Rabbi Yaron Catane is a researcher in Law and Religion issues in Israel and is currently completing his PHD at Bar Ilan University Law school.
His interests are especially related to the place of religion in the public sphere, the relationship between state and religion, and interreligious and public religion theory.
He worked for the Israeli government in several State-Religion positions, as Director of the Conversion Authority and Legal Counsel to the Chief Rabbinate.
He holds an MA in Public Policy, LLB and LLM in Law, from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, ordained as a Rabbi by Chief Rabbinate of Israel, and was Visiting Doctoral Researcher at NYU Law School.
He Lectured in Jewish Law, Labor Law and Conflict Resolution in several Law schools, and has presented in several international conferences (e.g. ICLRS Religion and Rule of Law program, Oxford, 2018; ATLAS workshop for doctorate students, London, 2017; St John’s University Law School, NYC, 2014; ICLARS conference on Law and Religion, Virginia 2013; Philosophy of Religion Conference, Claremont, CA, 2011).