2019), “Disqualified Witnesses between Tannaitic Halakha and Roman Law: The Archeology of a Legal Institution”, 37.4 Law and History Review 903-936

Orit Malka(2019), “On the Testimony of a Single Witness and that of Women in Tannaitic Literature”, 33 Dine Israel 227-270 (Hebrew)

Orit Malka and Yakir Paz (2019), “Ab Hostibus Captus et a Latronibus Captus: The Impact of the Roman Model of Citizenship on Rabbinic Law”, 109.2 Jewish Quarterly Review 141-172

Orit Malka and Yakir Paz (2019), “Ab Hostibus Captus et a Latronibus Captus: The Impact of the Roman Model of Citizenship on Rabbinic Law”, 109.2 Jewish Quarterly Review 141-172

Orit Malka (2021), “On the Meaning of hē‘.d in Biblical Hebrew: Between Summoning Witnesses and Imposing Oaths,” Vetus Testament, 1.aop, 1-22

Orit Malka & Ayelet Libson (2023), “Havurah in Tannaitic Literature”, 88a Zion 7-49 (Hebrew)

Orit Malka and Yakir Paz (2024), In Civitate: Captivity and Inheritance in Tannaitic Halakha in Light of Roman Law Zeitschrift Der Savigny-Stiftung Für Rechtsgeschichte, Rom. Abt. 141, 29-41

Orit Malka (2025), “Witness, Judges: A Revolution Untold,” Law and History Review (forthcoming)