Global & Senior Global Research Fellows
Academic Year 2005-2006
Rabbi David Flatto
Gruss Scholar in Residence
Rabbi David Flatto received a B.A. from Yeshiva University, United States, in 1994. He then continued into law school earning a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, United States, in 1997. In 1998 he obtained Ordination from Yeshiva University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, United States. He has written and lectured on Maimonides, Jewish legal philosophy and the critical and historical study of rabbinics.
His current research focuses on the interdisciplinary field of law and Jewish studies, and particularly topics in rabbinic jurisprudence. This research entails analyzing various aspects of the rabbinic judicial system, including issues of legal procedure and governance, as theoretically envisioned and actually implemented in late antiquity. A comparative perspective, assessing the rabbinic system alongside other early imperial and religious legal systems, is also employed in his study.
