Guy Davidov (

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: גיא דוידוב; born 1970) is the

Elias Lieberman Elias Lieberman (1883–1969) was an American poet, writer and educator, known for 1916 poem "I Am an American". Background Elias Lieberman was born on October 30, 1883, in St. Petersburg, Russia. At age seven, he emigrated to the United Stat ...

Professor of

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at the

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. Davidov completed his LLB studies at

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, and his LLM and SJD degrees at the

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. From 2002 he was a faculty member at the

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, before moving to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007, and assuming the Elias Lieberman Chair in Labour Law in 2009. In 2015 he became full professor. Davidov was the founder and first Chair (2011-2015) of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN). He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (2015-2020). Davidov is a member of the Israeli Law Professors' Forum for Democracy, established in 2023 to respond to the Israeli coalition's plans for changes in the legal system.

Scholarly work

In his book A Purposive Approach to Labour Law (

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, 2016) Davidov argues that the mismatch between goals and means is a major cause of crisis in labour law, and adopts a

purposive approach The purposive approach (sometimes referred to as purposivism, purposive construction, purposive interpretation, or the modern principle in construction) is an approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation under which common law courts ...

to interpretation and legislative reform, to address this crisis. Davidov offers solutions at the level of both judicial interpretation and legislation. The book offers several examples of implementing a purposive analysis. It also recommends institutional structures that are suited to ongoing adaptation of the law to changing circumstances. Finally, Davidov makes several proposals to improve compliance and enforcement. Davidov’s work has been cited with approval by the

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s of the UK, Canada, and Israel.e
HCJ 7052/03 Adalah Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and others v Minister of the Interior and others
decided 14 May 2006

Main publications

Books

* Guy Davidov and Brian Langille (eds), Boundaries and Frontiers of Labour Law (

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, 2006) * Guy Davidov and Brian Langille (eds), The Idea of Labour Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) * Guy Davidov, A Purposive Approach to Labour Law (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Selected articles

* Guy Davidov,
Non-waivability in Labour Law
, 40

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482 (2020) * Guy Davidov,
Indirect Employment: Should Lead Companies Be Liable?
, 37 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 5 (2015) * Guy Davidov,
Setting Labour Law's Coverage: Between Universalism and Selectivity
34 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 543 (2014) * Guy Davidov,
The Goals of Regulating Work: Between Universalism and Selecvtivity
64 University of Toronto Law Journal 1 (2014) * Guy Davidov, �
The Three Axes of Employment Relationships: A Characterization of Workers in Need of Protection
�� (2002) 52 University of Toronto Law Journal 357

References

External links

Guy Davidov’s personal website

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