New York
About
Yoav Sivan is a writer, editor and researcher based in New York, working in English and Hebrew. He writes on constitutional law and legal history, on politics, and on art. His current research concerns the formal structure of Israeli legislation and what its silences reveal about the authority behind it.
Research
The Paradox of Authority: Israeli Law Since February 16, 1949
A study of how Israeli law has operated since the Official Gazette of 16 February 1949, and of what follows for the authority and legitimacy of state action.
Writing
- Review of Fierce Desires by Rebecca Davis — 2025
- Review of Long Live Queer Nightlife by Amin Ghaziani — 2025
- An Israeli Named Trump. An American Named Netanyahu — 2024
- Review of Born This Way by Joanna Wuest — 2024
- Macro-scale demonstration of Kahneman & Tversky’s Conjunction Fallacy — 2024
- On Post-October Israel — 2024