היסטוריה חברתית-משפטית של האימפריה העוסמאנית.

Representative Publications

Avi Rubin. 2018. Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial: The Yıldız Case (Syracuse University Press).

Avi Rubin. 2011. Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan)


Avi Rubin. 2007. "Legal Borrowing and its Impact on Ottoman Legal Culture in the Late Nineteenth Century", Continuity and Change, 22

Avi Rubin. 2008. “Ottoman Judicial Change in the Age of Modernity: A Reappraisal”, History Compass 7: 119-140

Avi Rubin. 2011. "The Trial of the Prosecutor Hamdi Bey: Inside and Out of the Ottoman Nizamiye Court," Journal of Social History

Avi Rubin. 2012. “Civil Disputes between the State and Individuals in the Ottoman Nizamiye Courts,” Islamic Law and Society, 19

Avi Rubin. 2012. "From Legal Representation to Advocacy: Attorneys and Clients in the Ottoman Nizamiye Courts," International Journal of Middle East Studies 44: 111-127

Avi Rubin. 2012. "British Perceptions of Ottoman Judicial Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century: Some Preliminary Insights," Law and Social Inquiry 37

Education

Ph.D. Harvard, 2006 (advisor: Professor E. Roger Owen)


Fields of Interests

History of the Ottoman Empire with a special interest in the socio-legal history of the late Ottoman Empire; The passage of the Middle East to modernity; The rule of law in the modern Middle East; Social history of late Ottoman Palestine.


Courses Taught

- Modern Arabic Narratives: Self, Society, and Culture, undergraduate course, Harvard

University (teaching fellow in a course taught by Professor William Granara)

- Middle Eastern Studies Research Project, graduate (MA) seminar, Harvard University,

(TF in a course taught by Professor Laila Parsons)

- The Making and Remaking of the Modern Middle East, undergraduate course, Harvard

University (Head TF in a course taught by Professor Roger Owen)

- Ottoman State and Society: Themes in History and Historiography, MA course (international program), BGU.

- The Long 19th Century: Ottoman Modernity, BA course,BGU.

- Society and Culture in the Ottoman Empire: Selected Themes, BA course, BGU.

- Introduction to the Ottoman Empire, BA Course (obligatory), BGU.

- Methods and Approaches in the Study of the Modern Middle East, MA methodology course (obligatory), BGU.