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Professor Flatto received his B.A. and Ordination from Yeshiva University, his J.D. from Columbia University Law School, and his Ph.D. with distinction from Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He is a Professor of Law and Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He previously was a professor of law and religion at Penn State University, a visiting professor and lecturer at University of Pennsylvania Law School, New York University Law School, and Yeshiva University, and a visiting researcher at Yale Law School. His wide-ranging research interests include Jewish law and philosophy, constitutional law and theory, and comparative jurisprudence. His works have appeared in numerous scholarly publications including the Harvard Theological Review, Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and the Journal of Law and Religion. He recently published a book entitled, The Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2020), and co-edited Law as Religion, Religion as Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022).