Gilad ABIRI

Education

Gilad Abiri earned his LL.M. from Yale Law School in 2016. He previously completed another LL.M. at Yale Law School in 2015. He also holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, where he graduated summa cum laudewith a GPA of 96.06/100. His thesis, titled The Politics of Value Pluralism, explored political and legal theory. Additionally, he was part of the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University, a direct master’s program focused on law, political science, and philosophy. His doctoral dissertation at Yale Law School, Sacred Communities: The Rivalry between the Modern Constitutional State and Religion, examined the tensions between state authority and religious communities.

Professional Appointments

Gilad Abiri is an Associate Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Program on Law and Innovation. He teaches courses on Constitutional Law, Digital Free Speech, Data Privacy, Internet Law, and AI Regulation.

He is affiliated with Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, where he has served as both a Visiting Fellow and an Affiliated Faculty Fellow. He was also a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, co-teaching the course Modern Constitutional Theory with Professor Paul Kahn.

Previously, he was a Global Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University Law School, where he was affiliated with the Center for Law and Philosophy. He also held a Joseph C. Fox Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International Studies and was a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights.

Additionally, he has been a Junior Fellow at Yale University’s Initiative for Religion, Politics, and Society, as well as a Summer Academy Lecturer at the Studienstiftung in Bonn, Germany, where he co-taught a course on Fighting Fake Newswith Professor Johannes Buchheim.