Ramon Feldbrin will discuss and share his insights from his recent visit to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. The German Court has been recognized as a paradigm for the movement toward constitutional review that has swept through the world since the Second World War. The specialty court, which is more than 300 miles away from Berlin in Karlsruhe, deals solely with constitutional issues, and rarely grant access to researchers.    

Ramon Feldbrin is currently a student in the JSD program at the University of Chicago Law School, supervised by Prof. Tom Ginsburg, Prof. William Baude and Prof. William H. J. Hubbard. Mr. Feldbrin’s focus in his research is on the procedural rules that courts employ in constitutional cases.

Mr. Feldbrin has a broad legal experience in both Israel and the United States. He graduated with high honors in 2012 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with degrees in law and political science after completing three years of military service with the Israeli Defense Forces. He then worked as a litigation associate at an Israeli law firm, and later, in clerkships on the Israeli Supreme Court, including a little more than a year as a senior law clerk to the chief justice. After receiving his LLM from the University of Chicago in 2016, he spent a year clerking at the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, before returning to the Law School to pursue his JSD.

Lunch will be provided.

This event is open to the public, but seating may be limited.