Dr. Shlomi Balaban received his LL.B. and LL.M. (specializing in public law and international law) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also completed supplementary courses towards M.A. in Political Science. Balaban clerked for the legal advisor of the Knesset’s House Committee, and has been the Director of Experimental Courses at the Sapir Academic College. Balaban also served as Secretary of the Israeli Association of Legislation and as a Berg Visiting Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. His dissertation, “The Task of a Generation: The Knesset Institutionalization Process, 1949-1959,” was awarded a citation by the Israeli Association of Political Science and won the AIS (Association of Israel Studies) Halpern Best Dissertation Award. In 2019, Balaban received The Helmut Coing Scholarship from the Association of the Friends of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, under the supervision of Professor Adam Dodek. In addition, Together with Professor Nir Kedar, Balaban has been researching and writing the Judicial biography of chief justice Aharon Barak.