About Nadiv 

Dr. Nadiv Mordechay is the head of the program for Democratic Values and Institutions at the Israel Democracy Institute and a Postdoctoral fellow at the New York University School of Law and the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University.

 

Before joining the institute, he served as a Research Fellow at the M. Cheshin Center for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (2015-2020); as a research assistant at the Israel Democracy Institute (2011-2015); In 2015-2017 he also served as General-Secretary of the Israeli Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (I*CON) and as the founding editor of the ICON-S-IL Public Law Blog. As part of his doctoral studies, he attended the New York University School of Law (NYU) as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher (2017-2018). Nadiv did his law clerkship in the Chamber of the Honorable Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia and in the Office of Israel's Attorney General Adv. Meni Mazuz.

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Nadiv's doctorate focuses on Informal Constitutional Change after the 'Constitutional Revolution'.

 

His areas of expertise include Israeli Constitutional and administrative law, Judicial Review, Separation of Powers, Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Change, Legal Advice to the Executive, and Constitutional Crises.